The Matt Walsh Show - January 09, 2025


Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the city of Los Angeles is going up in flames. The left claims
00:00:04.100 it's a product of climate change, but that's because they don't want to talk about the real
00:00:07.500 cause, which is incompetence, if not outright sabotage by the Democratic leaders of LA and
00:00:13.160 California. Also, Joe Biden finally admits that he actually may not have been capable of serving a
00:00:17.840 second term. A new study finds that vegans are often depressed and miserable. I don't think I
00:00:21.860 needed a study to tell me that. And a Hollywood actor goes on Bill Maher's podcast and tries to
00:00:25.700 defend sex changes for kids. It doesn't go well for him. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall
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00:01:51.180 Normally, when a politician becomes the mayor of a major city, it's because they've supposedly
00:01:55.960 spent their career working in the city and advancing its interests. Eric Adams became the
00:02:01.660 mayor of New York after working in local law enforcement for more than 20 years. So did the
00:02:05.940 mayor of Fresno, a man named Jerry Dyer. Meanwhile, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie,
00:02:10.660 helped ensure that the Bay Area would be the home of the Super Bowl 50 a few years back. So,
00:02:15.660 now, it's not to say that these are necessarily good politicians. Many of them are not.
00:02:19.520 But if you look through their careers, at the very least, you'll find that they
00:02:24.400 had an interest in the city and the one that they would later represent as mayor. That's like
00:02:30.080 the lowest of all bars, but at least they clear that. But the current mayor of Los Angeles,
00:02:37.020 Karen Bass, is an exception. She doesn't even clear that bar. If you look at what Karen Bass has been
00:02:42.720 talking about for the past decade, you'll find that by her own admission, she was never especially
00:02:47.980 interested in California. Instead, again and again, she's talked about advancing the interests
00:02:52.500 of Africa. Here's just a small selection of her appearances on African media. Watch.
00:02:59.180 I say that our reason for coming as the contingent of the Congressional Black Caucus
00:03:03.860 is really part of many commemorations taking place in the United States this year,
00:03:09.200 commemorating the 400th anniversary for the arrival of Africans on the U.S. continent.
00:03:14.860 I was involved in the 70s and 80s in the whole anti-apartheid struggle. Our history on the
00:03:20.020 continent has not always been a great history. And so I think that there's things that we need to
00:03:25.480 rectify. But at the same time, I would never want to tip it in the other direction and say that
00:03:30.360 there's too many problems in Africa or Africa should be able to sustain itself. So let's cut off
00:03:35.760 U.S. funding.
00:03:36.780 There also might be other ways that our country can support the African Union so that they can put
00:03:41.480 some teeth behind that when that type of statement is made. I mean, for example,
00:03:45.560 when the coup in Mali happened and there was the need for troops to come in, you know,
00:03:51.760 the Malians had to call on the French. The African Union wasn't quite ready to intervene. And they
00:03:57.640 certainly did come along. But I think there's a variety of ways that the United States can help
00:04:02.460 to shore up the infrastructure and capacity of the African Union.
00:04:05.960 So she seems pretty knowledgeable about issues in Africa, very invested in issues in Africa.
00:04:14.560 The only problem is that she doesn't live in Africa and she doesn't represent Africa,
00:04:19.140 supposedly. Again, this is an allegedly American politician who supposedly represents Americans.
00:04:24.820 But in reality, she's doing the Ilhan Omar routine where she constantly promises to use America's
00:04:30.240 resources to help the people she really cares about who aren't American.
00:04:34.220 So it was fitting that as an unprecedented massive wildfire broke out in Los Angeles this week,
00:04:41.180 Karen Bass was again in Africa, attending, in this case, the inauguration of Ghana's new president.
00:04:47.660 Now, why is the mayor of an American city taking time off of work to attend the inauguration of a
00:04:53.460 third world leader 7,000 miles away? Well, that's a good question. And the point is that this was not
00:05:00.560 simply bad timing as you may have seen it portrayed in the media, it was inevitable. Democrats like
00:05:07.480 Karen Bass spend so much time representing their real constituents, foreigners, that they're rarely
00:05:13.060 in town when a disaster materializes back at home. Now, Democrats are able to get away with this
00:05:18.320 betrayal because for the most part, the media lets them do it. So it must have come as a great shock to
00:05:24.520 Karen when after she landed at LAX, she was immediately confronted by a reporter who grilled
00:05:30.160 her about her many failures. This reporter named David Blevins is the senior Ireland correspondent at
00:05:36.260 Sky News. And here's how this, well, it's hard to call it a conversation. It's rather one-sided,
00:05:42.420 but here's how it went. Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were
00:05:48.500 burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
00:05:56.080 Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
00:06:04.360 Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position?
00:06:08.380 Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this
00:06:16.180 disaster?
00:06:22.740 No apology for them.
00:06:26.900 Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
00:06:38.380 I mean, it really is amazing and also amazing that this is a Irish correspondent for a foreign
00:06:50.740 news outlet who appears to care more about what's happening in Los Angeles than the mayor of Los Angeles
00:06:57.540 does. And by the way, total flying time from Ghana to Los Angeles is something like 18 hours. And that
00:07:04.740 whole time, Karen apparently didn't prepare any kind of response to these questions, all of which
00:07:09.500 were highly predictable. She didn't think about why she had slashed the fire department budget by
00:07:15.240 $18 million just a few months ago. She didn't have any message for the thousands of displaced families
00:07:20.360 that she supposedly represents. Instead, Karen Bass kept quiet until her staffers handed her some
00:07:26.060 talking points to read. And then once she had those talking points, she promptly humiliated herself
00:07:31.060 once again. Watch. Build stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help, emergency information,
00:07:39.460 resources and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL. Los Angeles together is how we
00:07:48.860 will get through this through the heroicism of our firefighters.
00:07:55.380 Apparently doesn't know how the Internet works. I mean, it would be impossible to script a more on
00:08:00.000 the nose satire of Democrats priorities and total incompetence than what Karen Bass just pulled off.
00:08:06.060 She abandons her constituents during a massive fire in order to pander to Africans. And then she
00:08:10.200 transforms into Ron Burgundy when she belatedly returns. And in case you didn't catch it, she read
00:08:15.580 the URL of the website as literally URL. So again, doesn't know how the Internet works. I mean, you know,
00:08:21.940 maybe they don't have a great Internet connection in Africa. So that's where she's spending all of her
00:08:25.720 time. So maybe we can't blame her for not knowing how that works. By Karen Bass's own admission,
00:08:31.580 she needs to be removed from office immediately. And we know Karen Bass agrees with that because
00:08:35.440 she wrote this post on social media when Ted Cruz infamously went on vacation during a disaster in
00:08:41.880 Texas. Quote, Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the
00:08:48.080 GOP abandoning folks in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out. Politicians like
00:08:55.780 Bass are why climate change is such a common talking point on the left, because it's their
00:09:01.780 get out of jail free card when their incompetence becomes extremely obvious. Bernie Sanders, for
00:09:07.200 example, just put out a tweet claiming that the wildfires prove that climate change is real. Now,
00:09:12.780 there are major problems with that claim, a bunch of them. But, you know, just the first one is that
00:09:19.820 no one, even the alleged scientific experts, really thinks that that's true in this case.
