Ep. 1504 - Is This the Final Deathblow to DEI？
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A court just struck down the NASDAQ s diversity policies, which is the year that killed DEI. Also, Nancy Mace gets physically assaulted by an LGBT activist, a Democratic congresswoman essentially admits that the mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, and leftists are mad at the new season of Squid Game because a male actor was hired to play a trans woman. But that s what a quote-unquote "trans woman" is, so what's the problem? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a court just struck down the NASDAQ's DEI policies.
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2024 is the year that killed DEI. This is a fitting way to end it. Also, Nancy Mace gets
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physically assaulted by an LGBT activist. A Democratic congresswoman essentially admits
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that the mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. And leftists are mad at
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the new season of Squid Game because a male actor was hired to play a quote-unquote trans woman.
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But that's what a quote-unquote trans woman is, so what's the problem? We'll talk about all that
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New York Stock Exchange today, and as far as ceremonial events in the lead-up to the inauguration,
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Exchange Commission, which lately has become proficient at hassling Elon Musk over his political
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opinions. But the New York Stock Exchange isn't the only stock exchange where conservatives are
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taking a well-deserved victory lap today. Over at the NASDAQ, where the nation's biggest technology
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companies are traded, yet another crushing blow was just dealt to so-called diversity, equity,
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and inclusion practices, or DEI. This has been a year full of setbacks for the entire DEI industry,
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which I'll recap in just a second. But what just happened at the NASDAQ deserves some explanation
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because most people aren't aware of what happened, even though it's one of the most significant
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developments in the financial industry in recent years. So let's start at the beginning of the
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timeline. After George Floyd's fatal overdose, the leaders of the NASDAQ decided that they needed to
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take decisive action. They believe that if only the NASDAQ had different rules and regulations,
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George Floyd never would have spent his entire life committing violent felonies, robbing stores,
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resisting arrest. George Floyd may have become a wealthy stockbroker, if not for the lack of
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DEI in the financial industry. So to that end, the CEO of NASDAQ went on CNBC and began promoting the
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idea of mandatory DEI disclosure rules for every company that was listed on the exchange. If companies
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didn't comply with these rules, they would be delisted entirely and their company would probably
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collapse. So what do these DEI disclosure rules entail? Well, here's the CEO of NASDAQ with the
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explanation. This is from late 2020. So just a few months into the George Floyd hysteria. This is
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what you said. Watch. Where they're an investor. And so we focused on disclosure as a foundation
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for our proposal. So the first thing is we're asking every company to disclose the composition of their
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board based on self-identifying, each of the board members self-identifying their diversity,
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and then putting together a standardized table so investors can make and understand it easily and
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can compare companies across the spectrum of NASDAQ with the companies, at least. And then the second
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thing is that we establish standards that we are asking companies to meet, which is to have at least
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one woman and at least one person of either an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ on their board. But if they
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don't meet that standard, we are not asking them, we're not going to require that they get delisted,
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but rather that they are required to disclose why they are not meeting the standard. So it's really
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allowing, again, investors to have a full set of information to make an informed investment
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decision. But that standard is not subject to delisting. The disclosure standard, though, would be.
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So the idea is that every company has listed on the NASDAQ, which amounts to several thousand
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companies, including Apple, Google, Amazon, so on, has to publish a DEI report every year. And this report
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requires one of two things. The first option is for companies to state in their report that they have
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two members on their board of directors from an underrepresented group, quote unquote, including at least
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one female. And in addition to the female, one person who, quote, identifies as black, Hispanic, Asian,
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Native American, Alaskan native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, biracial, or LGBTQ+.
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Alternatively, companies have the option of explaining in the reports why they didn't meet
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the requirement. They have to publicly provide an explanation as to why they didn't meet NASDAQ's
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quota, which of course is intended to subject these companies to accusations of racism and bigotry
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and all the rest of it. So this is coercion, obviously. It's also unconstitutional and extremely
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comically arbitrary. For some reason, NASDAQ demands that companies have a female on the board,
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although they can't define the word, obviously. That's a must-have. And if you don't have a
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female on the board, then you can't pass. You can't pass go. You can't collect your $200.
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But at the same time, NASDAQ isn't insistent on having, say, a gay man on the board. That's not
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very important to them. If you have a Pacific Islander, that's good enough. So that basically
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counts as a gay guy in NASDAQ's eyes. All of the ethnic minority groups are interchangeable,
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along with LGBT. Just put them in one basket, pick one at random, and you're fine. Go grab an
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Alaskan native from the bargain bin. If you can't find one, see if there are a couple of
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Native Americans on the clearance rack. I mean, that seems to be the attitude.
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Now, later on in the same interview, the NASDAQ CEO decides to drop the pretense that this rule
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is about disclosure. She all but admits that the point is to strong-arm companies into making
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diversity hires. Watch. And I think it's been an issue over the last decade to try to understand
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how can we bring more diversity onto boards. There's a huge body of evidence to show that
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there's a lot of benefits in terms of financial performance and control environment when you have
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a more diverse board. So I think that the research is helpful to understand why this is something where
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we think it'll give investors more confidence. And therefore, as an exchange, we should play a role
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So she repeats the debunked McKinsey study about how diversity supposedly makes companies more money,
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which is a complete fraud. We've talked about it before. McKinsey never found that DEI makes
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companies more money. They actually found that companies with a lot of money tend to practice
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DEI, which just proves that when companies have a lot of excess money lying around, they tend to waste it.
