The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1486 - Here's The Real Reason Why Our Birth Rate Is Plummeting

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the New York Times published an article this week about the growing

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00:02:22.880 too. That's Walsh to 989898. Text now. You know, we've talked a lot over the years about the decline

00:02:30.060 in the birth rate and the rapidly increasing number of young adults who are refusing to get married and

00:02:34.360 have children. As much as we discussed the subject, we still have not discussed it enough. It is one of

00:02:39.580 the great crises facing our civilization at the present moment. When a society gives up on having

00:02:44.600 children, it has given up on its future. It has given up on itself. And well, that matters. That

00:02:50.040 matters a lot. Now, of course, plenty of people are still having children. We haven't entered full-on

00:02:54.380 children of men territory quite yet. Our population is still growing, just as the population of the

00:03:00.720 world is still growing. But the growth is slowing, and we have long since crossed the crucial threshold

00:03:05.900 in this country where our fertility rate is now below replacement level. We are no longer having 0.98

00:03:10.660 enough babies to replace older people as they die off. And as a consequence, our population itself 1.00

00:03:16.900 grows older and more top-heavy, and all kinds of complications follow from that. And those

00:03:22.980 complications quickly turn into catastrophes. We've discussed many aspects of this problem, but

00:03:28.500 it's a problem so deep and all-encompassing that there are always going to be new dimensions to

00:03:34.540 explore. And a few days ago, the New York Times, engaging in another random act of journalism,

00:03:39.260 as Rush Limbaugh used to call it, published a piece homing in on a facet of the birth rate decline

00:03:44.880 that, until now, hadn't gotten much press, if any at all. The article is titled,

00:03:51.540 quote, The Unspoken Grief of Never Becoming a Grandparent. And the piece by Katherine Pearson

00:03:57.260 has gotten a decidedly mixed reaction. Some people, myself included, found it to be a profoundly sad,

00:04:04.920 yet very empathetic and very interesting look at a group of people who are suffering in a unique way

00:04:10.600 from our society's plummeting birth rate. But other people were angry and offended for reasons we'll

00:04:17.680 talk about in a moment. But first, let's read a little bit of this article. It says, quote,

00:04:22.160 Lydia Burke, 56, has held on to her favorite copy of The Velveteen Rabbit since her three children,

00:04:27.620 now in their 20s and 30s, were young. She loved being a stay-at-home mother and filled her family's home 0.61

00:04:32.520 with books. All of her children could read before they started school, Ms. Burke recalled with pride.

00:04:37.500 She hoped one day to be a cool grandma who would share her favorite stories with a new generation.

00:04:42.140 But none of her children want to have kids. And though that decision is right for them, 1.00

00:04:46.360 Ms. Burke said, it still breaks her heart. I don't have young children anymore,

00:04:50.600 and now I'm not going to have grandchildren, she said. So that part of my life is just over.

00:04:55.640 Like Ms. Burke, a growing number of Gen Xers and baby boomers are facing the sometimes painful fact

00:05:00.220 that they are never going to become grandparents. A little more than half of adults 50 and older

00:05:04.480 had at least one grandchild in 2021, down from nearly 60% in 2014. Amid falling birth rates,

00:05:11.120 more U.S. adults say they're unlikely to ever have children for a variety of reasons. Chief among them,

00:05:16.200 they just don't want to. Now, the article continues along with more anecdotes along these lines. I'm not

00:05:22.800 going to read them all here, but you should go find the article and read for yourself. They're quite sad,

00:05:26.740 quite illuminating though. And there are many older people these days with children who swear

00:05:33.420 they will never have children of their own. And the reasons they give for remaining childless

00:05:37.480 in the article are all very similar. They point to the economy, the state of the world,

00:05:43.340 climate change, of course, and so on. None of them feel they have any obligation to have kids and

00:05:49.460 carry on the family name and the bloodline. They're thinking only about themselves and what would

00:05:53.980 make them most comfortable. And they've decided that they're most comfortable being childless and

00:05:58.920 alone. So their parents will just have to deal with the loneliness and grief that comes from that.

00:06:03.220 That's the general attitude. It's also the attitude of many commenters on this article.

00:06:08.040 There's plenty of sympathy for the would-be or want-to-be grandparents, but there's also a lot of

00:06:15.320 this sort of thing, quote, boo-hoo, get over yourself. I chose not to have children. That is,

00:06:21.060 was my choice, which was clear from day one with my spouse. He married me on those terms. I'm not

00:06:26.400 responsible for my parents' happiness. They are. They tried to guilt me into it during the first

00:06:30.400 few years I was married, but eventually gave up. It was never their choice to make.

00:06:35.100 A lot of empathy there. A similar message in this comment says, quote,

00:06:39.000 I feel it's extremely self-centered of any person who expects others to make decisions that will make

00:06:42.900 them happy. Too many parents try to live their lives vicariously through their children.

00:06:46.840 Children do not owe their parents everything. Besides, many of us were forced to babysit our

00:06:51.540 younger children. I had 18 years of watching my three younger siblings and having to work in my

00:06:56.100 mother's daycare center. My God, if I had my own children, I would have ended up spending my entire 0.82

00:07:00.700 life raising children. My purpose in life is not to watch slash raise children. With the recent parental

00:07:05.620 theory practice of making the oldest child the third parent, making them help raise their younger

00:07:10.200 siblings, you can expect that more people will reject parenthood when they become adults.

00:07:14.880 I have to clarify one thing here, and this is a theme that we're going to see emerge

00:07:20.020 in these people that, you know, reject having kids, is that they just have no understanding of

00:07:26.640 history at all. They have no clue. They just have no idea what human history consists of. Not even like

00:07:33.580 the foggiest general idea. Because it is not a recent theory that older children should help care for

00:07:40.960 their younger siblings. This is not like a recent phenomenon. This is how all human societies have

00:07:46.880 worked since the dawn of our species. This commenter is suggesting that more people are

00:07:52.900 rejecting parenthood because they were raised in the same way that billions of humans have been raised

00:07:58.540 since time immemorial. And again, this is a common theme. People with absolutely no understanding of

00:08:03.880 human history have decided that the challenges they face are utterly unprecedented. When in fact,

00:08:11.220 they have not dealt with a single thing that billions of other people haven't also dealt with.

00:08:17.900 And those billions of people still had families in spite of it.

