The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1497 - The Dark Truth About Assisted Suicide Laws

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the UK legalizes so-called assisted dying.

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00:02:24.920 There's a famous quote from a Hemingway novel that goes something like this.

00:02:29.200 A character is asked, how did you go bankrupt?

00:02:31.400 And his reply is, two ways, gradually and then suddenly.

00:02:35.360 You may have heard the same idea expressed like this.

00:02:38.100 Often things will start to occur slowly at first, and then they'll happen suddenly.

00:02:41.840 They'll happen all at once.

00:02:42.640 A catalyst will take place.

00:02:44.440 The slow burn begins, and eventually a threshold is crossed, and suddenly everything changes very quickly.

00:02:50.600 Starting around the turn of the century, it became clear that a catalyst had occurred in American culture, and in particular, American spiritual life.

00:02:58.680 Church attendance, which had remained steady at around 70% of the population from the 1930s all the way to the 1990s, began to plummet.

00:03:06.200 This was one of the clearest signs that Americans were turning away from Scripture and away from any belief and any kind of power higher than themselves.

00:03:15.040 And similar changes in church attendance were reported all over the West.

00:03:18.400 Now, at the time, it wasn't clear exactly what the consequences of this shift would be, although it was clear that it would be bad.

00:03:25.320 But what exactly would that mean?

00:03:28.020 After all, once a civilization abandons its most fundamental, central, core beliefs, it becomes pretty hard to predict what exactly will happen as a result.

00:03:37.780 And then, abruptly, the consequences became very apparent in our daily lives.

00:03:43.120 Gender ideology, for one major example, began teaching that people can determine whether they're men or women all on their own.

00:03:50.280 There's no need for God to have any role in that process.

00:03:53.720 Virtually overnight, taxpayer-funded child castration made it into the platform of a major American political party.

00:03:59.680 The idea that people can assume divine powers and change their gender, change their biology, went from an unthinkable absurdity to a core tenet of left-wing political thought.

00:04:12.300 A similar reversal has taken place in the field of assisted suicide, which activists often call MAID, or medical assistance in dying is the euphemism.

00:04:22.920 This is another area in which many Western governments and corporate press and activists have decided that humans should be able to play God, to be gods over themselves.

00:04:35.420 And, again, the reversal was pretty rapid.

00:04:39.200 As recently as a decade ago, assisted suicide was illegal in many Western nations.

00:04:43.800 In Canada, where it is now incredibly the fifth leading cause of death, MAID wasn't even legal as recently as 2015.

00:04:50.980 Then, in just seven years, from 2016 to 2023, the use of assisted suicide in Canada increased by more than 13-fold.

00:04:59.100 If we were seeing these numbers in any other context, like, let's say, a new strain of COVID or something,

00:05:05.840 Canada's media would call it what it is, which is a massive and unprecedented public health emergency.

00:05:11.900 MAID has come out of nowhere to become one of the primary ways that Canadians die.

00:05:16.660 It's a top-five cause.

00:05:19.280 But because MAID bails out Canada's failing public health system by getting rid of expensive patients, Canada's state media, of course, supports the practice.

00:05:27.740 The same phenomenon is now happening overseas as well.

00:05:31.680 Now, when the UK held a vote in 2015 on whether to legalize assisted suicide,

00:05:38.700 the proposal was quickly shot down in Parliament by more than 200 votes.

00:05:42.160 But on Friday, there was a very different result.

00:05:46.320 By a vote of 330 to 275, Parliament approved a bill that will legalize euthanasia in certain cases.

00:05:54.080 Watch.

00:05:55.240 All right.

00:05:55.580 British lawmakers have just approved a bill to legalize assisted dying.

00:06:00.240 After hours of debate today, the House of Commons voted 330 for and 275 against supporting the bill.

00:06:07.720 I want to pay a huge and heartfelt tribute to those families and to every single person who has contacted me about this issue

00:06:15.420 and, in many cases, shared their own very personal stories of loss and death.

00:06:20.700 I know from my own personal experience of grief that telling your story over and over again takes energy, courage and strength.

00:06:28.220 And I'm incredibly grateful to you all.

00:06:30.400 It is your voices and your stories which have inspired me.

00:06:32.980 Over the years, high-profile figures have given emotional, first-hand testimony on the subject.

00:06:40.120 Under the legislation, terminally ill people would be able to take a substance to end their lives.

00:06:47.640 The bill must still pass the House of Lords and parliamentary committees.

00:06:51.320 I'm going to start by reading a quote from Esther Anson and for our international audience and who don't necessarily know, who might not know who she is.

00:06:58.940 She's a British former talk show host, BBC journalist, and she was recently diagnosed with lung cancer.

00:07:06.040 And what she said was, what is happening at the moment is compelling people to have really agonizing deaths.

00:07:12.600 That memory of someone in agony becomes a tragic memory that overwhelms other happy memories for the family left behind.

00:07:19.860 Now, the stated limitations in this bill are that in order to kill themselves, people need to be at least 18 years old.

00:07:27.120 They need to have some kind of terminal diagnosis with less than six months to live.

00:07:31.800 More on that in a moment.

00:07:33.460 Two doctors along with a judge need to give their approval and the drugs that end the person's life need to be self-administered.

00:07:40.500 So the doctor can set up all the drugs that will kill you and get everything ready for you.

00:07:45.560 But, you know, you have to press the button after you've filled out all the necessary paperwork to kill yourself.

00:07:54.140 Nothing dystopian about that at all.

00:07:56.800 Now, before we get into the more substantive issues with this bill, it needs to be said that in practical terms, these limitations, so-called, are extremely superficial.

00:08:05.980 They're designed to make people think that euthanasia will only be administered in the most extreme cases in which people are about to die anyway, which still would not be okay.

00:08:15.020 But that's not true.

00:08:16.740 You know, it's not going to be limited to that.

00:08:20.300 It never is.

00:08:21.520 As a conservative member of parliament named Danny Kruger pointed out during debate on the bill,

00:08:26.740 it's actually pretty easy to qualify as terminally ill under this legislation, even if you're not.

00:08:31.100 Quote,

00:08:32.140 All you need to do to qualify for an assisted death, the definition of terminal illness under this bill is to refuse treatment, like insulin if you're diabetic.

00:08:39.760 In the case of eating disorders, you just need to refuse food.

00:08:42.220 And the evidence is, jurisdictions around the world and in our own jurisprudence, that would be enough to qualify you for an assisted death.

00:08:49.780 So, in other words, this bill legalizes suicide by people who are not, in fact, terminally ill.

00:08:53.540 You can make yourself terminally ill by refusing to take necessary medications or by refusing to eat, and then you qualify, you know,

00:09:01.980 because you're going to die if you do not eat or if you don't take the insulin.

00:09:07.580 Now, there's no need for any kind of objective finding in this bill, like a brain tumor that shows up on a scan or anything like that.

00:09:16.060 So, really, there are no guardrails.

00:09:19.500 That's what it comes down to.

00:09:20.660 Now, of course, even if guardrails did exist, they wouldn't exist for very long.

