The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1460 - The Media Lied About Child Gender Surgeries, and Here’s the Proof

00:00:00.060 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new database reveals just how many hospitals across the country have performed gender transitions on minors.

00:00:06.280 The left has claimed for years this isn't happening or is happening only rarely.

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00:02:22.520 As Joe Biden's run for re-election was on the verge of collapsing this summer,

00:02:26.440 an unnamed White House official briefly went off script amid all the chaos that was unfolding in the West Wing.

00:02:31.480 Speaking to a variety of news outlets, including the New York Times,

00:02:34.620 the White House official announced that so-called gender-affirming surgeries, quote-unquote,

00:02:39.760 should never be conducted on children.

00:02:42.180 Quote, these surgeries should be limited to adults, the spokesman said.

00:02:46.840 At any other point in this country's history, that answer would have been ridiculed for one simple reason.

00:02:52.520 It doesn't go nearly far enough.

00:02:55.140 Doing that to someone's body is wrong, whether the victim is an adult or a child.

00:03:00.580 But this summer, the White House found itself besieged by trans activists who believe that doctors

00:03:06.160 should be able to mutilate children's bodies without any interference from the government.

00:03:11.420 There was anxiety and concern through the trans community, quote-unquote,

00:03:15.240 over the anonymous White House official statement, according to The Guardian.

00:03:19.160 And this created a massive headache for the White House at a pretty inconvenient time.

00:03:22.420 Biden was refusing to take the hint and step aside.

00:03:25.040 He was threatening to take the entire party down with him.

00:03:28.020 And meanwhile, trans activists were doing their whole nails-on-a-chalkboard routine.

00:03:31.400 So the White House quickly put out a news statement to shut these people up.

00:03:36.300 And this one was signed by Biden's domestic policy advisor, Neera Tanden.

00:03:40.040 And this time around, as The Guardian reported,

00:03:42.060 the White House reaffirmed support for gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

00:03:46.780 Now, at the same time, the White House claimed that

00:03:48.960 these surgeries aren't actually happening to any significant degree.

00:03:52.960 Quote, gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults,

00:03:55.920 and we believe they should be, Tanden said.

00:03:58.200 This is a tactic that we're all very familiar with by now.

00:04:01.380 The same approach was used to promote abortion to great effect, and is still used.

00:04:06.660 In both cases, the left understands that the policy they're supporting is horrific.

00:04:11.040 They also understand that sane people would throw them out of office

00:04:14.520 if there was any honesty about what was actually happening.

00:04:17.080 And so therefore, instead of being honest,

00:04:19.260 they lie about what they're supporting and what they're funding.

00:04:22.140 And eventually, inertia takes over.

00:04:25.040 Clinton famously said that abortion would be rare. 1.00

00:04:27.520 And for the Biden administration and trans activists,

00:04:30.660 the claim has been that trans surgeries on children aren't happening.

00:04:34.400 And if they are happening, it's only the most extreme, rare cases.

00:04:38.420 So here, for example, is a quote-unquote fact check by a CBS affiliate in Missouri

00:04:43.940 called KMOV St. Louis.

00:04:47.060 And this aired in May of 2023,

00:04:49.260 several months before Missouri passed a law banning child butchery in hospitals in the state.

00:04:53.620 Watch as the news station declares flatly

00:04:56.380 that no children are undergoing trans surgeries in the state.

00:05:00.540 Listen.

00:05:02.160 Another statement from A.G. Bailey was,

00:05:04.400 mutilating children for the sake of a woke leftist agenda has irreversible consequences.

00:05:09.520 Suzanne is the mother of a transgender teen.

00:05:11.840 At least in Missouri, nobody under 18 is getting this gender-affirming surgery. 0.86

00:05:19.000 So this is the kind of reporting we've all heard seemingly millions of times.

00:05:23.680 You're a bigot if you claim that kids are being surgically mutilated.

00:05:26.860 You're spreading misinformation, they say.

00:05:29.780 You know, it's not happening.

00:05:32.740 But if it is happening, it's good.

00:05:34.140 That's the familiar tactic.

00:05:36.240 And again and again, they'll tell you that that's what they tell you.

00:05:38.460 It's either not happening or it's only happening in the most rare cases.

00:05:41.540 And either way, stop talking about it and asking questions.

00:05:43.860 You're a bigot.

00:05:44.680 Harvard School of Public Health posted a study this summer with this headline,

00:05:48.060 quote,

00:05:49.180 Gender-affirming surgeries rarely performed on transgender youth.

00:05:53.480 The activist group called the Human Rights Campaign put out a similar lie,

00:05:56.380 quote,

00:05:57.220 Surgery under the age of 18 is very rare and is decided on a case-by-case basis.

00:06:01.400 Gender-affirming surgeries are not performed on children.

00:06:05.840 Over the past few years, there's been some reporting showing that specific hospitals

00:06:09.640 are, in fact, performing surgeries on minors in the name of gender-affirming care.

00:06:14.340 Boston Children's Hospital, for example,

00:06:15.820 performed at least 65 double mastectomies on children for that purpose between 2017 and 2020.

00:06:23.240 And that's documented in medical literature.

00:06:24.920 And last year, the Daily Caller reported that a gender clinic in Pennsylvania

00:06:27.840 offered puberty blockers to kids as young as 8 and surgery referrals at 14.

00:06:34.660 The White House trans activists and medical associations have been able to maintain the

00:06:39.080 fiction that these are either non-existent or extremely rare procedures conducted only

00:06:44.500 by a small handful of hospitals because of a deliberate large-scale media blackout on the truth.

00:06:50.460 But yesterday, the group Do No Harm, which is an association of medical professionals,

00:06:56.640 ended that blackout.

00:06:58.080 They launched an online, publicly accessible database called Stop the Harm,

00:07:02.300 which exposes the extent of child mutilation that's occurring in hospitals across the United States.

00:07:08.180 Now, before I go any further, it's important to keep in mind that this database relies on insurance claims information,

00:07:14.860 which means that, if anything, it is almost certainly substantially undercounting the actual number of trans surgeries and procedures that are taking place

00:07:23.720 because it doesn't capture operations that were paid for outside of insurance.

00:07:29.500 And additionally, the database doesn't include claims paid out by Kaiser Insurance, which is a huge insurer,

00:07:35.280 but their data was not available.

00:07:37.700 And on top of that, the database only captures children who received a formal gender-related diagnosis.

00:07:44.100 Now, given those limitations, here's what the group uncovered.

00:07:48.720 Between 2019 and 2023, a minimum of 13,994 children underwent sex change treatments,

00:07:56.580 specifically, more than 5,700 minors had sex change surgeries, according to Do No Harm's database.

00:08:03.620 More than 8,500 received hormones and puberty blockers.

00:08:07.100 And in all, more than 62,000 sex change prescriptions were written for minors.

00:08:13.580 Now, these procedures in total involve doctors billing insurance for roughly $120 million.

00:08:19.940 And there's evidence that a very small number of doctors are racking up huge bills.

00:08:24.060 A single doctor at New York's Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, for example,

00:08:29.400 billed nearly $5 million over the last four years for sex change interventions involving children,

00:08:35.600 according to Do No Harm.

00:08:36.740 A doctor at Stanford billed more than $4 million for the same purpose.