00:08:23.400 This article also went viral on X, as you would expect. And the commentary there,

00:08:27.740 very similar. A couple of examples, quote, unspoken? My parents never shut the F up about

00:08:34.720 wanting grandkids. Don't F up the economy for your children and then get surprised when they can't

00:08:39.120 afford kids. Then another one says, these grandparents should have built enough generational

00:08:44.520 wealth so their kids would feel financially secure enough to start a family. The unspoken grief of not

00:08:49.640 being a trust fund nepo baby who can easily support a family. Now, obviously, we hear this excuse 0.98

00:08:56.020 constantly. We're told that people aren't having kids today because of the economy. And the economy

00:09:02.480 makes it impossible, I've been told. This person blames the birth rate decline on a lack of generational

00:09:08.360 wealth. And let me reiterate a point that I made on Twitter, which seems to have upset a lot of people.

00:09:14.160 And now I'm going to upset them again because I'll say it again. The economy is not preventing anyone

00:09:21.760 from starting a family or having children. Okay? It's not preventing anyone.

00:09:28.020 Now, I'm not denying that the economy is in poor shape at the moment.

00:09:32.680 But that is not a good reason or a valid reason for a society to give up on the family. If anything,

00:09:39.220 it's all the more reason not to give up on the family. You only make, what do you think happens

00:09:43.680 to the economy when everybody gets older and you don't have enough younger people coming up the ranks?

00:09:48.500 You think that makes the economy better? Is that going to solve the problem?

00:09:52.980 And also, you don't need generational wealth to start a family. Okay? You don't need to be a

00:09:57.640 trust. This is what we're hearing. You have to be a trust fund nepo baby to simply have a kid. 1.00

00:10:03.680 You have to be a multimillionaire living in extreme luxury to afford even a single child. I mean,

00:10:10.140 this is the kind of mentality that many people have now. It's totally delusional.

00:10:15.580 I did not have any generational wealth when I started my family. And those of you who've

00:10:23.140 listened to this show for a long time are familiar with my story. I was broke when I got married. The

00:10:27.600 economy wasn't exactly humming at the time either. There's another thing I'm told all the time by

00:10:32.040 people, younger people, especially when they're trying to justify that they don't want to have 0.97

00:10:35.820 kids. I say, well, you don't know what it's like. You don't know what the economy. You don't know

00:10:38.560 what it's like. Do you think this is the only time there's been a bad economy? Do you really think

00:10:44.220 that? The economy crashed when I was in my early twenties. It's called the great recession.

00:10:48.680 Okay. Big, big crash. Wasn't all that long ago. So that's, that's the situation I was in when I was

00:10:53.960 just entering young adulthood. Okay. Couldn't afford a house. I was living in an apartment on a meager

00:11:00.120 salary. So broke, I frequently had to pay for gas with the spare change in the cup holder in my car.

00:11:06.640 You know, and we weren't in much better shape when we had our first two kids.

00:11:09.760 We didn't buy our first house until we had already had three kids. You don't need to be rich to start

00:11:16.860 a family. You do not need to come from a rich family to start a family. You don't need a strong

00:11:22.840 economy. Economies ebb and flow. Okay. They go up and they go down. If you ever have kids, okay,

00:11:29.920 here's the thing. If you ever have kids, if you ever have them, it is guaranteed that you will have kids

00:11:35.940 during a weak economy. And the reason is that it may be strong when you have them,

00:11:41.860 but you'll still be a parent 10 years from then when the economy dips again.

00:11:47.220 The economy may be weak now when you have kids, but you'll be a parent 10 years from now when it's

00:11:51.780 stronger. This is how economies work. And that's why you can't wait around for the economy to permit

00:11:57.920 you to move on with your life and do the things that you're meant to do as a human being.

00:12:01.980 Now I use my own story as an example because it's my own story. Also because it's important that

00:12:09.620 when I talk about this, that you know that I've actually, I've actually done the thing that I'm

00:12:13.420 advocating for, which makes me more credible with discussing this, not less. But of course,

00:12:20.180 even at my brokest point, I was still then rich compared to the vast majority of humans who've ever

00:12:28.080 lived on earth. And you right now listening to this, no matter what your financial situation is,

00:12:35.620 you are richer than almost everyone who has ever lived. Okay. People with fewer resources than you

00:12:43.400 have been reproducing since the beginning of human existence. Literally billions of people have done

00:12:50.740 the thing that we are now told you can't do unless you have a hundred thousand dollars in savings.

00:12:57.420 If people had this attitude in the past, the human species would not exist.

00:13:04.320 So if this is your attitude, you have an attitude that if, if, if this was, if this was prevalent 200

00:13:10.460 years ago, it would be the extinction of mankind. Like that's not an exaggeration.

00:13:15.280 So you say that you can't afford to start a family. Well, how can that be? How can it be that

00:13:21.560 you can't afford it? And yet billions of people have afforded it with less. How is it that you can't

00:13:30.060 do something that has been done under more difficult circumstances, billions of times?

00:13:38.420 And I'm often told by younger people that the situation now is just too difficult. Everything's

00:13:42.140 too expensive. You know, and I don't understand. I can't relate. Again, it's like they think the

00:13:46.820 history of the world started 45 minutes ago. If you think the challenges you face today are so

00:13:52.280 unprecedented that they mean we should stop reproducing as a species, then you simply have

00:13:58.240 no understanding of world history. You don't know what the world was like. You don't know what

00:14:01.940 your ancestors had to deal with. You don't even know what people 10 years older than you had to

00:14:06.060 deal with. People have been through recessions, depressions, famines, wars, catastrophes of all

00:14:12.560 kinds, and they continued having children. They continued building families. Sure, fertility rates

00:14:16.700 have gone up and down over the years and decades, but there's never been a time when mass amounts of

00:14:21.060 young adults have simply sworn off parenthood altogether. That has never happened until now.