00:09:25.300 In every country where assisted suicide has been legalized, it starts out with, quote-unquote, restrictions,

00:09:31.440 and then those restrictions very quickly disappear.

00:09:35.080 In Canada, for example, MAID began as assisted suicide for people with diagnosed terminal conditions.

00:09:41.800 Within five years, it was expanded to include anybody with incurable conditions, even if they're not terminal.

00:09:48.920 That includes any chronic condition that, for example, requires somebody to use a wheelchair.

00:09:54.980 It also includes cancer patients.

00:09:56.360 If you have arthritis, that's a chronic condition, although not terminal, but you can get made for that.

00:10:05.000 As The Telegraph reports, quote,

00:10:06.200 A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room.

00:10:13.240 The patient, a married 51-year-old grandmother from Nova Scotia,

00:10:17.160 explained that she was set to undergo a mastectomy operation for breast cancer when a physician asked her if she knew about medical assistance in dying.

00:10:24.320 Despite declining the offer of the MAID program, the woman was asked about assisted dying again before undergoing her second mastectomy nine months later,

00:10:31.080 and she was spoken to a third time while recuperating in the recovery room after the procedure.

00:10:36.020 She said that repeat offers made her feel like a burden to doctors and that the people in her position were better off dead.

00:10:44.580 I mean, it's so dark and absurd that if it wasn't real, you'd almost have to laugh about it.

00:10:51.300 But it comes off like the darkest comedy imaginable, just the idea, even the way it's phrased, of a doctor offering you suicide.

00:11:02.620 Even after you're in recovery, you're in the recovery room, and the doctor comes in and says, 0.98

00:11:06.960 Hey, we could kill you if you want. 0.98

00:11:08.780 But, you know, here's some treatment, some pills you could take, this will help with the pain. 1.00

00:11:13.700 Or, you know, if you want, we could just kill you. 1.00

00:11:15.820 What do you think about that? 1.00

00:11:16.580 You want us to just kill you? 1.00

00:11:17.820 Yeah, give it some thought. 1.00

00:11:19.160 Give it some thought. 1.00

00:11:19.700 Think it over, talk it over, and hey, if you want us to kill you, we will.

00:11:24.360 This is how MAID has expanded already in Canada, and of course, the expansion is continuing. 0.96

00:11:28.860 There's now a push underway to allow the mentally ill to seek MAID, even if they have no other medical conditions.

00:11:34.480 And this year, a committee in Canada's parliament has determined that so-called, quote-unquote,

00:11:38.840 mature minors should also be able to kill themselves. 1.00

00:11:43.280 Now, of course, mature minor is a contradiction in terms.

00:11:47.540 And even Canadians seem to recognize that in many different contexts.

00:11:51.480 They don't let children buy tobacco or alcohol, for example.

00:11:55.440 There's no such thing as a mature minor who's so mature they're allowed to buy booze.

00:12:00.420 But apparently, suicide is completely fine.

00:12:05.200 Canadians went from banning assisted suicide entirely to voting to allow children to partake in less than a decade.

00:12:12.560 If you're a supporter of the assisted suicide bill that just passed in the UK, you know, you might view all of these objections as what-ifs.

00:12:21.700 You might say that the UK will defy the odds, and it won't end up like Canada, where they're now killing as many people as they possibly can.

00:12:29.120 You might think the UK will only euthanize a very small number of people in keeping with their restrictions.

00:12:33.620 But there are several different reasons, there are several different problems with that reasoning, even if we assume that the premise is true.

00:12:41.180 First of all, and this is the most important thing, as a matter of principle, and I know this sounds provocative these days,

00:12:50.180 but doctors should simply never kill their patients intentionally, okay?

00:12:55.860 It should just simply never happen.

00:12:57.480 This should be just about the least controversial statement that a person can possibly utter.

00:13:04.300 There's a reason that we have the principle, do no harm, from the Hippocratic Oath.

00:13:08.460 Once doctors transition from a life-saving role to a life-ending role,

00:13:13.760 then patients can no longer trust doctors to have their best interests in mind.

00:13:18.140 It's especially true when, as in Canada and the UK, the doctors are essentially employed by the government,

00:13:23.440 which is going broke because of rising health care costs.

00:13:26.160 And on top of that, a lot of these doctors are working closely with funeral homes now, too.

00:13:30.600 So there are conflicts of interest all over the place.

00:13:34.800 Which is why, again, doctors should just simply never kill their patients intentionally.

00:13:39.120 We should never allow any form of that, ever.

00:13:43.200 Secondly, it's not hard to see that assisted suicide, even if it's not an explicit goal of the policy,

00:13:48.420 is part of a broader effort to devalue life in the West,

00:13:51.800 and in particular, it's part of a broader effort to devalue certain demographic groups

00:13:55.480 that may have been devalued in many, many other ways already.

00:13:59.540 You can see the signs everywhere, as in literally, you can see the signs.

00:14:03.200 For example, if you look at how the government in the UK is promoting assisted suicide,

00:14:08.460 you'll notice, interestingly enough, a striking lack of diversity in their posted advertising.

00:14:13.180 Other than ads for divorce attorneys, this is one of the few areas where you'll see mostly white people

00:14:20.080 in the commercials in the UK.

00:14:22.680 Or if it's a home alarm system and they need someone to play a burglar,

00:14:26.820 then you'll certainly see a white person.

00:14:29.560 But here's a video from Westminster Station.

00:14:33.060 Look at this.

00:14:34.260 So you see the advertisements there.

00:14:36.260 Now, you can look at that and say, well, you know, we can't read too much into it.

00:14:42.000 It's just a couple of advertisements with an unusual number of white people in them.

00:14:45.540 Just one data point.

00:14:47.160 Hardly conclusive.

00:14:48.300 But if you take a look at the statistics on who's actually pursuing assisted suicide,

00:14:51.820 you'll notice another pretty striking data point.

00:14:54.320 On top of the fact that, by the way, just advertisements promoting suicide,

00:14:58.820 it's already horrifying.

00:15:01.660 It's a horrifying idea, the fact that this is a real thing that's happening.

00:15:04.620 Billboards, a series of them, all down, you know, all across the station there.

00:15:13.680 Promoting suicide is already a horrifying thing.

00:15:17.880 But as one NPR member station reported in Sacramento, quote, 0.86

00:15:21.820 California's aid and dying law is mostly used by white people.

00:15:25.840 Roughly 88% of people using California's physician-assisted death law are white,

00:15:30.700 according to a new data from the California Department of Public Health.

00:15:33.600 That's been the case every year since the law took effect in 2016.

00:15:37.100 And by the way, that's white as in actually white.

00:15:40.200 Doesn't include Asians, Hispanics, black people. 0.59

00:15:43.520 88% of the people getting assisted suicide in California are white,

00:15:46.560 even though this state is only around one-third white in terms of its general overall population.

00:15:52.740 And that number is understandably surprising to researchers who have been looking at the data.

00:15:55.920 Jill Weinberg, a sociologist at Tufts University, said she was expecting more diversity in the statistics

00:16:02.380 as compared to states like Oregon, Vermont, Washington.

00:16:05.340 After all, California is far more diverse than those states, but that's not what they're seeing.