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So saying that DEI makes companies money because successful companies have DEI is like saying
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that owning a Ferrari makes you money because people with lots of money own Ferraris.
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But the important part of that clip is how the Nasdaq CEO admits that there's been more than a
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decade of thinking about, quote, how can we bring more diversity on boards? That's their intent.
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And they finally decide on this course of action. They're going to publicly shame companies that try to
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select board members on the basis of merit instead of race and gender and sexual orientation.
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And the rule went into effect shortly after that interview. And it's been in effect for some time
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now, ever since then. But yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in New
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Orleans, finally put an end to this insanity. They ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission
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didn't have the legal authority to approve this DEI policy. And it's quite a takedown to the point that
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it's worth going through some of it. So here's one section of the majority opinion, for example,
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What is the public interest here? Nasdaq claimed there is an established link between the racial,
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gender, and LGBTQ plus identities of a company's board and the quality of a company's financial
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reporting, internal controls, public disclosure, and management oversight. But Nasdaq offered little
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support for its assertion that there is an empirically established or even logical link between the
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racial, gender, and sexual composition of a company's board and the quality of its governance.
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In other words, the court did what no one in corporate media did for the past five years.
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They actually looked at the studies that supposedly show that DEI helps companies improve their
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performance. And they found that there's no evidence at all, of course. This is something
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that activists in the federal government simply asserted out of thin air and accused you of being
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racist if you disagreed. That tactic used to work, doesn't work anymore. And there are other reasons
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the court struck down this rule as well. One of them is that the SEC is supposed to regulate things
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like market manipulation and proxy voting. They're not supposed to be involved in forcing DEI mandates
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and social engineering down everybody's throat. So they're wildly overstepping their authority,
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especially since states, not the federal government, are supposed to have the primary authority
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to regulate corporations. Now, the only surprising part of this ruling is that it took so long.
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Initially, when the Fifth Circuit heard this case, they upheld the DEI rule, probably because all three
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judges on the panel were appointed by Democrat presidents. But two conservative groups, the National
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Center for Public Policy Research and the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment, appealed to a full panel of
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the Fifth Circuit, which ultimately overturned the rule. This is, among other things, a devastating blow to the
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DEI agenda. It's a rejection of the federal government's efforts to force some of the most powerful
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companies on the planet to practice DEI. It also creates a lot of problems for so-called ESG
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investing, where major investment firms direct money to companies that practice DEI. These activists
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recognize that financial incentives are some of the most potent tools they have in order to force compliance
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with their agenda. And now they're losing control over those incentives. And this is just one of the
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major court victories in the past week concerning DEI. Separately, federal judge Reed O'Connor in Texas
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just struck down Boeing's proposed plea deal with the Biden administration concerning the crashes of
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those 737 MAX jets a few years ago. The Biden DOJ and Boeing came to an agreement that would allow Boeing to
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avoid a federal criminal trial for its negligence. And part of that deal involves the appointment of a
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federal monitor to oversee Boeing, since they appear to struggle with, you know, designing planes that
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don't try to deliberately crash themselves. But the plea deal had a major problem, which the DOJ and
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Boeing tried to slip past the judge. It requires that the monitor be selected on the basis of DEI.
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And the judge threw out the plea deal as a result. He's not going to tolerate DEI being used when
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people's lives are at stake, which in this situation they clearly are. Watch. It's been five months since
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Boeing pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the federal government after allegedly violating an
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agreement related to the two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people. In that plea agreement, Boeing admitted
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to deceiving the FAA over a critical software system, which led to incomplete pilot training. Now,
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U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor has rejected that deal, meaning Boeing can be prosecuted.
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Judge O'Connor provided two reasons for rejecting this deal, and both have to do with Boeing's oversight
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or its independent monitor. Judge O'Connor took issue with Boeing's diversity and inclusion policies,
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saying the monitor selection should be done solely on competency. He also said that the courts need to be
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involved in this oversight. We talked about this case a few weeks ago. It looked like Judge O'Connor
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was going to toss the plea deal. He grilled lawyers for Boeing and the Biden administration about the
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provision that the independent monitor should be selected, quote, in keeping with the department's
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commitment to diversity and inclusion. Specifically, the judge wanted to know whether the government had
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excluded any candidates based on race or gender, and the lawyers provided inconsistent responses because
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they didn't want to admit that the answer was obviously yes. That's what DEI is. That's the
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whole point of it. So here's what O'Connor wrote in his ruling last week, quote,
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In a case of this magnitude, it is in the utmost interest of justice that the public is confident
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this monitor selection is done based solely on competency. The party's DEI efforts only serve to
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undermine this confidence in the government and Boeing's ethics and anti-fraud efforts.
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So once again, this is a major blow for DEI activists in both the federal government and
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in government contractors. Unless they want future programs and plea deals to be held up in court,
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they're now on notice that they should get rid of DEI entirely. And already it's pretty obvious that
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Boeing understands that. They've recently announced that they're scrapping their DEI department entirely.
