The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1520 - Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a woke female pseudo-bishop lectures Trump about transgenderism 0.82

00:00:04.580 and illegal immigration at the National Prayer Service. It was exactly the kind of grotesque,

00:00:08.540 heretical display that you can expect from a female bishop. Also, Trump shuts down all DEI

00:00:12.800 departments and all government agencies effective immediately. The Me Too campaign against Pete

00:00:17.000 Hegseth continues and continues to flop. And although I am no style expert, I admit today,

00:00:21.720 we must cancel a prominent politician for his fashion faux pas. All of that and more today

00:00:26.880 on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:01:40.980 It is a truth long established that a liberal woman over 50 with a lesbian haircut is sure to 1.00

00:01:47.800 support the most evil ideas and policies that mankind has ever conceived. If evil had a face 0.92

00:01:54.320 and a haircut, this is what it would look like. It would look exactly like Marianne Buddy,

00:01:59.820 the fake bishop of Washington for the Episcopal Church. They say that you shouldn't judge a book

00:02:05.320 by its cover, but some covers tell the whole story before you even read the first page.

00:02:10.040 And when you see a woman like Marianne, especially if she's wearing priestly garments, 0.98

00:02:14.700 you know exactly what you're going to get. And that's what we got. And what Donald Trump got

00:02:19.180 when this fake woman bishop delivered the homily at the National Prayer Service in DC 1.00

00:02:24.120 on Tuesday. But before we get to that, let's back up a bit. Let's do a little bit of history.

00:02:31.240 We'll go all the way back to the summer of 2020, when encouraged by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in

00:02:36.860 the wake of George Floyd's overdose, BLM and Antifa began rioting, of course, across the country,

00:02:41.860 but also in the nation's capital. Now, nobody at the Department of Justice or the FBI has ever

00:02:46.240 pretended to care about this particular riot or any of the other ones, but it was pretty substantial by

00:02:51.060 any objective metric. They injured dozens of Secret Service officers. They destroyed cars,

00:02:55.760 vandalized monuments, looted dozens of businesses, ultimately forcing Donald Trump to take cover in the

00:03:00.820 White House bunker. The mob also set fire to a church in Lafayette Square called St. John's,

00:03:06.000 just a block from the White House. Now, if you're not familiar with it, St. John's is an Episcopal

00:03:09.680 church. It's often called the Church of the Presidents because every president has attended

00:03:13.520 the church since it was first constructed in the early 19th century. And in 2020, because Democrats

00:03:18.520 had riled up a violent mob to advance a narrative of racial injustice in an election year, the church was

00:03:23.240 under attack. And that is in spite of the fact that the Episcopal church, as you probably know,

00:03:28.040 is the wokest institution on earth. I mean, the Episcopal church makes Planned Parenthood

00:03:33.460 seem far right by comparison. The pride flag has long replaced the cross of Christ in the Episcopal 0.97

00:03:39.940 church. And I use the word church only in the architectural sense. I mean, the churches themselves

00:03:45.080 are often quite beautiful. Architecturally, everything that happens inside those churches

00:03:50.060 is hideous. In any case, Marianne Buddy was responsible for overseeing the church at the

00:03:56.500 time. And after the violence and arson had subsided, she went on PBS to talk about what

00:04:01.260 happened. But instead of defending her church or condemning the rioters who just lit St. John's on

00:04:06.720 fire, Marianne blamed Donald Trump. She claimed that Trump, merely by appearing outside the church to

00:04:12.380 survey the damage, had, quote, used the mantle of the church to communicate a political message.

00:04:18.320 Which is going to be a very ironic statement here in a moment when we get to what just happened. But

00:04:22.900 let's go back and watch this clip.

00:04:25.160 We are upset about the fire as well, but that is not our primary focus. Our primary focus is the reason

00:04:31.740 behind, the fundamental reasons behind the protests in our country right now. There is a deep desire for

00:04:38.620 the fundamental issues at stake brought to light by the murderous death of George Floyd and the

00:04:46.620 countless others that we've witnessed in this long string of violence against black and brown people.

00:04:51.580 Well, if the president had come to pray, if the president had come to greet us in the name of

00:05:01.020 the country and to offer an encouraging word, that would have been one thing. But that's not what he did.

00:05:06.380 That's not what he did. And he is always welcome to come and pray. He is always welcome to be part of

00:05:13.260 the worshiping body, but not to use the mantle of the church to communicate a political message.

00:05:24.380 Again, we're back to judging a book by its cover. I mean, you could play that video on mute and you can

00:05:29.500 guess everything she's going to say, pretty much word for word. You can guarantee she's going to talk

00:05:34.300 about the plight of black and brown people and how bad Donald Trump is and so on and so on. 0.64

00:05:39.100 She doesn't have to even open her mouth. It's just that we all know what's coming.

00:05:42.860 And of course, there's no self-awareness to any of it. This woman, this fake bishop, 0.87

00:05:47.340 has built her entire career around using the mantle of the church to communicate a political message.

00:05:53.100 For more than a decade, she's done exactly what she's accusing Donald Trump of doing.

00:05:58.140 And after St. John's was torched, she doubled down on that approach.

00:06:01.100 This is worth reiterating because it was one of the single most remarkable moments of the first

00:06:05.580 Trump presidency. The left nearly burned down a historic church in DC and they made Trump into

00:06:11.500 the villain of that story. They blamed him because a day later, the US park police cleared out the

00:06:16.780 violent protesters in Lafayette Square. And supposedly that was clear evidence that Trump was a fascist 0.90

00:06:21.260 dictator or something. And to push that narrative, every mainstream outlet sought an interview with

00:06:26.300 Marianne Buddy. They even interrupted their broadcast to make sure that Marianne's grievances 1.00

00:06:31.500 could be heard. Here was CNN, for example.

00:06:35.020 Everyone, hold on. We've got someone on the phone that we want to hear from. Marianne Buddy is the

00:06:38.540 bishop of the District of Columbia who oversees the church that the president just used as a photo

00:06:42.780 op. Bishop Buddy, thank you for being here. What are your thoughts as you saw what happened?

00:06:49.580 And as you look at these images now of so many Americans crying out in the streets for law and

00:06:56.140 order. Law and order that is applied equally to all of us, regardless of color, regardless of economic

00:07:03.340 status. I want to thank you for letting me be on this, be part of this conversation. Let me be clear.