00:09:27.480 Michael Schellenberger just spoke to John Keeley, a researcher at the US Geological Survey,
00:09:32.280 who's been studying fires like this for decades. Keeley assessed that, quote,
00:09:35.720 I don't think these fires are the result of climate change. You certainly could get these events
00:09:40.160 without climate change. Well, of course you could, because the thing driving the fires is wind,
00:09:46.500 and wind is not a product of climate change. We've always had wind. For as long as we've had
00:09:50.840 earth itself, there's been wind. And as for the origin of the fires themselves, well, that's a
00:09:58.080 different question. We know what's making these fires spread so rapidly. It's the wind and all of the
00:10:04.820 fuel that these fires have to burn. But what's starting the fires? Again, an important question,
00:10:13.360 especially since we were promised just a few years ago that electing Joe Biden would effectively end
00:10:17.760 wildfires in this country. Biden said it himself after the last big wildfire he pretended to care
00:10:22.620 about. Watch. Donald Trump's climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and
00:10:34.160 record hurricanes. But if he gets a second term, these hellish events will continue to become more
00:10:40.600 common, more devastating and more deadly. So if he gets a second term, then we'd have all these
00:10:49.220 wildfires. And the obvious implication there is that if we elect Biden instead, we won't have them.
00:10:55.440 And Biden became the president, as you may remember. And what do you know? We still have
00:11:01.600 wildfires. So it took less than four years for this particular climate change prediction to blow
00:11:06.040 up in their faces like they all do. We've gone from Biden will end wildfires to Biden will use
00:11:13.460 wildfires as an opportunity to make personal announcements about his family, which is what he did
00:11:18.200 yesterday. Watch. We got notification yesterday. We're home is probably burning from today.
00:11:24.420 The good news is I'm a great grandfather, as of today.
00:11:33.420 I have a granddaughter, a baby girl, a baby boy.
00:11:38.880 This is what he thinks about.
00:11:49.720 Now, yesterday, officials offered one possible explanation for why these fires are now wildly
00:12:15.660 out of control. They stated that there's a shortage of firefighters in Los Angeles. Watch.
00:12:22.400 And then additionally, we heard repeatedly fire crews requesting help back up and not having
00:12:28.320 enough crews. Were you guys prepared enough for this? Do we have enough resources to fight these
00:12:32.660 fires? Thank you. No, L.A. County and all 29 fire departments in our county are not prepared for
00:12:41.420 this type of widespread disaster. There are not enough firefighters in L.A. County to address
00:12:48.120 four separate fires of this magnitude. Now, why might there be a shortage of firefighters?
00:12:56.760 Well, it turns out that's not a great mystery either. Just a few years ago, Los Angeles officials
00:13:01.600 celebrated the suspension and termination of more than 100 firefighters because they wouldn't take
00:13:07.860 the COVID shot. Watch. 113 L.A. City firefighters have been suspended without pay for defying the
00:13:15.940 city's vaccine mandate. In November, firefighters who had not submitted their vaccination status or
00:13:21.460 requested an exemption were informed they would face suspension and termination.
00:13:27.740 Now, a few months after terminating all these firefighters for not taking the COVID shot,
00:13:31.460 a new chief took over at the Los Angeles Fire Department and this new chief doubled down on
00:13:38.140 DEI hiring. She went out of her way to diversify the ranks of the L.A. F.D., meaning she wanted to
00:13:44.500 hire fewer white men and more lesbians like herself. Watch. I am super inspired. She took time out of her
00:13:53.180 already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three
00:13:58.620 year strategic plan to increase diversity. People ask me, well, what number are you
00:14:03.180 looking for? I'm not looking for a number. It's never enough. Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are
00:14:09.960 women right now. She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick to point out that doing so has a
00:14:15.640 greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job. They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a
00:14:22.580 cohesive team. The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this
00:14:28.140 department. She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community. That just kind of opens the door of
00:14:34.320 people that thought, wow, I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
00:14:39.680 Oh, she checks the boxes because that's the thing that they, I mean, literally, when we say that DEI
00:14:45.460 is only concerned with box checking, literally, that's the case. You just heard it there. And
00:14:50.040 you know, the thing is, when you decide that we want to have fewer men as firefighters and more
00:14:58.600 women, what you end up with in the end is fewer firefighters in general. Why is that? Well, because
00:15:07.500 the vast majority of people who are interested in being firefighters are men. That's the case.
00:15:14.760 That was the case yesterday. It's the case today. It's going to be a case forever.
00:15:17.680 And on top of that, if we could all just be honest about it, not only are the vast majority of people
00:15:24.940 who are interested in being firefighters men, the vast majority of people who are qualified to be
00:15:29.280 firefighters are men. The people that you want responding in a situation like this when your
00:15:34.300 city is on fire are men. You want male firefighters. We call them fire men. That's what you want. You
00:15:40.540 want fire men showing up. And everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. But we're supposed to
00:15:47.660 pretend otherwise, like we don't. We're supposed to pretend that men and women are equally capable
00:15:52.940 of responding in a situation like this when your city is on fire. But this was the fire chief's top
00:16:00.720 priority and was just getting more women in there, which is to say getting more people in who are less
00:16:07.080 qualified to do the job. That's what it means. And she got to work immediately, creating a DEI bureau
00:16:13.700 within just one year. Watch. Every day, the LAFD is called upon to respond to crises, and today it is
00:16:20.480 taking a step to resolve one of its own. The department's first ever diversity, equity, and
00:16:24.840 inclusion bureau will launch in January, one year since its first ever female fire chief, Kristen Crowley,
00:16:30.040 was appointed. So by creating this new bureau, our diversity, equity, inclusion bureau, now we actually
00:16:35.800 have the staff to do the work when it comes to doing a deep dive in regard to how we do business,
00:16:41.500 how we take care of one another in the fire stations and in our work environment.
00:16:47.440 This stuff is so infuriating. I mean, here's a question, and this is something that unfortunately
00:16:52.860 is playing out right now in Los Angeles over the city probably. But if firefighters are responding
00:16:59.520 to a scene and their house is on fire and there's someone inside the house who's incapacitated,
00:17:05.200 passed out, smoke inhalation, and that person is a man. Let's just say it's a man about myself. Let's
00:17:11.160 say it's me. I'm the one that's in that building. I'm not a huge guy, slightly above average height
00:17:17.340 and all that. It's not like I'm Dwayne Johnson, but just a man. How many female firefighters
00:17:26.800 would be capable of picking me up and carrying me out of the building? How many of all the female
00:17:34.520 firefighters, what percentage of them could even do that? I'm going to say maybe zero percent.
00:17:45.440 But they're doing the work at the Los Angeles Fire Department, whatever that means.
00:17:49.520 Now, to be fair to this fire chief, a month ago, she did send a letter to the mayor explaining
00:17:53.740 that her department would struggle to respond to wildfires because of the funding cuts.
00:17:59.440 And here's what that letter looked like. You can see it. The fire chief states that
00:18:03.500 Bass's budget cuts had, quote, severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for,
00:18:08.480 and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires. What's particularly strange about these
00:18:14.220 budget cuts and the fire department's focus on DEI is that it's been widely known for years that a
00:18:18.440 massive, devastating wildfire was potentially imminent in Los Angeles. Insurance
00:18:23.160 insurance companies have known that, which is why they tried to raise rates on disaster coverage
00:18:27.520 for homeowners in recent years. But instead of responding to the risk, Democrats in California
00:18:34.560 banned the insurance companies from raising rates, and then they fired the firefighters for not taking
00:18:39.240 the COVID shot. So the insurance companies dropped thousands of California residents from coverage.