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They're under new leadership now, and the new CEO has decided, in no uncertain terms,
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that the whole concept of DEI has been a disaster for the company. In this case,
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Boeing's announcement came after the filmmaker, Robbie Starbuck, reached out to the company
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vowing to wage a war against their DEI policy. Starbuck has already pushed multiple major
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corporations, Jack Daniels, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Walmart, Ford, and others to gut or
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eliminate their DEI programs. And apparently Boeing didn't want their own public shaming, so they did the
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right thing begrudgingly. But there's another important reason why Boeing and other companies
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are getting rid of DEI as well. Republicans in Congress are currently advancing the Dismantle
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DEI Act, which will eliminate DEI in the federal government. But also crucially, the bill would
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also ban the federal government from hiring any contractors that practice DEI. In other words,
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these companies stand to lose billions of dollars if they keep discriminating on the basis of race.
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For companies like Boeing, which make nearly half of their money from the government,
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that would be devastating. It would destroy the company. So they're getting rid of the nonsense.
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In other words, Republicans in Congress, for the first time in a while, are generating
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positive and noticeable social change by actually using the power that they have at their disposal.
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And Democrats, for their part, can only screech and howl in response. I covered some of their
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reactions to the bill recently. They're losing. They know they're losing. They know they have no
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argument. And that's been the story of DEI in general this year, from states and universities
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dismantling their DEI program, to the success of my film Am I Racist, to the crushing defeat of Kamala
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Harris, the ultimate DEI candidate. It's very clear the DEI is on its way out. The ideology that was so
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dominant just a few years ago has now been thoroughly exposed, humiliated, laughed out of court.
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Just like BLM and hateful, fraudulent, anti-white narratives, DEI has rapidly become irrelevant.
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Report for the Daily Wire. An Illinois man allegedly attacked South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace
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on the United States Capitol grounds on Tuesday over her views on trans-identifying men in women's
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spaces, according to Nancy Mace. She said in a post on X, I was physically accosted tonight
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on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him. All
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the violence and threats keep proving our point. Women deserve to be safe. Your threats will not
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stop my fight for women. That's what Nancy Mace said. And the alleged assailant, 33 years old,
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James McIntyre is his name. He faces charges of assaulting a government official. So he was arrested.
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So this is not one of those, you know, hoaxes where we're told something happened and we don't know
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who did it. We don't know, you know, this, the person was actually arrested. And Nancy Mace,
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this was an LGBT activist. And by the way, Andy Ngo has obtained some photos of the alleged assailant.
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Again, his name is James McIntyre. We have one of those photos. Let's put that up on the screen.
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So this is the guy. And Andy Ngo says, James McIntyre, the leftist queer activist,
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staffer accused of assaulting Congresswoman Nancy Mace for her views critical of trans ideology was
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released from federal custody in the Capitol yesterday. He flew home to Chicago. His next
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court date is on January 27th of this coming year. Then you see him there. He's a big guy,
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very big guy, huge, overweight. Now Andy Ngo reports that this guy grabbed Nancy Mace by the arm,
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allegedly, and tightened his grip and I guess shook her around by the arm.
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And if that is what happened, then yes, that is assaulting a government official. That is a federal
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crime. And Trump's DOJ, because, you know, federal crime. So Trump's DOJ, when they get in there,
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they should absolutely throw the book at this guy. I mean, years in federal prison is what he should be
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looking at. That's what we know would happen in the reverse. We all know that. I mean, if I went to
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Capitol Hill and angrily grabbed, you know, AOC by the arm or something, I'd be screwed. I would just
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be finished. Federal prison, no question, no doubt about it. Now, of course, I would never do that
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because I don't assault women. LGBT activists, on the other hand, do. These are very violent people.
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They are the most violent activists in the country, even worse than BLM, and they always have been.
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And the reason why is that LGBT activists, trans activists in particular, feel morally entitled
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is an existential threat to their very existence. That's what they've convinced themselves.
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It's delusional, obviously. It's not true. Makes no sense. Nancy Mace, by keeping men out of the
00:23:16.080
women's room in the Capitol, is obviously not causing physical harm to anyone. She's not even
00:23:22.120
inconveniencing any of these people. None of them work in the Capitol, so it doesn't even affect them.
00:23:28.320
But yet they see her as a mortal threat because anyone who does not affirm them, who does not
00:23:37.980
agree with them, does not give them everything they want, is a mortal threat. So they are entitled to
00:23:43.540
do whatever they want to that person and are totally morally justified in doing so. That's the way they
00:23:50.000
see it, and that's what makes them potentially so dangerous. All right, moving on to this. You know,
00:23:56.500
Jasmine Crockett is one of my favorite members of Congress. She's great because she's easily the
00:24:03.140
dumbest person to ever walk through the halls of Congress, which is really saying something,
00:24:06.880
but I think it's true. I don't even mean it as a joke. She really is the dumbest. She's extremely,
00:24:10.540
extremely dumb. And on that note, here she is in an interview with, I think, NBC, saying something that
00:24:20.240
she doesn't realize she isn't supposed to say out loud. Listen.