00:07:11.500 The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of

00:07:17.420 the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the

00:07:24.540 teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for. And to do so, as you just said, he

00:07:30.780 sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the church guard. I am outraged.

00:07:40.140 Yes, police in riot gear had to use tear gas to clear the churchyard,

00:07:43.660 and because there was a riot, and that's how you deal with that. And you're supposed to conclude

00:07:48.940 that this is completely outrageous. After all the peaceful protesters were, you know, all they were

00:07:54.540 doing is just trying to set a church on fire. And yet, in that whole rant, which I just played in

00:07:58.780 its entirety, she never once mentions anything about how the church was just set on fire by BLM

00:08:03.500 a day earlier. It doesn't come up. CNN doesn't mention it. Because if it ever happened. This is

00:08:10.620 the extent of overt lying we were all subjected to just four years ago. They deliberately omit

00:08:16.460 all relevant information in order to push the most extreme false narrative they can think of. And

00:08:20.780 in this case, the narrative was that Trump was the bad guy because he was using the church as a

00:08:24.540 photo op. So BLM gets a pass for burning the church down, but Trump doesn't get a pass for

00:08:29.500 appearing in front of it afterwards. He's also apparently to blame because the violent thugs

00:08:34.300 outside the church who were throwing stones at cops were eventually cleared out by park police.

00:08:38.620 Apparently, park police were supposed to just let those protesters continue to terrorize

00:08:42.460 Lafayette Square indefinitely. They should still be doing it if they want to.

00:08:47.340 Now, this is all just background, of course. It's a lesson in recent history that

00:08:51.180 most of us still remember, but there's a reason I bring it up.

00:08:53.900 The reason is that given all this background, which all played out very publicly,

00:09:00.060 it is remarkable and outrageous that Donald Trump's advance team apparently didn't know

00:09:06.780 what they were getting into when they sent Trump and J.D. Vance to listen to a sermon

00:09:11.260 from this very same Marianne Buddy yesterday for the National Prayer Service, which

00:09:15.980 was held at the Washington National Cathedral.

00:09:20.700 Very predictably, Marianne Buddy, who's been an outspoken Trump critic for years,

00:09:25.900 used her sermon as an opportunity to lecture Trump and Vance about the plight of so-called trans kids

00:09:33.500 and illegal aliens. This was, again, entirely inevitable. There was no way that she wouldn't 1.00

00:09:41.020 use her sermon to extol the virtues of transgenderism and illegal immigration. I mean, it's unlikely this 0.89

00:09:45.980 woman has ever given a sermon in her entire life that did not extol the virtues of transgenderism and

00:09:51.420 illegal immigration. Trump should not have been put in this extremely foreseeable situation.

00:09:58.700 But he was, and it led to this.

00:10:01.340 Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you.

00:10:11.100 And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.

00:10:17.260 In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.

00:10:32.620 There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in democratic, republican, and independent families,

00:10:40.860 some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings,

00:10:52.380 who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants,

00:10:58.620 and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation.

00:11:06.220 But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors.

00:11:15.980 They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, wadara, and temples.

00:11:26.060 I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away,

00:11:32.700 and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.

00:11:44.220 Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land.

00:11:55.420 May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being,

00:12:06.380 to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God,

00:12:14.060 for the good of all people, the good of all people in this nation and the world.

00:12:20.380 Now, you know, it's kind of funny. It's actually quite funny that whenever anyone on the left talks

00:12:27.820 about illegal aliens and how we shouldn't deport them, they immediately start babbling about how, 0.87

00:12:33.580 you know, the illegals are willing to do menial low wage jobs. Leftists can't help themselves. 0.50

00:12:38.380 They will just come out and admit, admit that they want a permanent underclass to clean their toilets 0.99

00:12:43.980 and pick their crops and shine their shoes. We can't deport illegals. Who will mop our floors? 1.00

00:12:50.220 I mean, that is literally their argument. Explicitly so. Their argument is don't take my slave labor from

00:12:56.620 me. I don't want to do this myself. I don't want to take out my own garbage. Gross. So it's not about

00:13:03.580 dignity or human rights or whatever nonsense. They want slave labor. And that's what it comes down to. 1.00

00:13:07.660 And they'll they'll admit it. They don't care if these illegal aliens broke the law to come into 1.00

00:13:13.260 the country. They don't care if these illegal aliens are raping women on university campuses 1.00

00:13:16.780 or driving drunk and wiping out entire families. All they care about is whether they can pick up some 1.00

00:13:21.260 cheap labor from the Home Depot parking lot, you know, so they can do a bathroom renovation 0.97

00:13:26.700 without having to pay too much. And then, of course, there's the discussion about transgender

00:13:32.940 children, quote unquote, who are supposedly in fear of their lives. Now, again, this woman 0.99

00:13:38.140 is only capable of repeating stock left wing talking points. And in this case.

00:13:43.660 She's employing very familiar emotional blackmail. Apparently, we're supposed to conclude that

00:13:48.140 the merciful thing to do for these confused, supposedly transgender children is to permanently 1.00

00:13:53.760 sterilize and disfigure them. Marianne says that the most Christlike thing we can do is chop off the 0.99

00:14:01.160 breasts of a 15 year old girl. What would Jesus do? Well, according to Marianne, he would dismember 0.99

00:14:08.280 children. Now, this is blasphemy of the most extreme kind. Hell exists for people like Marianne.

00:14:17.720 That's why it's there for her. Although unless she repents, which I hope that she does.

00:14:25.240 But if she doesn't, hellfire awaits. Although I do admit so-called trans kids 1.00

00:14:31.600 do fear for their lives. I mean, she's right about that. The kids that identify as trans fear for their 1.00

00:14:40.000 lives. I don't deny that they fear for their lives because because the horrifically abusive adults in

00:14:46.680 their lives have told them that they should fear. They fear for their lives because they've been

00:14:52.660 exploited and brainwashed by wicked witches like Marianne. And of course, you know, this grotesque 0.99

00:15:00.660 display is coming from a female priest. You will only ever hear heresy and inanity coming from someone 1.00

00:15:09.560 whose whole existence is blasphemous. Okay. I mean, we've talked about the plague of female pastors 1.00

00:15:16.380 before and how scripture makes it very clear repeatedly that women cannot serve as pastors

00:15:21.640 or have authority over men in the church. We don't need to make that whole argument again. I don't need

00:15:27.340 to cite the letters of St. Paul on this point as clear and unequivocal as they are. I mean, it's,

00:15:33.520 it's, you just can't do anything about it. It's what the scripture says. Very, very clear,

00:15:37.560 very clear. Um, but you know, we don't even need to get into that because Marianne Buddy makes the

00:15:43.900 argument for us. She is exhibit A for why women should not be pastors, priests, or bishops. 0.86

00:15:49.360 She would rather engage in emotional blackmail and blasphemy than preach the word of God.