00:18:44.500 Meanwhile, California's leaders also took down a massive dam just to ensure that emergency
00:18:49.820 personnel would have as little available water as possible in the event of something like this
00:18:55.040 happening. Watch. These dams are coming down and it's about dam time. Governor Kate Brown,
00:19:03.580 Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, and tribal leaders all coming together
00:19:09.140 to celebrate the world's largest dam removal along the Klamath River Thursday. The groups meeting at
00:19:14.660 Iron Gate Fish Hatchery in Hornbrook last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the
00:19:20.360 final approval of the historic plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
00:19:26.660 So they redirect rainwater to the ocean and shut down the dams to save the fish and appease the
00:19:36.640 tribal elders. And now they're apparently out of water to fight these fires. Firefighters are using
00:19:42.960 traffic cones to scoop water now, as you can see in the footage here. Now, these are images that
00:19:48.840 are going to be remembered many years from now. As the mayor of Los Angeles hangs out in Ghana
00:19:54.960 and the fire department leadership pushes DEI hiring and the politicians empty the reservoirs and remove
00:20:00.940 the dams and the brush remains uncleared, the rank and file firefighters are reduced to scooping water
00:20:07.120 into traffic cones. This is what Donald Trump warned about just a few months ago on Joe Rogan's
00:20:11.980 podcast. In fact, he's been warning about it for years. And now it's happened. In case it's not
00:20:16.480 clear, it's necessary to scoop water into traffic cones because no water is coming out of the fire
00:20:21.080 hydrants. The businessman, Rick Caruso, called into local news to make that observation. Watch.
00:20:27.640 My heart goes out, obviously, to the people with their homes. And I'm watching the small businesses
00:20:32.460 around us go up in flames. You know, this is people's livelihoods. So it's devastating.
00:20:40.640 But what is most concerning to me is our first responders and our firefighters who are trying
00:20:46.960 to battle this. There's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of the fire hydrants.
00:20:52.260 This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. It's not the firefighters' fault, but it's by the city.
00:21:00.380 And I'm going to be very honest. We've got a mayor that's out of the country.
00:21:03.820 And we've got a city that's burning. And there's no resources to put out fires. So if you look at
00:21:09.160 your pictures, you don't see the firefighters there because there's nothing they can do.
00:21:13.380 And it looks like we're in a third world country here.
00:21:18.760 This is obviously an extremely damaging piece of information for local officials.
00:21:22.800 That's presumably why an anchor at the local Fox affiliate tried to fact check Rick Caruso and
00:21:27.500 imply that he was wrong about this. And then he was immediately fact checked by a Fox reporter on
00:21:32.520 the ground who confirmed that, indeed, the firefighters are out of water.
00:21:37.080 Former L.A. mayoral candidate and real estate developer Rick Caruso
00:21:40.660 criticizing the city's response to the windstorm and fires. He says officials should have been
00:21:46.740 more prepared. The real issue to me is twofold. We've had decades to go remove the brush in these
00:21:55.300 hills that spread so quickly. And the second is, you've got to have water. And my understanding
00:22:02.720 is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants going.
00:22:08.400 So that's a failure, whether on DWP's part or another city agency. But this is basic stuff.
00:22:15.320 This isn't high science here. And it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a
00:22:20.980 failure of. And all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that.
00:22:26.400 Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have told us that they are running
00:22:31.420 out of water. And let's go out to Gigi Graziat. She is live in Pacific Palisades. I know your
00:22:37.820 signal's not the best, but Gigi, what can you tell us?
00:22:43.420 Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on this block and you may be able to make out the
00:22:48.520 ember storm that we're in the middle of right now. This house is going to be a total loss.
00:22:52.800 They have no water to put on this fire. They are standing by because they're trying to save
00:22:59.340 the home that is next to it. So this is one of the most basic factual issues of this entire
00:23:05.260 disaster. And the local media obviously has no idea what's going on. Neither do the people who
00:23:09.700 are supposedly running the state. Yesterday evening, CNN asked Gavin Newsom about why there was no water
00:23:14.560 coming out of the fire hydrants. And he had no answer to the question.
00:23:17.260 What is the situation with the water? Obviously, in Palisades, it ran out last night in the hydrants.
00:23:22.940 I was trying to fire fire on this block. They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
00:23:27.720 Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system where it's not
00:23:31.780 dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity,
00:23:37.400 whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for
00:23:41.880 two or three fires, maybe one fire. You have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be
00:23:46.440 determined by the local. Now, shortly after that interview was shot, another fire began in Hollywood
00:23:51.120 Hills. Arson obviously seems like a strong possibility to explain a lot of this because
00:23:57.700 California is a lawless state where no one, even arsonists, are prosecuted. Additionally, late last
00:24:04.020 night, someone shot footage of what appears to be arson attacks taking place in the city. This is from
00:24:09.460 the Santa Monica neighborhood. Watch.
00:24:13.100 We're at 302 Pico and people are lighting fires now. You can see that lit a fire. These guys,
00:24:20.020 not all the people there, but some of those guys lit that fire and they're actually, the trees caught
00:24:26.480 fire and then the palms are catching fire. So civilians are now lighting fires down in the so-called,
00:24:34.740 you know, flats around Santa Monica, Venice. So be safe out there. Fire department's been dispatched.
00:24:43.520 We don't have enough water to put this thing out, but we're supposedly on the way.
00:24:51.100 Now, based on that footage and the sheer number of separate fires, it seems more likely than not
00:24:55.980 that we're dealing with a series of arson attacks here. But, you know, not spontaneous combustion
00:25:02.060 caused by climate change, but people setting these fires. But at the moment, we don't know for sure.
00:25:08.840 What we do know, as this catastrophe continues to unfold in Los Angeles, is that no one is buying
00:25:13.540 the climate change narrative anymore. The people running the state of California are simply too
00:25:18.020 incompetent, too incoherent to pull it off. Now, yes, it's too late for the people living in the many
00:25:25.400 destroyed areas of Los Angeles, which are becoming more numerous by the hour. But the rest of the country
00:25:30.340 now understands exactly where climate change derangement leads. Along with DEI and the rest
00:25:35.320 of the equity agenda, it leads to destruction and blame shifting and ultimately total unmitigated
00:25:43.680 apocalyptic disaster, which is what we're seeing happening in a major American city. And as an entire
00:25:50.100 enclaves and left-wing cities burn to the ground, the reality is now simply too obvious, even for the
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00:27:27.380 code Walsh. That's T-R-Y-A-R-M-R-A dot com slash Walsh. All right. Now, I know as you listen to this,
00:27:36.260 you might be thinking, is this guy really losing his voice again? Didn't that just happen like two weeks
00:27:40.000 ago? What is wrong with this sickly bastard? And yes, it did just happen and it is now. And I blame
00:27:48.760 my kids, you know, like any, I believe in accountability. So I blame my kids. We had a
00:27:54.820 round of whatever cold virus is going around right now. We had a round of that. And then apparently
00:27:59.560 we went back for seconds because my kids started coughing again. Now it's ripping through the house
00:28:03.840 a second time just around and around and around because look, you know, it goes without saying,
00:28:09.780 I love my kids to death. My family's the greatest thing in my life, but they're also, let's be honest,
00:28:15.960 little Petri dishes. They, they, you know, they're little buckets of disease, a cute little buckets,
00:28:21.260 adorable, but kids are just constantly bringing viruses and bacteria into the house and they have
00:28:26.220 no sense of personal space either. So they, so that combination just means that whatever they have,
00:28:31.180 you're going to get, you know, you're sharing it as a family. The other day, my, my two-year-old
00:28:35.020 sneezed directly into my face, like, like this close. Got up almost, it was intentional. It seemed
00:28:41.780 intentional because there's no reason for you to be this closer. Got up point blank range,
00:28:48.260 all the shrapnel. I absorbed it all. And, um, and so here we are. That's the way it goes.