00:08:41.980 In Missouri alone, Do No Harm found that there were more than 194 minor sex change patients from 2019 to 2023.

00:08:49.020 44 of them received surgery at places like St. Louis Children's Hospital and Children's Mercy Hospital.

00:08:56.480 151 received hormones and puberty blockers, which means that the fact check from the CBS affiliate KMOV that I played earlier was just a straight-up lie.

00:09:07.360 And there was nothing remotely accurate about it.

00:09:09.840 They denied that this was happening at all.

00:09:12.240 Turns out it is happening.

00:09:13.900 It has happened.

00:09:14.480 Now, as striking as all these numbers are, I think there's another figure that it's even more astounding.

00:09:21.320 If you look through the database, you'll find that approximately 2,000 hospitals and medical facilities in this country

00:09:28.540 performed some kind of gender transition, whether surgical or pharmaceutical, on a child between 2019 and 2023.

00:09:37.120 So, thousands of hospitals and medical facilities, including some of the biggest children's hospitals in the country,

00:09:44.620 have been participating in this butchery.

00:09:48.520 And this is a practice that left-wing activists say is very rare if they don't deny that it's happening entirely.

00:09:55.320 But it's happening all over the place.

00:09:57.200 The perpetrators include the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Boston's Children's Hospital,

00:10:07.640 the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Seattle Children's, New York University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center,

00:10:13.440 the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

00:10:15.720 These are all massive institutions.

00:10:17.580 The list also includes smaller facilities like the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital,

00:10:21.660 the Children's Hospital of New Orleans, St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Idaho,

00:10:26.040 and many hundreds of others in between.

00:10:29.540 Now, whatever you call this barbarism, there's one word you certainly can't use to describe it,

00:10:35.700 and that is rare or very rare.

00:10:39.860 And you also can't deny that it's happening at all.

00:10:42.160 At a minimum, thousands of hospitals and medical procedures, medical clinics,

00:10:50.020 are performing thousands of life-altering procedures on children,

00:10:55.480 whether it's surgical or pharmaceutical.

00:10:59.680 And some of the most powerful institutions in this country, from the government to the media,

00:11:04.240 have been lying to our faces about it for years.

00:11:07.740 That is now very clear.

00:11:09.280 Now, it's also clear that if Kamala Harris somehow becomes the president of the United States in a couple of months,

00:11:15.440 this evil is only going to accelerate.

00:11:18.320 Previously on the show, I've played footage from the various segregated Zoom calls

00:11:22.380 that have been organized independently to promote the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:11:26.040 So there's the white dudes for Harris, black women for Harris, and so on and so on.

00:11:31.080 There have been many of these.

00:11:32.800 Well, I've now obtained footage from a new one.

00:11:35.000 This is from the Trans Families for Harris organization, and they had their own Zoom call.

00:11:42.660 And in this call, several parents said that they support Kamala Harris because they want the ability to change their child's gender,

00:11:50.300 despite the fact that changing their child's gender is, of course, medically and scientifically impossible.

00:11:54.940 Here's one example.

00:11:56.080 This is a guy named Jeff Bender, and he says that his 11-year-old son is now a girl who uses she, her pronouns.

00:12:04.220 And it's all because of the wisdom of his son's second grade teacher.

00:12:09.620 And now Jeff is going to take his son across state lines to Illinois, which is more than three hours away,

00:12:14.920 to begin so-called gender-affirming care.

00:12:18.080 Watch.

00:12:18.520 An important thing happened to my daughter.

00:12:22.880 We've always known that our daughter, ever since she was born, she was always who she was.

00:12:33.680 And so it didn't come to a surprise for us to find out when she chose to start using she, her pronouns.

00:12:40.480 But the reason she chose to see her pronouns was because of her second grade teacher.

00:12:47.440 And when we limit our teachers' access to our kids, which they spend more time with our children than we do as parents,

00:12:56.380 when we limit that access, when we limit what they can do and how they can help our kids grow,

00:13:02.580 I can only imagine the hurt and the struggles that some of these kids are going to end up going through.

00:13:08.600 But because she had a second grade teacher that stepped up and let her know,

00:13:14.260 you decide who you want to be.

00:13:16.040 It's not about what your parents say or your grandparents say.

00:13:19.260 You know you.

00:13:20.820 So from this moment forth in this school, who do you want to be?

00:13:25.580 And in second grade, my daughter chose she, her.

00:13:28.580 My daughter is now 11, and we have our very first appointment for our gender-affirming care.

00:13:36.280 Our hospital, our children's hospital here in St. Louis was shut down.

00:13:41.540 Our doctor was made to flee the state and is now working somewhere else.

00:13:47.040 And our first appointment is at the end of this month in Peoria, Illinois.

00:13:51.960 And if you're not familiar with the area, that is a three-hour drive from our house. 0.99

00:13:56.340 You know, there are a lot of, unfortunately, pathetic men in this country. 0.99

00:14:04.780 And that might be, of all the pathetic men, the most pathetic one I've ever seen in my life. 1.00

00:14:12.100 To have some other adult indoctrinate your son into believing he's a girl, and you're grateful for it. 1.00

00:14:26.440 You're just going along with it.

00:14:29.440 Because you trust this other adult's judgment about your child more than your own. 0.99

00:14:36.380 I mean, pathetic doesn't even begin to describe it.

00:14:38.280 So he just comes out and says that what teachers say is more important than what parents say. 0.98

00:14:47.460 You know, if your teacher says that your son's a girl, then your son's a girl.

00:14:51.900 He's fine with teachers telling children to disregard their parents,

00:14:54.800 which is something that no teacher, much less a second-grade teacher, should ever be saying.

00:15:00.480 Now, you won't be shocked to learn that this kind of sentiment was widely shared on this Zoom call.

00:15:05.180 Another parent, a former Democrat congresswoman named Maria Newman, explained that her child was, she says, suicidal as a young teen.

00:15:12.940 So she sent him to an intensive three-month group therapy program with sessions lasting 12 hours per day.

00:15:20.120 And just three days into this therapy camp, her son came home and announced that he's actually a girl named Evie.

00:15:28.300 Watch.

00:15:28.560 About two days before she graduated from eighth grade, she came downstairs crying to my husband. 0.99

00:15:37.580 I said, you know, I know I'm being a jerk, mom and dad. 0.98

00:15:42.280 I have two solutions for you. 0.99

00:15:44.400 One is, you know, I can just run away.

00:15:47.380 I know I'm a hassle. 0.99

00:15:48.340 And the other was, I can kill myself. 0.84

00:15:51.840 And obviously, we wrapped her up in a big old hug and said, we're with you. 0.89

00:15:58.100 We're going to solve this.

00:15:59.240 Don't worry.

00:15:59.980 We got you.

00:16:00.860 A couple of days later, she graduated from eighth grade.

00:16:04.380 We then found a wonderful organization that specialized in adolescents with deep depression, severe social anxiety, and other challenges.

00:16:13.620 Well, this wonderful group therapy group helped her find the words, and she said in group therapy, we put her in group therapy, and it was a three-month program, 12 hours a day to help her find her true authenticity.

00:16:28.960 She did.

00:16:29.780 She came home that night.

00:16:30.980 It was just three days into the therapy, and she said, Mom, we're sitting at dinner, and I had made spaghetti.