00:15:54.440 And again, it's, it's no surprise because by just by claiming the position that she's claimed,

00:16:00.020 she has already put her in a position for herself in a position of being above God,

00:16:05.600 of having an authority above God, because God through scripture is very clear about whether

00:16:10.120 women can be pastors. They can't. And so Marianne Buddy and every other female pastor in the world 1.00

00:16:16.660 is saying, I know a little bit more than you do, God. Sorry. I think I know. So I think I,

00:16:21.900 I think I know a thing or two. Sorry, uh, uh, Lord almighty of the universe. You know,

00:16:28.160 your views on this are a bit antiquated. I think I know. I think I, I think I, you know,

00:16:32.720 again with the times, God of the universe, what do you know? I mean, that's what they're all saying,

00:16:39.140 every single one of them. And she'll do that while claiming at the same time to be engaged in some kind 1.00

00:16:44.400 of pursuit of the truth. Watch. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger.

00:16:54.760 For we will all want strangers in this land.

00:16:59.040 May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being,

00:17:09.200 to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God.

00:17:17.400 Now you can tell from the reactions by Trump and Vance and their families that, uh, nobody expected

00:17:21.900 this. Um, afterwards at the white house, Trump basically said that the sermon was unbearable.

00:17:26.200 Uh, and he, then he put out a statement later in the night, you know, condemning, uh, the,

00:17:32.380 the, this, the way he was treated and rightfully so. Um, and it was also extremely predictable.

00:17:38.700 I mean, if you know anything about this fake Bishop or do five minutes of research into her,

00:17:42.420 and yet somehow again, I mean, this is not Trump's fault. It's not his job. He's the

00:17:46.120 president of the United States. He's got, he's, he's, he's, you know, he's in the middle of

00:17:48.580 signing 200 executive orders. He can't go look into the background of the pastor who's doing the

00:17:53.760 prayer service, but he has a team. That's your job. You're going to, you're going to have the

00:18:00.440 president of the United States who just took office on camera, sitting in a pew, listening

00:18:05.340 to a sermon from somebody and nobody looked into who that person is and what they might say.

00:18:13.860 Uh, well, you can bet there are some conversations in the white house right now about how exactly

00:18:17.740 that occurred. And I hope that whoever ultimately should have caught that. I hope that person's

00:18:21.380 fired. Uh, it just, we, this is not okay. This is, these are the kinds of mistakes that the kind

00:18:29.140 of, I hope unintentional sabotage, uh, that could derail the whole program for the next four years.

00:18:37.540 But there's also a lesson there for the rest of us, which is this, um, we should not be overconfident

00:18:42.940 in the wake of Trump's win. Yes, it was a major victory. Yes. Trump and his supporters defied all

00:18:47.820 the odds, but the fact remains that leftism is embedded deeply in our culture and our institutions,

00:18:52.740 including and especially the Christian church in America. Now, granted a female Episcopal bishop

00:18:58.400 is not a part of the Christian church, but that is exactly the point. Uh, there are many wolves in 1.00

00:19:04.660 sheep's clothing, many left-wing infiltrators masquerading as shepherds for Christ. And the

00:19:10.960 infiltration is vast in scope and deep rooting out DEI in the federal government as difficult as they

00:19:17.500 may be. It's still a lot easier than rooting out the cancer of heresy and leftist propaganda in

00:19:22.800 America's churches. But after yesterday's prayer service in Washington's national cathedral, which

00:19:28.020 somehow took a lot of people by surprise, it's clear that it's a fight that we need to wage

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00:20:58.080 This is going to need a longer monologue. There's a lot going on. Hard to keep track of it all. But

00:21:02.440 Trump is continuing what I think we can already call the greatest first week of a presidency in

00:21:08.480 U.S. history. I mean, it's just unprecedented. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this.

00:21:12.720 Certainly in our lifetime, we haven't. We're 48 hours in, and he has already been far more

00:21:24.440 productive in two days than Biden was in four years. There's no question about it.

00:21:28.760 But even in comparison to his own first term, this is the pace and the amount that is being achieved,

00:21:40.660 the amount of things, the amount of objectives that are being cleared here, boxes that are being

00:21:46.620 checked, is unmatched even by his own first term, and significantly so. So here's the latest. Fox

00:21:53.720 reports, the Federal Office of Personnel Management notified heads of agencies and departments that

00:21:59.060 they must begin taking steps to close all diversity, equity, and inclusion offices by the end of the

00:22:03.760 day Wednesday and place government workers in those offices on paid leave. Acting Director of the Office

00:22:09.100 of Personnel Management Charles Ezell sent a memo to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies

00:22:14.320 on Wednesday, directing them that by no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, they are to send an agency-wide

00:22:21.120 notice to employees, informing them of the closure, and asking employees if they know of any efforts to

00:22:24.640 disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. That's very important. Send a notification

00:22:31.020 to all employees of DEI offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective

00:22:35.860 immediately. Take down all outward-facing media of DEI offices. Withdraw any final or pending documents,

00:22:43.820 directives, order of materials, and equity plans issued by the agency in response to the now

00:22:48.020 repealed executive order 14035. Cancel any DEI-related training and terminate any DEI-related contracts.

00:22:58.180 So this is very thorough. Just trying to root, take this thing out by the roots is the goal here.

00:23:08.020 And this is obviously tremendous. It's a huge one. It's another huge one. These moves by Trump are not

00:23:16.220 nearly symbolic. I mean, he's actually shutting down these programs. This is happening right now.

00:23:22.180 Firing the people responsible for them. And it's amazing to see. Again, nothing like his first term.

00:23:29.500 He's not waiting around this time. You know, he's getting right to it. And it is quite thrilling to see.