00:28:55.120 Uh, here's this from the Daily Wire. President Joe Biden voiced uncertainty when asked whether he
00:29:00.400 believed he could serve another four-year term in the White House if he did not drop out of the
00:29:04.200 2024 race. On Wednesday, USA Today published a transcript of an interview that its Washington
00:29:09.760 Bureau chief, Susan Page, conducted with the 82-year-old Biden over the weekend. Uh, Page
00:29:14.500 asked, do you think you would have had the vigor to serve another four years in office? The president
00:29:18.420 said in response, I don't know. That's why I thought when I first announced talking to Brock about it,
00:29:24.720 I said I thought I was the person. I had no intention of running after Bo died, for real,
00:29:28.480 not a joke. And then when Trump was running again for re-election, I really thought I had the best
00:29:32.540 chance of beating him. But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years
00:29:37.440 old. And so I did talk about passing the baton, but I don't know. Who the hell knows? So far, so good.
00:29:44.780 Really? So far, so good. But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old? Uh, you know,
00:29:51.980 it's, it's kind of incredible. You almost have to laugh. Almost. Um, Biden was asked whether he
00:29:58.720 could actually perform the duties of the presidency in a second term. And his response now is who the
00:30:04.580 hell knows? Keep in mind, I don't think I have to remind you, this guy was running for a second term.
00:30:12.360 Now he admits that he has no idea whether he could even do the job.
00:30:15.480 I would have respected him more if he was, if he had said that during the campaign,
00:30:20.560 at least the honesty I would have respected, obviously wouldn't have voted for him, but
00:30:24.740 I would have liked it back in May when he was still in the campaign. If someone is like,
00:30:30.580 are you sure you can do this job at your age? Look, man, who the hell knows? I mean,
00:30:34.520 I'm old. Let's be honest. Like, what do you, what do you, you know, I could be dead tomorrow. I mean,
00:30:38.620 what do you want me to tell you? Um, I wish he had just said that at least there would have been
00:30:42.340 some honesty to it. And, um, obviously this is not a revelation. We aren't learning anything here.
00:30:48.240 The only thing this reveals, if it reveals anything, because I mean, this also shouldn't
00:30:53.480 be a newsflash, but, uh, it, it, it, it is that Joe Biden himself was and is aware of his own mental,
00:30:59.380 uh, deficiencies. You know, it's not like he ran again or tried to run again because he was
00:31:05.380 actually unaware that he was losing his mind and really thought that he could do the job. No, he,
00:31:09.900 he, he knew he couldn't do it. He knew that he was, uh, falling apart and he was going to put
00:31:15.360 the country in that position. Anyway, he was going to deliberately put the country in the position
00:31:20.520 that the president of the United States would become fully, fully, fully mentally incapacitated
00:31:25.320 while in office. He was going to march us right into that scenario. Um, it's really no different than
00:31:34.140 like a, you know, a drunk driver. I mean, this is, um, kind of the presidential equivalent of a DUI
00:31:40.520 because the drunk driver knows that they're drunk. You know, he knows he's getting behind
00:31:45.800 the wheel of a car in a state where he's not equipped to operate a vehicle safely. That's why
00:31:50.560 drunk drivers deserve incredibly harsh penalties because they're intentionally putting other people
00:31:54.360 in harm's way. Uh, they'd rather potentially kill someone than call an Uber. And with Biden,
00:32:02.620 it was, uh, the exact same thing. Um, exact same thing, which is why I, as I said all along,
00:32:08.380 I have no sympathy for this guy, uh, in almost any other scenario where you've got an old guy
00:32:14.220 losing or old woman, uh, uh, losing their mental capacities and going senile in almost any other
00:32:23.140 scenario. I would have nothing but sympathy for someone in that position. Uh, and it's, it's a,
00:32:28.740 it's a position that almost all of us are going to be in, or we're going to die before we're able
00:32:36.500 to be in that position. Um, but that's, that is the direction that we're all heading, you know,
00:32:43.920 regardless. So it's, it would behoove us all to be, to have sympathy, but not in this case,
00:32:51.020 not in this case, because you're, you are intentionally trying to inflict this on the
00:32:55.140 country. Um, here's something a little different getting out of politics for a moment. There's
00:33:02.640 just a really interesting article in the Atlantic that you should read. It's called, um, the, the
00:33:07.800 antisocial century. And, uh, I just read it this morning. I thought it was interesting. Um, and sad
00:33:13.840 and troubling. It's about the increasing trend in American culture towards solitude. You know,
00:33:20.140 people are spending more time alone than they ever have before the writer, Derek Thompson,
00:33:25.180 you know, he opens the article with a little, um, anecdote about how a small Mexican restaurant
00:33:32.460 near his house that he, you know, he goes there with his wife and daughter and, uh, sits down
00:33:38.300 at a table place is totally empty. Nobody else is sitting down and eating. And yet the business is
00:33:44.920 still open and doing well financially because over near the bar or what was once the bar are a
00:33:50.040 whole bunch of Brown bags that are just sitting there because everyone orders to go now. And so
00:33:54.980 he watches the, the, the, the, the train of people come in, walk over to the bar, grab their bag and
00:33:59.760 leave. And there isn't any conversation or greeting of any kind. Like they don't even have to interact
00:34:04.280 with a cashier anymore because everyone orders online. You pay online and, uh, you just walk in,
00:34:09.560 you grab your food. You don't say anything to anybody. You go home and eat. And, uh, of course,
00:34:13.580 this exact scenario can be observed everywhere in the country. And, um, and, uh, many, many
00:34:18.820 restaurants. Now this is where they do all their business. People just don't eat in restaurants
00:34:22.620 anymore. They take their food and they go home while these people are eating alone. I mean,
00:34:26.520 it's, it's the same thing in the, the movie business, the, the, the, the theater business,
00:34:30.540 as we know, is declining because everyone's watching movies. Now it's not like people aren't
00:34:34.600 watching movies anymore. They're watching more movies than ever had before, but they're doing it at
00:34:37.940 home and usually alone. And the article goes into the data. It's, it's, uh, very clear that
00:34:44.220 Americans are more alone now than they've ever been. Um, this is a civilizational shift and there's no,
00:34:54.840 uh, precedent really for it. There's nothing to compare it to. Uh, people are spending less time
00:35:03.020 socializing, less time going out with their friends, less time going out in general.
00:35:08.720 And on top of that, it's, so everyone's kind of like staying in their homes and also more people
00:35:13.160 are living alone in their homes than ever before. These are all trends that stretch back decades.
00:35:18.200 They didn't start with the COVID lockdowns, but which is something that a lot of people like to
00:35:21.980 point to that as kind of the beginning point of all this isolation and solitude, but, uh, it didn't,
00:35:27.880 you can trace these trends to, to way before that, that certainly added fuel to the fire.
