Ep. 1493 - A Father’s Tragic Fight to Save His Son from Gender Ideology
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A father has been struggling for years to protect his son from gender mutilation and sterilization. The case seems to have finally reached a predictable but tragic conclusion. Also, a medical expert testifies that the headlock is not what killed Jordan Neely. The woke head of Jaguar comes out to defend that ridiculous ad that everyone s mocking, and another video of a so-called Karen goes viral.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a father has been struggling for years to protect his son from
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gender mutilation and sterilization. The case seems to have finally reached a predictable
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but tragic conclusion. We'll discuss. Also, a medical expert testifies in the Daniel Penny
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case that the headlock is not what killed Jordan Neely. The woke head of Jaguar comes out to defend
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that ridiculous ad that everyone's mocking. And another video of a so-called Karen goes viral.
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I'm going to defend the Karen today, not just this one, but Karens all across the country.
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Over the years at various points, I've talked about the very long running case involving Jeff
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Younger, his ex-wife, Ann Georgilis, and their twin sons. A custody battle that has unfolded for
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the better part of a decade concerning whether or not one of those twins, James, who's now 12 years
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old, should be allowed to quote unquote transition into a girl. Now the boy's mother thinks that's a
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good idea and she's been pushing for it for quite some time. The boy's father has been fighting to
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prevent it from happening. Now already based on these facts alone, this should have been the single
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custody battle in the history of the American legal system. When one parent looks at a boy and
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says, that's really a girl, then case closed. That parent should not be allowed anywhere near
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her child or any other child for that matter. The parent who has a basic grasp of reality is
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clearly more fit and more capable than the parent who doesn't. Pretty simple. But that's not how Jeff
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Younger's case has played out, unfortunately. Instead, in both Texas and California, there have been years
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of legal battles over custody. And last week, these legal battles came to a tragic but predictable
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conclusion with a California court awarding full custody to Ann. And she'll now be free to raise her
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boy as though he's a girl, including by chemically castrating him if she chooses to do so. So those
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are the basic outlines of the case, which are about as disturbing as you can imagine. But as you look
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into the details, somehow it gets even worse. This is a legal battle that makes it very clear that
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Democrats and trans activists don't simply aspire to take children away from their parents.
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This dispute reveals that in our legal system, they can already do it. And they can do it pretty
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easily, as it turns out. Before I get to all those arguments, let's start at the beginning and just
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kind of review some of the basic facts here, if you haven't followed this story over the years.
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Jeff Younger married Ann in 2010. Both were members of the Orthodox Church. And almost immediately,
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there was a problem. Younger explained what happened in a recent interview with Tim Poole.
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At the end of this clip, he mentions a video involving his son, James. And we'll play that
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Starting about two years old, my ex-wife decided to transition my son to a girl. We were still
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married at the time. And I told her she couldn't do that. She's a pediatrician. And she forced me out
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of my house, filed for divorce, and then began to really in earnest try to transition my son. She began to
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present him to the world as a girl. She changed his name without my consent, with no legal basis
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to do that. My son eventually, at three years old, we're still heading towards divorce, tells
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me that mommy says I'm a girl. So I took the first iPhone video I'd ever taken. And if you
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go on YouTube, you can find it. Just search for mommy says I'm a girl. It went everywhere.
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You're a boy, right? No. I'm a girl. Who told you you were a girl? Mommy. When did she tell
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you you were a girl? Because I love girls. Oh, I see. So mommy told you you were a girl?
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Uh-huh. Does mommy do anything else like with a girl with you? Uh-huh. Like what?
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Like she says. What does she do? She puts them on me.
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Okay, so infuriating, horrifying, to this very young child, he says, well, I'm a girl because I
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love girls, meaning he thinks girls are, you know, he thinks girls are nice. He likes girls.
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And so in his mind, at the age of three, he can't distinguish between, oh, I think these are nice
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people. Um, I like being around these people. I like my mom. I like being around her. And he
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can't distinguish between that and I am that thing because he's three. And it seems that his
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mother, uh, exploited that three-year-old confusion to send him down this path. So this is a process
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that, according to Jeff, began when his son was just two years old. And he says it involved a lot
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of heavy-handed pressure from his wife as well as some very deranged interpretations of his son's
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behavior. For example, according to Younger, his wife would tell his son that if he wanted to stay
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out of trouble, he wouldn't act like a boy. Not exactly subtle. Also, at some point, James apparently
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picked out a silver purse at Target that had a multicolored unicorn on it. The fact that a little
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kid thought a shiny thing with a flying horse on it is cool apparently means he's a girl.
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He also selected a girl's toy in a McDonald's Happy Meal. That was it. That was the evidence
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that apparently led Younger's wife to conclude that their son was really a girl.
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Now, by the time his son was three years old, Jeff could tell that this would be a case of
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he said, she said. So to protect himself and his son, he eventually shot that video on his iPhone
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that we just saw. And as you saw, it shows his son saying very clearly that his alleged gender
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identity, quote unquote, was influenced in some way by his mother. The child says his mother told
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him that he's a girl. Now, Younger has also said that his wife tried to enroll their son in a gender
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clinic in Dallas at the age of five. He stated last year that, quote, pediatrician records show that
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she intended to chemically castrate him at age eight or nine. Eventually, litigation began in Dallas
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as James's school began facilitating his supposed transition. His mother demanded that his father
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affirm his so-called gender identity. And in 2019, the court in Dallas made a number of findings
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that are very alarming, to say the least. For example, the court determined that, quote,
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the mother changed James's name to Luna on her own volition. The court finds that the mother asked
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the child if he still wanted to be called James. The court finds that James did not initiate the
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conversation about having his name changed. Of course, even if James had initiated a conversation
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about changing his name, it wouldn't mean anything. It doesn't mean that you actually do it.
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Children will initiate a lot of conversations. They don't demand the immediate affirmation of
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their parents or any kind of affirmation whatsoever. My five-year-old recently initiated
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a conversation about having candy for breakfast. Conversation didn't last very long. The answer was
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no, and that was that. Yet in this case, the court found that James didn't even bring up the idea of
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changing his name. Obviously, that's an idea that was presented to him, that was forced on him.