00:23:35.600 Now, normally, the downside to taking all these executive actions is that the next guy can come

00:23:43.540 in there and just reverse it all. Like Trump is doing to Biden right now. Of course, the worry is

00:23:49.280 that, well, the next guy who comes in can do exactly the same thing. And some of that is to some extent

00:23:56.640 inevitable because that's just how the system works. Eventually, we will have, unfortunately,

00:24:01.280 another Democrat president and they are going to try to erase progress Trump has made. Now, hopefully, 0.76

00:24:08.220 if everything is set up correctly and we're planning for the future, then there's no reason why we can't

00:24:17.140 have 12 consecutive years of Republican presidency. But we'll see if it works out that way. And either

00:24:27.060 way, Democrats are going to be in there again sometime. And then you're going to you're going

00:24:31.500 to have some of that. The good news, though, is that many of these moves will not be very easy to

00:24:38.160 reverse from a political and cultural perspective. I mean, first of all, if Congress comes sort of

00:24:46.100 follows up behind by codifying these these executive actions into law, which is what they should be

00:24:52.880 doing. That will provide a lot of security for the future and make it much, much harder for the

00:24:59.140 next guy to come in and undo. Because if you have legislation behind it, then the next Democrat,

00:25:05.220 they could try to reverse the executive order, but they can't just by executive order reverse

00:25:09.280 legislation. So hopefully that will happen. And that's up to the Republican led legislature to do.

00:25:19.900 Um, I've been told that they will, you know, and even in conversations over the last few days in DC,

00:25:26.340 and I've talked to various, you know, uh, prominent lawmakers that I've run into at some of these

00:25:33.340 things. And, and we've, when I've, we've talked about this, uh, I've been told that, that that's what

00:25:39.160 they're going to do. That's exactly the plan is, uh, is to codify these executive orders into law.

00:25:45.980 But the other thing too, is that culturally DEI is massively unpopular. So there's very little

00:25:52.480 support for it. And what's more, uh, we're all going to experience now at least the next four

00:26:00.940 years without any DEI in the federal government, that's going to be gone from the federal government

00:26:06.440 for at least the next four years. So we're all going to get a chance to experience life

00:26:11.640 without a federal government that's enforcing DEI mandates. And nothing bad is going to happen

00:26:20.580 as a result of that. There will be no negative consequences of any kind. There will be no,

00:26:26.380 no, no crisis is going to occur. There's not gonna be any catastrophic result that we have to deal with

00:26:32.120 quite the opposite. There'll be huge benefits, a great payoff of the government will run better,

00:26:37.380 more efficiently, more effectively without being weighed down by this DEI madness.

00:26:41.380 So there isn't going to be any great public outcry to reinstate DEI. Now, sure, the left

00:26:47.840 will be crying about it. They're gonna be crying about a lot of things for the next four years,

00:26:50.500 but it'll be very much an uphill battle for them the whole way because people now can experience

00:26:55.640 what the left did not want us to experience, which is a country without

00:27:00.040 DEI and affirmative action and all of that. And once you experience that, it becomes extremely obvious,

00:27:05.340 it becomes very self-evident that those things served no good purpose. Because unless you're

00:27:10.460 a federal employee, you just lost your job. Now, for you, it's tough and too bad. But for all the

00:27:16.840 rest of us, our lives, it doesn't matter how, you could be a Democrat voter, far left, your life's

00:27:21.760 gonna continue along just like it did before. And so it'll be very clear that these programs were

00:27:28.780 not improving our lives or increasing our well-being in the slightest. And there's another

00:27:36.000 point here too. And like I said, we'll flesh this out later. But when we talk about making sure that

00:27:43.420 these changes are permanent, so Trump's doing what he can with executive orders, but everybody else has

00:27:49.620 to do their part. And part of that is that the people responsible for all of this,

00:27:55.540 the people who imposed DEI, affirmative action, gender ideology, and so on,

00:28:01.360 they cannot be let off the hook. I mean, it will not be enough to simply defeat their ideological

00:28:07.420 program. They have to be punished. They have to be humiliated and financially ruined and left

00:28:12.960 destitute. And some of them should go to prison. And even if they don't go to prison,

00:28:19.580 they need to be bankrupted. And the stage is now set for massive lawsuits against these people.

00:28:30.240 Lawsuits because of the discrimination that those who were not in protected classes have endured

00:28:37.480 because of these DEI programs, on the gender ideology side of it, of course, massive lawsuits.

00:28:43.000 We're already seeing some of this against the doctors and medical professionals,

00:28:47.400 so-called medical professionals who harmed children in unspeakable ways. So these people

00:28:53.640 need to be ruined, punish them, show no mercy, pull the roots out so that there's no one left 0.97

00:29:01.260 to regrow the plant. Make an example out of these people as a warning for anyone in the future.

00:29:08.220 Make them pay a price, a very steep price. It's a matter of justice. It's also a matter of ensuring

00:29:13.620 that these changes last. Here's another executive order that I like. President Donald Trump has

00:29:22.080 ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weaken job protections for

00:29:26.860 civil servants, the first salvos in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy. The one-two punch would

00:29:31.760 force large numbers of white-collar government employees to forfeit remote working arrangements,

00:29:35.700 reversing a trend that took off in the early stages of the COVID pandemic.

00:29:38.280 It, if upheld by the courts, the measures could also strip mid-level officials of the legal

00:29:43.280 guarantees that generally keep them insulated from ideological purges. The two orders are being

00:29:49.540 paired with a hiring freeze and the creation of an advisory body, dubbed the Department of Government

00:29:54.680 Efficiency, DOGE, which is meant to help Trump take huge chunks out of the federal government and

00:29:59.460 eliminate some agencies wholesale. Experts say the accurate effect of the changes will be to drive

00:30:04.060 frustrated government employees out of their jobs, a goal the Trump team is explicitly gunning for.