00:35:32.520 And of course the number one data point. And one of the major things that's also contributing to it
00:35:40.300 is that fewer people are getting married and starting families. So that's where the isolation,
00:35:45.260 the solitude begins for a lot of people. Um, I don't really have a grand sweeping point about
00:35:51.460 this. I think it's just an interesting article. And this is an issue that I think we should be
00:35:55.980 focused on quite a bit more than, than we are because we're watching as like the very idea
00:36:03.580 of what it means to be living in a human society is changing and devolving. I think the grading,
00:36:14.760 um, obviously the internet is the thing that more than anything else is driving this. People have
00:36:19.940 replaced human interaction and human connection with, uh, the distraction and stimulation of the
00:36:25.260 phone, social media, and so on. And when we talk about isolation and solitude, you know, that means
00:36:31.240 something very different now. It's a kind of, because it's a kind of distracted solitude. It's,
00:36:36.700 it's hard to call it, um, solitude at all. It's isolation. Yes, but not really solitude.
00:36:43.680 And maybe that's the way to put it. This is, uh, what people are experiencing now is isolation
00:36:48.960 without solitude, which is to say that it's isolation without any of the potential benefits
00:36:57.240 that you might get from isolation. And it's not good generally to be isolated for long periods of
00:37:02.760 time, but, uh, if you're going to be, at least that could be an opportunity for reflection, thought,
00:37:10.440 rumination, you know, um, contemplation, prayer, solitude is, or should be, could be contemplative,
00:37:21.880 but there's no contemplation when everyone is at home staring at screens, right? So that's kind of
00:37:29.740 the caveat here is that everyone is alone. They're at their homes, but they're not, but they're,
00:37:33.420 what are they spending their time doing? They're just staring at screens the whole time.
00:37:36.940 So now there is, yes, a lot less in-person interaction and a lot less community,
00:37:44.880 but there's also a lot less solitary contemplation and reflection. So we've kind of lost both.
00:37:54.540 We've lost the best things about being communal and, uh, the best things about solitude
00:38:03.320 all at the same time is that that's kind of the shift that we're observing. Um,
00:38:10.480 all right, here's another one just running for you through a few of these, not going to spend a lot
00:38:16.400 of time on this, but wanted to mention it. Actually it, it relates to the first topic here in the five
00:38:20.620 headlines. Um, this is from the website study finds. It says every morning across America,
00:38:28.400 millions of senior citizens grab their car keys and head out to doctor's appointments, grocery stores,
00:38:33.000 and social gatherings. For most, these routine drives maintain their independence and connection
00:38:37.360 to the world. But beneath this everyday scene lies a troubling reality. Nearly one in six older drivers
00:38:42.080 experience mild cognitive impairments and our healthcare system lacks a reliable way to determine
00:38:48.160 who among them should no longer be behind the wheel. With 48 million licensed drivers over 65 in the
00:38:54.340 United States, approximately 17% of seniors experience at least mild cognitive impairment.
00:39:01.640 Um, so that's 17% of 48 million is, is the number of cognitively impaired drivers on the road.
00:39:11.420 Um, numbers painted sobering picture in 2020 alone, motor vehicle crashes led to 7,480 deaths and nearly
00:39:19.360 150,000 non-fatal injuries among drivers over 65. As the research notes, with approximately 17%
00:39:25.760 of people older than 65 experiencing mild cognitive impairment, um, it's critical to have a healthcare
00:39:30.700 system that appropriately evaluates and addresses driving safety, safety, uh, among older adults. Now,
00:39:36.880 here's why I find this interesting. Um, you know, there are a lot of problems in life.
00:39:43.060 This country has a lot of problems. Can't solve them all, but you can solve, or at least significantly
00:39:50.360 mitigate some of our problems. And many of these solvable problems would actually be very easy to
00:39:58.120 solve, uh, or to at least address in a significant way. I mean, if we had a giant checklist with all of
00:40:06.060 the solvable problems, and there are 10,000 problems on it, I think like 9,000 of them could
00:40:15.400 be solved pretty easily and simply, but just nobody does it. Now there might be like a thousand of the
00:40:23.780 10,000 where the solution, where there either is no, you know, where the solution is much more
00:40:28.300 complex, but for many of them, it's actually a really simple solution. So this is, this is one of
00:40:34.920 those solvable problems. It's a problem. It's a real problem. There are elderly people on the roads
00:40:40.560 who shouldn't be there. There are old people driving who shouldn't be driving. They're cognitively
00:40:45.940 impaired and they're piloting, you know, these, these giant heavy hunks of metal down the highway.
00:40:54.400 It's, that's a problem. So it's on our checklist. It's on our checklist of, of problems. It's not at the
00:41:00.320 top. It's not the number one problem, but it's, it's, it's also not at the bottom. I mean, people
00:41:05.620 are hurt and killed every day because of this problem. And, you know, we sit around debating
00:41:11.380 it. I mean, we actually don't debate it. We don't really talk about it, but whenever it comes up,
00:41:14.900 it's debated. Like, what do we do about it? Even in this article, they say, well, it's a, it's a
00:41:19.460 difficult, it's a complex. It's a, how do you, how do you measure? How do you, how do you determine?
00:41:24.780 And now it's not difficult. Here's the solution. I think everyone recognizes like this is what we
00:41:30.460 should require that everybody retake the driver's exam. Once they hit the age of 70, let's say,
00:41:37.560 you can say 65, but let's just, we can just say 70 and then take it again every three, three years,
00:41:43.960 at least, uh, until you die. Now this would obviously not completely erase the car accidents
00:41:51.700 caused by elderly drivers, but it would greatly, greatly, greatly, greatly reduce them.
00:41:57.700 And there's no argument against it. Like, why don't we do that? How is that not the law in every
00:42:03.080 state already? Of course you should read the idea that you should take a driver's exam once ever in
00:42:09.680 your life. And so if you passed it when you were 17, the implication is that 70 years later,
00:42:16.780 it still counts. What? You might as well not even have a driver's exam at that point.
00:42:24.740 If you're going to have it at all, then it should be something that comes up again in life.
00:42:33.640 There's no argument to get. The only argument you ever hear against having elderly people retake the
00:42:38.540 exam is that, well, if you take their license away from the elderly person, they'll become depressed
00:42:44.340 and isolated, which I get that. You know, I know I don't, that's tough. That's a tough thing.
00:42:50.800 But that argument admits that there are a lot of elderly people on the road who wouldn't be able
00:42:55.960 to pass the driver's exam. So you're admitting that. And what we're saying is that for the sake
00:43:00.960 of elderly people maintaining their independence, people have to die. Like younger people have to die
00:43:08.180 on the roads every year so that old people can feel happier and drive around, which is madness.
00:43:17.560 You know, and anytime you talk about something like this, people are always like, well, hey,
00:43:21.500 why are you talking about it? That's not the biggest problem in the world right now.
00:43:25.100 California's on fire, whatever. You know, it's like, yeah, I know. It's not the biggest.
00:43:30.520 So let's just cross this off the list. Let's just, let's just go down and all these problems that
00:43:35.600 aren't the biggest problems, but are solved. Just cross them off the list. Let's just do it.
00:43:39.440 Let's deal with this problem. It could be easily done with a solution that there is no
00:43:45.940 coherent argument against. And, and we don't do it. So this is one of those things. One of many
00:43:52.660 things where we look at this problem and people are dying because of it. And we say, well, you know,
00:43:57.060 what are you going to do? Well, I know what we could do. We could do this. It would totally work.
00:44:01.680 Oh yeah. Yeah. But we're not going to do that. Why aren't we going to do that? We're just not,
00:44:06.480 we're just, we're just not going to, we're just going to, yeah, we're just going to continue
00:44:10.100 forever. We're going to continue forever allowing 85 year olds who can't see drive. It's, it's crazy
00:44:19.960 to me. I don't get it. All right. I've had this one also in the, in the, on deck. I should mention it.