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There's a lot of very disturbing information in this court ruling, too. Keep in mind, as you hear this,
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we're talking about a boy who's seven years old at the time of this ruling. So reading on, quote,
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the court finds Dr. Albertan, a psychologist and expert witness, stated when the boys were brought
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by their mother for a joint interview, James presented wearing high heels and a dress, and he
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was a little overdressed. Your typical girl might be wearing leggings and sandals, but he seemed to be
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pretty dramatic in his dress. The doctor experienced the same thing when he went to the house.
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So this is a, I keep in mind, an actual seven-year-old girl wearing high heels,
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unless it's like her mom's high heels that she's wearing as a joke around the house,
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but actually like wearing them as an outfit, even that is ridiculous.
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And no seven-year-old girl dresses that way. But this is how the boy is dressed.
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And this is a phenomenon that we see all the time with adults who identify as transgender.
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This is what the adults, you know, the men, they're preoccupied with appearing as women.
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And so they try to match every conceivable feminine stereotype that comes to mind all at the same
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time. These are the same people who supposedly reject the idea of a gender binary, but then you'll
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find them with overdone eyelashes, tons of makeup, tacky dresses, you know, a framed poster of legally
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blonde on their wall or whatever, all because they're desperate to conform to their cartoonish
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perception of womanhood. And in this case, that was happening to James, except clearly James wasn't
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responsible for it. It wasn't something that he was doing, but rather something that was being done
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to him. And there's evidence in the court ruling that James's mother wasn't just interested in making
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his child, quote, look like a girl. There are indications that his mother also wanted to
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chemically castrate him as well, or at least that she was open to the idea. Quote,
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the court finds that when the mother was asked with regards to puberty blockers,
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it is a very big deal. It's a very significant decision for parents and families to make.
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Question, shouldn't sterilization only be done if it's to save a patient's life? Answer, no.
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In other words, it's fine to sterilize children in order to affirm whatever they say their gender is.
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The result of this Dallas case from 2019 was that joint custody was awarded. Both parents had to agree
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before any medical decisions were made involving their son, including any alleged gender transition.
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And even that ruling was far too favorable to the mother because she should have lost custody
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of her children completely. Instead, it was joint custody. In her ruling, the judge faulted the mother
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for pushing too hard to complete this transition. And she faulted Jeff for going public with the dispute
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and raising money off of it, even though that seems like a pretty reasonable thing for a father to do
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under these circumstances. Later on, there was apparently an incident in school in which
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James told the school counselor that he didn't want to be a girl anymore.
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And somehow Jeff was blamed for this and he lost custody of his son. Watch.
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What precipitated me losing my son, all contact with my sons, last year in July,
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was my son just straight up told his counselor that he doesn't want to be a girl. He's getting
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embarrassed wearing dresses at school. She didn't even acknowledge that he said it.
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So he had an Apple Watch and he recorded himself. He said, I'm going to record telling you this.
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Yes. And she totally freaked out, threw him out of the office and initiated a CPS investigation
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against me and told the court that I had forced him to say that.
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So now the son is saying, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to do this.
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And instead, the court responds by removing from the situation the one parent who actually cares
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about him and is listening to him. I mean, it's just depraved at every conceivable level.
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So he lost all contact with his son because of this incident. And that's what the courts determined
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would be the just outcome. But even after this ruling, Texas courts still didn't allow
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Younger's ex-wife to chemically castrate their child. And she agreed in her interactions with the
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court that she wouldn't do it. That was the red line. And it was held up throughout these
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proceedings. But then in September of 2022, Younger's wife fled with her two sons to California,
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which had just passed a so-called sanctuary state law. It allows parents to take children
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to California for the purpose of, quote, transitioning them without fearing legal repercussions.
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In response, Younger immediately went to the Texas Supreme Court requesting an order for the
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children to be returned to Texas. But the Texas Supreme Court refused, saying that it was mere
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speculation that Younger's wife would attempt to castrate his children. After all, she had agreed
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not to do so. Now, of course, the ruling was ridiculous. There was no speculation here.
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Children, California was inviting parents to come there to castrate their kids. And Younger's ex-wife
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So then the inevitable happened. The Superior Court judge in California awarded Younger's wife
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full custody of their children, including the authority to pursue so-called gender-affirming
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treatments, such as chemical castration. As Jeff wrote in a statement, quote,
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I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys. Perhaps we'll meet when you're adults. California
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Judge Juhas gave my ex-wife authority to castrate my son, James. All contact with my boys must be
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supervised. I won't do that. Let my story be a cautionary one for young men. Fathers have no
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rights to their children. Do not enter the family law system. Now, the fight isn't actually over.
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Jeff will keep up the battle in the courts. He's also calling on the incoming Trump administration
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to do whatever it can to halt these procedures and hospitals nationwide, including in the state
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of California. Trump has already promised to issue an executive order, quote, instructing every
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federal agency to cease the promotion of sex or gender transition at any age.
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change. This is the kind of order that very quickly can lead to the end of so-called trans
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medicine. But Congress also needs to take up a federal ban on gender mutilation of children,
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just flat out. It should be a top priority of the next administration, the next Congress.
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But for now, this is where things stand legally. Now, in his statement, Younger, of course, as we heard,
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didn't just discuss the legal and personal ramifications of this case, as serious as they are. He also made a,
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broader point, calling his case a cautionary tale for young men and told them to, quote,
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not enter the family law system. In a previous post, Jeff has elaborated on what he means by that.
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For example, a couple of weeks ago, he wrote, quote,
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men now refuse to marry. Most are forgoing children. A huge movement is forming of single
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men using surrogates to have children. It's a rational response to the terrible laws governing
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marriage and divorce and family courts. My sons have experienced the loss of their father,
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seen the courts try to destroy their father, observed their father's effective enslavement to the state,
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watched endless humiliation rituals against their father, and watched their mother orchestrate it
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all. Tens of millions of young men have observed the same thing in their families. They're not going
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to marry into a totalitarian system like family court. No amount of theology or argument will
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overcome their own experience and observations. No one who's familiar with the details of Jeff
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Younger's case can deny that he's correct about the family court system. This has been a completely
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irrational, entirely unjust series of proceedings to the point of cruelty and barbarism.