00:30:10.400 So this is another great, great move. As it says at the end of the article, the effect of forcing

00:30:15.380 government employees to actually show up to work is that a number of them will quit. If they have to

00:30:22.440 actually work, if they have to actually show up and contribute, they're just going to quit. And that's

00:30:28.580 great. That's great. I mean, if you don't want to come to work and you want to stay home,

00:30:36.400 stay home. That's fine. That works better for everybody, I think. And then they're going to

00:30:43.560 end up in the private sector where they will soon discover that there isn't much demand for ex

00:30:48.620 bureaucrats who are looking for jobs that won't force them to do any real work. And there'll be even 0.99

00:30:54.440 less demand when there's going to be this, you know, sudden rush of these ex bureaucrats in the 1.00

00:31:02.000 private sector, all of them looking for the same do nothing jobs. So I think they're going to be in

00:31:08.040 for a rude awakening. But, you know, at least they'll be out of the government. And so that's

00:31:15.760 that's one effect of ending the work from home arrangement is that you're just in one fell

00:31:22.980 without even having to fire them in one fell swoop. You're getting rid of the most, the most

00:31:27.280 useless bureaucrats of all. I mean, most bureaucrats are useless. Ninety five percent of them are useless. 1.00

00:31:32.300 But the most useless ones are going to be the ones who just refuse to actually come into the office. 0.99

00:31:40.880 They want to stay home because they've been doing nothing. And so, yeah, that's that's one benefit. 0.93

00:31:45.760 But I also think this is just a good policy in general. I think that, you know, even even aside

00:31:51.220 from the added benefit, the indirect benefit of chasing bureaucrats out of their jobs, it's just

00:31:56.860 it's a good move. It's a good policy to require people to come into work. You need to show up for

00:32:01.340 work. You know, there are exceptions to this general rule, but generally speaking, you're going to be far

00:32:07.920 less productive when you're working from home. And and in particular, you're not going to be able to

00:32:16.200 collaborate as effectively or at all. And that's why in most cases I'm opposed to remote work because

00:32:24.220 you need to be in person. You need to be like with your team. And if you're working from home,

00:32:28.840 you're basically on vacation. That's the truth. And we all know that people are going to say

00:32:37.120 remote workers will claim otherwise. They're going to say, oh, I'm just as productive as the studies.

00:32:43.100 The studies show they'll start trotting out all the studies that show that remote workers are just as

00:32:49.480 productive as non remote workers. Yeah. How do you do those studies? Like those studies are all done by

00:32:54.760 remote workers trying to justify their jobs. And it's all guaranteed self-reported data. You know,

00:32:58.940 it's like surveys. Are you productive in your remote job? Why? Yes, I am. I'll say the study show.

00:33:05.060 So it, you know, this is one of those things. I don't need studies. I don't need any data.

00:33:11.180 It's just common sense. It's common sense. When you, when you, when you let people stay home in

00:33:16.760 their pajamas and work on their couch, they're going to get less done. Like they're just going to get less

00:33:20.960 done. Now it's true that a lot of people that go into offices and don't get a lot done. That's also

00:33:25.380 true. But the thing, the thing, the thing about all the things about an office environment or most

00:33:31.880 of the things about an office environment that allow people to do very little, most of those things

00:33:39.300 you're going to have in a remote work environment, but worse, you know? So that's it. And, you know,

00:33:48.520 one of the dumbest arguments for remote work is that, you know, I hear this sometimes, 0.88

00:33:53.980 especially from conservatives who are trying to justify, they'll say, well, it's more traditional. 0.94

00:33:58.440 You know, this is the, it's traditional to work from home because traditionally prior to the industrial

00:34:04.940 age, you know, you wouldn't leave your homestead to work. You'd be working at home on the farm or

00:34:13.660 whatever, but that's not at all, even slightly analogous to modern remote work because working

00:34:19.700 from home traditionally was something that you did out in the fields or out in the forest hunting.

00:34:25.960 You know, you're out building things and all of that. There's a lot of manual labor being done.

00:34:31.740 It was not something that you did on your couch in your pajamas. Okay. You know, traditionally

00:34:37.120 working from home was not, you were not in bed all day doing it. So this is a whole different thing.

00:34:44.620 And, you know, I kind of hate it. I hate trying to work with people who are working from home 1.00

00:34:51.040 because I can't work with a disembodied voice on the phone or like a face on the screen. It's very

00:34:55.860 difficult to work that way. You need to be in the same place. Now, granted in a creative field,

00:34:59.860 it's a little bit different. Some of it's inevitable. You know, when we were working on our films,

00:35:05.300 for example, the team is spread out across the country. So just like, it's inevitable,

00:35:09.380 unavoidable that you're going to, that everyone's remote from each other. And, but it kind of proves

00:35:15.200 my point because when you, when you have that, then you can get the team together in one space

00:35:20.260 physically, you're going to find that you get a lot more done. And it's just the creative energy

00:35:26.500 is, is, is different. It's better. Now in these government jobs, there's not a lot of creativity. So

00:35:33.800 that, that part doesn't really matter as much, but just go to work, go to work. It's healthier.

00:35:40.760 You know what too, I also think, and this, this, I guess this will be controversial. I don't care.

00:35:45.300 Uh, in particular, if you're a man, I think that, you know, when, when you're, when you're working

00:35:52.540 from home and especially if you have a wife and kids and your wife and kids are just kind of like,

00:35:57.140 they can just see you in sweatpants every day, like sitting on a computer and you call it working,

00:36:04.300 it's just not, it's, it's healthier for them to see you get up, get dressed, leave the house,

00:36:11.860 go do a job, come back. It's just a, it's a healthier environment, I think.

00:36:17.540 Uh, all right. NBC news has this senators received an affidavit Tuesday from the former

00:36:26.500 sister-in-law defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, in which she says his behavior caused

00:36:31.280 his second wife to fear for her safety. The receipt of the affidavit comes after Senate

00:36:36.900 armed services committee staffers were in contact with Hegseth's former sister-in-law for several

00:36:41.020 days, former sister-in-law, Daniel Hegseth, uh, submitted the affidavit response to a January

00:36:46.100 18th letter from Senator Jack Reed, seeking a statement, attesting to your personal knowledge

00:36:50.240 about Mr. Hegseth's fitness to occupy this important position. Um, and Reed said in a

00:36:57.620 statement Tuesday, as I've said for months, the reports of Mr. Hegseth's history of alleged

00:37:01.620 sexual assault, alcohol abuse and public misconduct necessitated an exhaustive background investigation.