00:44:31.680 This is from Yahoo. It says vegans could be more likely to be depressed because they drink
00:44:36.800 plant-based milk, according to a recent study. And we know we, I talk a lot, a lot about milk
00:44:41.820 issues on this. Um, it's, it's become a, it's become part of my brand is, is discussing all
00:44:47.180 different kinds of milk, milk related issues. I get involved in a lot of, um, milk centric
00:44:52.860 controversies. And so I saw this and I said, well, this is, this is about milk. So this is,
00:44:56.960 but I, I, apparently this is my, this is my wheelhouse. Uh, data collected for more than
00:45:02.320 350,000 participants enrolled in a UK biobank study found that those who drank semi-skimmed
00:45:07.020 cow's milk were at a lower risk of both anxiety and depression compared with plant, uh, milk drinkers.
00:45:13.340 Scientists from the Southern Medical University in China, um, found that, uh, followed so many
00:45:20.720 people. So on, it doesn't matter. Um, those who consume plant-based milks, such as soy and almond
00:45:26.940 were found to have a 14% increased chance of depression. So there's the, that's the thing.
00:45:32.560 It's no surprise. You know, I'm sure that people who drink fake milk, who drink, uh, as you know,
00:45:38.900 as we know, almond milk is not milk. It's nut juice. It's juice from nuts is what it is. Uh,
00:45:44.340 and I understand why we don't want to put that on the container, but, but that is what it is.
00:45:48.600 Uh, but I'm sure they're depressed, but I don't think it has anything to do with whatever is in
00:45:53.820 the fake milk or with the nutrients they aren't getting from real milk. I think it's just that
00:45:57.860 the experience of being vegan makes you depressed. You are depriving yourself of the basic
00:46:04.280 elemental joy of a good meal. I mean, not, not just of milk, but if you're vegan, you can't have a
00:46:12.860 good meal. If you're a vegan, you can, you can never have a good meal. You can have a meal that
00:46:19.100 is good in comparison to all the other crappy meals that you have, but you can't have an actual
00:46:23.040 good meal. If you're vegan, it's, it's impossible. It doesn't exist. So they don't know what a good
00:46:28.120 meal is. They don't even understand that food can be good. They don't know that like a vegan,
00:46:35.380 especially if they, a vegan that's been the God forbid is conditioned to be a vegan from childhood.
00:46:39.180 This is someone, it's like someone who's blind from birth. They don't even know what, like they
00:46:45.740 don't know what a rainbow is. They don't, they can't even conceive of it. And if you're a vegan,
00:46:51.740 especially vegan your whole life, you don't even know the fact that food can be a good experience.
00:46:56.680 It can be enjoyable to eat food. You don't even know that you've never experienced it. And to you as
00:47:02.940 a vegan, food is a necessary evil. It's a thing that you suffer through. So being a vegan,
00:47:09.040 it's like being, it's like being in a, you know, kind of a goblin in a cave underground who never
00:47:17.260 experiences sunlight. And no offense to vegans. I don't mean it as an insult to say that you're all
00:47:24.240 a bunch of goblins. I don't mean that you look like goblins. Well, a lot of you do, but that's not
00:47:31.040 my point. My point is about the basic joys of life that you're not experiencing. And then again,
00:47:36.200 this may be confusion of, uh, of chicken and the egg kind of thing. Uh, what I mean is are vegans
00:47:42.060 depressed because they're vegans or are they vegans because they're depressed? Maybe depressed,
00:47:49.140 self-loathing, miserable people are more likely to become vegans as a way of punishing themselves.
00:47:55.100 And then being vegan makes them be more depressed. I think it's probably something like that. It's a
00:48:01.020 vicious, vicious cycle, but something more, more research is needed. Let's get to the daily,
00:48:06.940 or no, the comment section. Let's do that.
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00:49:36.060 Hey, Matt, some of your viewers are Christian conservative Canadians who also love freedom
00:49:40.520 and free speech. We're not all libtardians. Yeah, I know. I understand that. And I appreciate you.
00:49:45.940 And there were a lot of, uh, in response, you know, we did the show yesterday. I talked about,
00:49:49.260 um, well, there's purchasing Greenland. There's taking, taking, uh, possession of the Panama Canal
00:49:57.220 are plans potentially on the agenda for Trump, but there's also this thing about conquering Canada.
00:50:05.900 And so I talked about, you know, waging a conquest of, of, of Canada. And for some reason,
00:50:11.580 a lot of Canadians in the audience were upset about it. And, uh, I got a lot of comments like
00:50:17.380 this saying, well, how could you say that you wanted a car? Well, I look, I, I understand that
00:50:22.380 not everyone in Canada is a far left wacko. And like I said, I, I appreciate the conservative
00:50:29.780 Canadians. I really do. And I'll, I will, I will make sure that you have comfortable common
00:50:36.120 accommodations in labor camps. Um, I'll get, make sure you have the best cells, um, out of anyone.
00:50:42.320 You get the easiest jobs. I mean, they're going to be a hard backbreaking jobs. You're not going to get
00:50:46.460 paid for them, but, uh, you know, so, so no reason to be so upset is what I'm trying to say.
00:50:53.300 Uh, let's see. Porn is terrible, but you can't ask for a smaller government and then continue
00:51:00.560 passing more and more laws rather than asking the government to make sure your children are not
00:51:05.420 watching porn. Perhaps it's the parent's responsibility to make sure, to make sure I know
00:51:09.980 it's a crazy concept now. Okay. Well, I'm not asking for a smaller government because smaller
00:51:18.960 doesn't mean anything. Okay. The, the, the whole, uh, and I know conservatives have been saying this
00:51:24.580 forever and it never, have you noticed that never happens? Conservatives have been chanting forever,
00:51:29.640 small government, and it literally never happens. The government has only grown ever. It's,
00:51:35.040 it's all it's done for a hundred years. Um, and so maybe that tells us that this slogan
00:51:41.000 is not very effective. And one of the reasons it's not effective is because it doesn't mean
00:51:45.080 anything. What do you mean? Smaller, smaller than what? Smaller in what way is like, so we just solve
00:51:50.540 all our problems by just making it smaller. That doesn't solve anything. What I want is a more,
00:51:58.100 among other things is a more efficient government and efficient means that you're being productive
00:52:04.960 and you're not wasting a lot of effort and money. So yes, efficiency does often mean that, that,
00:52:10.500 that, you know, in effect that the operation becomes quote unquote smaller because you're getting a lot
00:52:15.380 of getting rid of a lot of the dead weight and a lot of the wasted effort and all the rest of it.
00:52:20.560 But the goal is not smallness itself. The goal is efficiency and efficient, you know, means in other
00:52:28.940 words that you, you are good at doing the things you're supposed to be doing. There's a very broad
00:52:33.880 definition of efficient, but that's what I want from the government. And so that requires us to first
00:52:39.520 determine what the government is supposed to be doing. There are a lot of things that it shouldn't
00:52:46.940 be doing that it is doing. And I want it to stop doing those things. And yet there are still things
00:52:53.600 that it should do. Now, this is an important distinction. And I would say that putting some
00:53:00.420 laws in place to prevent the multi-billion dollar porn industry from preying on millions of children
00:53:06.660 is the kind of thing that the government should be doing.