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And indeed, what happened here is very much a cautionary tale. But I do think it's important
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to say one thing, which is that, in my view, the moral of the story here isn't that men should avoid
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marriage. Because, you know, my take on this, to give up on marriage is to give up on the family,
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and to give up on the family is to give up on human civilization itself. I mean, that's what you're
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doing. And we are in a fight for civilization. We can't win the fight with an unconditional
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surrender, which is what it would mean for us to abandon the family. I mean, you're just giving up
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on civilization. Can't do that. You can't do that under any circumstance. It's the one thing you cannot
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do. So the moral of the story, then, is that I think that men must be absolutely sure that they are
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marrying women whose fundamental values are totally aligned with their own, which may seem like the
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most obvious thing in the world. But it's apparently not in many cases. And there are a lot of other
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things that people tend to prioritize when they're picking, you know, a potential spouse. But this is
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the number one thing. The number one thing is this. There are other things that matter, but this is
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the number one, absolutely number one thing, that your fundamental values align. And if they don't,
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no matter what else, it doesn't matter if you like their personality, if you think it's a beautiful
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woman, if they're fun and great and everything's, doesn't matter. None of that matters if your
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fundamental values don't align. If they do, you can proceed with a significant amount of confidence.
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So speaking personally, there is essentially a 0% chance that my wife would ever try to take any
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of my sons and do this to them. She would rather be dead. She feels just as strongly as I do about
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the subject. If you're a single man and the woman you're dating is not that solidly opposed to this
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kind of medical abuse, like so opposed to it that she would rather be dead than see it happen to her son,
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then you should run in the other direction as fast as you can. And to be clear, that's not a
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criticism of Jeff Younger in any way. There are very few fathers on this planet who can begin to
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comprehend what he's experiencing right now and what he's experienced for the past decade, which is
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why I've followed his case, talked about it so much over the years. We have no real insight into his
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relationship with his ex-wife and what happened before all this and beyond what we hear from court
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documents and what he says in interviews. But so this is not about him. This is a general point.
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I think it's a critical point that this kind of outcome is not inevitable. Now, yes, the goal now
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is to change the laws and the legal precedents so that nothing like this ever happens again. And
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there's a very real possibility the Trump administration will accomplish that. They can
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accomplish it. It's something they can do. So they must. At the same time, young men need to think about
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what they can do to avoid a situation where they have to rely on the government to protect their
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parental rights in the first place, because as Jeff Younger points out and has experienced,
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you can't depend on that. Now, yes, there are cases. There are cases where you might marry someone
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who then proceeds to turn into a totally different person in a way that was utterly unforeseeable.
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That can happen. I can't say that it can't happen. Anything can happen. Now, whether that's what
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happened in Jeff Younger's case, I truly don't know. But in the vast, vast majority of cases,
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that is not how it works. Okay? Because that's just not how human beings work. That's not human
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nature. In almost every case where your wife turns out to be a radically self-centered, far-left,
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feminist whack job, it's because she was always all of those things, or at least on her way to
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becoming those things. In most cases, people do not mutate into monsters out of nowhere.
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They were always monsters. All you have to do is pay attention and be willing to notice the warning
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signs. So going back to my own case, is it technically possible that my wife could go insane
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and wake up tomorrow or in 10 years as an avid proponent of all of these terrible things?
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I mean, I can't say it's impossible in the sense that impossible is like adding 2 plus 2 and making
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10. That's impossible. You just can't do it. A trillion tries, you couldn't do it.
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So this is not impossible in that sense. It is logically possible. It is technically possible
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that my wife could go insane in that way, to the exact same degree that it's technically possible
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that I could go insane in that way. Maybe I suffer some sort of traumatic brain injury that has
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that effect. Maybe I fall into a vat of acid, and that's how I become a supervillain who's in favor
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of child gender transitions and all the rest of it. I mean, it's possible technically. Technically,
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right? But I'm really not worried about that happening, in my case or hers. A lot of things
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are technically possible, but you don't change your behavior because of it. It's technically possible
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that my house could collapse on us tonight and kill everybody inside it while we're sleeping.
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But that doesn't mean I'm going to force my family to sleep outside. Because in almost every case where
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a house suddenly collapses, it's because there were structural problems that you could easily notice
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or should have noticed before disaster struck. And in almost every case where your wife turns out to
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be a horrible beast, or if you're a young woman, your husband, there were plenty of warning signs.
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So you've got to pay attention to those and marry someone who aligns with you on the most fundamental
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issues. And I could start by asking them, like on the first date, about these things.
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And you don't just ask, but you're also spending time with this person, hopefully, before you get
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engaged and before you get married. And so you start to see, well, this is what they're saying. This is
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how they're living. I mean, most of the time, it's not hard to figure this out about someone.
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A person whose foundational values are in full agreement with your own. That's what you're
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looking for. And this will give you a very, very, very good chance of avoiding great heartache down
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the road. Now, none of that is to blame Jeff Younger for anything, certainly. He's been in a
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valiant battle to save his son. I have immense respect and sympathy for him. My point is just to
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give a word of advice to any young single people who hear these kinds of stories and feel
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understandably terrified by them. As Jeff Younger would be the first to tell you,
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you have to put yourself in a situation where you won't have to rely on the court system or the
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government. Hopefully, the laws will continue to change in the direction of sanity and protecting
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has this. A forensic pathologist testified on Thursday that Jordan Neely's death was caused by
00:23:34.600
the combined effects of synthetic marijuana that he was using, his schizophrenia, and other factors.
00:23:40.560
Dr. Satish Chandru reviewed Neely's autopsy records and video evidence for Daniel Penny's defense team
00:23:46.240
reported to New York Post and determined that those records didn't show the signs typically associated
00:23:50.680
with chokehold deaths. In your opinion, did Mr. Penny choke Mr. Neely to death? Asked Stephen Razor,
00:23:54.560
one of Penny's defense attorneys. No. Chandru replied, the chokehold did not cause death.
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Chandru also testified that Neely's death was the result of the combined effects of sickle cell
00:24:03.380
crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana. He said that someone
00:24:08.580
high on synthetic marijuana with schizophrenia can die while involved in a struggle even without a
00:24:12.740
chokehold being used. Chandru went on to say that even if Neely hadn't had those other health
00:24:18.200
factors, he still would not have died from Penny's chokehold. So this is probably the most significant
00:24:25.500
development in the trial. The trial is now adjourned, by the way, until after Thanksgiving.