00:16:09.980 Quote, California is the first state in which we're starting to expect to see more diversity in euthanasia patients.

00:16:15.780 And in fact, we're not seeing that.

00:16:18.060 So this is another major issue with assisted suicide that, as far as I know, pretty much no one is really talking about.

00:16:23.520 Governments that say white people are evil are also killing them at very disproportionate rates under the guise of health care.

00:16:29.680 And the people who usually complain about disproportionate statistics are strangely silent about that. 0.95

00:16:35.260 Just like they're quiet about the disproportionate rates of white men who die from overdoses.

00:16:39.940 It's almost as if they're putting decolonization into action.

00:16:43.080 And by the way, we don't have a racial breakdown of maid patients in Canada yet,

00:16:46.920 although the government says it's eventually going to release that data.

00:16:50.280 They've stalled the release of these reports because they're so politically damaging.

00:16:54.080 But we can assume, based on Canada's demographics, that most maid patients are probably mostly white there as well.

00:16:59.680 These are the kinds of figures that you'd think would trigger some outrage among the opposition party, at a minimum.

00:17:06.280 But in Britain, many conservatives, so-called conservatives, are just as silent as the liberals about what's going on.

00:17:12.740 Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak put out a column calling the bill compassionate.

00:17:18.680 Here was his argument, quote,

00:17:20.360 I believe that, where possible, we should prevent suffering.

00:17:23.340 I know from speaking and listening to many of you that too many people have to go through painful, traumatic, drawn-out deaths.

00:17:29.680 These moving, deeply personal stories have left a profound impression on me.

00:17:33.280 This bill will make these ordeals, which are so traumatic, for patients and their families less frequent.

00:17:39.440 So this is what passes for a conservative perspective in Britain.

00:17:42.940 And to restate his argument, he says, where possible, we should prevent suffering.

00:17:46.240 And this is a principle that, on the surface, if you don't think too much about it, sounds nice.

00:17:54.480 We're all opposed to suffering. Nobody likes suffering.

00:17:57.740 But if you take it to its logical conclusion, it justifies the murder of all kinds of people, basically everybody.

00:18:06.260 And it doesn't even require their consent, really.

00:18:09.480 I mean, the idea is pretty simple. 0.99

00:18:10.620 If somebody is suffering enough, then it's your right to kill them. 0.99

00:18:14.300 It's just like abortion. 1.00

00:18:15.680 If the child is inconvenient, you can kill them. 0.97

00:18:18.260 If you judge that the child will have a life that is not worth living, that's reason enough to take his life from him. 0.93

00:18:27.100 That's the ideology that underlies all of this.

00:18:29.420 It's an ideology that's shared by both conservatives and liberals in the UK.

00:18:33.220 And this is why wherever assisted suicide is legalized with restrictions, it very quickly expands so that there are no restrictions anymore.

00:18:44.200 And that's because at the center of this legislation or any legislation to legalize euthanasia is this idea that physical suffering in all of its forms shouldn't be a part of the human condition.

00:18:58.660 It's the idea that we should and can play God over our own lives just as easily as we can change a child's gender, you know, leftists think.

00:19:07.740 We can determine when our lives end.

00:19:11.220 And this is also, by the way, what explains the dramatic rise in the medicalization of the human condition and the antidepressants and anxiety drugs.

00:19:20.260 And everybody's hopped up on all those drugs all the time.

00:19:22.580 And it's because of this idea that just like people shouldn't suffer.

00:19:26.860 They shouldn't experience suffering.

00:19:27.780 It's just I have a right to not ever feel any physical, emotional, or mental discomfort or suffering.

00:19:32.600 And if I do, I have to do whatever I can to just obliterate those feelings and experiences by whatever means necessary.

00:19:43.480 Now, this isn't just a contradiction of biblical teachings.

00:19:46.200 It's the culmination of the narcissistic self-absorbed mentality that in many countries has largely replaced religion in the public consciousness.

00:19:54.200 And once it's allowed to fester, it takes over very quickly.

00:19:57.780 That's what Canada has already discovered is cancer patients and disabled athletes are told that they should really just kill themselves instead of getting any kind of treatment, instead of enduring any more suffering.

00:20:07.940 The obliteration of their existence is preferable to experiencing pain.

00:20:13.340 That's the idea that's the idea that's being sold.

00:20:16.520 But the truth is that life isn't always easy or painless.

00:20:22.880 In fact, it never is.

00:20:24.520 It never is.

00:20:25.960 But it's still life.

00:20:27.640 And life has meaning.

00:20:29.000 Life has value.

00:20:30.080 Life is sacred.

00:20:32.100 Either you believe that or you don't.

00:20:35.040 Either your society treats life as something precious, something sanctified, or it doesn't.

00:20:40.660 It truly is an either-or choice.

00:20:43.740 It is one or the other.

00:20:44.840 It is black and white.

00:20:47.440 And what we know from experience, recent experience, and the entire history of human civilization, is that when a society chooses the latter,

00:20:56.460 when it decides that life is inherently expendable or even undesirable, terrible things follow, dystopian horrors beyond comprehension are what await you every time, without exception, guaranteed.

00:21:12.620 This is what you choose when you embrace something like euthanasia.

00:21:17.800 It's a choice that you always regret in the end.

00:21:22.300 And the UK is about to learn that the hard way.

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00:24:16.560 mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political support.

00:24:21.340 Despite all this, I have maintained my sobriety for more than five years because of my deep faith

00:24:25.760 and the unwavering love and support of my family and friends.

00:24:28.680 Hunter Biden added that in the throes of addiction, I squandered many opportunities and advantages in recovery.

00:24:35.360 We can be given the opportunity to make amends where possible and rebuild our lives

00:24:39.000 if we never take for granted the mercy that we have been afforded.

00:24:42.400 Oh, isn't that nice?

00:24:44.060 Isn't that nice for him?

00:24:45.080 He's in recovery.

00:24:47.340 Now, can I just say, first of all, because you see this from people all the time,

00:24:50.500 especially famous people that, you know, go into rehab and they go into recovery

00:24:56.640 and it's supposed to just be like a free pass for everything they did.

00:25:00.680 Well, I'm in recovery.

00:25:01.460 I'm in recovery now.

00:25:02.940 You know, it wasn't me who did that.

00:25:04.660 It was the addiction.

00:25:05.620 It was all the, no, it was you.

00:25:07.220 It was you.

00:25:08.420 Like, you know, first of all, you chose to start taking the drugs you got addicted to.

00:25:13.200 That was you.

00:25:14.520 It's like, you weren't born addicted.

00:25:17.720 You chose to, in fact, you chose, I know this is unpopular to say,

00:25:21.600 and this is a little bit of a detour, but you chose the whole time.

00:25:26.740 I mean, even when you were addicted, you still chose to keep doing the drugs.

00:25:29.780 Like, it was, you weren't, it was you.

00:25:31.680 It wasn't anybody else.

00:25:33.240 You weren't being controlled by some mystical outside force.

00:25:37.000 It was, it was still you.

00:25:38.760 Hate to say it.

00:25:40.420 So, you know, you don't get just some kind of free pass.