00:53:10.680 protecting kids is the kind of thing that the government should be considering. Now,
00:53:18.940 there's lots of things the government could do in the name of quote unquote protecting kids that are
00:53:23.780 bad. They can use that as a cover to do things that actually have nothing to do with protecting kids.
00:53:29.900 I understand that. But putting laws in place to put some kind of insulation, some kind of filter
00:53:40.140 system, some kind of shield in between this massive behemoth, hardcore porn industry and our kids,
00:53:48.280 that actually is about protecting kids. And it's a kind of basic level of protection that
00:53:57.660 not only is it appropriate to provide kids, but kids have a right to it. We have an obligation to
00:54:06.260 provide it. Yes, starting with parents, but not just parents. At a societal and political level,
00:54:15.880 there is an obligation to do something, at least to try to protect these kids from this
00:54:23.660 satanic industry. Another comment says, I did not expect us to bring back Manifest Destiny.
00:54:36.120 Well, why not? Well, why wouldn't we take it? I mean, it's funny people talk about Manifest Destiny
00:54:40.780 now like it's some clearly objectively bad thing. Manifest Destiny, of course, is the belief in the
00:54:46.020 19th century that it was America's destiny, its calling, its vocation to stretch itself west
00:54:52.220 across the continent to the Pacific. And it was this belief that drove the pioneers and explorers
00:54:57.520 and settlers to do exactly that. And now we're told that Manifest Destiny was bad and it was racist
00:55:05.180 and all this kind of stuff. But wasn't it obviously our destiny? When the people talked about Manifest
00:55:13.300 Destiny in the 19th century, isn't it clear that it was in fact our destiny? Was it not obviously our
00:55:20.380 calling to do exactly what we did? To expand, to claim new land? What if we hadn't? What then?
00:55:27.940 What if we hadn't done that? If there was no Manifest Destiny, what does the world look like
00:55:33.360 right now? Now, if you're a really naive moron, you, I guess, would think that if America had
00:55:38.800 just consigned itself to one coast, then everything west of the Mississippi would have remained in the
00:55:45.700 control of warring bands of Stone Age tribes, as it was at the time. And even if it had worked out
00:55:51.440 that way, that would not be good. Okay, that would be absurd. Imagine in the year 2025 that we have our
00:55:58.520 highly advanced society, our highly advanced civilization. But if you go in the woods, you'll
00:56:03.800 run into an Apache warrior who wants to peel your scalp off your head and wear it around his neck as a
00:56:09.180 trophy. Okay, that it's clear that that would not be an improvement. That's not what we want.
00:56:15.980 But that's not even what would have happened. Okay, what would have happened? This is an important
00:56:21.680 fact of American history that most people don't seem to understand when they talk about the
00:56:26.500 how terrible it was that America expanded and took all this land from Native Americans.
00:56:32.460 I've addressed that so many times to talk about why this conquest of the wilderness was not a
00:56:39.140 bad thing, but in fact, a great thing. But another aspect of that
00:56:42.160 is that if we hadn't done it, it would not have just, this land would not have just remained in
00:56:54.100 the hands of these warring bands of Indian tribes who were living 5,000 years in the past.
00:57:00.560 No, that's not what would have happened. Other countries would have laid claim to it. They already
00:57:04.740 had Great Britain, Spain, France, Russia. Eventually, China would have gotten in into the mix.
00:57:10.960 So if not for manifest destiny, it would be the United States on the East Coast and then like
00:57:17.300 Europe part two on the West, which is to say the United States wouldn't exist in that scenario.
00:57:24.760 I mean, if the United States had never expanded, it would not exist in the year 2025.
00:57:29.480 Um, so all of that, I would think vindicates the idea of manifest destiny. And yet we still talk
00:57:37.480 about it. Like it's, it's, yeah, it's the reason you exist right now. You understand that you exist
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00:58:17.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today we cancel the actor John Cryer, who is of course the
00:58:29.720 former star of the sitcom Will and Grace or may have been two and a half men. I didn't bother to
00:58:33.880 check, but in any event, Cryer appeared on Bill Maher's podcast this week where he offered his theory
00:58:40.260 on why Donald Trump won much. I think the whole country, even unless you're like stupid woke,
00:58:49.660 I hope you're not, but you know, it is Hollywood somewhat stupid. Okay. Uh, the whole country was
00:58:56.180 like, I mean, I think the biggest issue for the election, one of the biggest ones was Democrats
00:59:02.180 pointlessly, totally just punted on immigration and let anybody who wanted to walk in for three and a
00:59:09.740 a half years did. And you know, I think they would probably disagree that people walking in
00:59:15.520 probably felt like it was a little harder. No, no, no, no, actually, actually, there's a great 60
00:59:20.280 minutes piece on it where the border, I mean, you don't get 8 million people here by making it
00:59:25.520 difficult. Um, but there's watch, they just, I mean, you see, they're walking through and that
00:59:30.600 border guys are just watching them do it. They're just watching them walk past. You never saw that?
00:59:36.020 I did not see that. See, that doesn't get in the liberal media. That's the problem is the
00:59:39.360 bubbles we live in. I think I had it right. Like that kind of stuff is what lost the election
00:59:45.800 for the Democrats. It's in all- Maybe part of it. I don't know. I think a lot- They have polling on
00:59:50.280 it. It's- Well, I think it's inflation. I think Americans hate inflation. They hate inflation. They
00:59:56.360 hate riots and they hate black women. And they hate trans people. Dude, they just spent hundreds
01:00:03.500 of millions of dollars humanizing trans people. And that's disgusting. Yeah, we shouldn't talk
01:00:09.820 politics. Okay. We shouldn't. We shouldn't. Great. I don't, we don't have to.
01:00:16.520 Now, what makes this stupid is, is, well, everything about it, but let's narrow it down
01:00:21.140 a bit. Uh, Crier gets the first part of the answer right. He says Trump won because Americans hate
01:00:27.260 inflation and riots. That simplifies and condenses the issue quite a bit, but it's basically correct.
01:00:31.780 Americans were tired of our wrecked economy and our lawless cities. Um, they wanted economic
01:00:37.960 stability and law and order. But then Crier throws in the claim that Americans also hate black women.
01:00:43.760 So apparently his theory is that Americans correctly associated Kamala with economic decline
01:00:49.000 and lawlessness, but would have still voted for her if not for the fact that she's black.
01:00:54.240 We would have said, well, you know, we really hate inflation and crime, but she's white. So
01:00:57.760 we'll take it. Nevermind the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the first run,
01:01:01.120 who is last I checked, not black. Now, of course, this is all part of the mythology that woke idiots
01:01:05.560 like John Crier subscribe to. It's a mythology that as we know, claims that America is racist.
01:01:11.440 And according to this mythology, black women in particular get the harshest treatment.
01:01:16.060 Black women are reviled and persecuted more than anyone else. They say, nevermind the fact that,
01:01:20.740 you know, Oprah is one of the wealthiest and most popular figures in the country. So as Beyonce,
01:01:25.520 we were constantly told during the race that Michelle Obama's approval ratings were higher than any
01:01:30.000 candidate or any potential candidate on either side. Now, I don't think any of those people
01:01:34.720 should be popular, but because not because they're black, but because they're all pretty awful in their
01:01:40.180 own ways. But they do cause some problems for the America hates black women narrative. In fact,
01:01:45.440 here's the funny thing. Nearly all of the people who claim that Kamala lost because she's sort of a
01:01:51.540 black woman would also say that Michelle Obama would have crushed Trump, even though Michelle Obama is
01:01:57.520 blacker than Kamala. Now, things took an even more ridiculous turn when the conversation moved to
01:02:02.640 the trans issue. Listen, you're asking too much often to rewrite like the idea that when someone is
01:02:11.060 born, there is a default setting for humans, male and female. Not everyone is. Now, a real conservator
01:02:18.460 would say, no, everyone is. I would never say that. I think what a liberal says is yes, there's a default
01:02:27.020 setting, but then there's a whole other section, and that's great, and we should protect those people.