00:16:36.880 And she said, you know, this is really good, but I think I have better news.

00:16:39.460 And I said, what?

00:16:40.480 And she said, I think I know what it is.

00:16:44.240 I'm not a boy.

00:16:45.660 I'm a girl, and my name is Evie.

00:16:47.880 And I, so amazing, right?

00:16:50.500 I threw my, you know, arms up in my ear, and I was so excited.

00:16:53.960 I said, that is the best news I've ever had.

00:16:55.960 So.

00:16:58.800 Yeah, that kind of thing makes me really angry, as it would any sane person, especially any parent, for a lot of reasons.

00:17:04.160 And one of them is that, you know, as critical as I often am of therapy, of the therapy industry, and, I mean, this is, right here is why.

00:17:18.320 But as critical as I am, I also recognize that there are times when it's necessary, or at the very least would be a really important resource for a person to have, including children.

00:17:30.980 You know, there are times when you could have a child who's struggling with something, especially if your child, God forbid, is suicidal.

00:17:40.400 When therapy, like, yeah, it makes sense that you would want to find therapy for your child.

00:17:48.060 But this is what, as a parent, this is what you're facing.

00:17:54.700 I mean, this is the great danger.

00:17:56.460 However, it should be a pretty simple thing that, okay, your child needs therapy, and you go and you find a therapist who's licensed and educated in the field.

00:18:07.780 And, you know, you should be able to generally trust almost any of them, just like you would generally trust almost any dentist, unless for some reason you've heard really horrific things about a particular dentist.

00:18:20.880 But that's not the case here at all.

00:18:24.160 I mean, there's a very good chance that you send your child into therapy, and they're going to come out three days later announcing that, oh, I'm actually trans.

00:18:36.460 That is how quickly the indoctrination can set in.

00:18:44.320 And children who are in therapy, by definition, are the most susceptible to it because they're already dealing, they're already troubled, they're already struggling.

00:18:51.400 So it's just evil beyond measure.

00:18:57.480 So we've reached a point where the same people who claim to oppose conversion therapy, whatever that was exactly, whatever that was supposed to be,

00:19:04.680 are now openly celebrating therapy sessions that supposedly convert their child into a different gender.

00:19:12.820 Or by using their language, convert their child from quote-unquote cisgender to trans. 0.60

00:19:18.340 So apparently that kind of conversion is completely fine.

00:19:22.020 If you want to get indoctrinated into the LGBTQIA plus alphabet soup by your teacher or your therapy camp, then that's worth celebrating. 1.00

00:19:31.040 But if anyone tells you that this is dangerous, that it puts you on the path to sterilization and life-destroying surgeries,

00:19:37.220 then they're engaging in conversion therapy, and, you know, they're terrible people.

00:19:42.700 This is the kind of dishonesty and manipulation that underlies the entire gender ideology movement. 1.00

00:19:48.340 And has since its inception.

00:19:50.860 There's no consistency here, obviously.

00:19:52.860 It's an ideology that can only survive by burying as much information as possible so that people don't realize what's actually happening.

00:20:00.660 And what's happening is that a massive industry has sprung up to monetize an unprecedented social contagion.

00:20:07.520 The New York Times just reported that one out of every 33 high school kids now identifies as trans.

00:20:12.200 This is a massive increase in a very short period of time.

00:20:15.680 As Robert Sterling pointed out, the DSM-IV, which was in effect from 1994 until 2013, estimated that transsexualism, as they called it at the time,

00:20:25.820 affected one out of every 30,000 males and 100,000 females.

00:20:31.920 In other words, just a decade ago, researchers were supposedly off by a factor of 1,000 about the number of people who are, quote-unquote, transgender.

00:20:42.360 I mean, that's what a social contagion looks like.

00:20:44.940 That's clear to anyone who looks at the data.

00:20:47.160 And it's also a booming industry, and a lot of so-called physicians are taking full advantage of it.

00:20:51.520 That's why this week's report from Do No Harm is so important.

00:20:55.000 More Americans than ever are now aware of how widespread this agenda really is.

00:21:00.060 And that is the first and most important step in achieving a goal that all sane people want,

00:21:06.440 which is to protect children by shutting all of this down.

00:21:11.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:21:12.860 Let me tell you about a looming threat to our constitutional republic that the mainstream media won't cover.

00:21:22.900 The radical left is plotting a Supreme Court coup.

00:21:26.320 They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

00:21:27.960 These progressive ideologues want to eliminate the court's conservative majority by packing it with their own hand-picked justices.

00:21:33.520 It's not court reform.

00:21:34.660 It's a blatant power grab to get the outcomes they want.

00:21:38.020 And here's the frightening part.

00:21:38.920 If one party controls the House, Senate, and presidency come January, they could restructure the court overnight.

00:21:44.860 With a simple majority vote and a president's signature, their plan becomes reality.

00:21:49.060 It's like they're trying to speedrun the destruction of our judicial system.

00:21:52.040 We've already seen their playbook, made-up ethical attacks on justices, illegal protests at their home, and open threats from so-called representatives.

00:21:59.120 It's Venezuela-style court packing, and it would spell the end of judicial independence and the rule of law as we know it.

00:22:05.520 But, hey, who needs checks and balances when you can have a rubber stamp for your radical agenda, right?

00:22:10.980 But there's hope.

00:22:11.620 First Liberty is leading the charge to protect the Supreme Court from this radical plan.

00:22:15.460 They're fighting to preserve the legitimacy of the court and the separation of powers that safeguards our freedoms.

00:22:21.180 Here's what you've got to do.

00:22:22.000 Go to SupremeCoup.com slash Walsh.

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00:22:28.260 To learn how you can help stop the left's takeover of the Supreme Court, the future of our country is quite literally in your hands.

00:22:35.220 Check out SupremeCoup.com slash Walsh today.

00:22:39.200 Kamala's been doing the interview rounds, as we've covered.

00:22:42.080 She was on the Call Her Daddy sex podcast last week.

00:22:44.940 She did Howard Stern.

00:22:46.280 She was on with Stephen Colbert this week.

00:22:47.820 We'll have some clips from that.

00:22:48.880 But she was also on The View all in the last few days.

00:22:53.280 So she's going to the absolute safest, least challenging forum she can possibly find.

00:22:58.420 And even in those forums, it's not going especially well.

00:23:01.820 Here's a clip that lots of people are talking about.

00:23:03.840 This is from her segment on The View.

00:23:06.600 For Kamala Harris, The View is pretty much the safest of all the safe places that she can go.

00:23:12.100 And there are many safe places for someone like her with her political views.

00:23:15.260 But The View, most of all, and yet, even on The View, she found herself facing what proves to be a difficult question for her.

00:23:29.200 And it didn't go, as I said, it didn't go very well.

00:23:31.840 Let's watch that.

00:23:33.660 Well, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?

00:23:41.200 There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.

00:23:51.640 Well, Donald Trump approves that message.

00:23:57.400 We know that.

00:23:58.060 And she's getting a hard time for that answer.

00:23:59.780 Conservatives are mocking her for it.

00:24:02.560 But really, what do you expect her to say?

00:24:04.400 I mean, it's not a bad answer so much as, I mean, she's bad at her job, and so is Biden.

00:24:12.440 So it's the job that has been bad, not the answer.