00:24:31.080
And they're going to come back and they'll have closing arguments and then the jury will deliberate.
00:24:38.220
And so Daniel Penny gets to spend Thanksgiving wondering whether he's going to go to jail for the
00:24:42.540
next 10 years. You know, and it's just an awful situation. And it's why this trial makes me so
00:24:50.920
angry. Like, I actually, I have to limit the amount of time I spend talking about it. I've talked about
00:24:55.960
it a lot, but I have to limit it because it's, uh, it's so infuriating that I'm always tempted to say
00:25:03.100
things that I shouldn't say publicly. So I have to exercise a lot of restraint. Each new development in
00:25:08.680
this trial makes it even clearer that it already was, but the whole thing is a sham and this trial
00:25:14.020
never should have happened. And now we learned that the chokehold didn't even kill Neely. He died
00:25:19.900
because he was a drugged up psycho, right? That's why I died. He was high, flipping out, threatening
00:25:26.580
people on the train in the midst of a struggle with someone who had to restrain him because he was
00:25:31.800
threatening to kill people. That's on him. That's on Neely. Nobody is responsible for that,
00:25:37.220
but Jordan Neely. In a sane society, you put the onus a hundred percent on Jordan Neely in a
00:25:43.040
situation like that. If you have to be restrained because of your behavior in public, whatever
00:25:47.740
happens as a result is on you. If you walk into a confined area and you make everybody in that
00:25:55.920
confined space fear for their lives because of the things that you are explicitly threatening
00:26:02.540
them with, whatever happens as a result is on you. That's how it should be. I don't care if
00:26:09.820
they pry the door open and throw you out on the tracks while the, while the train's going 80 miles
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an hour. In that case, I would say totally your fault. I will not cry one tear for you.
00:26:23.580
And, uh, and in that case, I would say every pastor involved with that is a hero. Let's give them all
00:26:27.000
medals. Well done. So that's how it should be. Um, and the facts here are clear. The fact that Daniel
00:26:35.880
Penny is innocent is clear. Like it's not even close. They should deliberate for 20 seconds and come back
00:26:41.720
with not guilty. That's what should happen. Should happen. I, am I confident that will happen? No,
00:26:48.580
but it should happen because his innocence is indisputable. And there's another thing that's
00:26:53.300
also indisputable. And this is the point I keep coming back to. This is why this trial to me is
00:26:58.140
so significant is that it, it comes down to this for me. And, you know, there had been other high
00:27:05.580
profile trials of innocent men who, uh, you know, were on trial for an act of self-defense or for,
00:27:13.080
um, or for doing their job as police officers. So, you know, we, we've seen other, other, uh,
00:27:18.940
examples of this kind of thing. As I've said a few times, I, to me, this is the, this is the most
00:27:23.360
egregious of all those cases. And one of the reasons is this reason that it presents this,
00:27:32.200
this choice, or rather it represents a choice that society can make. And in a society, you either
00:27:41.960
prioritize Daniel Penny or Jordan Neely, right? It's Daniel Penny over Jordan Neely or Jordan Neely
00:27:52.620
over Daniel Penny. And I don't just mean those men individually in this one case. I mean, in general,
00:27:59.200
those types of men, okay, in society, you prioritize your Daniel Penny's or your Jordan
00:28:05.440
Neely's. Every society has got their Daniel Penny's and you've got your Jordan Neely's.
00:28:09.880
Which one, when something like this happens, who gets the benefit of the doubt? Who do you put a
00:28:16.300
special emphasis on protecting? Uh, who do you, you go out of your way for the sake of one or the other.
00:28:24.100
You elevate and admire one or the other. You, you, you weep over, uh, one or the other.
00:28:35.740
Primarily. Are you going to be a Daniel Penny society or a Jordan Neely society? Now for most of
00:28:42.980
human history, it wasn't a question. There's nothing to think of. Of course it's Daniel Penny.
00:28:47.500
Like, he's the guy, obviously. That's the guy that you protect. That's the guy you admire. That's
00:28:52.520
the guy you put, that's the guy, if there's some sort of thing, a dispute between, you give him
00:28:58.100
the benefit of the doubt. Um, not just that. I mean, these are the guys that you put them in
00:29:04.480
positions of leadership. You make him a Senator, you make him a president, you make him a general
00:29:08.040
leading troops in a battle. Like these kinds of guys, those, that's what you do with those kinds of
00:29:13.140
guys. Uh, and if, if that kind of guy gets in a situation like this, there's just no question
00:29:19.260
about it. You side with Daniel Penny. You wouldn't even think of trying to put him in jail. Hell no.
00:29:24.080
For who? For the sake of some drunk, drug addled bum who's threatening to kill people on the train.
00:29:29.900
You're going to put that guy in jail for him. Hell no. Um, that's the way it was. That's the way it's
00:29:37.000
always been until now. And more recently we've switched courses because now we're a Jordan
00:29:44.080
Neely society. He's the kind of guy that we admire and respect and protect and elevate and idolize.
00:29:50.540
He's the guy who gets the benefit of the doubt. Somebody who contributes absolutely nothing.
00:29:57.420
Somebody with no virtue, somebody with no positive attributes, someone who's never done anything
00:30:01.640
positive in his life ever. Someone who has not done anything to improve the lives of anyone around
00:30:07.620
him ever at any point. And, um, someone who has nothing but a strain on society and not a strain
00:30:14.380
on society in the way of like an impoverished widow or an orphan child, you know, someone innocent that
00:30:19.720
you want to protect. Um, no, he's a strain because he chooses to be because he's a totally antisocial
00:30:25.700
criminal bum who goes out of his way to make everyone else's lives miserable.
00:30:30.760
And this is the guy now who gets the benefit of the doubt. If this guy is locked in a struggle
00:30:36.180
with somebody else, you know, we assume that the other guy must be responsible, not this dude.