00:14:27.920 Do you really think you face greater hurdles than your great-great-grandparents did during the

00:14:32.440 Great Depression? Do you really think it's harder to have a family now than it was when the Black 0.97

00:14:35.560 Death was wiping out a third of the population of Europe? Yes, these days, young families may 1.00

00:14:40.520 struggle to buy a starter home, and that's a struggle. I'm not dismissing it. I struggled

00:14:45.520 with that too in my early 20s. Look, if there was ever a time when it was easy for someone in their

00:14:52.520 20s to afford a nice home, that time lasted for like 30 seconds 40 years ago, okay? It was never like

00:14:59.880 that before. It hasn't been like that since. It'll probably never be like that again. So just get over

00:15:07.260 it, okay? Just get over it. You have no choice. Most people in the history of the earth could never

00:15:13.480 dream of living in any kind of home at all. In fact, for most people who've ever lived, the greatest

00:15:19.940 challenge in starting a family was not a starter home. It was that half of their kids wouldn't live

00:15:25.860 past infancy, and yet they still started families. They still forged on. The truth is that the economy

00:15:35.120 is not stopping anyone from having kids. It's not that they can't afford it. It's that they don't

00:15:39.360 want to make the sacrifices it requires. They'd have to give up a certain measure of comfort in

00:15:43.880 order to start a family, and they don't want to do that. For most of the people who say they can't

00:15:48.640 afford kids, that's what they mean. That's how we can end up in a situation where someone says they

00:15:52.620 can't afford kids, even though they're wealthier and more comfortable than billions of people who

00:15:58.220 somehow could afford it. It's because what they really mean to say is that they can't afford the

00:16:03.160 same level of luxury and comfort while also having kids. It's not really a matter of affordability.

00:16:09.140 It's a matter of priority. A lot of people today prioritize their own pleasure and enjoyment over

00:16:14.180 anything and everything else. Another one of the comments under the article that I read was from a

00:16:19.640 woman who said that her household income between herself and her husband is $150,000 and they can't 0.94

00:16:27.560 afford to have a kid. Household income of $150,000, they can't afford it. There are people out there

00:16:36.960 making a tenth of that who have kids. They can't afford it at $150,000. That's it right there. That is

00:16:45.040 the attitude. It's that sort of thing that has led to the birth rate decline. The irony, of course, is

00:16:52.120 that you so often end up with far less pleasure and enjoyment. When you prioritize that above all,

00:17:01.140 you end up with less of it than people who don't prioritize it. The truth is that you can start a

00:17:07.620 family and have kids and then down the line end up far richer than you were when you were childless.

00:17:12.800 I'm a testament to that. Millions of other examples are available to you. I mean, this is not an uncommon

00:17:18.280 thing, especially these days. It's possible to do. But one of the most basic realities of life is that if

00:17:22.920 you want more, you have to be willing to risk what you already have. You have to put your chips on the

00:17:27.720 table. If you won't do that, you'll be stuck in exactly the spot you're in right now forever until

00:17:34.040 eventually you lose that too. And that brings me to the final point that I want to make. You know, we heard

00:17:40.120 those responses to the New York Times article from people who insisted quite indignantly that

00:17:43.720 they don't owe it to anyone to have kids. But actually, you kind of do. And nobody will tell

00:17:52.000 you this. Nobody will talk about the obligation to start a family. The idea that any of us have any

00:17:57.100 obligations at all is, of course, anathema to the modern mind. We are deeply distressed by the thought

00:18:03.220 that we owe anything to anyone ever. But, you know, you could be distressed about it all you

00:18:09.920 want. I will say what no one else will say to you. You do actually owe it. You have a duty.

00:18:19.100 Now, there are exceptions. Some people are called to a life of service apart from biological

00:18:23.640 parenthood. Some people simply can't have kids. I get that. There are other vocations that human

00:18:31.000 beings can have. But most of us are called to start families. And for those of us who are called,

00:18:38.420 we do owe it. We do have a debt. We're called. We are called to it.

00:18:46.980 Your ancestors suffered and bled and died to build the civilization you live in now and to give you all

00:18:53.580 of the comforts and luxuries that you take for granted. They lived lives that were, by our standards,

00:18:59.280 brutal and short and impoverished. They built their lives by hand from scratch. They built the

00:19:05.780 civilization that you live in from scratch. You think you can't afford children. Well, you have a

00:19:11.480 grandfather, not all that far back in your lineage, who built a one-bedroom cabin by hand, shared it with

00:19:17.600 your grandmother and eight kids, one of whom gave birth to the person who gave birth to the person who

00:19:21.200 gave birth to the person who gave birth to you. You experience more comfort and luxury in a single day

00:19:27.080 than that man did in his entire life combined. His life would have been easier if he never had kids.

00:19:33.580 But he had them. Because he wanted you to exist. He was actually thinking 100 years into the future,

00:19:40.080 200 years, 300 years. You come from a long line of people who actually cared about what the world

00:19:46.600 would look like in the distant future, even as you only care about what you're going to have for lunch

00:19:50.520 this afternoon. And you don't have just one grandfather like that. Your bloodline was carried

00:19:56.300 on through the centuries by men and women of that type. They carried your family name and your lineage

00:20:02.380 and your history and everything that makes you, you. They carried it on their backs and they suffered

00:20:07.160 for its sake. And now after all of that, after those thousands of years of struggle and strife,

00:20:13.940 just to bring you into this world, you're going to shrug your shoulders and refuse to continue.

00:20:24.280 They ran marathons, handed you the baton, and you're going to just sit down in a lawn chair and say,

00:20:29.320 sorry, you wasted your efforts. The race ends here. I don't, I don't feel like running. I don't feel

00:20:35.620 like it. Nah. All of that is going to end with you going, nah. Nope. You're going to wipe out your

00:20:45.200 lineage and bloodline just so you have more time to watch Netflix? Thousands of years of toil end

00:20:51.460 with you by your own choice because you just can't be bothered? That is a failure of historic

00:20:59.280 proportions. It is a failure to live up to your obligation because yes, you have an obligation to

00:21:04.120 the people who built this world. You have an obligation to continue what they built. Now, I'm

00:21:09.900 not saying, I know that what I'm saying here is not going to be the most compelling argument to most

00:21:16.500 people these days. I know that. And I know that a lot of people are going to, it's going to get

00:21:21.580 shared on Twitter. People are going to snicker about it. And this is dumb. We have an obligation

00:21:26.240 to our ancestors to continue the lineage. That's stupid. Who cares about, you know, there'll be a lot 1.00

00:21:31.560 of that. You know, a lot of that. I get it. Because to a lot of people these days, the idea

00:21:36.620 that they should have any respect for their ancestors, much less that they have any obligations

00:21:40.020 to them, is totally foreign. Now, I realize that. We are a culture severed from its own past, 0.96

00:21:46.660 living in a perpetual state of now, as though the past never happened and the future will never happen.

00:21:52.540 That's how you end up with people who act as though they're facing unprecedented financial

00:21:56.140 hardships because they can't afford to buy a three-bedroom house at the age of 23.

00:21:59.480 I understand all that. But what I'm saying is still true, all the same.

00:22:08.160 So, if your parents are sad that you aren't giving them any grandchildren, this is why.

00:22:16.480 They have every right to be sad. They are mourning not only their own loneliness,

00:22:21.700 but also the fact that you're choosing to squander 10,000 years of work.