00:24:17.300 Because the truth is that there's no good answer.

00:24:20.240 When she's asked, what would you do differently from Biden, there really is no good answer.

00:24:23.960 I mean, if she says that she would do things differently from Biden, then she's turning on the administration that she's a part of.

00:24:30.800 She's agreeing with Trump that Biden screwed up, and that becomes the headline.

00:24:39.220 And then she's really in the impossible position of having to argue that she, as somebody at least partially responsible for those failures, is better equipped to fix them than a person who was not responsible for them.

00:24:53.380 And she can't really do that.

00:24:56.760 I don't think she, I don't think politically she can come out and start talking about the things that she wants to do better than Joe Biden.

00:25:05.500 That would probably be a political disaster for her. 1.00

00:25:07.980 At the same time, it's also political disasters to say that she won't change anything.

00:25:12.260 You know, they're both disasters, and there is no good answer.

00:25:15.100 And that's what happens when you're incompetent, and he's incompetent, and now you're running, and you're asking the voters for a promotion.

00:25:24.360 It creates all kinds of impossible scenarios and unanswerable questions.

00:25:30.320 So you're also getting, you're starting to understand why she didn't do any interviews for the first month of her campaign.

00:25:39.940 It's not just that she's really bad at them, though she is.

00:25:43.280 It's also that there are so many questions she can't answer, even if she was brilliant.

00:25:50.240 She wouldn't really be able to answer them because of her unique situation.

00:25:56.100 And her unique situation is that she's the vice president of a failed administration, and she's trying to run as a kind of change candidate, even though she's an incumbent, essentially. 0.98

00:26:09.040 And that, it's untenable.

00:26:11.340 It's an untenable situation.

00:26:13.560 She did get a second chance.

00:26:14.760 Colbert asked her later in the day, the same day, I think, asked her the same question, again, so this is take two, and here's what she came up with.

00:26:25.840 Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a change election, and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change.

00:26:36.620 You are a member of the president of the administration.

00:26:39.540 Under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be?

00:26:44.980 And what would stay the same?

00:26:46.620 Sure.

00:26:47.160 Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden.

00:26:49.900 I noticed.

00:26:50.200 And so that would be one change in terms of...

00:26:54.180 But also, I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump.

00:27:00.260 And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like,

00:27:07.960 were I to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people, and I believe in our country.

00:27:17.080 I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people.

00:27:24.420 You know, we have aspirations.

00:27:27.180 We have dreams.

00:27:28.300 We are...

00:27:29.280 We have incredible work ethic.

00:27:32.080 And I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation.

00:27:44.320 So, for example, my economic policies, I think of it and I have named it as creating... 0.96

00:27:49.100 Shut up, shut up, shut up. 1.00

00:27:51.440 Good Lord, she's so dumb. 1.00

00:27:53.340 She's so dumb. 1.00

00:27:54.960 So that's her revised answer, is that she'll be different from Biden because she's not him. 1.00

00:28:02.500 Which is true, technically.

00:28:04.000 I mean, she is a different person.

00:28:06.100 She's physically not the same person biologically.

00:28:09.520 Their DNA is not the same.

00:28:13.480 So she's not him.

00:28:15.400 And also, she believes in the dreams and aspirations of the American people.

00:28:18.820 I mean, that stuff, it's one of her go-tos.

00:28:23.100 I will say it's a little disappointing because she said, she began the sentence with, when you think about the significance of...

00:28:30.020 And everybody at home, when you hear that, you're like, she's good.

00:28:33.880 Because you think she's going to give us a passage of time.

00:28:37.420 Usually, when you think about the significance of the passage of time is what she would say.

00:28:41.140 And so I thought she was going to do the thing again with the passage of time.

00:28:43.860 And that's a crowd pleaser.

00:28:45.420 You know, that's a greatest hit.

00:28:46.280 And that would have been great, but she didn't.

00:28:49.620 Instead, she started blathering about the dreams and aspirations of the American people.

00:28:55.820 I know I said there's no good answer here.

00:28:58.880 Like, there really isn't.

00:28:59.720 I don't even know.

00:29:01.040 I mean, if I wanted to help her politically,

00:29:05.700 I'm not sure I could come up with a good answer that she can give to that question.

00:29:13.720 But even so, especially that answer there was still, even acknowledging there's no good answer because she's incompetent and Joe Biden's incompetent and their administration has been such a disastrous failure.

00:29:28.880 So all you can really do is obfuscate and, you know, filibuster and change the subject.

00:29:38.140 So that's the only choice you really have is that.

00:29:41.260 She's trying to do that here. 1.00

00:29:43.700 And she's so bad at it. 1.00

00:29:47.300 Especially, and there's nothing cringier with Kamala than when she lapses into this motivational speaker thing. 1.00

00:29:55.180 And you could tell that she thinks she's being so inspirational, but it's so incredibly lame.

00:30:04.040 But none of that matters anyway, because who cares about what kind of job Kamala Harris can do or has done? 1.00

00:30:10.440 Who cares about her competence?

00:30:11.640 All that matters is that you can sit down with Kamala and have a beer.

00:30:17.520 And if you didn't know that, they proved it in this interview by drinking a beer.

00:30:24.000 Let's watch that.

00:30:25.920 When you first became the nominee and named Tim Walls as your vice president nominee, people were calling it the vibe election.

00:30:34.780 All the vibes were all good.

00:30:36.360 But elections, I think, are one on vibes because one of the old saws is they just want somebody they can have a beer with.

00:30:41.640 So would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that's like?

00:30:45.820 Okay.

00:30:47.100 This was, now we asked ahead of time, because I can't just be given a drink to the vice president of the United States.

00:30:53.000 But I'd ask, you asked for Miller High Life.

00:30:55.140 You asked for Miller High Life.

00:30:57.180 I'm just curious.

00:30:59.300 Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug.

00:31:04.400 Okay, so cheers.

00:31:05.160 Okay, cheers.

00:31:06.200 There you go.

00:31:11.640 That tastes like the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

00:31:16.340 The champagne of beers.

00:31:17.460 There you go.

00:31:20.260 Well, I mean, never mind.

00:31:22.500 I'm going to vote for Kamala, I think.

00:31:24.160 I mean, she drank a beer.

00:31:27.400 I'm convinced.

00:31:28.180 I don't know about you guys.

00:31:29.440 I'm convinced.

00:31:30.120 If this woman can drink a beer, then that's what you need in a president. 1.00

00:31:39.000 People are applauding.

00:31:40.140 Why are you applauding that she took a sip of beer?

00:31:43.200 What?

00:31:44.200 What?

00:31:44.600 What's even going on in your mind?

00:31:49.220 I mean, there's nothing going on in your mind.

00:31:50.320 They're just trained SEALs, and probably the applause sign was lit up.

00:31:53.660 I mean, certainly it was, and so they were obeying that.

00:31:56.100 But still, it's so lame.

00:32:01.840 They're going out of their way to try to prove.

00:32:03.660 They know.

00:32:04.140 They've basically, and Colbert kind of admits it, that, yeah, it is a vibe election.

00:32:08.960 Okay, so what?

00:32:09.680 Because they can't sell her based on her accomplishments. 0.88

00:32:11.900 She has no accomplishments.