00:24:26.000
Why do you think Democrats lost and what do you think needs to happen by the midterms in the next
00:24:33.380
presidential election in order to find your footing again? Well, Kristen, no disrespect to you. I think
00:24:40.180
you do great work, but the reality is that those that tune in to our traditional news sources,
00:24:45.740
they absolutely went for us. And we know that the standards that you have to live by as an actual
00:24:51.520
journalist are completely different from other platforms. And so we know that we were winning
00:24:57.220
for those that were tuning into the traditional news sources. But when it came down to people
00:25:01.420
getting their news from places that really aren't even news sources, they were going for Donald Trump
00:25:05.260
by 19 points. And that is exactly why we lost. The reality is that we're going to have to play
00:25:10.040
in spaces that we've never had to play and make sure that we're communicating in all ways.
00:25:14.620
Unfortunately, we can't just rely on the mainstream media to get our message across.
00:25:21.820
Unfortunately, we can't just rely on the mainstream media. Amazing. I mean, it's not amazing. Of course,
00:25:28.360
we all know that what she just said there is exactly correct. Democrats have relied on the
00:25:34.340
mainstream media to be their messaging apparatus, their PR and marketing firm. And they still rely on
00:25:40.200
that. But the problem is that nobody cares about the mainstream media anymore. They've
00:25:44.600
very little influence. And all that is true. What makes it funny is that Jasmine is just saying
00:25:51.920
this out loud. I mean, you're not supposed to admit that the mainstream media are Democrat propagandists.
00:25:59.340
Did you forget you were on camera? Did you think this was some sort of personal Zoom call or something?
00:26:02.960
Yes, you guys need to get together and figure out what to do now that your propaganda arm has become
00:26:12.900
irrelevant. You probably don't want to talk about it on national television, but don't let me stop you.
00:26:19.400
Maybe you want to have this conversation in front of all of us. I think it's great.
00:26:21.920
But it is certainly true that this is the problem for the Democrats. One of their many problems for
00:26:34.220
Kamala Harris is that they just sort of assume that the rules of the game would be the same as they've
00:26:39.500
been now for decades. And they relied on the mainstream media to do most of their campaigning for
00:26:46.120
them. That has worked in the past, but it only works if people actually watch the mainstream media
00:26:51.420
and care what they say. All right. I hadn't really planned to discuss this, but I do want to mention
00:26:56.980
it. Lily Phillips is a woman who recently went viral for the wrong reason, for one of the worst
00:27:05.880
possible reasons. A person could go viral. She is, I guess, an OnlyFans, what they would call an
00:27:13.700
OnlyFans model, but really an OnlyFans prostitute. And she decided to have sex with a hundred men
00:27:19.440
in one night. Okay. One hundred men in one night. And it was filmed, of course, and I guess made
00:27:26.060
available on her OnlyFans page. Now, there are a bunch of videos now circulating of Lily Phillips
00:27:34.220
after the fact, talking about the experience of having sex with a hundred men. And in the videos,
00:27:43.700
I don't have any of them to play right now, but you can find them on X and all that.
00:27:48.720
In the videos, she looks like someone who just had sex with a hundred men. Okay. She looks terrible.
00:27:54.840
She looks gross and sad and depressed and in pain and used up just exactly how you would imagine
00:28:03.240
somebody might look after an experience like that. And she's talking about it and she's saying that it
00:28:07.200
was a pretty horrible experience. What do you know? It wasn't very enjoyable. And yet, by the way,
00:28:12.780
she's planning to do it again. Okay. And in fact, her next goal is to have sex with a thousand guys
00:28:19.220
in a day, which just physically in terms of the time constraints, I don't even know how that is like,
00:28:26.540
that would seem to defy the laws of physics, but that's her plan. So she's not stopping. She's going
00:28:32.520
to continue doing it. And there's been a lot of discussion about this. And much of the discussion
00:28:38.800
has been really on, on, on both sides of the political divide. Much of the discussion has
00:28:45.760
been extremely sympathetic to Lily Phillips as if she's the victim of this thing that she did
00:28:54.580
and plans to do again. Not only that, but much of the commentary on social media and in the media
00:28:59.700
blames the men who participated in this more than Lily, Lily Phillips herself. They're the villains
00:29:07.680
here is what we're being told. So for example, just one example of many, uh, here's the spectator.
00:29:12.680
Here's an article that they just published headline, shame on the men exploiting Lily Phillips,
00:29:19.340
not shame on Lily Phillips, shame on the men. So there's been a lot of that. And
00:29:28.040
this is the way it goes now. Feminists demand that we celebrate a woman's sexual freedom.
00:29:35.360
But then when a woman makes a really bad choice with her sexual freedom,
00:29:39.140
suddenly she's a damsel in distress and it's everyone's fault, but her own. That's the game.
00:29:45.260
You know, it's always been the game with feminists. They want freedom without accountability.
00:29:49.340
That has always been the problem. Again, one problem of many, but there's always been one
00:29:54.120
of the central problems with feminism from the beginning is you want all the freedom,
00:29:59.460
all the joy, you want all that empowered, everything. The accountability part is the part
00:30:06.160
where it always breaks down. You will not accept accountability and you, it doesn't work that way.
00:30:11.240
You cannot have one, but not the other. Okay. Responsibility is a, is a, a dimension of freedom.