00:25:42.560 Well, Hunter Biden does get a free pass.

00:25:43.960 That's the point now.

00:25:44.840 But morally, you don't.

00:25:47.760 And just being able to chalk it all up to, that's kind of nice.

00:25:51.740 You just like do drugs for a while, act like a complete piece of, do horrible things,

00:25:57.420 and then just go to rehab and say, no, that was it all.

00:25:59.800 That was not me.

00:26:00.480 It was none of that was me.

00:26:02.700 30 years of being the worst human on the planet.

00:26:05.280 None of it was me.

00:26:06.100 I'm a changed man now.

00:26:07.380 So you can't hold any of that against me.

00:26:09.200 Doesn't matter what I did.

00:26:10.820 It was all the drugs.

00:26:12.560 The drugs I chose to take, which you can't blame me for, for some reason.

00:26:18.640 So, anyway, that's all.

00:26:20.600 That's very nice of him to accept the pardon with such humility.

00:26:26.640 And, of course, he says he's taken responsibility, but that's the exact opposite of what's happened here.

00:26:30.180 You can't take responsibility for your actions if you're being insulated from all of the potential negative consequences of your actions.

00:26:38.000 And that's why I said that, you know, as a father, I would not have issued a pardon like this to my own child in a similar situation.

00:26:44.900 Now, granted, I realize that Biden did it mostly for himself.

00:26:47.240 I understand that.

00:26:47.820 But pretending that's not the case for a moment and just considering the question in a vacuum, would I do this for my own child?

00:26:53.480 The answer is no.

00:26:54.240 Now, I would give my child a pardon for a tax crime.

00:26:58.860 I think, as I said yesterday, I would pardon every single person who's ever been convicted of a tax crime if it were up to me.

00:27:05.240 I'd pardon them all.

00:27:05.980 But I would not give my crackhead 54-year-old son a blanket pardon for any federal crime he's ever committed over the period of a decade precisely because it ensures that he will not take responsibility.

00:27:20.340 He will not be reformed.

00:27:22.320 Responsibility, reformation, repentance, all of these things can only happen if a person is made to experience the consequences of their bad choices.

00:27:30.720 It really cannot happen otherwise. 0.99

00:27:32.400 So, Hunter Biden will just continue being a scumbag, which, granted, would probably have happened even if he went to jail. 0.99

00:27:40.160 But at least then there would be some hope for him morally and spiritually. 0.99

00:27:43.700 Now there basically is none.

00:27:45.520 And that's because he has a terrible father. 0.96

00:27:47.820 And he's a terrible human being himself.

00:27:50.140 But the funny thing has been to watch the media grapple with this.

00:27:53.300 Lots of great clips, of course, that we could play.

00:27:56.200 I think this one from CNN is one of the best.

00:27:58.420 Here's Representative Daniel Goldman self-destructing on camera.

00:28:03.600 Let's watch.

00:28:04.840 In July of 2023, just after that plea deal fell through, this is what you said.

00:28:09.620 I want to watch.

00:28:12.460 Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?

00:28:18.000 Yes.

00:28:18.440 And I don't think there's any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him.

00:28:28.820 And I think you see that in this case where he kept on and Merrick Garland kept on a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president's son.

00:28:37.720 If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don't know what we could look for.

00:28:46.700 What does that feel like, watching yourself back then, reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son?

00:28:54.940 Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon.

00:29:03.480 That was a satisfactory outcome.

00:29:05.900 It had already fallen through.

00:29:06.840 That only was...

00:29:08.940 Sorry?

00:29:11.760 When you reacted, this was when the deal had fallen through.

00:29:14.520 So, she kind of lets him off the hook there at the end by not forcing him to respond to that last point.

00:29:20.920 He says that he guarantees there will be no pardon, and then there was.

00:29:25.200 And then he's asked about it, and he says, well, if there had been a plea deal, then what I said would be true.

00:29:30.680 Except that he said that after it was already cleared there wouldn't be a plea deal, and he wasn't forced to respond to that because she kept talking, kind of bailed him out from the worst of the meltdown. 0.99

00:29:38.420 But either way, you know, cleared this guy's full of crap. 1.00

00:29:41.640 But the interesting question to consider is whether all of these Democrats are liars or stupid. 1.00

00:29:51.200 Now, they can be both. 1.00

00:29:52.360 I mean, they are both.

00:29:53.140 But when it comes to this Hunter thing, when they were on TV for months stating with certainty that Biden would not pardon Hunter,

00:30:03.220 were they consciously saying something that they knew probably wasn't going to turn out to be true? 0.96

00:30:07.840 Or were they stupid enough to actually believe that Biden wouldn't pardon Hunter? 0.99

00:30:13.500 I think it's probably more the latter than the former, and that's the most pathetic thing of all. 1.00

00:30:18.960 How could you not know this was going to happen? 0.81

00:30:22.740 I mean, actually thinking, well, he said he wasn't, so it means he's not going to.

00:30:27.020 You know, even though Joe Biden has lied about everything his whole career, there's no way he's lying about this. 0.98

00:30:32.320 That level of gullibility, you know, willful gullibility is the most pathetic thing. 0.95

00:30:40.840 But it's also fun to watch these people try to justify the pardon. 0.66

00:30:44.260 So here's Julie Roginski, also on CNN, doing her best to come up with some sort of defense. 0.94

00:30:51.420 Watch.

00:30:51.560 If you're talking about lying or you're talking about Joe Biden's word, Joe Biden's out of here in just a month or two, right?

00:30:58.680 We're not going to hear from Joe Biden again.

00:31:00.120 He's going to be a former president, and that's going to be the end of that.

00:31:02.760 But I want to be clear about something.

00:31:05.020 Donald Trump broke something in this country when he got elected the first time,

00:31:09.400 and then he shattered it into a million pieces when he got reelected.

00:31:14.000 And we will never get that back again.

00:31:16.020 When you have a president of the United States, an incoming president, effectively saying that he's going to weaponize the Justice Department to go after his enemies,

00:31:26.040 when he called the Biden family the Biden quote-unquote crime family

00:31:30.040 and made it very clear that he was going to do everything in his power to appoint people who were going to go after them,

00:31:36.740 regardless of whether they committed crimes or not,

00:31:40.500 you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand which way the wind was going to blow.

00:31:44.360 And as I said again, presidents should not have the ability to pardon.

00:31:49.320 But it's very understandable when you have somebody like Donald Trump come in,

00:31:53.680 why somebody might say, you know what, I don't want my son prosecuted for crimes that I have even considered that he may have done.

00:32:01.320 And that, by the way, doesn't just apply to Hunter Biden.

00:32:03.440 He's lucky his dad's the president.

00:32:05.040 It applies to all of us who criticize Donald Trump.

00:32:08.640 He is abnormal.

00:32:09.600 He has broken every norm and he has broken every precedent that we have had in almost 250 years of this country. 0.87

00:32:15.780 So these people, totally shameless.

00:32:18.200 Again, we hear about the theoretical horrors of Trump weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies,

00:32:23.480 even though Biden did exactly that.

00:32:26.660 The Democrats actually did it.

00:32:28.180 They didn't just say they would.