00:22:26.640 They're mourning the extinction of their bloodline. And they're wondering what the point of any of

00:22:33.960 this ever was. If it all ends like this, it all ends with you for no good reason.

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00:25:06.660 And there's a lot more to like about that pick. Before we get into that, there was also this Daily

00:25:12.900 Wire again. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Representative Matt Gaetz, one of his most ardent

00:25:18.040 supporters, to serve as the next Attorney General of the United States. Trump posted on social media,

00:25:23.660 Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William and Mary College of Law,

00:25:28.140 who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform

00:25:31.740 at the Department of Justice. Now, this one, this one, as expected, has gotten a decidedly

00:25:39.300 mixed reaction on the right. Now, on the left, it's not mixed. They are all in agreement that it's

00:25:46.020 a disaster. They're apoplectic. It's in a state of shock, trembling with rage. This was a shock and

00:25:52.920 awe pick by Trump. And I have to say, I love the pick. I think it's a great pick. I love this one.

00:25:59.800 I love the Tulsi Gabbard pick. And I love them both for basically the same reason, which is that if we're

00:26:04.720 serious about dismantling the deep state and gutting the federal bureaucracy, if that is actually going

00:26:10.040 to happen, if it's going to happen for the first time ever, it will require certain kinds of people

00:26:16.580 to do. And they're going to have to be the kinds of people that the media, the left, and many even on

00:26:21.300 the right, hate. Which is why, at this point, my number one qualification for a Trump cabinet post

00:26:29.620 is that the media freaks out over it. That's like, if the media doesn't freak out, if Trump picks

00:26:35.400 someone and the media is like, oh, okay, well, that one's not so bad. That tells me that it's a

00:26:40.780 really, really bad pick. So this is what we want. And it's not because we're just trying to trigger

00:26:48.120 the libs with the cabinet picks. I mean, that's fun. We can all have fun with that. That's an added

00:26:54.780 bonus. But no, it's because we need the kinds of brazen wild card type characters who will go in

00:27:03.080 there and do the job that needs to be done. You know, the wrecking balls, the bulls in the

00:27:07.680 china shops or whatever cliche you want to use. That's what's necessary. Matt Gaetz is definitely

00:27:13.280 that. Tulsi Gabbard will be that. So I think it's a great pick. There is a time maybe for more

00:27:21.160 buttoned up traditional business-like picks. I'm not saying that if you transplanted me

00:27:27.340 into any other time in American history, I would always support Matt Gaetz as the attorney general.

00:27:34.600 But I do support him in this time right now for what needs to be done.

00:27:37.920 And you have to, you also have to ask yourself, when Trump makes a pick, and you're going back to

00:27:51.580 the left's reaction, when Trump makes a pick and the left freaks out about it, why are they freaking

00:27:59.600 out? What are they upset about? Are they upset that this person will not effectively advance Trump's

00:28:04.960 agenda? Are they worried that it's going to make the Trump administration less effective? Is that

00:28:10.660 their concern? Obviously not. No, this is why I say this is the number one barometer. This is the

00:28:18.260 barometer. This is the test. It's their reaction. And it's, again, not just because we enjoy seeing

00:28:23.560 them upset, although we do. It's why they're upset. They're upset because they know that people like

00:28:29.740 this will actually advance Trump's agenda, and they're not going to go in there and try to

00:28:35.000 undermine Trump. They know these are people that they can't control, that are coming way from the

00:28:43.220 outside. And they're not, they're kind of, as I said, they're wild cards. You can't control them.

00:28:50.440 You can't predict what they're going to do exactly. And that's what they don't like about them.

00:28:55.740 So the only challenge now, of course, is going to be the confirmation process. Trump could try

00:29:00.960 recess appointments. But if that's not the strategy, then he's going to need the Republicans to

00:29:06.720 get in line. And the good news is that Trump has a huge mandate from the public.

00:29:13.820 You know, if he had just kind of squeaked in by the skin of his teeth, if it was one of those things,

00:29:18.240 then it would be tougher. But that's not the case here. This is a huge mandate from the American

00:29:22.440 people. He won in a landslide. And any Republican who obstructs the agenda that Trump was elected to

00:29:28.440 enact will pay a price. And they, I think they know that going in. So I think more of these picks

00:29:34.820 will make it through than maybe what people are expecting. All right. Trump met with Biden in the

00:29:38.880 White House yesterday. It seems to have been quite a pleasant experience for both guys. Here's a quick

00:29:43.840 clip of them sitting by the fireplace and just enjoying a nice chat.

00:29:50.840 President-elect and former president. Donald, congratulations.

00:29:55.920 Thank you.

00:29:56.560 And looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition. Do everything we can to make

00:30:03.280 sure you're accommodating what you need. And we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that

00:30:07.400 today. It's good. Welcome. Thank you very much. And, uh, politics is tough and it's, uh, many cases

00:30:16.980 not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today. And I appreciate it very much. A transition

00:30:23.020 that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get. And, uh, I very much appreciate that. You're welcome.

00:30:29.180 Um, first of all, what the hell's going on with that fireplace? That fire is way too big. Did you

00:30:35.620 notice that? Like that's a, that's a bonfire in the middle of the living room. You know, that's,

00:30:39.300 that's a fire hazard. That's, um, I know old people get cold easily, but that's, that's ridiculous. 0.99

00:30:45.020 I was too distracted by the fireplace to even hear what they were saying, but you know, they seemed

00:30:49.700 like they were, they were getting along. They took a bunch of pictures together also. Uh, let's see

00:30:53.820 some of those pictures of the, um, there they are looking at the pictures. What else do we have?

00:30:59.180 Okay. There, look at the smiles. Look at the smile on Joe Biden. This is the happiest he's looked.

00:31:03.820 He hasn't looked as happy in years. Look at that. He's beaming ear to ear. Um, and look,

00:31:11.280 I'm not a Joe Biden fan by any means, but it's nice to see him. Nice to see the old guy, you know,

00:31:16.500 having a good day for, he hasn't had a good day in a long time. So very happy. Um, happiest he's

00:31:25.320 looked in a long time, triumphantly happy. Why does he look so happy? Well, because he is happy,

00:31:31.420 right? He's so happy that Trump won. This is a man who was absolutely relieved, overjoyed full on MAGA

00:31:37.480 right now is, uh, is Biden. He's, he's on, I guarantee he voted for Trump. I guarantee he did.