00:30:21.140
You can't, you can't sever them. It's like saying, you know, it's like if you, um, have a quarter in
00:30:27.980
your pocket and you say that it's your quarter, you own it, but you own just the head side, not the
00:30:35.700
tails. Oh, the tail side of the quarter is not yours. Just that you can't have it. It's, you
00:30:41.660
cannot have one side of the coin, but not the other. You just can't. So it's nonsense. And, and, um,
00:30:49.440
now I've heard that, well, Lily is harming herself. This is a self-destructive thing that
00:30:55.500
she's doing. It's self-harm. And, uh, and, um, it's no different from if she was, uh, you know,
00:31:03.580
cutting herself, mutilating herself and so on. It's like that. And so she's a victim. Well,
00:31:08.360
now you're right. It is harmful. It is self-destructive. It is, it is in many ways,
00:31:13.800
sort of self-mutilating. Yes. But the men are also harming themselves. Having sex with a woman,
00:31:22.800
when you are, you know, number 62 in line out of a hundred or whatever, uh, that's a lot of things
00:31:29.860
that is disgusting. That is revolting. That is nauseating. That is awful. That is demeaning.
00:31:34.520
That is, um, emasculating. That is all the bad things. It's also harmful, harmful to the men.
00:31:42.940
They are putting themselves at severe risk, severe, you know, for physical reasons, big one being the
00:31:51.480
diseases that you are subjecting yourself to almost certainly also harming yourself mentally and
00:31:58.220
emotionally. So if she is a victim, why aren't they? In fact, if she's being exploited, why aren't
00:32:11.180
they being exploited? She's the one profiting. She's the one selling the video. These men are just
00:32:17.920
marks. They're, they're, they're, they're pawns. You know, um, you could say, oh, well, no healthy
00:32:24.100
woman with her, with a right mind would, would, would do something like this. So she's a victim.
00:32:28.140
No healthy man in his right mind would be, be a part of this. I mean, if to volunteer to be a part
00:32:34.900
of this is, uh, on either side means that there's something really wrong with you.
00:32:40.360
And yet it only goes one way. The accountability only goes one way. It only ever goes one way.
00:32:49.820
It's like when a man has sex with a drunk woman and is accused of rape. Drunk sex is non-consensual
00:32:55.720
sex is, you know, they say, except that he was also drunk. So if he raped her, then didn't she rape him?
00:33:04.480
Aren't they raping each other by that logic? If they're both drunk, if they're both inebriated,
00:33:10.180
didn't she take advantage of him also? But you never hear that ever. You never, ever hear that.
00:33:17.180
You never hear of a woman getting accused of much less charged with rape for having sex with a drunk
00:33:23.980
man. Never hear it. It only goes one way. Accountability only goes one way ever on this sort of thing.
00:33:31.220
Now, the only way, this is the important point. Okay. Cause we can, we can lament the double
00:33:38.940
standards. I mean, the double standards are very obvious here. You can't, I mean, it's like in
00:33:43.780
smacked in the face with a two by four and like the account, that's how obvious it is. You can't miss
00:33:49.440
it. But let me, let me try to make sense of it. The only way to make sense of this double standard,
00:33:55.440
um, where two people, man and woman can willfully engage in a certain act and act that in this case
00:34:03.960
with Lily Phillips, not only are they will, she will be engaged. She is initiating it, inviting the
00:34:10.280
men, advertising it, selling it, making money on it. The only way to look at that and say,
00:34:19.260
oh, the man is exploiting her, not the other way around. The only way to do it is to say
00:34:25.680
that the man is the leader, that the man is in charge, that the man is basically the captain of
00:34:34.200
the ship. And so he gets the blame when the ship goes down, even if a dozen other people are also
00:34:40.000
to blame. Even if in fact, the captain didn't screw up, even if the captain did everything right,
00:34:45.060
still he gets the blame. And in the old days he goes down with the ship, even if it wasn't his
00:34:53.540
fault. Right. Right. The Titanic hits the iceberg. The captain was asleep. He had somebody else in
00:34:59.640
charge of that. It's not his fault. He's got to go down with the ship. That's the burden of leadership.
00:35:06.720
You know, the burden of leadership is responsibility and you, you got it. Buck stops with me,
00:35:11.740
right. You got to take blame for stuff that you didn't do. So the only way to look at Lily Phillips
00:35:17.380
and condemn the men and not her is to say that the men are supposed to be leaders and the leaders take
00:35:25.580
the blame. That's the only way, which means you have to abandon feminism entirely. You cannot be a
00:35:35.580
feminist and say that Lily Phillips is being exploited. You can't. The only way to say it
00:35:42.200
is to say that the men are more responsible because they're supposed to be leaders.
00:35:46.960
So any, any person, any feminist who looks at this as, oh, well, she's the victim.
00:35:51.220
You have abandoned feminism. It's done. You're, you're out. You are out.
00:35:54.000
But what you are saying, you, this is, this is a, as dramatic a statement as you possibly make,
00:36:00.520
reinforcing the most traditionalist idea of so-called gender norms imaginable. Okay.
00:36:06.840
You are saying the men are in charge. The men are leaders. They should know better.