00:37:06.720 I've been concerned that the background check process has been inadequate and this sworn

00:37:10.860 affidavit confirms the fact. Danielle describes in the affidavit allegations of 0.97

00:37:15.940 volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his second wife, Samantha Hegseth,

00:37:20.260 fear for her safety. Among the allegations are that Samantha hid in a closet once from Hegseth,

00:37:25.720 that she developed escape plans for use if she felt she needed to get away from Hegseth,

00:37:30.200 that would be activated with a code word, and that she did once put the escape plan into action.

00:37:35.160 Now, in an email, uh, response on Monday, Samantha Hegseth said,

00:37:38.560 first and foremost, I have not and will not comment on my marriage to Pete Hegseth.

00:37:41.540 I do not have representatives speaking on my behalf, nor have I ever asked anyone to share

00:37:45.400 or speak about the details of my marriage on my behalf, whether it be a reporter, a committee

00:37:49.620 member, a transition team member, et cetera. I do not believe your information to be accurate,

00:37:53.580 and I have CC'd my lawyer. Uh, and then later she followed up and said there was no physical

00:37:58.160 abuse in my marriage and she's not going to talk about it anymore. Okay. So the former sister-in-law 0.95

00:38:03.920 says that Hegseth abused his second wife. The woman herself, the second wife, Samantha,

00:38:08.500 says that it didn't happen and that she doesn't want to be involved in this, in this whole thing.

00:38:14.360 And that's the end, you know, it's kind of the end of the story where it should be.

00:38:17.080 There's not a lot else, not a lot else to talk about. You've got a bitter former relative with,

00:38:22.040 um, who apparently is, you know, got a allegedly a political axe to grind, you know, so there's

00:38:28.340 somebody on the left. So as a personal and political axe to grind, making secondhand accusations

00:38:33.840 on behalf of somebody who says herself that it didn't happen and she doesn't want to be involved.

00:38:41.660 Um, now we've obviously talked a lot about the, the death of wokeness and I'm not going to belabor

00:38:47.940 the point here again, but this is yet, uh, I would say this is yet another sign, another symptom

00:38:53.560 of the death of wokeness because they tried to meet to Pete Hegseth. And by all rights,

00:39:04.440 we'll kind of take this for granted, but now, but you know, now you can take it for granted,

00:39:08.000 but you think back by all rights, judging by recent history, Pete Hegseth is a perfect candidate

00:39:13.360 for a me to smear campaign for an effective one. He's a white conservative man, Fox news host,

00:39:21.600 who like anyone has his own personal issues. Everybody does. Uh, they have some accusers lined

00:39:27.980 up ready to make their evidence free allegations. We've seen this story a million times and the

00:39:36.660 difference is that if this was six years ago, it probably would have worked. Um, Hegseth most likely

00:39:44.860 would have been screwed because they would have been able to turn him into a pariah and brand him 0.98

00:39:49.460 as an abuser and a rape and a rapist without evidence as they, as they did to so many other 0.99

00:39:56.160 people during the height of the me too hysteria. Um, as they did the Kavanaugh now with Kavanaugh, 0.96

00:40:02.120 it didn't work in the sense that they didn't stop him from being, uh, from, from him actually

00:40:07.040 becoming a Supreme court justice, but from a reputational damage standpoint, it did work

00:40:14.300 here though. It's just a total flop. The, the me too campaign against Hegseth is completely flopping.

00:40:23.620 He's going to be confirmed. The vast majority of elected Republicans aren't paying any attention

00:40:29.040 to the slander or pretending to take it seriously. Um, you're not getting a lot of,

00:40:35.220 you know, you're not even getting like the squishy Republicans who come out and say, well,

00:40:39.040 these, these are very concerning allegations. We have to take this. There's not even getting very

00:40:43.000 much of that. Um, and then kind of culturally, I think most people aren't paying attention.

00:40:48.360 They don't really care that much. Uh, so the me too campaign here is shouting into a void.

00:40:53.520 Nobody cares. It's all for nothing. And that's not to take away from the impact. This kind of

00:40:58.920 defamation must be having on Hegseth personally and emotionally. Uh, it's all still very evil and

00:41:04.500 terrible what they're doing. Don't get me wrong. But my point is that they are failing utterly

00:41:10.520 in their actual objective. Um, and so the, the, you know, we, we've seen the death of DEI. We've seen

00:41:20.140 gender ideology very much on the ropes. Um, and this, now we're seeing me too. Um, the final nail

00:41:28.440 in its coffin as well. I think it kind of dies with Pete exit. This was its, this was its last

00:41:32.560 dying gasp was, uh, it was, was trying to take down Pete Hegseth and they've completely failed.

00:41:40.520 Uh, thankfully, let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:48.260 Imagine telling someone who lived a hundred years ago that a president had to issue an executive

00:42:52.020 order defining the difference between man and woman, and that there were people upset about

00:42:55.920 that. Well, there are many things about the modern age that would be incomprehensible to

00:42:59.680 somebody a hundred years ago, and this is probably at the top of the list. Referring to the Elon

00:43:07.280 faux Nazi salute allegations, someone says, most people don't understand an overexcited introvert in

00:43:14.540 public. Yeah, although I think, you know, I'm not sure they don't understand. I think they do

00:43:19.620 understand. I think they're pretending that they don't. I think all the people claiming that Elon

00:43:24.960 deliberately did a Nazi salute are pretending. I don't think that they actually believe that.

00:43:30.160 I don't, I don't think anyone actually believes that Elon Musk is a Nazi. I just don't think that's

00:43:37.060 a, a view, a viewpoint, a perspective that anyone sincerely holds. I don't think that there is space

00:43:45.760 for the USA to expand its territory. Greenland is not just Danish. It's also European and the 500

00:43:50.600 million indigenous Europeans will not be thrilled. Okay. Well, number one, I don't really care what 1.00

00:43:57.660 they think about it. Greenland is on our continent. Our continent is our business. And second, the

00:44:03.240 proposal that Trump has been floating is to buy Greenland, not to take it by force. I mean,

00:44:08.760 we could take it by force, but the idea is to buy it. And I think that's what's going to happen.

00:44:14.660 Can't be too expensive. Like you could probably get it on eBay for what? 85 bucks or something.