00:30:43.340
It's crazy. It's just, it's, we talk about protecting civilization. Well, you can't have a
00:30:47.300
civilization when you're a, uh, when, when, when, when the instinct is to protect and, uh, give the
00:30:55.700
benefit of the doubt to the Jordan Neelys. Okay. Like the appropriate, the, the, the appropriate
00:31:01.580
attitude to a Jordan Neely is to look at him like, all right, it's, uh, you mean some drugged up bum was
00:31:08.540
threatening people on a train and ended up dead? Well, you know, what happens? Life goes on. Sorry.
00:31:14.800
You chose to live your life that way. I don't, I, maybe there are people out there that are going
00:31:18.640
to mourn you. Maybe you're your mom and if you have family, but like the rest of us, no, you,
00:31:25.540
you, you make everyone miserable around you all the time. You're a threat to people around you.
00:31:30.260
Like, I'm not sorry that you're gone. Why should I be? Um, I will be very sorry if Daniel Penny, uh,
00:31:37.840
ends up in jail for this. And, uh, you know, this, uh, I, I, I still say that this case is not,
00:31:46.940
to me, it's, it's not quite getting the, the attention that it, that it deserves. Even from
00:31:51.860
conservatives, I think that, you know, it's, it seems like it's just from my perspective, it's not
00:31:57.680
getting like a, um, uh, a Kyle Rittenhouse level of attention. And it should, because this is worse
00:32:06.360
than Rittenhouse folks. This is a lot worse actually. And, and I Rittenhouse, I was, you know,
00:32:10.980
how, how I, where I was on that case fully in support of him and he never should have been put
00:32:16.700
on trial either, but this is a lot worse. It just is. Um, cause you know, the other thing about this
00:32:24.320
case is that there, there is no part of what Daniel Penny did where you can go, okay, yeah, but that
00:32:29.660
was stupid. He shouldn't have done like with Kyle Rittenhouse. I think almost everyone agrees that
00:32:34.000
shouldn't have been put on trial with self-defense, thousand percent that, that all of that. Um,
00:32:42.980
but yeah, you, you, you shouldn't be going into the middle of a riot. Like I, I wouldn't recommend
00:32:49.420
that, you know, that's, that's not a smart thing to do. Um, Daniel Penny was just on a, on the train
00:32:55.920
on going to work. Okay. He, he didn't seek out this interact, this, this situation at all.
00:33:05.180
He was just on his train on the way to work. He gets thrust into it as a guy who doesn't want it,
00:33:11.340
but he's thrust into it. And he's suddenly put in a position where I can do the right thing to
00:33:16.540
protect others, or I could just sit there and let this guy harm other people. Cause the other thing
00:33:22.860
that Daniel Penny knows, if I'm to try to get into his head, he knows that, okay, this guy's a threat.
00:33:29.260
Clearly he's making himself known as a threat. He's probably not a threat mainly to me. Like he's
00:33:34.540
probably not going to lie. I can protect myself. Um, but there's women on this train, there's
00:33:39.220
children on this train, there's other people on this train who are not as physically fit as I am.
00:33:42.260
He's a threat to them more than he's a threat to them. And so Daniel Penny in that situation decided
00:33:46.820
to do the right thing in a situation he didn't ask for, he didn't seek out, he didn't put himself in.
00:33:51.420
Um, so Brittenhouse was an outrageous case, uh, this, this even more so. And I think it should,
00:33:58.500
it should be getting at least that level of attention. Uh, I'm not sure that it is. And
00:34:03.300
I think that's a shame. All right, let's go to this. Um, not exactly the most important story in
00:34:08.300
the world, but, uh, maybe the funniest last week, we talked about Jaguar's new woke ad that they just
00:34:15.760
put out. Uh, it's an ad for, for their cars, I guess, but it doesn't feature any cars or
00:34:21.320
anything, anything that features nothing that has anything to do with cars or anything that would
00:34:26.720
remotely make anyone want to buy one of their cars. Actually, the first time we talked about
00:34:30.240
this last week, I was a little bit, I was slightly hesitant in talking about it because in the back
00:34:37.360
of my mind, anyway, I'm thinking to myself, like, are we sure this isn't some sort of parody? Are we
00:34:41.680
sure this isn't satirical in some way? Is this some kind of joke that I'm just not getting? Am I
00:34:47.480
getting trolled here? Uh, but no, it turns out that's, that was not meant to be a joke. It was
00:34:52.800
a hundred percent serious. Uh, so you've probably seen the, you've also seen the redesigned logo that
00:34:57.300
they have there. And it went from a logo that looked kind of slick and cool and masculine,
00:35:02.000
a look that makes sense with a name like Jaguar to this new look, which to me just based on the look
00:35:09.180
and the font kind of looks like a, like a brand of, uh, you know, cheap fruity wine for women or
00:35:17.640
something. It definitely doesn't look like a car company, uh, brand. So this redesign of the new
00:35:25.140
look and everything has been roundly mocked by everybody everywhere for, for good, for good reason.
00:35:29.440
And that has prompted finally a response from Jaguar's managing director. And this is how we know that
00:35:35.520
it wasn't meant to be a joke. Um, so I'm going to read now from, uh, this is from a website called
00:35:41.920
mylondon.com. Jaguar's managing director, Rodon Glover has expressed his disappointment over the
00:35:49.300
vile hatred and intolerance seen in reactions to a new advert from the luxury car maker. The company
00:35:54.660
faced a storm of online criticism, uh, for the ad, um, Glover explained that Jaguar needs to stand out.
00:36:01.640
If we play in the same way that everybody else does, we'll just get drowned out.
00:36:05.520
So we shouldn't try to turn up like an auto brand. We need to reestablish our brand
00:36:09.480
at a completely different price point. So we need to act differently.
00:36:13.780
Oh yeah, that's right. Cause that's marketing one-on-one apparently.
00:36:17.760
If you're an auto brand, you don't want to seem like an auto brand.
00:36:22.360
Oh, wait a second. Isn't that exactly what you want? Isn't, isn't that whatever the brand is,
00:36:27.740
don't you want to seem like a brand for that thing? Like don't want, don't you want people to
00:36:30.940
know what it is you're selling from an ad? Isn't that literally the whole point of the ad?
00:36:39.360
But you know what? I'm not, I don't, we're not going to even get into that. I don't need to
00:36:42.680
dissect what this guy has said. There's really no part of this worth remarking on except just this,
00:36:48.000
the guy's name, the head of Jaguar, which just put out the gayest car ad of all time is named
00:36:56.020
Rawdon Glover. R-A-W-D-O-N-G-L-O-V-E-R. Rawdon Lover. That's his name. Rawdon Lover.