00:32:12.720 They can't sell her based on her skills. 1.00

00:32:14.380 She has no skills. 0.98

00:32:16.420 The only thing they have are the vibes.

00:32:21.340 But she has none of the vibes.

00:32:22.860 She can't do it.

00:32:26.920 She can physically take a sip of beer, and that's it. 0.71

00:32:32.300 Now, if you're not convinced that Kamala is personable and relatable, if the beer didn't convince you,

00:32:37.380 if the fact that she's capable of taking a sip of crappy beer, if that didn't convince you,

00:32:42.720 that she's relatable and she's her best friend, well, then check out this moment from Howard Stern,

00:32:50.140 her Howard Stern interview.

00:32:52.200 This was the other, this was the other, this was the other very, very probing interview that she sat down for.

00:33:00.100 And, well, if the beer wasn't enough, then I think probably this will be.

00:33:06.600 When you ran for Senate, it was bittersweet, right?

00:33:09.740 You won, which is great, but you said,

00:33:13.900 I ate a whole bag of Doritos that night.

00:33:16.900 That's your thing, Doritos?

00:33:18.180 I love Doritos.

00:33:19.360 It was the original nacho, but let me just tell you, it was a family-sized bag.

00:33:23.780 Wow.

00:33:24.480 I sat on the couch.

00:33:26.720 But you're in good shape.

00:33:27.620 Were you like nauseous?

00:33:28.360 I work out every morning.

00:33:29.820 Did you work out this morning?

00:33:31.120 I did.

00:33:31.720 Where did you work out?

00:33:32.880 On the elliptical at the hotel.

00:33:35.000 They bring one up to your room?

00:33:36.460 Yeah.

00:33:36.820 Nice.

00:33:37.120 How long do you go on the elliptical?

00:33:39.300 Half an hour to 45 minutes.

00:33:40.900 You're not bored out of your skull on that thing?

00:33:42.480 I'm watching a variety of things.

00:33:44.360 That's how I catch it.

00:33:44.840 Morning Joe?

00:33:46.180 Yeah.

00:33:47.080 He's something, huh?

00:33:48.100 Yeah.

00:33:48.180 That morning Joe.

00:33:49.020 Uh-huh.

00:33:49.640 I love that guy.

00:33:50.460 I do, too.

00:33:51.400 Joe Scarborough.

00:33:52.120 Yeah.

00:33:52.720 A former Republican.

00:33:54.100 Yes.

00:33:54.460 He can't vote in his own party.

00:33:55.600 But he loves our country.

00:33:56.360 I don't agree with him on every issue, but we agree on, I think, the most important at this moment, for sure.

00:34:02.020 So she's had Doritos. 0.99

00:34:02.980 She likes Doritos. 1.00

00:34:03.660 I don't know if you've heard that.

00:34:04.380 This is actually, the fact that she likes Doritos is a pillar of her campaign. 1.00

00:34:09.320 It's one of the most, as far as her campaign's concerned, it's one of the most salient facts about her is that she likes Doritos. 1.00

00:34:15.960 Because we have, nobody cares.

00:34:18.900 Up to this point, no one's asked.

00:34:20.420 Only Howard Stern is vapid enough to ask about it.

00:34:24.640 But we've heard it anyway, over and over and over again, is that she likes Doritos. 0.95

00:34:28.580 And this is how desperate they are to make her relate to the common man.

00:34:31.660 And it doesn't work.

00:34:33.400 And also, by the way, it wouldn't even matter if it did.

00:34:36.940 Even if you could convince us that she's a really personable, friendly person and would be a lot of fun to hang out with, which you have not convinced us of that.

00:34:43.360 But even if you could, it still would not mean anything.

00:34:45.940 It would not get you closer, even an inch closer, to proving that she'd be a good president. 0.76

00:34:49.740 But now that we've gone through all that, and even though the personable element doesn't really matter for a president, I don't care if a president is personable.

00:34:59.200 It doesn't matter to me.

00:35:00.340 I care if they can get the job done.

00:35:01.700 But let's just compare, now that we've seen Kamala trying her best to be relatable and personable. 1.00

00:35:07.840 Let's compare Kamala attempting to do this in these kinds of sort of casual conversations to Trump doing the same thing. 0.99

00:35:19.500 So here's Trump on Andrew Schultz's podcast.

00:35:23.140 And this just came out this morning, I think.

00:35:26.020 And here's just one clip.

00:35:28.180 We'll play a little bit of this.

00:35:30.180 Over the last week, I have, when we talk about funny or sad, I think it's more sad than funny.

00:35:35.220 He has one ability I don't have.

00:35:38.380 He sleeps.

00:35:39.820 He can sleep.

00:35:41.360 This guy goes on a beach, and he lays down on one of those, you know, six ounce, they weigh six ounces, and he can't lift it.

00:35:51.960 No, they're meant for children, young people, and old people to lift. 1.00

00:35:59.760 Aluminum, you know, hollowed aluminum.

00:36:01.960 They weigh very little, and he can't lift.

00:36:03.940 And somebody convinced him he looks great in a bathing suit.

00:36:07.020 And when you're 82, typically bathing suits aren't going to make you look great.

00:36:11.780 You're not going to be enhanced.

00:36:13.300 All right?

00:36:13.800 It's just one of those things.

00:36:15.220 I can't be sure about that, but typically you don't look good.

00:36:18.060 It depends what he's packing.

00:36:19.020 He could have it like that.

00:36:19.220 I don't know what the hell he's packing, but I don't want to know.

00:36:23.080 I don't know.

00:36:23.760 But he has an ability to fall asleep while on camera.

00:36:29.020 He can lie down on one of those things.

00:36:31.180 Yeah.

00:36:31.460 And in minutes, he's stone cold out.

00:36:34.680 How does he do it?

00:36:35.600 And he's got cameras.

00:36:36.320 How does he do it?

00:36:36.420 Because he's the president, so they have cameras on him.

00:36:38.440 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:38.900 And then they show him sleeping on the beach.

00:36:40.820 Yeah.

00:36:41.800 You'll never see me sleeping in front of the camera.

00:36:43.620 And the whole interview is like that, I'm sure.

00:36:47.380 This is one of the many differences between Kamala and Trump.

00:36:51.840 And this is why her media assault right now to try to make herself seem like a real person,

00:36:58.760 it's doomed to fail because it's really the worst strategy, I think, that they could choose for Kamala.

00:37:05.960 There probably aren't any good strategies for her, but it might be the worst one to put her in these kinds of environments.

00:37:12.280 It's the worst thing they could do.

00:37:15.000 Yeah, she's not good at real interviews. 0.72

00:37:17.760 She obviously did very poorly in the 60 Minutes interview.

00:37:21.200 But I think of the two, you've got to choose your poison pill.

00:37:25.100 And if I'm running the Kamala campaign, I'm going to choose the 60 Minutes style interviews.

00:37:30.660 Because when you put her in these kinds of environments, she just doesn't do well.

00:37:38.260 And now, also, she's in Trump's lane now.

00:37:41.380 This is what Trump does better than any politician that's ever lived.

00:37:46.420 She does this better than any politician ever anywhere in history. 1.00

00:37:50.180 I mean, honestly, this kind of thing.