00:32:29.240 They actually went and did it in real life.

00:32:30.680 But that doesn't count somehow.

00:32:32.400 But notice something else.

00:32:33.180 Notice how she says that Donald Trump broke something when he got elected the first time

00:32:38.300 and then broke it again, I guess, when he got elected the second time.

00:32:41.020 She didn't say that he broke something when he was actually governing.

00:32:45.460 She didn't cite any kind of official act as president, any policy that he enacted that broke the country.

00:32:51.880 That's because, you know, he governed well and he governed with restraint.

00:32:58.360 He governed fully within the bounds of the law and the Constitution.

00:33:02.360 So instead, it's just the fact of winning.

00:33:05.040 That's the crime he committed in Julie's mind.

00:33:08.000 He won legally, he won fair and square, but he won because people voted for him.

00:33:16.540 But that broke the country, which is really to say that the voters broke the country.

00:33:21.540 That's what she really means.

00:33:22.920 To vote against her wishes is to break the country.

00:33:26.260 The country is broken if it doesn't do exactly what she wants.

00:33:29.560 And, of course, we know that that's their mentality.

00:33:35.800 Okay, we haven't checked in on Taylor Lorenz in a while.

00:33:38.720 It's probably because there's no good reason to ever check in on her, but we'll do it anyway right now.

00:33:45.460 Here's the New York Post.

00:33:46.520 First, quote, former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz has claimed that people who don't wear masks in public are raw-dogging the air in an expletive-laden social media rant.

00:33:59.020 Lorenz, the controversial columnist who grabbed headlines for branding President Biden a war criminal, unleashed the foul-mouthed tirade Monday as she ripped criticism of her continued mask-wearing during the ongoing, quote-unquote, COVID pandemic.

00:34:10.560 She raged on ex-rival Blue Sky, quote, I love when people find photos where my mask is off for five seconds outside for a photo at my book party, where every single attendee had to PCR test as some kind of gotcha.

00:34:25.840 She continued, planning a COVID-safe book launch took months and thousands of my own dollars ensuring testing outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. 0.99

00:34:35.120 Meanwhile, you dumb Fs are out raw-dogging the air and spewing your disease-laden breath all over your elderly neighbors. 0.99

00:34:43.260 We are not the same. 1.00

00:34:46.100 We certainly are not, Taylor.

00:34:47.780 We certainly, certainly are not.

00:34:52.160 So breathing without a mask is raw-dogging the air, is what she's saying.

00:34:57.960 And that's not a joke.

00:34:59.400 She actually, she said that, not to be funny.

00:35:01.560 And there are people like this in the country.

00:35:06.300 Not just one person either.

00:35:07.940 I mean, there are people whose lives still revolve around COVID and always will, it seems.

00:35:14.540 And when you get these little snapshots, these little glances, brief, highly disturbing glances into the lives of these kinds of people,

00:35:22.680 you know, if you're like me, it's always shocking to remember that these people exist.

00:35:27.580 And also, you can see why you so easily forget that they exist.

00:35:33.780 For one, you want to forget.

00:35:35.520 So you're happy to forget that they exist.

00:35:38.120 But also, you don't see them.

00:35:40.260 They basically dropped out of society.

00:35:43.000 And I was thinking about this recently because, you know, if you go back three years or so,

00:35:49.040 I thought at the time that at this point in 2024, almost 2025, and for years after this point,

00:36:00.060 I thought there would still be a noticeable number of people wearing masks.

00:36:04.640 And I thought that because I thought that the COVID panic and the lockdowns had broken the brains of a large number of people

00:36:11.920 and that they would just never recover.

00:36:13.780 Well, it turns out that fortunately, some people did recover, or maybe the more optimistic view,

00:36:19.640 or maybe this is the more pessimistic view, actually, I don't know, is that their brains were actually never broken.

00:36:25.020 They were never paranoid or panicked about COVID.

00:36:27.760 Some of these people are wearing masks all the time.

00:36:30.620 They were just going along with it because they were told to.

00:36:33.300 They actually weren't scared.

00:36:34.580 They were just, they were more obedient than scared, which is probably worse on second thought.

00:36:40.400 That's probably the worst way of looking at it.

00:36:42.600 But, you know, that explains partially why we don't see very many people walking around in masks.

00:36:49.440 But the other part of the reason, though, is that the rest of the maskers have, as I said, dropped out of society. 1.00

00:36:56.040 They don't go out.

00:36:58.280 That's why you don't see them.

00:36:59.620 They're, I mean, how many of them are there?

00:37:03.300 How many Taylor Lorenz's are there in the country?

00:37:05.740 I don't, I'd be interested to know.

00:37:07.160 I'm not sure if anyone's looked into it, but, so I have no idea how many.

00:37:13.420 I'm guessing it's a small crowd, but it could be larger than we think.

00:37:17.260 These are people who, you know, their brains really were broken, just completely shattered.

00:37:23.000 Now, Taylor Lorenz already had a brain that wasn't exactly high-functioning before COVID, but COVID panic just destroyed what was left of it, destroyed it.

00:37:33.180 And why did that happen?

00:37:38.580 And, you know, I think I made this point many times during the height of it, but COVID was, for a lot of people in our culture, it was their first real confrontation with mortality.

00:37:49.220 And, and, and I think that's the reason why it broke the brains of people like Taylor.

00:37:56.000 They found themselves for the first time, really, staring, you know, into the eyes of death and, and, and they never recovered.

00:38:04.180 They just didn't recover.

00:38:05.040 And that's, and when I say eyes, eyes of death, that's not to say they were actually, it's, it's, it's, it's in spite of the fact that, of course, most of them were never seriously threatened by COVID.

00:38:12.760 Like they weren't actually, it was no serious threat to them, but, but they thought that it was, and, and they still do.

00:38:22.680 So in their minds, it was a confrontation with mortality.

00:38:27.100 In their minds, it was staring at death, you know, in the face.

00:38:31.360 And it's the kind of confrontation they had just avoided up till that moment.

00:38:36.240 And they, they did, they didn't know what to do with it.

00:38:37.880 They, they couldn't handle it.

00:38:39.160 They like psychologically could not handle it.

00:38:42.760 For those of us who were not crippled by the COVID panic, I think we tend to think, well, we weren't crippled by it because we had a more rational view of COVID and the relative risk it posed.

00:38:54.520 And, you know, we just knew that it wasn't, you know, as we, many of us said for, you know, for a long time, it's basically a bad cold.

00:39:03.540 It's the flu, whatever.

00:39:06.100 And that's part of it.

00:39:07.320 So if you weren't crippled by it, it's probably part of the reason is that you had a rational view of it.

00:39:11.420 Whereas someone like Taylor Lorenz didn't.

00:39:13.560 But the other part was that no matter what kind of risk COVID did or didn't pose, we, those of us in this camp, we already knew that the world's a dangerous place and that a million things want to kill us and eventually something will.

00:39:31.140 And so even before you get into like figuring out, well, exactly how much of a threat is this thing, COVID is just part of that symphony.