00:37:10.780
That's his, that's just his name. I don't have any other, I just wanted to point out that's his
00:37:15.640
name. I don't, I had to verify this. I didn't believe it. I saw this when people were tweeting
00:37:19.580
about it, that the guy's name is Rawdon Glover. And I said, no, no, come on. That's, no, that's a
00:37:27.700
joke. That's not a real, there's no way that's real. So I, I Googled it. I had to Google Rawdon
00:37:32.820
Lover. There's no way around it. I had to actually Google it to find out. And, and yeah, that's,
00:37:37.200
that's his name. Rawdon Lover is his name. I, I don't, if your last name is Glover,
00:37:47.140
how do you give your child the first name Rawdon? Is that even a name? Is that an actual name people
00:37:55.040
have? Was this intentional by the parents? That's the real story here. Like there's a whole drama here
00:38:02.800
behind the scenes about this guy and his parents. Your last name's Glover. It's like the most basic
00:38:09.060
last name. You can, you know what? It's, it's hard to screw that up. There are some last names that
00:38:13.960
are a little tricky. You got to pair it with it. You know, you got to figure out what to pair it with.
00:38:19.580
But, but Glover is like almost anything works in front of Glover. Any, almost any name. You chose the
00:38:27.860
one name that doesn't work. You chose the one name for Glover that, that turns it into something
00:38:34.760
horrifically gay. I mean, you can't tell me that wasn't intentional. You can't tell me that. I don't,
00:38:41.040
how could it not be? And this is, I'm always shocked that there are parents out there who still
00:38:46.860
don't realize this. And I'm giving the parents the benefit of the doubt on this thing that they,
00:38:50.640
that this was a mistake. But you have to think about the combination of the first and last name
00:38:54.920
and consider what its other meanings might be. And one of the most important considerations in
00:39:01.960
the naming process, and we've been through this six times with our kids. So we've run this exercise
00:39:05.880
six times. You have to imagine, I thought all parents do this. Again, this is like the first
00:39:12.500
thing we do when we think of a name. Before we get into, oh, that name has meaning. It's a biblical
00:39:17.680
name, a saint name. Before you get to that, before you get to that, you think, okay, what are all the
00:39:23.620
ways that your children's peers in the future might turn your child's name into an insult?
00:39:30.740
Which is easy for me, because I just have to think back to, okay, when I was in fifth grade,
00:39:34.800
what would I have said about this name? And, you know, you're always going to have a few names that
00:39:43.600
you like, but you have to abandon because you realize that they could be rhymed in a certain way
00:39:48.240
or pronounced a certain way or abbreviated a certain way. For example, my wife, for a long
00:39:55.940
time, she really wanted to name one of our boys Titus. And it's a cool name, I admit. You know,
00:40:01.400
she made a good case for it. She says it is a Catholic saint. And also it sounds like a Roman
00:40:06.140
emperor. It is a Roman emperor. You know, it sounds like a gladiator or something. Titus,
00:40:11.620
it's a strong name. But I said, we can't, you can't, the first three letters of the kid's name
00:40:16.740
cannot be T-I-T. You can't, I can't, yeah, they're going to be homeschooled, but still,
00:40:20.400
I'm not going to, I'm not going to throw them in. They're going to be on a playground one day.
00:40:22.420
They're going to, they're going to have friends. You can't, you can't throw them in. You just,
00:40:25.340
you can't do that to them. They're making it too easy. Making it too easy on these other kids.
00:40:31.400
Giving them the first three letters are T-I-T. You can't do it.
00:40:34.000
So, none of those things were considered for Rod Don Glover. Rod Don Glover. And now look at him.
00:40:44.600
A self-fulfilling prophecy. You know, it's a shame. Let's move on. The trans lawmaker,
00:40:52.960
quote unquote, Sarah McBride, after losing, there were all kinds of jokes I could have made
00:40:59.060
transitioning from that into this. There's all kinds of jokes. I'm not making any of the jokes.
00:41:03.400
I'm just saying I could have. In my head, all these jokes are popping into my head about
00:41:07.340
the transition from that story to this one, but I'm not, we're not going to even do it.
00:41:11.560
We're not going to get into it. The trans lawmaker, Sarah McBride, so-called,
00:41:17.040
after losing the bathroom battle in Congress, was on Face the Nation on Sunday,
00:41:21.680
whining about it. Let's hear some of those wonderful complaints.
00:41:26.940
I think we are all united that attempts to attack a vulnerable community
00:41:32.020
trans. They are not only mean-spirited, but really an attempt to misdirect.
00:41:37.140
Because every single time we hear the incoming administration or Republicans in Congress talk
00:41:42.580
about any vulnerable group in this country, we have to be clear that it is an attempt to distract.
00:41:48.700
It is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing. Every single time,
00:41:52.640
every single time we hear them say the word trans, look what they're doing with their right hand.
00:41:56.820
Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to flee seniors by privatizing
00:42:02.780
Social Security and Medicare. Look what they're doing undermining workers. And here's also what
00:42:07.660
we have to be clear about, because I think the last week has been a prime example of this.
00:42:12.120
Every bit of time and energy that is used to divert the attention of the federal government to go
00:42:18.020
after trans people is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living for our
00:42:23.700
consumers. You know, and this is always the move with these people. The moment the trans activist
00:42:27.940
starts losing, he immediately switches course to, oh, well, this isn't even important. You know,
00:42:33.480
why do you care so much? Why do you care so much about it? And, you know, all I'm going to say to that
00:42:36.780
is, okay, fine. I agree, Congressman. Let's take you at your word. Let's go with that. This trans stuff
00:42:43.900
is just a culture war distraction, is what you're saying. You'd rather focus on the issues that really
00:42:49.260
matter. Great. Sounds good to me. And this is what we've heard from trans activists lately a lot,
00:42:56.500
as they've lost literally every battle at every level of government for the last year or more.