00:37:54.100 If you could choose any politician that's ever existed to go on Andrew Schultz's podcast or even Howard Stern,

00:38:02.100 although Howard Stern would never have him now.

00:38:03.620 But if you could choose anyone, you'd choose Trump.

00:38:06.540 That's his thing.

00:38:07.660 That's his lane.

00:38:09.740 And for him, it's very effortless and casual.

00:38:12.980 And he's funny.

00:38:14.280 And he's talking to a comedian, making the comedian laugh.

00:38:19.320 Kamala Harris would not be able to do that. 1.00

00:38:21.560 So the contrast is not favorable to her at all.

00:38:27.080 All right.

00:38:27.240 Yesterday, we talked about the supposed controversy surrounding an interview on CBS with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:38:35.240 And the controversy is that one of the anchors conducting the interview asked Coates a real question.

00:38:41.060 Coates had just written a book that deals, at least in part, with the Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:38:45.800 The book is apparently, not surprisingly, very one-sided in favor of Palestine.

00:38:52.080 The anchor brings that up to Coates.

00:38:54.800 We played the clip yesterday, and the author Coates actually admits that it is one-sided.

00:39:00.680 He justifies it by saying that the other side is already well-represented in the media,

00:39:04.840 which, whether you believe that or not, is still an admission that the premise of the question was correct.

00:39:11.360 So if you're on the side of Coates on this thing, then you shouldn't be upset at the question.

00:39:16.200 It gave him a chance to explain why he approached the book the way that he did.

00:39:21.060 And if you buy his explanation, then there's no reason to be upset.

00:39:25.600 But lots of people were upset, including the staff at CBS.

00:39:28.560 They were incensed that this anchor, one of their colleagues,

00:39:31.640 had asked a black liberal author a real question in an interview because you're not supposed to do that.

00:39:38.000 So there's been an internal revolt.

00:39:39.780 This led, as we discussed yesterday, to CBS bringing in a DEI expert, who's not even certified like I am,

00:39:46.260 and bringing him in to mediate and help staffers overcome the trauma of witnessing one of their colleagues committing journalism.

00:39:53.820 Well, the free press obtained a brief audio snippet of the CBS editorial meeting behind the scenes

00:40:01.760 where the anchor, whose name is Tony DeCupol, was publicly admonished by his bosses for asking a question.

00:40:08.480 And here's the audio snippet with the free press setting it up.

00:40:12.520 Here it is.

00:40:13.960 The free press obtained some leaked audio of a CBS editorial meeting

00:40:19.360 in which DeCupol was trashed by his bosses in front of his colleagues for asking questions.

00:40:27.680 His job.

00:40:28.400 Let's take a listen.

00:40:29.260 And there are times we fail our audiences and we fail each other.

00:40:33.800 We're in one of those times right now.

00:40:38.780 And it's been growing.

00:40:39.840 And now we are at a tipping point.

00:40:42.960 Many of you have reached out to express concerns over recent reporting,

00:40:50.280 specifically about the CBS Mornings Coates interview from last week,

00:40:55.340 as well as comments made coming out of some of our correspondence reporting.

00:40:59.060 I want to thank everyone who reached out for your honesty, your transparency, and your commitment.

00:41:09.260 So I want to address three things.

00:41:12.180 Number one, after a review of our coverage, including the interview,

00:41:17.260 it's clear there are times we have not met our editorial standards.

00:41:21.240 Number two, this has been addressed, and it will continue to be in the future.

00:41:29.800 And number three, I want to acknowledge and I want to say,

00:41:34.120 I want to apologize that it's taken this long to have this conversation.

00:41:41.880 Okay, now before we talk about that,

00:41:43.360 we should also mention that DeCupol himself has apparently offered something of an apology to his colleagues.

00:41:48.380 The New York Post reports, CBS Morning co-host Tony DeCupol told staffers during an emotional meeting

00:41:53.620 that he regretted putting them in a difficult position amid the brewing scandal at the network

00:41:57.860 over his grilling of an anti-Israel author, the Post has learned.

00:42:01.720 The embattled anchor spoke at Tuesday's staff-only meeting,

00:42:05.300 which was not attended by co-hosts Gail King and Nate Burleson,

00:42:09.100 the day after being reprimanded by CBS Brass for his fiery sit-down with Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:42:14.040 Tony said he regretted putting his colleagues in that position,

00:42:16.260 according to an insider, especially the ones overseas and in danger.

00:42:19.720 There were tears. People were very upset.

00:42:25.320 So according to this, he didn't, I guess he didn't apologize for asking the question,

00:42:30.520 but he did say that he regretted the position that he put everybody in.

00:42:34.780 This sounds like the classic, I'm sorry if I offended you type of move, 0.65

00:42:39.420 which if this report is accurate is still pretty pathetic because he has nothing to regret.

00:42:45.000 He didn't put anyone in any kind of position. 0.80

00:42:47.960 If his colleagues are in tears, in tears,

00:42:51.120 because he asked a question to a guest during an interview,

00:42:57.300 in which questions are typically asked,

00:43:02.460 if that's the case that he shouldn't be expressing any regret about it,

00:43:07.100 he should be saying that, you know, if he regrets anything,

00:43:10.840 if anything at all, he regrets the fact that he apparently works at a daycare center

00:43:15.580 surrounded by two-year-olds.

00:43:19.640 He should say he regrets that.

00:43:22.400 I mean, if it were me, that's what I would say.

00:43:24.600 My regret is that I thought I was working for a news organization.

00:43:28.960 I accidentally, apparently signed up to work at a daycare center.

00:43:32.900 That's my regret.

00:43:33.960 My bad on that one.

00:43:35.000 But he didn't say that, and I'm not surprised that he didn't say that,

00:43:40.020 especially with his bosses publicly scolding him like this.

00:43:42.140 That would take some real courage.

00:43:44.320 And, you know, you see this a lot.

00:43:48.560 Well, most people will just go along with the insanity,

00:43:51.920 and there's a smaller group of people who will poke their heads up

00:43:56.200 and exhibit some basic level of sanity and common sense.

00:44:01.620 In the journalism world, you've got a few journalists who every once in a while will

00:44:05.120 show that they're willing to, that they understand what their job is,

00:44:09.120 and they're willing to do it.

00:44:11.000 But the problem is that even most of those people,

00:44:13.680 when they commit that flagrant act of common sense or sanity or journalism,

00:44:18.880 there's an even smaller sliver of that small sliver who will stand by it

00:44:26.820 through the backlash that is sure to come.

00:44:31.200 So the whole thing is really insane, obviously.

00:44:32.940 And it goes to show something that I've certainly discovered

00:44:36.500 and demonstrated over the last few years,

00:44:39.680 that one of the gravest sins on the left is to ask questions.

00:44:45.120 That truly is, for them, like one of the worst things you can do.

00:44:50.720 To ask a question, a real question, is an unforgivable sin.

00:44:54.200 It's a mortal sin.

00:44:56.520 It is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance,

00:44:59.320 according to the leftist religion, is to ask questions.

00:45:03.980 And why is that?

00:45:05.060 Because a question, and they respond this way, I think,

00:45:09.960 to questions even more than to statements they don't like.

00:45:15.120 Because a statement that they don't like,

00:45:18.280 well, that could upset them too and make them cry.

00:45:20.680 You get a similar reaction.