00:39:40.620 It's part of that symphony of awful things that, that might kill you and, you know, all, but these things are on a, are not all the same and they're on a spectrum and some of them are more dangerous than others.

00:39:51.320 But, uh, so it's not anywhere close to the most prominent part of that symphony, but it's in it, you know, it's just, it's just part of that.

00:39:58.320 It's just part of the, it's like, you know, we live a life where frail creatures and we're all going to die.

00:40:05.600 And, and, and people who know that, um, tend to respond better in these situations.

00:40:13.140 So, so when we were told that we had to do all this crazy stuff to avoid this one particular sickness, we were all like, well, why, why?

00:40:23.860 I mean, there are a million things that can kill me.

00:40:25.580 Why, I, what do you want, what am I supposed to do?

00:40:30.240 I'm just, I'm just going to live my life in the meantime.

00:40:32.760 Um, what, what else can I do?

00:40:34.120 That was our attitude because we were already aware of our own mortality.

00:40:38.300 We'd already, you know, we just were aware of it.

00:40:40.880 Um, and COVID wasn't any kind of shocking revelation for us, but for some people, especially secular, liberal people in modern culture, mortality was a revelation for them.

00:40:53.220 It was just a revelation.

00:40:54.760 They'd never confronted it.

00:40:56.020 They'd never thought about it really.

00:40:57.920 Uh, they'd never meditated on it.

00:41:01.100 Uh, part of that isn't being not, not being religious.

00:41:03.320 You know, part of, when you are religious, uh, the reality of death is, is, it's, you know, it's really part of the religious experience.

00:41:10.860 You're aware of it.

00:41:11.540 Like the fact that you're a mortal being is very much at the forefront of, of your religious life and your religious activities, you know.

00:41:19.820 Um, but if you're kind of secular, liberal, superficial person, you don't ever think about those things, I guess.

00:41:27.480 And, uh, for some of them, they were forced to think about it for the first time and it just shattered them.

00:41:34.460 It just shattered them.

00:41:35.720 And they've never gotten over it.

00:41:37.040 Um, and, uh, and they never will.

00:41:39.520 They probably never will.

00:41:41.740 All right.

00:41:42.740 Um, finally, here's something important.

00:41:46.880 Uh, video went viral this weekend of a rapper named David Bluntz.

00:41:51.480 I don't know if Bluntz is his Christian name or not.

00:41:53.740 I don't know.

00:41:54.240 I'm not sure.

00:41:54.880 I don't know.

00:41:55.200 But his, his name, uh, his name is not the most notable thing about him.

00:41:58.500 The most notable thing becomes obvious when you see the video.

00:42:02.120 So I'm going to show you the video.

00:42:04.480 Um, this is David Bluntz on stage performing at some kind of concert.

00:42:09.600 And first he is addressing Snoop Dogg, who apparently said something mean about him.

00:42:13.760 Uh, and so he, he does that and then he performs a bit.

00:42:16.260 And, uh, so let's, let's watch and enjoy this together.

00:42:20.140 Hey, Chicago, do y'all have a problem with me sitting down on this stage?

00:42:25.920 Exactly. 0.99

00:42:27.340 Get the f*** off my head. 0.99

00:42:28.940 Snoop Dogg! 0.99

00:42:30.080 Yeah!

00:42:31.820 Yeah!

00:42:33.620 Yeah!

00:42:36.220 I bought her a chain, I bought her a bathroom, I made her everything. 0.86

00:42:40.300 The only thing that I didn't have to hire is a new wedding ring. 0.92

00:42:43.940 I told her to promise I always stay true and never know the f***ing team. 0.85

00:42:47.600 I know she probably think I'm crazy cause I'm always saying that. 0.94

00:42:51.660 But my head, she did me dirty once I got my heart attached. 1.00

00:42:55.280 And I'm steady by the sins.

00:42:57.220 Cause they helped me to relax.

00:42:59.440 Saying thanks don't help me, it just put me in a trance.

00:43:03.180 I was talking about you for real and not talking about a man.

00:43:06.960 Told her don't leave me cause I need you by my side.

00:43:10.440 As long as you don't leave me, then I'll probably be alright.

00:43:14.120 And that one time that you left me, I didn't get no sleep that night.

00:43:17.700 And that one time that you left me, I took two birds to get high.

00:43:21.700 Two birds to get high.

00:43:23.840 Pray that I don't die.

00:43:25.860 If I die, I'll see you in the sky.

00:43:29.280 Two pints of clay, clay.

00:43:31.200 Don't leave, just stay big.

00:43:33.040 Let's go on a vacation.

00:43:35.000 The world behind.

00:43:36.000 I mean, Lizzo's voice sounds better than usual.

00:43:39.180 I'll give her that.

00:43:41.020 That was too obvious.

00:43:41.980 That was not obvious.

00:43:43.320 You just knew.

00:43:44.000 You knew we were going to come out of that and I was going to make some Lizzo joke.

00:43:46.580 You just knew it, didn't you?

00:43:48.700 And I didn't fail you.

00:43:51.460 I didn't let you down.

00:43:52.220 Or I did, depending on how you look at it.

00:43:54.040 But I'm not going to make fun of it.

00:43:55.980 That's really not my point, to make fun of anybody.

00:43:59.560 I don't believe in making fun of people.

00:44:00.720 I don't believe in fat shaming.

00:44:03.120 And the truth is that, honestly, I want to look on the positive side of this and just say that as I watched that, I was actually really impressed.

00:44:13.040 I didn't expect to be impressed, but I was impressed with the performance of the couch.

00:44:18.920 That's the greatest.

00:44:20.600 That couch is incredible.

00:44:23.540 It's the greatest couch performance of all time.

00:44:28.700 That's like an industrial-grade couch.

00:44:31.820 I need to know what kind of couch that was. 0.98

00:44:34.540 Where did they get that couch?

00:44:37.220 That's just a good couch.

00:44:38.600 I mean, it's nice to have a couch like that in your house in case you ever, you know, in case a Buick ever comes over to visit.

00:44:48.340 In case the planet Jupiter ever comes to visit.

00:44:51.660 I'm not trying to be rude either, to be clear.

00:44:53.340 I'm not insulting the guy.

00:44:55.760 Actually, my point about the couch is unrelated to his weight.

00:44:58.700 I just want to be very clear about that, especially for any of the YouTube overlords.

00:45:02.940 That I'm not—two separate thoughts here.

00:45:05.380 There's the guy and then just the couch.

00:45:06.780 I think the couch is great.

00:45:08.520 And obviously he weighs less than Jupiter.

00:45:10.740 So, honestly, he probably weighs less than all the planets in the solar system.

00:45:18.340 Even the small ones.

00:45:20.020 So, I'll say that.

00:45:22.080 I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

00:45:24.060 Anyway, astronomy trivia aside, I cannot think of a one-minute clip that could better encapsulate our societal decline than what we just witnessed.

00:45:37.740 Everything about it.

00:45:40.040 Awful music being belted out by a morbidly obese rapper with an oxygen tank sitting on a couch on stage five minutes from going into cardiac arrest.

00:45:50.800 The whole thing.

00:45:52.640 That's modern culture right there in a nutshell.