00:43:01.040
They just, they're taking L after L after L. And now they're falling back on calling the issue a
00:43:06.300
distraction and so on. So, all right, again, fine. Then how about this? Here's my proposal based on
00:43:13.480
that logic. Because I agree. We got other things to think about and so many other things that need
00:43:20.700
to be done. So, I would also love to put this issue to the side completely and just be done with it.
00:43:27.540
So, I agree with Congressman McBride, it sounds like. So, how about this? Here's how we can achieve
00:43:34.760
that. Okay? Let's just go back to what it was before. And by that, I mean like 20 years ago.
00:43:41.600
If you want to cross-dress on your own time, if you want to play, you know, make believe in private,
00:43:47.060
you can do that. But don't try to make anyone in the public play along with it. Don't try to force
00:43:54.460
your self-perception on anyone in any way at any time. Don't try to impose it on kids, most especially.
00:44:02.020
Don't try to recruit kids into this. Don't try to have public accommodations changed for your sake.
00:44:07.480
Don't try to change the language for your sake. Don't do anything at all to foist any of this on
00:44:15.560
anyone else at any point. It's not important anyway, right? It's a distraction. Great. So,
00:44:24.760
stop creating distractions. You guys are the ones who forced this issue into the forefront. You're the
00:44:30.180
ones who did that. That was all on you. It was your choice. And now your ideology has been
00:44:34.800
absolutely demolished. You've lost over and over and over again. You wanted this fight. None of us
00:44:41.460
chose it. Okay? If you go back 20 years, there wasn't any conservative who would say, hey, you know
00:44:45.820
what? Let's have a big fight over the transgenderism. You know, it was a niche kind of topic that was,
00:44:53.940
you know, they might've debated on a medical level and with the DSM and all that kind of stuff, but
00:44:58.980
it wasn't a central sort of cultural battle. And nobody among conservatives was saying, let's let,
00:45:07.040
you know, let's make this into, uh, no, that was, it was you guys. You saw your opening back,
00:45:14.500
you know, 10 years ago or so. And you said, now's the time. Now we're going to, now we're going to put
00:45:18.080
this thing right in the center of the culture. We want to change the laws. We want to change
00:45:22.600
language. We want to change policies. We want to change the way, uh, sports teams are set up and
00:45:27.780
bathrooms and everything. And now's our time. Um, you chose to do that and you lost and you're just
00:45:34.520
getting, you're, you are getting, uh, destroyed, uh, politically in this thing. And you're going to
00:45:42.720
keep losing. You'll never win. So just back away, give it up, uh, your self-identity. You know, I
00:45:52.620
can't, no one can tell you what you're allowed to think about yourself. Nobody ever tried.
00:45:58.520
Now you can see yourself any way you want to see yourself. I can't stop you from seeing yourself a
00:46:03.860
certain way. I can't stop you from saying anything you want about yourself. Nobody can stop that.
00:46:11.620
Nobody's trying to, it wouldn't be, wouldn't be possible anyway. So, uh, you know, keep, keep it
00:46:18.180
in your own life, keep it private and, um, don't ever try to impose it on the public in any way ever.
00:46:24.660
And then we can all move on, um, and, and talk about other things. Deal. Good. Sounds like a deal.
00:46:33.860
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Our Daily Cancellation begins with a very viral video that has divided the internet. And as always,
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the divide is between people who are obviously right and people who are obviously wrong.
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The video was posted to Twitter over the weekend and has since been viewed over 20 million times.
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It's not clear when this was filmed or who exactly the people involved are,
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but none of that really matters for the purposes of our conversation today.
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As you'll see, this is a dispute between a middle-aged woman and a group of people walking
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on a trail in a park in Fort Collins, Colorado. A clip was posted by an account called I Mean,
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We don't hate Karens enough. Watch as one tries to lecture and stop a person with a service dog from
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enjoying a walk in Fort Collins. This is another so-called Karen video. The person who posted it
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thinks that for all of the relentless vitriol aimed at Karens, the real problem is that there
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isn't even more, apparently. They're the most hated group on the planet, but they should be even
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more hated. Now you might think, aren't there any other groups that deserve a little bit of
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criticism sometimes? Can't some of this anger and energy be directed occasionally at other
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demographics that behave in objectionable ways sometimes? No, of course not. Let's just keep
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hating the Karens, also known as middle-aged white women. Because they're a safe group to hate,
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hate after all, so let's just stick with that. But is the middle-aged white woman in this video
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actually deserving of hate? Well, let's watch and find out.
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So I'm barred from going to a park because of a service animal. What? Do you own this park?
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I live right up there. So do I. I've been doing this three times a week.
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Okay, so? Do you own this park? Service animals are not allowed.
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Do you own this park? Dogs are not allowed on this trail.
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I'm reporting you guys. We're from the community college, that's fine.
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What? We're from the community college, that's why we're here today, we're on a field trip.
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So this service, this service dog's allowed in the classroom as well.
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It's pretty sure it's a federally protected law. Yeah.
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No, this is not, this is, this belongs to the city of Fort Collins.
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So the way the federal law works? You're saying that the American with Disabilities Act doesn't apply to...
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...to state, to, to city of Fort Collins regulations.
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When you have a protected wildlife area, dogs are not allowed.
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Did you see the disturbance of the animals around you as you walk?
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So service dogs are legally permitted anywhere in the country that visitors can go.
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So, even if dogs are excluded, this is a service animal.
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So you can call the authorities all you want, but technically this is a completely legal thing.
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But these people have decided to bring their dogs to a park where dogs are explicitly forbidden.
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The woman explains that one of the reasons for this rule is that dogs disturb the other wildlife at the park.
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The other people claim that the dog is a service dog, which means that they have the right to bring it wherever they want, whenever they want.
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First of all, even if this animal is a legitimate service dog, and that's a big, massive if, that does not, in fact, mean that they have the right to bring it wherever they want.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act, which is a disaster in many ways and imposes all kinds of totally ridiculous and counterproductive regulations all over the place,
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actually does not state that service dogs can go anywhere.
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In fact, certain parks and zoos, for example, are specifically carved out by the ADA as places where service dogs may not be allowed.
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So it seems that the, quote, Karen is right on the legal merits here.
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But so that really should be the end of it, by the way.
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I know you want to do something differently, but it's not allowed.
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But the other major issue is that, of course, the concept of a service dog has been, like so many other concepts in modern times, expanded to the point of total meaninglessness.