00:31:44.200 How could he not? I mean, think of it from Biden's perspective. He nominated

00:31:48.340 this total incompetent do nothing to be his vice president. He drags this woman up, 1.00

00:31:54.440 right? Frye pries her loose from the grip of failure and irrelevance, gives her this job.

00:32:00.520 She doesn't deserve and can't, and isn't qualified for. She's a total disaster for three years, 1.00

00:32:05.540 total liability, can't do anything, can't complete any task assigned to her. Biden stands by her.

00:32:13.020 Anyway, now, yeah, he didn't, he didn't know where he was standing. He didn't know what was going on,

00:32:17.560 but still he stands by her, defends her the whole time. Then a few months before the election,

00:32:22.520 this woman stabs him in the back, orchestrates a coup against him and takes the job from him. I mean,

00:32:29.720 so was Biden rooting against her? Yes. I mean, Biden was, was hoping to God that Trump would win.

00:32:36.320 No question about it. Of course he was. And look, I have zero sympathy for the guy, but I at least

00:32:41.020 understand, I can understand that. If I was in his shoes, I would totally be rooting for Trump

00:32:46.140 and I would be overjoyed that he won. So he can retire in peace now. Now, sure. He's a one-term

00:32:52.800 president. His tenure was a disaster. He's been totally disgraced. So, you know, there are a lot

00:33:00.800 of reasons for him to be unhappy right now, but at least that horrific she devil didn't win. So he's 0.99

00:33:07.020 happy about that. And, you know, of course the other very interesting thing is that he's, he's so

00:33:12.780 happy and so, so, so pleasant in this handing this transition, handing over power to a fascist 0.65

00:33:21.820 dictator. That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Donald Trump is literally Hitler, worse than

00:33:28.640 Hitler, if anything. And, uh, and you're just, you're just handing him the reins, posing for 0.87

00:33:36.240 pictures, happy. Huh? Like it's almost like all that fascist dictator stuff was, um, nonsense that

00:33:46.060 the people saying it never believed for a second, almost as if. All right. Speaking of, uh, she devils, 0.94

00:33:51.920 AOC had some thoughts about the election. She was asked during a live stream, whether the Dems lost

00:33:57.340 because of wokeness, you know, which you attribute, uh, too much wokeness to the, as one of the reasons

00:34:03.640 for the loss. And here was her response. Personally, I don't, I think that a lot of voters really don't

00:34:13.520 like fake people and they're sick and tired of fake politicians. And so what I actually think is

00:34:20.440 worse is saying something you don't believe. And so if during the entire time in campaign

00:34:27.100 season, you're saying that you're down with trans people or like the LGBT community, and then

00:34:39.480 you lose an election. And then the next day you say all that stuff was wrong. I actually

00:34:46.520 think what people are more upset about is someone was doing something they didn't believe in just

00:34:50.940 saying something. Like if you actually weren't about that life, why did you campaign as though

00:34:57.960 you were? All right. Now, some people have, uh, seem to be interpreting this as AOC taking a shot

00:35:03.900 at the Democrats, maybe taking a shot at Kamala, accusing her of being fake. You know, she's saying

00:35:08.380 what voters want is authenticity. Uh, so she's saying Kamala was not authentic. She was fake,

00:35:13.940 which she is, you know, Kamala is fake. I mean, but I don't think that AOC 0.99

00:35:18.280 is taking a shot at her. Uh, I don't think that she's bold enough to do that because 0.94

00:35:24.900 AOC is fake herself. She's a coward. And, um, so she's not going to take a stand like that against 1.00

00:35:32.340 her own party. No, what she, what she's doing actually is the opposite. She's trying to defend

00:35:38.020 wokeness. She, she can't admit that the party has gone too woke. So instead she says the real

00:35:44.660 problem is, um, anyone in the party who responds to the election defeat by pulling back from the

00:35:51.420 wokeness. That's the real problem, according to her, because that would be fake and inauthentic.

00:35:56.040 And so that's her point. Um, and she's totally wrong, of course, but it's kind of awkward for me

00:36:03.880 because I don't, you know, I don't really want to correct her. This is the thing was, as we're

00:36:07.680 talking about why the Democrats lost and all of that, I don't. And there are a lot of Democrats that

00:36:13.380 are just completely, they don't under, they don't understand what just happened,

00:36:17.800 or at least they're pretending not to. And I don't really want to, you know, help them. I mean,

00:36:25.380 never, never interrupt your enemies when they're making a mistake, obviously. And I'm happy to let

00:36:30.040 them keep making this mistake. Still, the truth is for the record that yes, the Democrat party went

00:36:35.740 too woke. And that is largely why they just got taken to the cleaners. I mean, that is pretty much

00:36:42.240 the whole story. The trans stuff, the racial demagoguery, DEI. That's it. If the economy

00:36:52.460 was in the exact shape it's in right now, but the Democrats never went full trans, full DEI,

00:36:59.300 full defund the police. If the economy was in the same shape it's in right now, but Democrats had

00:37:05.080 stopped their leftward lurch, say in 2013. So still pretty left wing, still very left wing, but

00:37:13.360 let's just say it had stopped there and had gone no further. Then I don't think they would have

00:37:19.180 gotten annihilated the way they just did. Trump still would have won because Kamala is a terrible 0.99

00:37:23.860 candidate, but the worst presidential candidate in American history, probably. But it probably would 0.60

00:37:29.560 not have been the landslide that it was. The Democrat party over the past decade has completely

00:37:35.620 divorced itself from reality and insisted that we live in their fantasy world with them.

00:37:43.020 And so it's gone beyond just political correctness to now we've got this whole new version of reality

00:37:51.560 that we want you to pretend you're living in. And we need all of these various signs and displays of

00:38:03.000 loyalty. We need you to talk a certain way, do certain things just to demonstrate that you're

00:38:10.520 playing along with us. People get sick of that. Of course they do. And it does, even though AOC

00:38:19.880 doesn't seem to understand this and never will, never will. And even if she does understand it,

00:38:24.820 she'll never admit it. She can't because this is her whole, this is her whole life. I mean,

00:38:31.940 this is her whole political career. She is one of the principal people responsible for bringing the 0.99

00:38:39.440 Democrat party into just full on crazy bat wokeness. So she can't, she can't turn back from it. 0.98

00:38:48.160 She can't, she's a, she's all in and always will be. There are some on the left who seem to be

00:38:53.320 coming around a little bit though, to this reality. So for instance, this is pretty remarkable. Here's

00:38:59.400 Ezra Klein with some insights that probably would have helped his party if he'd said it like a year

00:39:05.820 ago and said he waited until it was too late, thankfully. But let's listen to this.