00:36:18.500
most of the people involved in, in this discourse are, are not willing to admit that
00:36:27.580
because they want to have it both ways. Always. They want to have the cake and eat it too.
00:36:35.760
But even then, like, let's say, you know, cause there are, like I said, there are some people on
00:36:40.080
the right who are also, you know, looking at this and say, oh, she's a victim of a poor woman.
00:36:43.400
Um, and many of them, I'm sure listening to this and they'll say, yeah, you know what?
00:36:48.200
I do think men are leaders. I'm not ashamed of that. And so, yeah, I blame them. Okay.
00:36:54.620
And I'll just say those people are the only ones I can even take seriously in this conversation.
00:36:57.960
I can't, the feminists, I can't take you seriously because your whole, it doesn't make any sense.
00:37:04.640
It's completely incoherent. One minute you want to get rid of the gender norms. Women,
00:37:09.520
men and women are the same. Men are not leaders. Women are, you know,
00:37:12.520
women are the boss babes. They're in charge. In fact, women are more competent, smarter.
00:37:16.860
And then the next minute, oh, she's a damsel. That doesn't make any sense. You're not serious.
00:37:20.480
You're not serious people. I can't listen to you. The only people I can even take seriously in a
00:37:24.680
conversation like this are the very traditionalist conservatives. Um, at least then you have a case
00:37:32.020
because you're being consistent and you, you always say, yeah, I think, you know, men should be
00:37:35.540
leaders in, uh, society. They should be leaders in the home. They should be leaders in, uh, relationships.
00:37:43.260
And okay. But even in that case, even in that case, you still cannot entirely absolve the woman.
00:37:51.220
Like she has no free will. Like she has no agency. Because when you do that, now you are
00:37:58.680
going, now, now you're drifting past just sort of a traditional notion of, of gender norms.
00:38:06.700
You're drifting past that and you're drifting into demonization of men and the, the total
00:38:13.760
infantilization of women. You're treating men, women like infants or robots who have no free will
00:38:22.980
and no ability to make any decisions for themselves. And you're treating men, you know, you're, you're,
00:38:27.900
you're, uh, uh, unduly demonizing men in that case. If, if you are basically totally absolving
00:38:35.180
the women, like when you can't blame them at all, you, you cannot condemn their behavior at all,
00:38:39.220
which is some of what I'm hearing. Um, because in, in reality, okay, Lily Phillips, uh,
00:38:53.400
is an adult person making a choice. And yes, we should condemn her behavior.
00:39:04.120
It's, it's disgusting, terrible behavior. And yes, it is also exploitation on her part too.
00:39:13.880
She is also exploiting these men in a very real sense, just having them line up so that she can
00:39:19.460
make this disgusting video. Uh, so my take on it is I condemn the behavior of everybody involved.
00:39:27.380
Okay. That's, that's, I, that's my very simple way of looking at this. I condemn the behavior
00:39:32.220
of everybody involved. Like, I don't think there are any victims here. Everybody is choosing to be
00:39:38.020
a part of this. It's disgusting and we need to, it's disgusting, evil behavior by everybody.
00:39:44.880
And we should condemn it in no uncertain terms. It is shameful, gross, and we should just condemn
00:39:51.480
the behavior of everybody involved. Nobody's being forced into it. Everybody does have free will.
00:39:57.440
Um, and that's it. All right. One other thing, you know, we, we talked about DEI is, is, is
00:40:07.860
collapsing. Uh, and along with it, the tied to it, wokeness in general is collapsing. We know that,
00:40:14.580
but it's not dead yet. And there are some corporations that are clinging to it and will
00:40:18.960
cling to it for as long as they can. So here, for example, is a new Christmas ad from Google. Watch.
00:40:25.600
It's so dry. This winter dryness is not it, especially when I have so many holiday looks
00:40:34.080
to pull off. Thankfully, I know just the thing. And it's in stock nearby. Hydrated skin is a gift
00:40:43.360
to everyone. No wrapping needed. Happy holidays to me.
00:40:47.480
So, um, that's obviously a man, uh, as you no doubt noticed, um, just an absurd ad. The same
00:40:57.980
question you always have with this stuff, you know, applies, which is, uh, who is this supposed
00:41:01.760
to be for? Who is this supposed to appeal to? The product that's being advertised is for women.
00:41:08.020
I imagine women make up like 98% of its customers, if not more. That's who the product is for. But
00:41:14.320
who is the ad for? If you want to appeal to the people who actually buy the product, why not have
00:41:19.560
a woman do the ad? You know, why go with an over the top flamboyant gay man in women's clothes?
00:41:26.240
Sure. Flamboyant gay men also may use the product, but how many of them are there in comparison to
00:41:31.100
women in your customer base? So it's just a ridiculous marketing choice. But you know,
00:41:35.460
we know that the ad isn't really meant to be an ad for a product. It's an, it's a, it's a, uh,
00:41:40.700
it's a signal. It's a virtue signal. Google is advertising its own wokeness, which itself
00:41:45.780
makes little sense at this point, given that wokeness is on life support.