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So if a person says that they have a service dog, it might mean that they're visually impaired and need it in order to get around.
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But it might also mean, and these days more likely means, that the dog is something like an emotional support animal or whatever, which is to say that the dog is just a pet.
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And in so many cases, service dog has become just another word for pets.
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Now, the law, unfortunately, does allow people to call a dog a service animal for any number of ridiculous and wholly fraudulent reasons, although the law, again, still does not permit the dog to be brought to all public locations, especially not areas where there are other animals that also need to be protected.
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But even so, it is true that the law gives much more leeway than it should.
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Because in reality, the title of service dog should almost exclusively, almost exclusively apply to seeing eye dogs.
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Almost everything else, with maybe a few other legitimate medical exceptions, should not qualify.
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If you need an emotional support animal, you don't actually need an emotional support animal.
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We would treat an adult like a freak if he walked around with his blankie or his teddy bear, you know, for his emotional support.
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We should have the exact same level of contempt for adults with emotional support animals.
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Now, that might not apply to this specific situation.
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Maybe this was a legitimate service dog, but the principles remain true.
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Regardless, again, again, regardless, the woman is right about the law here.
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But I want to move past this particular incident and these specific people with their probably illegitimate, but maybe legitimate service animal.
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Well, I want to go back to the caption, which obviously reflects what seems to be the prevailing sentiment in our society where we're told we don't hate Karens enough.
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I think something closer to the opposite is true.
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I think we don't appreciate so-called Karens enough.
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Now, I've already made the case many times that the term Karen is a racist slur that no serious person, certainly no conservative, should ever use.
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The fact that it's a racist slur really isn't up for debate.
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It started as a way for black people on Twitter to make fun of white women.
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I hate to tell you, that's where it comes from.
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It is a pejorative term used to refer to a people of a certain race and gender.
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In literally any other context, we would all agree without debate that it is a slur.
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As I've explained in the past, if I started calling all annoying black women Shaniquas, there would be no argument that it's racist.
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Certainly, if I were to say we don't hate Shaniquas enough, I would be roundly condemned as a racist by basically everybody on both sides of the political divide.
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Same if I started calling obnoxious Asians Ching Chongs.
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Now, in any other example you can possibly think of, it would be a slur.
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But we're supposed to accept the idea that being racist and bigoted towards white women somehow doesn't count.
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And for whatever reason, many conservatives don't just go along with this.
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Now, I have defended middle-aged white women against the Karen slur in the past.
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I think society needs the sorts of people that we call, quote, unquote, Karens.
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Because what are the so-called Karens doing in most of the videos that go viral?
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They're attempting to restore order in a world of chaos and confusion.
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There's a reason that this is so upsetting to people nowadays.
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Why is it that nowadays this type of woman is so reviled?
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Well, because in past societies, in basically every past society everywhere on Earth,
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there was a strong sense of etiquette and a set of commonly understood social taboos that governed how people behaved.
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Our society has done away with virtually all of that.
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Not for any noble reason, but simply because so many people in this country want to be able to do whatever the hell they want
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and break any rule they want whenever they want, regardless of the problems and inconveniences it causes other people.
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You know, one can only feel shame if they, at least at some level, actually value anyone aside from themselves.
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They don't value anyone or care about anyone else or anything else.
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It's no wonder that in a culture filled with so many of these types, the so-called Karens would become public enemy number one.
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Now, we must note, I'm afraid to say, that, well, I'm not afraid to say, I'm just, I'm saying,
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unfortunately, I must say that dog owners in particular have a tendency to fall into this and to disregard everyone around them.
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Well, I don't fall into this, but some of them seem to think that they're imbued with the mystical right to bring their dogs anywhere and everywhere all the time.
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Why should other people have to put up with your pet, even in places where it's obviously not appropriate to bring animals, such as at a restaurant or a grocery store, on a plane?
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Well, they should have to put up with it because the dog owner wants to bring their dog.
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And the only thing that matters in the whole entire universe is what they want.
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Your desire to eat at a restaurant with basic first world sanitation doesn't register to them.
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The only thing that means anything is what they want to do.
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By the way, the restaurant thing, if you think I'm exaggerating this, we were debating this on Twitter.
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I made this point about, well, don't bring your dogs in restaurants.
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All kinds of dog owners coming out of the woodwork to say, well, no, I'm going to bring my dog in any restaurant I want.
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Why do you need to bring your dog until people are eating?
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Can you not at least not bring the dog into places where it's a dining area?
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You have an animal that licks his own butt and in the dining area, can I, I'm paying money to eat here.
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And you got all these dog owners saying, no, I want to bring my, why should you?
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And it's like it doesn't register on them that that's not a valid argument.
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That's just you saying you're a selfish, which I get it.
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I know you are, but that's not a justification.
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They are the only ones, really, with the guts to call these out to their faces.
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In a world full of entitled brats who demand that the rules conform to their preferences,
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the Karens are there standing in the gap, raging against the dying of the life and the dying of our social norms and etiquette.
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We also see this, it's not just with dog owner, but we see this especially in customer service situations.
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You know, that Karen is so reviled, so often condemned for her propensity to call for the manager.
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Because customer service is horrifically abysmal these days.
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You know, so often as a customer, you find that you are paying for the privilege of being treated with total disregard,
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if not outright contempt, by the employees whose wages you are subsidizing.
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They just say, pull up to the next window to get my food.
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Okay, I'm paying your, you are, your only job is to smile and say hello and hand a bag.
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Now, most people just sit there meekly and take it,
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allowing themselves to be flagrantly disrespected by people whose whole entire job is to treat them well
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Karen's are the only ones who don't go along with that program.
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Not only do they have contempt for you, they hate you just for being there.
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Like, if you have an order that involves more than two food items,
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at this point, you know for a fact that it's going to be wrong, at least partially.
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And like most people, when that happens to me, I'm like, oh, whatever.
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But the Karen, okay, the so-called Karen, she's the only one who says,
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And you can pull out your stupid phone, and you can get it on.
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Maybe then there wouldn't be so many lazy, incompetent brats everywhere.
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Thank God for middle-aged white women who don't have time for your b****.
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Instead, it is the selfish jerks who make the Karen necessary.