00:45:23.160 But a question has the possibility of exposing their worldview

00:45:28.720 and exposing their heroes in a way that no mere declarative statement ever could.

00:45:35.860 And that's why this is one of the number one rules on the left,

00:45:40.860 is that you don't ask questions.

00:45:43.880 I mean, not real ones anyway.

00:45:46.920 That much is clear.

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00:47:58.000 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:48:06.080 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we begin with a crazy TikTok video.

00:48:10.260 And, you know, we haven't had one of these in a surprisingly long time on the show,

00:48:13.840 it feels like.

00:48:14.380 I realized sometime around six months ago that, you know,

00:48:17.060 I was arguably spending a little too much time on the show

00:48:19.240 offering in-depth analysis of lunatics on TikTok.

00:48:21.600 So I tried to branch out a bit for a while, but now we're back to that well again,

00:48:27.360 because of this video that I stumbled across after it went viral on Twitter.

00:48:31.660 This is a woman, apparently in the year of our Lord, 2024,

00:48:37.400 talking about her COVID travel precautions.

00:48:41.520 Watch.

00:48:41.780 This is how I travel as a COVID-conscious person.

00:48:44.880 First, I use Covixxel nasal spray before going to the airport,

00:48:47.700 and I mask in the Uber, of course, and I always mask in the airport.

00:48:51.980 When I get on the plane, I wipe down as much as I can with Clorox wipes,

00:48:55.480 and I use my Pure Enrichment air purifier for the plane.

00:48:58.260 I wait a little bit to eat after everyone else gets their snacks,

00:49:00.960 and I plan to do as much of my activities outside as possible.

00:49:03.980 When I get home, I wear a mask and test a few days in a row.

00:49:07.400 Now, again, I emphasize this video is not from 2020 or 2021,

00:49:13.500 even though it would have been insane even back then,

00:49:16.520 but some people are still living like this.

00:49:19.080 In fact, this video, because at first, you know, living in my world,

00:49:25.720 you see a video like that, you're like, well, this must be a parody.

00:49:28.060 I mean, this is not, who is still doing this?

00:49:31.700 So I had to confirm that it was not a parody video,

00:49:34.120 and I don't believe that it is because my investigation sent me down a very regrettable rabbit hole

00:49:42.200 where I discovered that COVID conscious is now an identity group on the left

00:49:48.740 where only the wokest of the woke claim membership.

00:49:53.600 I mean, this is like, this is high level.

00:49:55.520 These are the high level woke people.

00:49:58.720 This is a pretty exclusive club is COVID conscious.

00:50:02.680 There's a whole sub-genre of TikTok videos where the COVID conscious,

00:50:07.880 years after everyone else has moved on,

00:50:11.100 are still allowing COVID to dominate and dictate their lives.

00:50:16.320 And there are many examples of this, but here's another one.

00:50:20.680 Pack up my Aerosene bag with me.

00:50:22.060 So the most important thing you know about me is I still don't want to get COVID.

00:50:25.000 I've never gotten it, as far as I know, and I don't plan on doing it,

00:50:27.960 but I really want to see this concert.

00:50:29.160 So, we got my stadium bag and my portable air filter.

00:50:33.200 The way I rigged it here with this plastic ring that I had lying around,

00:50:35.720 I figure, you know, I can go in and out with it easy.

00:50:40.260 And then it can also hang on me.

00:50:44.200 And then when it's out and the bag is hanging on me,

00:50:46.500 it blows right up into my face.

00:50:48.380 First thing I want to do is,

00:50:50.620 because I'm bringing extra masks for other people,

00:50:52.960 I'm going to put all of these masks.

00:50:56.660 I have these KF94s that actually go so well with my dress,

00:51:01.500 but I'm going to be wearing probably my Cambridge mask.

00:51:03.920 This is my favorite one.

00:51:04.980 And I've also got 3M Auras.

00:51:07.340 I have a bunch of KN95s in the car that I'm also going to put in that are colorful.

00:51:11.140 Since these are for other people,

00:51:12.520 I figure the colorful ones, the black ones,

00:51:14.200 those are the real winners.

00:51:15.220 And any mask is better than no mask.

00:51:17.080 So, even if you're not going to wear an aura,

00:51:19.280 which would protect you the most,

00:51:20.680 you're wearing something, and that's awesome.

00:51:21.900 Now, that video goes on, by the way, for seven more minutes.

00:51:26.740 She has barely begun to describe all of her COVID safety measures.

00:51:30.740 Wearing a mask and bringing a stash of several dozen additional masks

00:51:34.060 is just the start of it.

00:51:35.840 It was encouraging to see, by the way,

00:51:37.260 among all of her tools, all of her equipment there,

00:51:41.920 there was, I think I did see some deodorant.

00:51:44.000 So, that's progress for these people.

00:51:47.760 But sometimes these COVID-conscious videos

00:51:49.980 do feature a little bit of introspection.

00:51:53.420 And these are the interesting ones.

00:51:56.120 I found several videos like this.

00:51:58.480 Where some of these people,

00:52:00.220 it's actually quite sad,

00:52:01.140 some of these people seem to be aware

00:52:03.280 of how bizarre their behavior is

00:52:05.480 and how dysfunctional it is.

00:52:08.340 And they do seem to be,

00:52:09.820 at some level, troubled by it.

00:52:11.480 But they just can't free themselves.

00:52:14.120 They can't break free.

00:52:16.140 Here's one example.

00:52:18.440 But I was up in the Pearl yesterday,

00:52:20.500 which is like north of downtown.

00:52:22.620 And it was like 10 a.m.

00:52:24.060 And things were buzzing.

00:52:25.220 And everyone, no masks,

00:52:30.040 just not a single one.

00:52:31.720 But everyone was just behaving like things were normal.

00:52:36.880 And I found myself as I was driving

00:52:39.340 wondering what that would be like.

00:52:42.960 Like, I'm so deeply steeped in not normal.

00:52:48.500 That like, the way I live is now my normal.

00:52:50.960 Like, I can't imagine what that normal looks like.

00:52:59.800 And is that part of my stubbornness?

00:53:02.080 And the reason I bring it up

00:53:02.880 is because I don't think that's unusual.

00:53:05.080 Like, frequently I see in,

00:53:07.420 like, there's a zero COVID Reddit that I like.

00:53:11.120 And in other online spaces

00:53:12.840 where you see people at the end of the rope

00:53:14.760 and they're like,

00:53:15.200 what if tomorrow I just woke up?

00:53:16.540 It's like, let's just take our masks off and try it.

00:53:20.480 And I think about that all the time.

00:53:25.280 Now, the caption on that video said,

00:53:27.560 what if tomorrow we just stopped being COVID conscious?

00:53:32.960 Well, so she's thinking about that anyway.

00:53:36.560 But, you know, most of us can answer that question.

00:53:39.180 The answer is that everything would be fine

00:53:42.140 if that were to happen.

00:53:43.520 Most of us are not conscious of COVID.

00:53:47.360 I mean, we're aware of it, you know,

00:53:50.960 of a, we're aware of it conceptually.

00:53:53.780 We're not thinking about it.

00:53:55.240 We aren't worried about it.

00:53:57.160 We get sick and we don't test to see if we have it.

00:54:00.120 We just live our lives.