00:39:11.340 I come from outside Los Angeles. I lived in San Francisco until 18 months ago. And I live in New

00:39:18.540 York City. The thing that surprised me least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big

00:39:23.860 cities. Because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them, they are furious. And this idea

00:39:28.360 that like, oh no, the economy is actually good or crime is actually down. This is all just Fox News.

00:39:33.120 Like, shut the f*** up with that. Like, talk to some people who live near you. The rage I just hear 0.99

00:39:38.640 from people in New York, this is partially Greg Abbott bussing huge amounts of migrants here. But

00:39:43.180 that does mean, by the way, there are enough migrants that Greg Abbott could bus actual human

00:39:47.560 bodies to New York City. And it was a big enough problem that New York City was not able to

00:39:51.840 effectively deal with it, right? It does show that what was going on on the border was much worse.

00:39:56.180 I think the Democrats were letting themselves accept. For all the cruelty of what Abbott did there,

00:39:59.880 that was not like an ad campaign. Those were like actual people who would come into the country

00:40:04.180 who were overwhelming border states. The sense of disorder rising, right? Not just crime,

00:40:09.460 but homeless encampments, trash on the streets, people jumping turnstiles in subways, crazy people

00:40:15.320 on the streets. You just talk to people and they're mad about it. They feel it's different than it used

00:40:20.260 to be. I mean, in San Francisco, like the fury is overwhelming. And you see that it's not just the

00:40:24.620 presidential level. London Breed, the SF mayor, just lost re-election. In Oakland,

00:40:29.480 they recalled the mayor. A bunch of the progressive DAs across the country were recalled or beaten in

00:40:34.920 re-election campaigns. If Eric Adams has a lot of problems, but if he were obviously on the ballot,

00:40:40.180 he would almost certainly, it seems to me, lose. You have to be able to govern well. People don't

00:40:44.960 follow politics, but they live in the place they live. They see if prices have gone way up. And a

00:40:51.180 bunch of economists telling them, no, no, no, no, don't worry about the price of everything,

00:40:54.940 at least for some people, and maybe net-net, a slight majority of people, real wages have modestly

00:41:02.000 outpaced inflation, is like not going to do it. Because people feel when they get a raise,

00:41:06.680 that's them. And when prices are going up, that's you, the government.

00:41:09.560 Wow. You don't say. Now, there's a shocking bit of analysis. So what you're saying, Ezra,

00:41:20.000 is that people don't like it when your policies make their lives worse.

00:41:27.000 When you make people's lives worse, they don't like that. They prefer for their lives to not be

00:41:33.480 worse. This is the base. This is the insight. That you are actually kind of shocked to hear it

00:41:41.880 from somebody like this. It's just the most basic level of common sense. I mean, it should tell you

00:41:48.080 something if you're on the left, that when we hear even the most basic common sense, we are shocked

00:41:56.300 to hear it from somebody like this. People aren't very happy when you put in place policies that

00:42:04.380 have the direct, intentional effect of making their lives more miserable. And really, the central

00:42:12.880 proposal of wokeness, I suppose, is that the central proposal is that you should put the feelings of

00:42:22.300 privileged groups over your own well-being. I mean, if I had to boil it down, if I had to boil it down,

00:42:30.780 like what is the central thing? What is the, we call this thing wokeness, left, whatever you want to

00:42:35.720 call it. But what is, it's like one sentence. What is the message? What are they proposing? What are they

00:42:41.500 demanding? Really? It's not even a proposal. It's a demand. So what is the demand that this

00:42:49.940 ideology is making? And that's probably it. I think that's probably a pretty good summary is just

00:42:55.340 here are these privileged groups of people and how they feel is more important than your own

00:43:03.560 well-being and the well-being of your family. And so they say that, hey, it may be bad for you and

00:43:12.680 your daughter when a man is in the changing room or in the bathroom or on the girls' sports team.

00:43:19.760 But these people are in a privileged group that it makes them feel better. So you should just

00:43:24.460 allow it. It may be bad for you when you've got violent criminals who are allowed to walk the

00:43:33.780 streets free in your own, in your community. It may be bad for you. Makes you, makes you less safe.

00:43:39.500 You know, you could become a victim of crime. Brings down property values. It's just bad all

00:43:44.220 around. Like there's no advantage. For you, there is no upside to having these, to letting these,

00:43:49.560 bail reform, letting them out, letting them out again and again and again. No advantage to you at all. 0.96

00:43:56.500 But, you know, these people belong in a privileged group. Makes them feel better. And so you just have

00:44:04.840 to tolerate it. And it's, so it's this kind of thing over and over and over again. Hey, you're a

00:44:13.760 business owner. It may be bad for you. It may really harm you and your family if people just come

00:44:20.820 in and steal en masse. They come in and shoplift to the point where you have to lock up shampoo

00:44:28.560 bottles. You know, you have to put like a ball and chain around a shampoo bottle so that nobody can,

00:44:34.720 they have to drag it slowly out of the store to get it out. Um, maybe bad for you. It may actually

00:44:40.380 hurt you in very real ways and it hurts your family. It may devastate you, but a lot of the

00:44:50.180 people doing the shoplifting, they belong to a privileged group. Makes them feel better to be

00:44:54.300 able to do this to stop them and make them feel bad. So you just got to put up with it. So again,

00:44:57.640 it's just that over and over and over again. Uh, your wellbeing is less important than the feelings

00:45:02.160 of these particular people. That's it. And you just, it, it's not sustainable. That kind of

00:45:10.620 philosophy, uh, is not sustainable. And you, you may be able to berate certain people into going along

00:45:18.760 with it for a certain amount of time. You may be able to pick on the most gullible and hapless

00:45:24.340 and, um, you know, easily influenced and most impressionable people. You may be able for a,

00:45:31.320 for a period of time, you may be able to make them go along with it. Okay. You may,

00:45:36.100 you may be able to berate them, harangue them into pretending that they're okay with it. When this dude

00:45:43.180 walks into the locker room with a bunch of women and your daughters in there, but it can't last 1.00

00:45:50.820 forever. It is not sustainable at a certain people are people. And at a certain point, like it's one,

00:45:55.600 it's a, it's a caring for your own wellbeing is a biological necessity. So you are, you are asking

00:46:03.920 them to reprogram their, you know, not, not just to have different priorities and different preferences,

00:46:08.600 but to reprogram their, their biological nature. These are like basic survival instincts that you

00:46:17.360 are demanding. They reprogram within themselves. They can't. And so eventually, and actually very

00:46:25.120 quickly, it all falls apart. And all you're left with is just, all you're left with is just whining and

00:46:32.680 crying. Oh, but it makes us feel bad. Oh yeah. It, it, it, it may be a lot better for you and your

00:46:42.840 family. Obviously so much better for you. If this country is not overrun by illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:46:49.920 Okay. Having 20 million illegal immigrants here, 30 million, whatever we're up to now, 0.86

00:46:52.940 who knows how many people having tens of millions of illegal immigrants obviously does not help you 1.00

00:46:57.560 in any way as an American citizen, but making them leave makes them feel bad.