00:44:22.920 I'm excited about Trump winning. I like some of the stuff Elon has done, but I'm still skeptical

00:44:26.600 about the dude. And Mars is one of the things I don't get. How are we going to go to Mars? Because

00:44:32.140 we think earth might be too hard to live on. The least hospitable places on earth are more fit to

00:44:37.000 live on than Mars. How about starting projects to terraform our deserts? At least they have breathable

00:44:41.700 air. You don't have to transport terraforming equipment and a specialized crew millions of

00:44:45.480 miles across space to get there. That would be more worthwhile in my opinion. You know, I actually

00:44:51.520 don't disagree. I personally don't see the utility in trying to colonize Mars. And as you say, if we're

00:44:59.140 going to convert unlivable hellscapes into livable spaces, we could start by doing that on our own

00:45:06.340 desert wastelands. I mean, at least nothing else, if for no other reason than kind of a proof of concept,

00:45:11.700 I know they've done experiments and that sort of thing in deserts and

00:45:15.220 in, you know, really inhospitable places on earth where they've used that to simulate

00:45:21.360 the environment on another planet or in space. But really a proof of concept would be to,

00:45:28.280 as you say, take a place in the desert somewhere and turn it into a livable community and actually

00:45:36.860 have people move in and live there and just kind of see how that works out over the course of years.

00:45:43.880 And then maybe you'll have some evidence that something similar could be done on Mars, although

00:45:51.000 it's a, the task would be much, much greater. But for me, so I kind of agree with you.

00:45:57.980 Now, again, I go back to, and this is, you know, I'm not one to just say, well, trust the experts, but

00:46:06.420 Elon Musk, guy who runs SpaceX, does know a lot more about this than, than we do. And he seems to

00:46:14.660 think that it's very doable to colonize Mars. And so I do defer a little bit on that, but, but for me,

00:46:21.460 it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't even matter because it doesn't make me any less excited about

00:46:26.600 landing a human on Mars. Because for me, it's not about doing anything practical with the space,

00:46:33.900 right? It's not about using it. You go to Mars because you can, that's why you do it. You achieve

00:46:42.720 the goal for its own sake. I mean, why was it an achievement for Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary to,

00:46:50.360 to, to, to be the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1950, 53, I believe. Why was that

00:46:57.280 an achievement? We're not using the space for anything, right? We didn't go up there and set up

00:47:04.540 an apartment complex. No, you, he climbed it because no one never had before. He climbed it because it's

00:47:12.500 there and because he can. And so you do it because it's an achievement. You do it for its own sake.

00:47:18.100 And that's how I look at, um, landing on another planet. I mean, I don't understand the people.

00:47:27.000 I get it. If you have questions about the, the, the practicality of setting up human colonies on

00:47:35.340 other planets, but I cannot wrap my head around people who see no value at all in going to another

00:47:46.160 planet. Really? Being able to send for the United States of America to be able to send a person to

00:47:53.580 another planet, be the first people to ever do it. The greatest achievement in the history of the

00:48:00.640 human race by far. I mean, it would be, it wouldn't be anything that even comes close to it. 0.99

00:48:06.660 And I don't get the, it's like, you really don't see the value in that. That wouldn't make,

00:48:13.600 that wouldn't excite you. That's the one, you know, the one reason why I kind of dread

00:48:20.300 the, the future possibility of landing on Mars. The one thing that makes me dreaded

00:48:27.100 is how, is how angry and frustrated I know I'm going to be by the reaction from so many in the

00:48:34.260 American public. That's the one thing about it that I I'm just anticipating that, that 10 years 0.79

00:48:40.240 from now, whenever it is that we land on Mars, I just know ahead of time, I'm going to be so pissed

00:48:44.080 off by the way some people in America reacted. Cause I tell you, here's what's going to happen.

00:48:49.680 You're going to have the normal people like me who are exuberance about it. It's the most

00:48:57.160 incredible thing we've ever seen swelling with, with patriotic pride, a moment that we will never

00:49:03.900 forget that we were happy. We lived long enough just to see it. So there's, there's going to be

00:49:09.080 us. Then you're going to have some people who just refuse to believe that it actually happened.

00:49:15.500 So that's going to be a thing. We already know that there's going to be people before it even

00:49:20.720 just ahead of time, they will just not believe it. There's no matter what, no matter what evidence,

00:49:25.860 it doesn't matter. They won't believe that it happened. You won't be able to convince them.

00:49:28.460 So there'll be all kinds of conspiracy theories about how it didn't even really happen.

00:49:32.200 So there's going to be that. And there's going to be probably the larger group of people who are

00:49:37.880 like, eh, what was the point? We can't even build a Walmart on Mars. What's the point?

00:49:46.380 There's not even a single shopping center there. What do we do that for?

00:49:51.600 So there's going to be so much of that and it's going to make me so angry. I'm angry ahead of time,

00:49:55.660 just anticipating. I'm going to be angry for years, just anticipating being angry about that.

00:50:02.200 Which is probably not very healthy psychologically.

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00:50:56.160 For our Daily Cancellation, I have to go back to the inauguration one last time. And this is not the

00:51:01.940 most important thing in the world, I admit. Although the Daily Cancellation was never intended to deal

00:51:06.420 with things that are the most important or even vaguely important, frankly. And that's how I can

00:51:10.840 justify talking about Senator John Fetterman, who decided to attend the inauguration on Monday

00:51:17.100 in his Sunday best. And because he is a cartoon character with a walk-in closet at home,

00:51:22.660 filled with 60 versions of the exact same outfit, his Sunday best looked like this. Here it is.

00:51:28.600 Now, as you can see, the senator decided to attend a presidential inauguration

00:51:43.780 in gym shorts and a hoodie. Every other man in the room is, of course, wearing a suit because

00:51:50.600 they're adults. And this is a presidential inauguration. But Fetterman decided to dress

00:51:55.300 like a teenage boy lounging around his parents' house. Now, granted, he did wear his fancy black

00:52:00.200 Carhartt hoodie for the occasion, which is basically Fetterman's version of a tuxedo. But

00:52:03.740 even so, a hoodie is a hoodie. And this is, I must remind you, a United States senator at a

00:52:09.920 presidential inauguration. Now, I understand that we're supposed to see this hoodie gimmick as

00:52:15.300 somehow endearing. I would have found it far more endearing to see Fetterman dragged out of the

00:52:21.120 ceremony in handcuffs by Secret Service for dressing that way. Even better, he should have

00:52:27.040 been refused entry to begin with. Okay? They should have, like in the sitcom, they should

00:52:32.940 have picked him up. I mean, it would have taken several of them to do this. But pick him up and

00:52:36.360 throw him, throw him out into the street, into a puddle. Okay? That's what they should have done.