00:45:55.180 If I ever went back in time to 1870 or something and somebody asked me what the future is like, I would show them this video.

00:46:05.380 I'd show them the video.

00:46:06.420 I'd say, yep, that's pretty much it.

00:46:07.840 That's—this is it.

00:46:10.640 This is what you have to look forward to.

00:46:12.100 Everything you're doing right now to build human civilization, all of the toil and striving and suffering and bleeding and dying, it's all to lead to this, just so you know.

00:46:25.000 And then I just watch all the hope drain out of their face.

00:46:27.880 And I get back in my time machine and say, well, see you later.

00:46:31.640 Nothing—no other explanation.

00:46:34.620 I would enjoy that.

00:46:36.220 You've seen those big wireless carrier commercials everywhere, right?

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00:48:37.320 A few years ago, a group of researchers and academics embarked on a bold experiment.

00:48:48.280 They wanted to answer the following question, quote,

00:48:50.600 Is it possible that people with no PhD in any field could write a paper in that field every two weeks and get it published?

00:48:57.540 In other words, they wanted to know whether they could write complete gibberish and still have it published in a prestigious peer-reviewed academic publication.

00:49:04.780 And what they found was that, indeed, it is quite possible.

00:49:08.640 In fact, it's very easy.

00:49:10.620 For example, the researchers wrote one published paper that explored the conundrum of why straight men like to eat at Hooters.

00:49:16.680 The paper delved into a fake two-year study concerning a thematic analysis of table dialogue at Hooters,

00:49:22.860 as well as the concept of breastraunt masculinity. 0.97

00:49:26.640 Yes, that's breastraunt masculinity. 1.00

00:49:28.900 They used that term about 10 times in the paper.

00:49:31.080 And apparently, every time, the editors loved it.

00:49:34.160 There was no red flag there.

00:49:36.780 Another Hooters paper discussed rape culture and queer performativity at dog parks in Portland.

00:49:45.620 And that one sailed past the editors as well.

00:49:48.600 But maybe the Hooters' most impressive work was their article entitled,

00:49:51.920 Our Struggle is My Struggle,

00:49:54.460 which lifted passages directly from Mein Kampf and placed them in a feminist journal of social work, totally undetected. 0.98

00:50:01.080 So the whole exercise was pretty entertaining.

00:50:03.660 And, of course, it proved its point, which is that peer-reviewed publications will publish anything

00:50:07.260 that sounds like something a left-wing intellectual would write.

00:50:11.580 And then the experiment ended, and the Hooters went about their normal lives.

00:50:17.620 Or at least that's kind of the official story.

00:50:20.040 A paper that was just published in the peer-reviewed journal Springer Nature, out of Germany,

00:50:25.460 has a lot of people questioning whether yet another hoax may be unfolding in the world of academia.

00:50:31.440 Now, to be clear, for reasons I'll outline in a moment, it doesn't look like a hoax.

00:50:36.580 But a lot of people are hoping it is because the alternative is just too depressing to contemplate.

00:50:42.600 A PhD named Colin Wright first drew attention to the paper the other day on social media.

00:50:47.040 The paper is entitled, Loving the Brine Shrimp, Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Post-Humanities to Reimagine the America's Dead Sea. 0.60

00:50:57.240 Now, the paper is written by somebody named Eulina Jarosz, who uses she-they pronouns, of course,

00:51:03.000 and holds the position of assistant professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Research at UCAN in Poland.

00:51:08.860 And here's what she-they came up with.

00:51:12.240 The paper's abstract states, quote,

00:51:13.960 The article aims to transform narratives surrounding Utah's Great Salt Lake, often referred to as America's Dead Sea,

00:51:20.220 by reimagining how brine shrimp are perceived in science, culture, and art.

00:51:25.040 It introduces the concept of hydrosexuality to bridge these realms,

00:51:29.520 thereby enriching feminist blue post-humanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy.

00:51:35.800 The hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections

00:51:40.420 between the reproductive systems of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology, and culture.

00:51:45.520 This cultural analysis draws inspiration from low-trophic theory and queer death studies. 0.98

00:51:53.260 Those are all words, I think.

00:51:56.240 The paper goes on to explain that hydrosexuality is a term that emphasizes the, quote,

00:52:01.100 more than human sensuality and sexuality, emphasizing fluidity and relationality,

00:52:06.500 and deploys watery thinking to dissolve the hegemonic notion of the autonomous and bounded human subject.

00:52:14.760 Now, at this point, you can see why people thought that the Hooters guys had struck again.

00:52:19.560 But then Colin Wright noticed that in this article,

00:52:21.840 the authors referenced something called a post-media environmental performance

00:52:25.760 that they had recently performed in the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

00:52:28.940 The performance was called Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp.

00:52:33.040 And the performance, according to the authors,

00:52:34.480 was intended to express their human love towards the vulnerable yet tough brine shrimp

00:52:39.380 by means of, quote, a communal bath in the GSL,

00:52:43.060 which some of us, including myself, perceived as making love to the lake.

00:52:48.240 By the way, that's a quote there.

00:52:49.740 So some of us, including myself, I wasn't saying myself sees it as making love.

00:52:53.060 It's reading a quote.

00:52:54.240 I just want to be clear.

00:52:54.660 So naturally, Colin Wright and his followers went looking for the footage.

00:52:58.820 And if they could find it, it might demonstrate that these authors weren't playing a prank.

00:53:02.340 Or if they were, they were really, really committed to the bit.

00:53:05.840 What Wright and his followers found appears to confirm that this paper is indeed real.

00:53:10.700 Now, to be clear, normally I wouldn't subject you to

00:53:13.100 extended footage of ecosexuals molesting the natural world. 1.00

00:53:17.180 But it's been about eight months since we last talked about ecosexuals

00:53:20.100 in the context of that show, Naked Attraction.

00:53:22.700 So we've had enough of a cooling off period, I think.

00:53:26.400 And if this footage is any indication,

00:53:28.600 things are deteriorating very quickly in that community, which is a surprise.

00:53:32.620 You know, they always seem like such a stable and high-functioning people,

00:53:35.900 but apparently not.

00:53:37.460 So here's how the cyber wedding to the brine shrimp begins.

00:53:40.480 You'll notice that the mystery science theater guys have been overlaid to the front of the footage

00:53:44.420 for comedic effect by one of Colin's followers.

00:53:47.720 But I really don't even think it needs that sort of assistance to be unintentionally funny.

00:53:53.100 Here it is. Watch.

00:53:54.640 We are gathered here today to celebrate the wedding of the brine shrimp,

00:53:59.480 Artemia Franciscana, to the ecosexuals. 1.00

00:54:03.880 We call upon the sparrowed jetty to witness our wedding to the brine shrimp.

00:54:14.420 I am the Spiral Jetty.

00:54:20.680 I've lived in this place since 1970,

00:54:24.300 witnessing the ongoing environmental change in the Great Salt Lake.

00:54:29.600 Over the past 50 years, my shape and status has been constantly transforming.

00:54:36.140 Some decades under the water, some above the water.

00:54:39.440 Now you can see my naked, basalt rocks vulnerable to the ongoing droughts and shrinking shoreline.