00:47:04.060 And these people belong to a privileged group.

00:47:07.580 So if you kick them out, they're going to, they're going to feel really bad about it. Yeah. It's going

00:47:11.840 to make your life better and it's going to make your, your, your children's life better, but it's,

00:47:15.440 it's going to make them feel bad. Um, you know, and that's, that's going to be the argument,

00:47:20.200 but I just think it's not going to, it's, that has kind of run its course. I think that's, um,

00:47:25.200 there's now far beyond a critical mass of Americans who are just

00:47:30.320 are numb to it. They're numb to those kinds of emotional manipulation tactics

00:47:35.940 because they've, uh, they, it's, it's just too much. They've, they've, you, they've heard it too

00:47:41.320 much, you know, and you've screamed in their face so much now it doesn't matter anymore.

00:47:46.480 So that's the problem. And, but I don't think that can the Democrat party really turn back from

00:47:53.740 this. Can they make this change? Uh, can they reverse course? Can they, can they settle back

00:48:00.760 into like a pre 2013 state where they're still pretty crazy and wrong about almost everything, but

00:48:07.600 can they at least pull back a little bit? Um, I think not. I think they can.

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00:50:28.700 Every time we check in on Disney's upcoming Snow White remake, somehow things get even worse than they were

00:50:40.360 before. This is a production that went off the rails a long time ago, which is quite an achievement if you

00:50:44.680 think about it. With all the money and technology we have in 2024, somehow Disney is struggling very hard to

00:50:49.800 match the quality of a film from the 1930s. At first, there were the leaked images of the actors playing the

00:50:55.880 seven dwarves, which weren't dwarves at all because that would be culturally insensitive. So instead,

00:51:00.100 Disney replaced the dwarves with a diverse array of magical hobos. Then when everyone pointed out

00:51:05.200 that the dwarves are kind of important to the story, Disney delayed the production, fired all the actors

00:51:09.380 playing the magical hobos, replaced them with CGI dwarves, which didn't look particularly convincing,

00:51:14.720 but at least they were better than the actors. So some progress was made, I suppose. Goodwill was

00:51:19.500 restored to a degree. Then the star of the film, Rachel Zegler, proceeded to light all that goodwill

00:51:24.440 on fire. She made it clear that she thinks the story of Snow White is actually very creepy and

00:51:28.480 misogynistic. She said Disney was basically going to throw out the old story, get rid of the prince,

00:51:33.940 make a film that supposedly empowers women. And that means downplaying the whole romance thing, 0.98

00:51:39.320 which was the whole point of the story. Hiring the Barbie screenwriter and going full on girl boss was 1.00

00:51:44.900 the plan. Then a short clip of the film serviced online and we saw exactly what a girl boss Snow White 0.96

00:51:49.720 looks like. The clip showed Snow White directing the dwarves to clean their own cottage for her 0.65

00:51:54.240 as she instructs them to whistle while they work. Yes, the dwarves come home from a long day at the 1.00

00:51:58.940 mines and they're met by a bossy, unpleasant woman telling them to clean up. Doesn't even help them 1.00

00:52:04.820 in this version, which is a pretty big change from the original. She also doesn't seem remotely

00:52:07.880 grateful that they're giving her a place to stay when she desperately needs it. Instead,

00:52:11.500 she just sings along and watches the dwarves do all the work, almost sadistically, really.

00:52:16.000 And once again, as you'd expect, this footage caused a backlash and Disney quickly had it scrubbed from

00:52:20.200 the internet. Then a couple of months ago, Disney uploaded this teaser for the film. This was their

00:52:24.900 big moment to win back the fans. Here's just a quick part of it. So the whole thing has this kind

00:52:49.900 of uncanny valley vibe to it. And pretty much all the comments are negative. Just going through some

00:52:55.100 of them. These are the top comments. In order, by the way, I'm not cherry picking. This is just the

00:52:58.400 top comments. Here's what they say. Quote, this is actually hilarious. The first Snow White saved

00:53:02.440 Disney. The second ruined it. Another says, what's the point of doing a live action remake of an animated

00:53:07.060 movie if you're just going to animate half the characters anyway? Then there's this one, quote,

00:53:11.800 it's okay, Disney. You can just cancel the film. We won't be mad if you admit defeat.

00:53:16.320 There are a few people who point out that the trailer has more than a million dislikes on

00:53:19.600 YouTube and fewer than 100,000 likes. It's information that YouTube hides, but it's still

00:53:23.880 accessible apparently. Comments go downhill from there. One reads, wow, Disney, you truly are

00:53:28.880 incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, $209 million just for

00:53:34.440 me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you. Then someone writes,

00:53:39.560 I'm rooting for the poison apple. So you get the idea. Everything about this film is an unmitigated

00:53:44.260 disaster. Even their teaser trailers are bombing. After all this, if there are any adults left at

00:53:49.260 Disney, you'd think they'd be in damage control mode at this point. Maybe they can't control how

00:53:55.160 bad this film is going to be. Maybe they can't improve the CGI on the dwarves anymore. Way too

00:54:00.080 late for script rewrites. Costs a lot of money and they're probably well over budget at this point.