00:41:52.860
Um, I will say though, that the, you know, the silver lining, the one silver lining with an ad like
00:41:58.460
this, you know, it's seen, we've seen plenty of them is that it only proves yet again that
00:42:04.380
a simple concept that shouldn't need to be proved, but it does prove that womanly things are for
00:42:12.620
women. You know, the left has claimed of course, that the gender is a social construct and really
00:42:18.300
there's no such thing as women's clothes or men's clothes. Um, that, that, you know, society just sort
00:42:24.080
of arbitrarily decided that certain clothes are for women, but it could have gone the other way.
00:42:28.540
That's the way they look at it. Um, but then you see a man in women's clothes in a, in an ad like
00:42:36.800
this. And just from a purely aesthetic perspective, it's very painfully obvious that, that this is not
00:42:44.560
just arbitrary. Men look ridiculous in women's clothes. You know, women's clothes are actually
00:42:49.720
for women. They're actually made for women. Only women look good in women's clothes. This is not
00:42:55.940
arbitrary. It really isn't subjective. Actually. It just, it, it's, when you see this, it's, it's
00:43:02.060
incongruent. It just doesn't, it looks out of place and not because we've been conditioned by
00:43:06.880
society or whatever. It just doesn't, it doesn't make sense. And we all know that we can all see it.
00:43:14.200
Um, and as I said, most of us don't need that proven, but when you see it, it does, it does prove
00:43:20.980
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If you never watched the show Squid Game, it was a runaway success for Netflix a few years ago.
00:44:41.440
The basic idea was that 456 people with desperate financial problems are invited to a contest at an
00:44:46.540
undisclosed location where they all participate in a bunch of children's games like Red Light,
00:44:50.700
Green Lights, and similar games. The winner gets $40 million. But then when you get there,
00:44:56.800
there's a catch. You realize that if you don't win the game, you get murdered, you know, which is a
00:45:01.720
bit of a, it's why you want to look at the fine print on these game shows. Now the show's
00:45:06.740
popularity didn't really come down to its plot or any kind of deeper meaning.
00:45:09.640
There wasn't much to it. I mean, you could spin it as a metaphor against capitalism just as easily
00:45:13.780
as you could spin it as a metaphor against communism. It was basically just well-executed
00:45:17.360
torture porn. And you had to enjoy watching these characters fight for their lives in these bizarre,
00:45:21.860
occasionally creative death traps, kind of like the Saw films with a little more variety.
00:45:26.600
And apparently, you know, a lot of people did get some mileage out of that conceit.
00:45:30.220
It's now very obvious, though, that a lot of fans will not be enjoying Squid Game Season 2,
00:45:35.080
the obligatory follow-up that will be released the day after Christmas. This is the season that
00:45:41.640
will jump the shark for a lot of people on all sides of the political spectrum. We know that
00:45:45.520
because Netflix has now revealed the characters for the second Squid Game. And one of these characters
00:45:50.200
is a male former Special Forces soldier who identifies as trans and who is competing in this game to raise
00:45:57.260
money for sex change surgery. Now, before I go any further, it's important to establish right off the
00:46:02.580
bat that Netflix does indeed appear to be serious about this. The creators of this show and
00:46:07.020
the actor who plays the male character genuinely seem to believe that this is a brave, intelligent
00:46:12.600
casting decision. So here's part of the video where the actor introduces this new character.
00:46:19.040
Obviously, he's not speaking English. So for the benefit of the podcast listeners,
00:46:22.900
we'll just play a really quick clip of it. But just so you have the visual, here it is.
00:46:26.920
Now, in case you couldn't see the subtitles, he says that the character is a
00:46:56.900
this character is a former Special Forces soldier and transgender woman who joins the Squid Game
00:47:01.720
because, quote, she's short on money for her gender-affirming surgery. I'm reading the direct
00:47:09.500
quotes of the pronouns there. This character, quote, faces prejudice and tough situations but
00:47:15.440
demonstrates, quote, incredible strength and decisiveness and breaks down stereotypes on his
00:47:20.520
journey to securing the cash to, you know, for self-mutilation. So we'll give this character the
00:47:26.640
benefit of the doubt for a second and assume that this aspiring transgender character didn't realize
00:47:30.680
the Squid Game was a death match when he decided to join. We'll assume that, like many of the other
00:47:36.520
contestants, he was tricked into participating because he was so blinded by his desire for this
00:47:40.820
trans surgery after getting out of the Special Forces. Like so many Special Forces soldiers have been
00:47:45.220
throughout history. Very common thing, of course. But even with that in mind, this still is still coming
00:47:50.300
off like some kind of very unsubtle right-wing parody of trans ideology. It's not intended to be, but
00:47:56.560
that's how it comes off. Because here you have someone who is clearly so reckless and so consumed
00:48:02.500
by his desire to disfigure his own body that he somehow inadvertently joins a game where he has a
00:48:08.000
455 out of 456 chance of dying a horrible, excruciating death, which is greater than a 99% chance of,
00:48:16.140
you know, dropping off a bridge or being shot by a machine gun or being impaled or whatever.