00:54:49.040 I'm dry, thirsty, and concerned about this unique ecosystem I'm a part of.

00:54:58.140 Hmm.

00:54:59.540 So, it begins normally enough. 0.81

00:55:01.600 The ecosexuals announced their intent to marry the brine shrimp. 1.00

00:55:05.380 Nothing strange about that. 0.92

00:55:06.600 We've all been there.

00:55:07.260 Who hasn't had a romantic dalliance with a crustacean?

00:55:10.280 Totally, totally normal stuff.

00:55:11.820 But then, out of nowhere, we hear the voice of the Spiral Jetty.

00:55:15.160 And that's apparently a piece of land art that was constructed in 1970 by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake.

00:55:21.320 And as you heard, the Spiral Jetty apparently felt the need to insert himself and his personal problems into this wedding.

00:55:27.200 He's apparently dry and exposed and thinks that's relevant to the wedding between these people and these brine shrimp. 0.98

00:55:32.280 It seems kind of rude, really, to be injecting yourself in this solemn ceremony.

00:55:38.380 So, he doesn't shut up.

00:55:39.380 He keeps going and going.

00:55:40.280 And eventually, he devolves into reciting land acknowledgments, of course.

00:55:44.280 Watch.

00:55:44.840 I am wishing you all the best on this ecosexual cyber-wedding to the brine shrimp. 0.98

00:55:53.340 I am happy to be a part of this next chapter.

00:55:57.240 Because in the 70s, when Robert Smithson put me here, the only things that mattered were my size, aesthetic shape, and his ambition to expand sculpture into this public land.

00:56:10.080 But this land has never...

00:56:12.480 All right.

00:56:13.340 Thanks.

00:56:14.260 Thanks, Spiral.

00:56:16.060 Now, nobody thinks about getting rid of this guy at any point.

00:56:18.160 That's what's really incredible about it.

00:56:19.440 Imagine you're getting married and out of nowhere, some effeminate voice pipes up and starts reciting a land acknowledgment.

00:56:24.980 Then tells you about how your wedding will benefit him, even if you're an intersectional feminist. 0.98

00:56:30.040 It's enough to make you root for global warming to accelerate a little bit and ruin the whole beach.

00:56:34.560 But eventually, the land art quiets down and they're allowed to recite the vows.

00:56:38.620 And then there's even more drama because somebody interrupts once again.

00:56:43.200 This is a theme of these ecosexual weddings, apparently. 0.95

00:56:46.860 None of these people can shut up.

00:56:49.040 There's a lot of talking that goes on.

00:56:52.140 Watch.

00:56:54.000 Penny and Beth, are you ready to make a vow to the brine shrimp?

00:56:59.340 Oh, yes, we are.

00:57:01.960 Justina and Evelina, are you ready to make vows to the brine shrimp?

00:57:08.620 Oh, yes, we do.

00:57:10.040 Yes, we do.

00:57:11.700 Does anyone here object to this wedding between us humans and the brine shrimp?

00:57:16.980 Speak now or forever hold your peace.

00:57:20.880 Human!

00:57:21.780 Human!

00:57:22.260 Human!

00:57:23.460 I carry with me a by-proxy objection from your art uncle, Newton Harrison.

00:57:29.800 And he says, but did you ask for consent from the brine shrimp?

00:57:40.100 Let's ask them.

00:57:41.600 Oh, Uncle Newton.

00:57:43.140 Let's ask them.

00:57:44.300 We will ask the brine shrimp.

00:57:46.560 Brine shrimp, brine shrimp.

00:57:48.440 Brine shrimp, brine shrimp.

00:57:48.880 Are you ready to marry us humans?

00:57:51.900 Do we have your consent to marry you?

00:57:54.780 Listen.

00:58:01.380 I hear yes.

00:58:03.060 I hear yes.

00:58:04.100 I don't hear no.

00:58:05.760 I hear that they want our love and they consent.

00:58:12.540 My sense is not all of them, but most of them.

00:58:16.580 Probably enough.

00:58:17.780 Probably good enough.

00:58:19.180 Imagine you go down to the beach with your family.

00:58:22.020 A nice beach day.

00:58:23.760 Down at the ocean.

00:58:26.680 And this is what you witness.

00:58:28.960 This is what you witness.

00:58:29.880 Overweight feminists. 1.00

00:58:35.900 Doing unspeakable things with the ocean life. 0.81

00:58:41.040 So they ask the shrimp for psychic consent. 0.98

00:58:43.780 And one of them says, I don't hear no.

00:58:46.860 My sense is not all of them, but most of them.

00:58:48.680 And apparently that's good enough for these people.

00:58:50.860 They subscribe to the Harvey Weinstein School of Ethics over there in Poland's ecosexual community, I suppose. 0.99

00:58:56.040 So the marriage takes place, although there's a caveat.

00:58:59.280 As the paper puts it, quote, to avoid potential harm to living critters, vows were made to the brine shrimp's exponentially enlarged augmented reality image, which popped up at the lake's shore above the humans' heads.

00:59:11.140 And they consummated the marriage by walking into the water with their hands in the air.

00:59:14.520 I'll spare you having to witness the consummation of the marriage, but that did happen.

00:59:17.820 We're not going to play that.

00:59:19.520 Now, at this point, I have to come clean.

00:59:22.460 I have to admit that I don't have much of a grand overarching point to make about the wonders of feminist blue post-humanities and hydro-sexuality.

00:59:30.620 These people are so far gone that you legitimately can't tell if they're mocking the very concept of humanities, if this is all one great satire.

00:59:37.900 But I will say this, that we have clearly reached the logical end point of wokeness.

00:59:44.100 Not in this particular moment, but we have reached it in general in Western society.

00:59:48.760 Every slippery slope argument conservatives made for the past 50 years has been vindicated, every single one.

00:59:56.840 And as we've seen it time and time again, the only mistake that conservatives made with the slippery slope was they were not, they, if there was any, if there was, if they missed anything, it was just a lack of imagination.

01:00:08.040 It was just not being able to conceive of just how demented things would actually get.

01:00:14.420 But the general gist has been vindicated over and over again.

01:00:19.420 When you have feminists marrying the brine shrimp while a talking sculpture recites land acknowledgements in the background, it's abundantly clear that wokeness has jumped the shark or married the shrimp, as the case may be. 0.99

01:00:30.440 This is the end point, but I would not say it's the bottom.

01:00:35.700 There's no bottom.

01:00:36.860 The slippery slope slides down to what would be the bottom, but then the bottom gives way to a vacuous, eternal abyss.

01:00:46.560 And that's the point that wokeness has reached.

01:00:50.040 And that is why the hoaxers have become indistinguishable from the serious credentialed feminist, eco-sexual professors. 0.99

01:00:58.420 And that is why eco-sexuals, peer-reviewed publications, and feminist academics of all types, especially those who marry shrimp, are all today canceled. 1.00

01:01:10.180 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:11.040 Thanks for watching.

01:01:11.600 Thanks for listening.

01:01:12.200 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:14.500 Have a great day.

01:01:15.060 Godspeed.

01:01:20.040 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 03, 2024

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