00:54:05.080 But at a minimum, you'd think that they could at least say, tell Rachel Zegler to stop talking like

00:54:11.100 a deranged left-wing activist just for a little bit. Just until the movie comes out. That might mitigate 0.99

00:54:16.740 some of the potential future damage for this film, which is somehow already getting even worse

00:54:20.740 press than Joker 2 and not even out yet. But apparently telling Rachel Zegler to behave normally 1.00

00:54:26.400 just isn't an option either. So the other day, in response to the presidential election, Zegler

00:54:30.580 had a very public meltdown on her Instagram stories. She wrote, quote,

00:54:35.160 F you, Donald Trump. And she proceeded to insult the 75 million Americans who voted for him. Quote, 0.61

00:54:40.520 I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred leaning us towards

00:54:45.100 a world I do not want to live in. Yeah, you always got to love starting with F you and then ending with

00:54:51.840 complaining about all the hatred in the world. Of course, if Zegler doesn't want to live in America 0.99

00:54:59.060 anymore, she's free to leave. She certainly has the resources to do that. But she seems to suggest

00:55:03.600 that Donald Trump will make the entire world uninhabitable, which is kind of a new one. Actually,

00:55:09.000 it's not entirely new. It reminds us of reminds me of 2016 when Cher declared that she would have to

00:55:13.780 leave the planet if Donald Trump won. And she never left, strangely enough, although she kind

00:55:19.120 of looks like she did. And ironically, if she wants to leave the planet now, Elon Musk is probably her 0.91

00:55:24.080 best bet, which raises his own complications, I guess. So these celebrities are really running out

00:55:28.600 of options. But Zegler wasn't done there. Her post added that Trump is, quote, leaning us towards a

00:55:34.260 world that will be hard to raise my daughter in, leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a 0.98

00:55:38.840 baby she doesn't want, leaning us towards a world that is fearful. She stated that, quote,

00:55:43.720 the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forwards. This loss should not have been,

00:55:48.940 and it certainly should not have been by so many votes. May Trump supporters and Trump voters and

00:55:53.540 Trump himself never know peace. Now, what's amusing about this, of course, is that it's pretty clear

00:56:00.540 that Zegler is the one who doesn't know peace. She's obviously an emotionally unstable basket case who has 1.00

00:56:06.340 no idea how to process the fact that none of her paranoia is based in reality, and the vast majority

00:56:11.420 of Americans don't agree with her political views. So instead of coming to terms with her own faults

00:56:16.580 and misconceptions, she says that she wants Trump supporters to suffer emotionally, just as she does

00:56:21.060 every single day. Misery loves company, as they say. In further examples of projection, Zegler went on to

00:56:27.140 state that Trump voters are part of a, quote, deep, deep sickness in this country. She added, quote,

00:56:31.920 quote, there's no help, no counsel in any of them, whatever that means exactly. Then she told all of

00:56:38.540 her fans to delete their X accounts, charging that Elon Musk helped get that man elected.

00:56:44.180 This is a bit of an aside, but this is a common trend now on the left. They're suddenly abandoning

00:56:48.660 X now that Trump has won. The Guardian just announced that it's going to stop posting its articles on X.

00:56:52.940 For one example, ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, along with a random NYU professor named Jay Rosen,

00:56:58.960 did the same thing. I just saw this morning, Joy Reid has also deleted her X account. 0.99

00:57:04.520 What a tragedy. This is a platform that until Election Day, these people claimed was a cesspool

00:57:10.540 of fringe ideas and radical beliefs, but they remained on it anyway. Now that the election has

00:57:15.540 proven that X is actually representative of mainstream thought in America, suddenly they can't

00:57:20.420 tolerate it anymore. They have to abandon the platform. Doesn't really make any sense. You

00:57:25.480 can only conclude that the left is simply incapable of realizing that they're the ones who are far

00:57:29.680 outside the mainstream. When they're confronted with that evidence, they can't process it. So they

00:57:35.540 have to scamper away. They're just totally humiliated. In any event, Rachel Zegler is not capable of 1.00

00:57:42.080 experiencing humiliation, so she has no problem telling her supporters to abandon X entirely.

00:57:46.720 She also has no problem going on an unhinged rant against more than half the country, 0.61

00:57:50.000 including a lot of people that presumably Disney would like to sell tickets to. Many of those

00:57:54.700 Republican voters are in the target audience for the Snow White remake. They're the people who like

00:57:59.000 these kinds of traditional stories. They're the people who are having kids. These are the kinds

00:58:04.320 of people Disney needs to show up if the movie is going to be remotely profitable. And now the star of

00:58:10.900 the film is telling them all to go to hell. Now, one of the many ironies here is that about a year ago, 0.95

00:58:16.500 Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company would stop getting involved in these political fights. He said

00:58:22.700 that they wouldn't push any kind of agenda. He said they'd quiet the noise and proceed with decency and

00:58:27.940 respect for their audience. Well, I guess so much for that. Now, according to the star of Disney's

00:58:34.360 upcoming marquee film, 75 million Americans are horrible people who should suffer for all 1.00

00:58:40.920 eternity. The other remarkable aspect to this is that Disney, as you may recall, fired Gina Carano

00:58:48.760 for her allegedly controversial social media post just a couple of years ago. And, you know,

00:58:54.340 Gina Carano never did anything remotely like what Rachel Zegler has done. Gina mocked the idea of 1.00

00:59:01.240 wearing masks and preferred pronouns, which makes sense because wearing masks and preferred pronouns 0.98

00:59:05.160 are both really dumb ideas. And she pointed out that totalitarian governments make citizens hate 0.95

00:59:09.780 one another, which is true. History proves that's true. And for all this, Disney fired her.

00:59:16.260 And her talent agency dropped her on top of it. Gina Carano did not personally attack tens of 0.91

00:59:21.220 millions of people. She didn't berate her own fan base. She didn't say that half of the people who

00:59:26.340 watch Star Wars are bad people. She didn't say that. Instead, she articulated views that the vast

00:59:31.220 majority of Americans agree with. So why is she still involved in litigation with Disney to get 1.00

00:59:37.860 her job back while Rachel Zegler is the face of the company's upcoming blockbuster film? 0.81

00:59:43.280 Now, we all know the answer to that question. Disney, despite what its CEO says, is an explicitly

00:59:47.120 political operation. But more than that, they're vengeful. Even though it's clearly not helping

00:59:52.020 them financially, they can't hide their disdain for tens of millions of Americans. That's very bad

00:59:57.540 news for Disney shareholders and everyone else hoping that this company might one day return to

01:00:01.360 what it once did, which is to create entertaining family films that normal people want to watch.

01:00:07.600 It's virtually a guarantee the Snow White remake is going to continue crashing and burning over the

01:00:11.360 next few months like a slow-moving train wreck. And especially now, after this was the nail in the

01:00:17.380 coffin, now that you've insulted more than half of the people you would need to come watch this movie.

01:00:23.840 And that is why, once again, Disney, their new Snow White film, and Rachel Zegler herself are all

01:00:28.620 today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to

01:00:32.760 you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 14, 2024

Ep. 1486 - Here's The Real Reason Why Our Birth Rate Is Plummeting

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