01:02:34.300 But don't pretend there isn't also a default setting. And you can't rewrite the world so that every baby
01:02:40.860 is just a jump ball. Oh, it could be anything. No, if it's got a dick, it's probably a boy. And if it's not,
01:02:47.580 we'll deal with that. We'll deal with that in a compassionate way. But we'll also be apprised
01:02:53.260 of the idea that children don't know about anything. Yes, sometimes it is obvious, and we
01:02:59.100 should address it that way. But I mean, kids, so mighty. I mean, the idea that I would, as a child,
01:03:07.100 would have had to have dealt with something like this. Well, again, the people that go through it
01:03:12.300 don't say this is the life I want. No parent wants to be in the midst of those choices. It's
01:03:17.340 terrifying. Some kids these days actually just do want to be trans. I don't agree. It's cooler,
01:03:20.940 John. I don't agree. It's a thing. Nope. Oh, come on. I don't agree with Bill. I know.
01:03:26.540 That's the name of the show tonight. Well, your eyes are not open to that, I think. Okay. Well,
01:03:31.260 okay. There are some kids, especially, why is it like so much more prevalent like here than Indiana?
01:03:37.180 Well, are they suppressing it there? Maybe a little. Yeah, there's a societal suppression,
01:03:41.420 but it's like left-handedism. Being left-handed was suppressed for thousands of years amongst
01:03:48.620 human beings. But it was apparently in the 30s, scientists basically said, left-handedness
01:03:56.300 doesn't actually do anything bad. Left-handedness shot up. People just stopped training themselves to
01:04:02.300 be right-handed. And this has happened societally before, and that's the closest analog that I can think
01:04:09.900 to go. Now, there are many problems with this. To start with, Bill Maher is presenting the
01:04:14.700 weakest possible case for team sanity here. He says that male or female are the default settings
01:04:19.180 for most humans, but not all humans, which is, of course, incorrect. It's not most humans. Every
01:04:23.900 human who exists on the planet, who has ever existed, will ever exist, either falls into the
01:04:27.420 category of male or female. There are no other categories. Those are the only two. So Bill's given
01:04:32.220 up far too much ground to the other side at the outset of this conversation. And any amount of ground
01:04:37.900 given up is too much. You know, give them nothing because they deserve nothing and their ideas have
01:04:43.100 no merit and no value. So John Cryer takes the ball and runs with it. And he compares being trans to
01:04:49.420 being left-handed and says that left-handedness was suppressed for thousands of years. And once the
01:04:55.260 suppression stopped, left-handedness exploded. And he claims, you know, it's a similar thing that's
01:04:59.180 happening with transgenderism. The explosion in trans identification is not because of social
01:05:03.100 contagion. It's because the thousand year campaign of suppression has come to an end.
01:05:09.020 Now, there are a number of issues with this. First of all, left-handed people were not suppressed
01:05:14.460 and persecuted for thousands of years. John seems to think that there was some kind of global effort
01:05:20.860 lasting millennia to oppress and subjugate the left-handed people of the world. That never happened.
01:05:26.940 Maybe it should have. Left-handed people are freaks who shouldn't be trusted,
01:05:30.620 but it didn't happen. In fact, some ancient societies revered left-handed people. Some societies
01:05:38.700 associated the left hand with wisdom. And at any rate, even if we had been rounding up and imprisoning
01:05:44.380 left-handed mutants for hundreds of centuries, that still would do nothing to prove the point with
01:05:50.060 transgenderism. They would do nothing to prove John's case. Actually, rather than proving it, the
01:05:55.260 left-handed analogy undermines his case. Because left-handedness is a preference. It's not some
01:06:01.580 kind of innate state of being. Is John admitting that transgenderism is the same kind of thing,
01:06:08.460 a mere preference? Also, and this is very important, a left-handed person does not cut off their right
01:06:16.540 hand because they're left-handed. One does not affirm one's hand preference by having the opposite
01:06:23.500 hand amputated. Everyone would agree that we should not be making permanent life-altering changes to
01:06:29.820 anyone's body, least of all child's body, based on their dominant hand. So even if we bought his analogy,
01:06:36.060 it would not lead us all the way to his conclusion. It wouldn't even get us halfway there.
01:06:40.460 This is the problem for the proponents of gender ideology. Analogies are an extremely useful tool
01:06:48.780 in making and explaining an argument. I use them all the time. But the gender ideology proponent is
01:06:54.700 not able to make any analogies. Every analogy backfires. They cannot say, human beings can choose
01:07:03.980 whether they're male or female, just like X. Or they can't say, we should make permanent changes
01:07:10.380 to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we do X. Because these are things that have
01:07:16.860 no analogy. In order to defend their position, they're using logic that they would not accept
01:07:23.980 in any other area of life. They're making the kinds of arguments that if applied to literally anything
01:07:29.900 else in any other circumstance, everyone, including them, would reject. There's no logical precedent
01:07:36.540 for their position because it is not logical. Now, compare that to team sanity. We don't have this
01:07:43.500 problem. We are overflowing with analogies. Our cups runneth over. We can say, human beings can't
01:07:51.580 choose their sex, just like they can't choose their race, or their height, or their natural hair color,
01:07:58.620 or their genetic composition, their DNA. In fact, it turns out that we have no say over any of the
01:08:06.300 fundamental components of our physical identities. We can also say, we shouldn't make permanent changes
01:08:13.260 to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we don't let children get tattoos,
01:08:19.180 or cosmetic procedures, etc. That's because our position on transgenderism is entirely consistent
01:08:25.660 with our position on everything else. On the other hand, the defense of gender ideology exists in this
01:08:31.580 kind of logical vacuum. It requires you to make the kinds of arguments that you would never make
01:08:39.340 otherwise. It requires you to contradict yourself, which is the very definition of an illogical position.
01:08:47.180 And it is why John Cryer, from whatever show he's from, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show
01:08:55.820 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
01:09:05.740 I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care, it is mental health care,
01:09:10.140 and it can actually be suicide prevention care. I think I'm gonna take some medicine,
01:09:17.100 so I can kind of like, transform into a boy, get surgery. After the surgery, I didn't really feel
01:09:23.980 any better. When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this
01:09:29.500 to kids. Total lie. Manipulation. It's gaslighting. Please stop. He's a boy, not a girl. How could she do
01:09:35.900 this to my son? What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery
01:09:41.900 on children. I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally, but of course I was wrong. The
01:09:48.700 fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what happens
01:09:52.780 to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious. Puberty blockers, surgeries, big money
01:09:58.060 makers for hospitals, for physicians. All I want to do is hold my son.
01:10:02.140 Are you asking me to lie to parents? And he said, yes.
01:10:08.140 This is a weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy your
01:10:16.060 child. Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex. Maybe they actually are the opposite
01:10:22.140 sex. It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers
01:10:29.340 or double mastectomies. The left so badly wants to blur these lines.
01:10:33.180 That's a five alarm fire. It's criminal.