00:48:21.400
And he's facing that fate because he was short on money for a sex change and decided that he would
00:48:26.020
do anything to get it. That's the premise that would probably be too on the nose if you were trying
00:48:31.820
to mock the idea of transgender surgeries and the trans agenda in general. It serves no purpose but to
00:48:36.980
highlight quite dramatically the self-destructive nature of this agenda. But apparently we're meant to
00:48:43.720
feel sympathy for this character. We're also supposed to observe that although he's willing to do
00:48:48.140
anything to get his genitals cut off, he's also extremely brave and fearless under fire, keeps his
00:48:54.080
composure in life-threatening situations, has incredible strength, exceptionally stable, mentally
00:48:59.880
speaking. Presumably that's the stereotype that's being broken down here. You know, just imagine being
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in the writer's room when they decided that this would be one of their prominent characters for their
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new season. It's just stock, cliched pandering that everyone's seen a million times by now. And
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incredibly, this isn't even why a lot of people are outraged about the new season. Conservatives, for the
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most part, either really don't care about the show or they're just used to this kind of thing. Instead, there
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has been outrage over this character. But it's all coming from the left. But of course, they're not upset that
00:49:32.960
this character is completely ridiculous. They're on board with the whole trans-surgery plotline. Their
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objection is that the character playing this quote-unquote trans woman in real life is a man.
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So they apparently wanted Netflix to find a self-identifying quote-unquote trans woman to
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play the part. And they're upset that instead the actor, whose name is Park Sung-hoo, is in fact a male
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who does not identify as transgender. As Breitbart summarized the controversy in one of the better
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headlines of the year. Quote, Squid Game 2 season, Squid Game Season 2 sparks backlash after normal man
00:50:09.920
cast as transgender. The article contains several distinct arguments by trans activists as to why
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exactly this casting decision is an outrage. And every single one of these arguments is completely and
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unequivocally terrible. The first argument comes from somebody using the name Don. And Don makes the argument
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that actors can't play people who are unlike themselves. Which is to say that actors can't
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engage in acting. Here's Don's specific complaint. Quote, this is not how you give representation. A cis man
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pretending to be part of a minority group just doesn't sit right with me, especially when they could have
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hired an actual trans actress. Then somebody makes the obvious point that it's the job of actors to
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pretend to be things they're not. For example, an actor might pretend to be a police officer when in real life
00:50:56.460
he's just an actor. It's a little trick that actors play all the time. It's kind of the whole idea of
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acting. When Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed Abraham Lincoln, he was pretending. He wasn't really Abraham
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Lincoln, just to clarify. But Don responds with this, quote, yes, but acting or pretending to be a
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police officer, burglar, villain, etc. is a lot more different than pretending to be transgender,
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neurodivergent, and POC. Now, Don never says exactly what's a lot more different about pretending to
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identify as trans as opposed to pretending to be a police officer. But apparently it's a lot more
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different. Unfortunately, for those of us seeking to do the work and educate ourselves in this
00:51:32.440
particular issue, Don did not really elaborate. So in search of specifics on that point, I kept
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scrolling through the complaints from trans activists. Then I came across this response,
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quote, I'm crying. Instead of a trans femme actor, they decided to slap a wig on Park Sung Hoon and call it a
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day? Somebody else followed up that response with this post, which belongs in a museum somewhere,
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quote, men playing trans women reinforces the harmful notion that trans women are just men in
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dresses. So the claim is now that a male should not put on a dress and pretend to be trans on TV.
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Although that's what being trans is. I mean, if anything, Park Sung Hoon is doing some serious
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method acting here. He's taking his commitment to the craft to the next level. And he's doing it in a
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country where gay marriage isn't even legal at the national level. So he's really breaking some
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barriers. I guess if you're trying to understand their non-existent logic, the idea is that it's
00:52:32.100
okay for a man to put on a dress and pretend to be a woman, but a man can't put on a dress and
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pretend to pretend to be a woman. That's one level of pretending too far. And it's not an exaggeration
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to say that it appears to be driving some of these people even more insane than they already
00:52:50.740
are. And as one angry fan put it, quote, could they not cast an actual transgender woman? This
00:52:56.400
is going to piss me off. Now, putting aside the fact that the phrase actual transgender woman is
00:53:01.700
an oxymoron, the phrasing there does raise an interesting question. Maybe the most important
00:53:06.240
question of this whole debacle. And that question is this, shouldn't these people be demanding
00:53:12.780
that a female actor play the quote unquote trans woman? Like they claim that trans women are women.
00:53:21.680
That's what they say. They say there's no distinction between a quote unquote trans woman and an actual
00:53:27.640
woman. So wouldn't the most validating option be a woman playing the trans woman? That is a woman
00:53:34.820
playing a man pretending to be a woman, which would also be an interesting acting challenge.
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But I scrolled through a lot of these angry comments and I never found a clear answer to
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that question. As always, trans activists are just screaming nonsense into the void.
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They're not sure what they want or why they want it. They're just sure that they're deeply unhappy and
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profoundly confused, which of course is their natural state. They're so angry, in fact, that even when
00:54:01.140
Netflix tries to pander to them, they still find a way to lose their minds. And in the process, once again,
00:54:06.600
they reveal that they have no coherent ideology and are totally incapable of making rational arguments
00:54:11.280
that withstand any scrutiny whatsoever. Meanwhile, the rest of us on Team Sanity simply won't watch
00:54:16.800
the show because it looks really quite dumb. And that is why Squid Game Season 2 and the trans activist
00:54:22.340
complaining about its recent casting decisions are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.