00:52:42.180 That's the kind of reception that any normal person could expect if they tried to show up to an event

00:52:46.600 like that, dressed in their gym clothes. But Fetterman is given special treatment.

00:52:51.440 He's a United States senator, but we treat him like he's mentally disabled.

00:52:56.040 As though it's rude for us to notice that his outfit is insanely inappropriate for the occasion. 0.84

00:53:02.160 But Fetterman is not mentally disabled. Or I'll say, if he is, he should be removed from the Senate 0.59

00:53:08.240 immediately. If he isn't, he should be expected to abide by the basic standards of dress and decorum

00:53:13.800 that literally every other senator and congressman and public official, an adult of any profession,

00:53:18.860 anywhere, at any point on Earth, is expected to follow. The only possible legitimate excuse,

00:53:26.100 which is that Fetterman is mentally handicapped, should disqualify him from office.

00:53:31.480 There is no other excuse. And I certainly don't want to hear, as we have many times,

00:53:36.480 that Fetterman's rather bulbous build makes it impossible for him to find a suit that fits.

00:53:43.020 Yeah, we've heard that. I think he's offered that excuse. And that excuse might make sense 0.99

00:53:47.820 if tailors didn't exist, or if there was only one tailor in the entire world, and he lived on the

00:53:53.480 top of a mountain in the Himalayas, and you had to go on a nine-month journey on foot with a pack mule

00:53:57.400 just to find him and get your measurements taken. But as it happens, tailors are everywhere

00:54:01.640 and very easy to find, especially in D.C. Fetterman is a United States senator with a nice six-figure

00:54:09.660 salary. He can afford to get some adjustments done on a suit. It's not that expensive. In fact,

00:54:13.660 I bet he could get it done for free. If word got out that John Fetterman wants to start dressing like

00:54:18.220 a real grownup, there'd probably be tailors lining up to make him custom suits for free. It would be

00:54:24.600 great marketing for them. So if Fetterman is not severely mentally ill, and if he can in fact afford

00:54:30.600 to get a suit that fits him, what is the reason for this embarrassing display? I would never let my

00:54:37.540 eight-year-old son go to church on a random Sunday dressed like that. None of us would. I certainly hope

00:54:44.820 you wouldn't. So how is it that a senator is being held to a lower standard of dress than an elementary

00:54:51.500 school child? Well, I'm told that Fetterman presents this way because he's just a normal,

00:54:58.400 down-to-earth, working-class type guy. But that's precisely what he isn't. No working-class guy would

00:55:06.500 ever, in a million years, show up to an important formal event dressed like a disgusting slob. 1.00

00:55:13.580 Okay, I've been to many weddings and other formal events with plenty of normal, working-class people 0.94

00:55:19.900 in attendance, and I have never seen anyone ever adorned in a hoodie and gym shorts at an event

00:55:26.440 like that. And certainly, if a normal, working-class guy, if you just caught up any guy who's working

00:55:30.760 at, you know, call up any plumber right now and invite him to witness a presidential inauguration,

00:55:39.140 you think he's showing up in a hoodie and gym shorts? No, that's a man who says, well, this

00:55:44.400 is a historic event. I gotta, if I don't have a suit, I'm gonna buy one just for that. I'll do

00:55:49.340 whatever I can. I wanna present myself well. So that's what a normal working-class person,

00:55:54.140 so what a normal person of any social or economic class would say. Working-class guys have far too

00:55:59.900 much respect for the importance of the occasion, not to mention respect for themselves to show up

00:56:03.560 looking like that. Which is why if you're a working-class person or if you have any respect for

00:56:07.240 working-class people, that's all the more reason to be disgusted by Fetterman's behavior. He is

00:56:10.860 cosplaying. He's wearing a working-class costume. This is like the working-class version of blackface, 1.00

00:56:16.940 classface, maybe we could call it. It's demeaning. It's also monumentally arrogant.

00:56:21.980 That's the other reason why a person might show up to an inauguration in a hoodie and shorts. Either

00:56:26.080 he's mentally handicapped or he is a colossally arrogant prick who thinks the most basic standards 1.00

00:56:31.860 of decorum and conduct don't apply to him. Or I guess he could be drawing from a bit from column 1.00

00:56:37.600 A and column B, which may explain Fetterman. Now, I brought this up on Twitter and a lot of people

00:56:43.460 responded with some version of, oh, it's fine. He's just being himself. Well, yeah, that's exactly

00:56:50.540 the problem. His self is a problem. He needs to change himself. If I sit at your dinner table and I

00:56:57.920 chew loudly with my mouth open and I put my feet up at the table, I can't excuse it on the basis that

00:57:04.120 I'm just being myself. Of course, I'm being myself. We're all always being ourselves. We cannot be

00:57:11.080 anything but ourselves. Whatever I am being in any given moment is what myself is being because I am

00:57:17.120 myself. So in this case, myself is rude, crass, inconsiderate. Myself needs to change. Fetterman is

00:57:24.560 rude, crass, and inconsiderate. He should not be that. It is bad to be that. He needs to change. 0.97

00:57:31.160 If somebody showed up to your daughter's wedding, dressed the way that Fetterman dresses,

00:57:36.300 you would consider it an act of extreme disrespect because that's what it would be.

00:57:43.220 And that's what it is when Fetterman does it. It's not authentic or down to earth. It's just rude

00:57:47.600 and really bizarre. And I also don't want to hear, as I know I will in the comments,

00:57:55.480 that we should give him a pass because Fetterman is one of the good Democrats.

00:57:59.720 First of all, those don't exist. Second, I don't care. Okay? His politics are irrelevant to the point

00:58:06.260 I'm making. I don't care what his politics are. He can come out tomorrow as a full-on conservative

00:58:10.900 Republican. It wouldn't change the fact that you need to put a damn suit on. Okay? He still needs 1.00

00:58:16.320 to be a damn grown adult and put a suit on. That's why he is today. Sadly, cancel. That'll do it for 0.99

00:58:25.380 the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

00:58:28.920 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 22, 2025

Ep. 1520 - Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture

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