00:54:01.540 We've been doing that for years.

00:54:03.140 Some of us never stopped doing that,

00:54:04.600 even at the height of the panic.

00:54:06.680 And everything is fine.

00:54:08.760 Well, everything isn't fine at all, actually.

00:54:10.700 Things are, you know, pretty bad in many ways,

00:54:12.860 but it has nothing to do with COVID.

00:54:15.720 And the fascinating thing about these COVID conscious videos

00:54:17.820 is that many of the people who are still stuck perpetually

00:54:21.300 in like April of 2020 seem again to realize that,

00:54:26.880 or they're on the verge of realizing it.

00:54:29.200 But they've committed so much of themselves to the COVID panic.

00:54:35.400 They've defined themselves by it to such an extent for so long now,

00:54:39.720 like half a decade now,

00:54:41.440 that they feel like they can't turn back.

00:54:44.920 So it's exactly like someone who has been in a cult for years

00:54:49.460 and is now having glimmers of doubt,

00:54:52.160 but they feel like they can't leave the cult,

00:54:54.800 even if part where all of them sort of wants to,

00:54:58.740 because they'd be giving up their whole identity.

00:55:02.140 They'd be starting over from scratch.

00:55:05.220 And there's a little bit of the sunk cost fallacy,

00:55:08.080 where you think, well, I've already given so much of myself

00:55:09.640 to this thing that I can't, if I, it's all a waste.

00:55:14.460 If I turn back now, if I, if I, five years later,

00:55:17.140 if I'm like, yeah, okay, COVID is,

00:55:18.440 I'm not worried about it anymore.

00:55:20.300 Well, I just wasted five years of my life.

00:55:22.060 I've alienated all my friends and family.

00:55:24.640 They don't want to be around me.

00:55:25.660 I've done all that for nothing.

00:55:28.780 So that's what they're thinking.

00:55:29.860 And then, of course, there are still the COVID conscious people

00:55:31.940 who are still at this point, true believers,

00:55:34.840 not a hint of it, retrospection or introspection

00:55:37.860 can be detected with these people.

00:55:39.540 But here's the point.

00:55:42.140 Because I, and I've been thinking about this.

00:55:45.600 How, what, what, how do these people still exist?

00:55:48.020 Like what's going on in their minds?

00:55:49.180 And I think that it's not a coincidence

00:55:54.100 that the COVID conscious people are all on the left.

00:55:58.560 I mean, every single one, we take that for granted, of course,

00:56:01.100 but it is worth thinking about that.

00:56:03.480 This is not a delusion that exists

00:56:06.560 on both sides of the political spectrum.

00:56:09.180 This is an identity group that exists entirely on the left.

00:56:12.060 I mean, if you see someone today wearing a mask,

00:56:14.440 you could be 1,000% sure that that person

00:56:18.000 is not only on the left, but is far left.

00:56:21.880 There isn't anything analogous even happening on the right.

00:56:25.240 We have some kooky people over on our side too.

00:56:27.900 Kooks come in all shapes, sizes, and political affiliations.

00:56:30.600 But there isn't any group that defines itself

00:56:34.300 by its fear of a disease on our side.

00:56:37.680 On the left is where you find the COVID conscious.

00:56:41.620 It's also where you find every other delusional identity group.

00:56:46.960 The left has, as we know, many different identity groups,

00:56:51.840 and many of them are fundamentally defined

00:56:54.960 by their rejection of reality.

00:56:58.760 Why is that the case?

00:57:00.340 Well, because this is one of the primary ways

00:57:05.560 that the left propagates itself and recruits new adherents.

00:57:09.300 And it's a method, it's something about the left

00:57:11.660 that isn't discussed nearly enough,

00:57:13.640 which is that they legitimize mental illness,

00:57:16.760 and they provide the mentally ill with a community

00:57:19.560 where they will be encouraged and affirmed.

00:57:24.620 So when conservatives encounter a hypochondriac,

00:57:28.520 which that's what these people are,

00:57:30.340 you're still wearing a mask,

00:57:31.760 you're walking around with an air purifier

00:57:33.080 blowing into your face,

00:57:34.220 I mean, this is, at any other point,

00:57:37.020 somebody like this would go to a therapist,

00:57:39.680 they'd be immediately recognized and diagnosed

00:57:41.380 as a hypochondriac,

00:57:42.580 and hopefully they'd get some psychiatric treatment for that.

00:57:47.960 So on the right, when we encounter a hypochondriac

00:57:51.160 whose whole life revolves around avoiding illness,

00:57:54.500 we respond by telling the person that they're wrong,

00:57:57.120 and maybe we're sort of blunt about it in some cases,

00:58:01.260 we say that they're delusional,

00:58:02.540 they need psychiatric help.

00:58:04.380 Now, there are polite ways of putting it

00:58:08.340 and rude ways of putting it,

00:58:09.500 but generally speaking,

00:58:10.780 telling someone like this that they're wrong,

00:58:12.720 that this is a delusional belief,

00:58:13.860 they need help,

00:58:14.680 that is morally and ethically and factually

00:58:17.780 the right way to respond.

00:58:19.340 But the thought leaders on the left,

00:58:22.500 they're not going to say that.

00:58:24.140 Instead, they open their arms to the hypochondriac

00:58:26.820 and they say, yes, you're right.

00:58:29.200 COVID is still an existential threat to humanity.

00:58:31.600 In fact, we have an identity group ready,

00:58:34.100 ready-made just for people like you.

00:58:36.240 Come over here with us.

00:58:37.300 Bring your masks and your hand sanitizer.

00:58:39.820 We've got a space set aside just for you.

00:58:41.800 It's already been cleaned with Lysol wipes.

00:58:44.800 We'll never tell you that you're wrong about anything.

00:58:47.520 You're safe here.

00:58:48.400 Affirmation is the cardinal virtue of the left.

00:58:54.000 It is really the only virtue.

00:58:57.100 What you believe is true because you believe it.

00:58:59.520 However you live is the right way to live

00:59:01.340 because it's how you live.

00:59:03.860 Nobody is delusional,

00:59:05.520 except Trump voters, of course.

00:59:07.620 But all other viewpoints and lifestyles

00:59:09.920 are legitimate and true.

00:59:11.700 And in fact, the more removed from reality they are

00:59:13.680 and the more self-destructive they are,

00:59:15.380 the more legitimate they are.

00:59:16.520 This is simultaneously how they spread mental illness, 0.94

00:59:22.120 the left does,

00:59:23.180 and how they expand their own ranks

00:59:25.120 by recruiting and validating

00:59:26.800 those mental illnesses.

00:59:29.460 The COVID-cautious community 0.97

00:59:31.380 is just one of many examples.

00:59:35.200 This is maybe the greatest secret

00:59:38.500 of the left's cultural success.

00:59:41.080 There are no more insane asylums 0.95

00:59:43.040 because leftism is the asylum.

00:59:45.180 And that is why the COVID-cautious people 1.00

00:59:50.240 and especially the ideology that validates them

00:59:53.280 are today canceled.

00:59:57.160 That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:58.180 Thanks for watching.

00:59:58.680 Thanks for listening.

00:59:59.220 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:59.920 Have a great day.

01:00:00.720 Godspeed.

01:00:01.020 Thank you.

01:00:04.860 Thank you.

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