The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump has issued an executive order that will crush the

00:00:03.340 gender transition industry once and for all. It's one of the most important executive orders ever

00:00:07.020 written. We'll talk about it. Also, the Trump White House provides an explanation for those

00:00:10.540 drones that were terrorizing the East Coast for weeks on end. Trump puts a pause on all foreign

00:00:14.780 aid. Now he's being accused of not caring enough about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. A serious

00:00:19.280 question, why is that America's problem to solve? And a woman sues Lyft after a driver tells her

00:00:24.420 that she's too fat to fit into his car. We'll talk about that important case and much more today

00:00:28.880 on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:01.520 Here's a little history on barbaric medical experiments that you probably weren't taught

00:02:05.420 in school. In the early 1950s, lobotomies were having something of a heyday in the United States.

00:02:10.240 Approximately 50,000 lobotomies were performed in just a couple of years. Doctors were eager to drill

00:02:16.480 holes into people's skulls and carve out brain matter. But the United States was an outlier

00:02:21.780 in this regard. Elsewhere in the world, around the same time, lobotomies were being outlawed.

00:02:26.820 The Soviet Union banned lobotomies in 1950, with officials saying the practice was contrary to 1.00

00:02:31.300 the principles of humanity, because it turned people into, quote, idiots. Soon afterwards, 0.99

00:02:36.820 countries like Germany and Japan followed suit with their own bans of lobotomies. But the United

00:02:40.240 States never implemented a similar ban of its own. To this day, there is no federal decree banning

00:02:46.060 lobotomies, believe it or not, even though it's universally recognized as a grotesque procedure

00:02:50.680 that has a permanent catastrophic effect on some of those vulnerable people in society.

00:02:55.980 Now, in 2025, of course, this is something of a moot point. Lobotomies are not performed in the

00:03:00.680 United States anymore, thankfully. People become hollowed out 50 IQ shells of their former selves

00:03:06.140 through a steady diet of TikTok and Netflix instead of lobotomies. But at the same time,

00:03:12.100 we do have a kind of modern analog to lobotomies in this country. For the past decade or so,

00:03:18.260 the idea of transgender medicine has taken hold in pretty much every major hospital. Like lobotomies, 1.00

00:03:24.780 so-called trans medicine promises to fix a serious mental problem by artificially modifying, 0.55

00:03:30.120 and in some cases, carving up, the human body. And like lobotomies, oftentimes,

00:03:34.400 these transgender procedures are performed on children. And we've documented many times,

00:03:39.660 hospitals all over the country have provided cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to

00:03:43.680 minors in order to affirm their subjective sense of gender and to make a lot of money as well,

00:03:48.960 of course. And in some cases, hospitals have gone beyond that. They've offered full-on surgeries

00:03:53.060 as well, including double mastectomies and vaginoplasties to children under the age of 18.

00:03:58.380 This is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a right-wing talking point.

00:04:00.900 I mean, I think we've all established now, pull up research papers from, say,

00:04:05.540 Boston Children's Hospital, and you'll find that they've admitted to performing dozens of

00:04:09.240 double mastectomies on minors. Jazz Jennings was 17 years old when surgeons mutilated his genitals

00:04:14.420 and created a fake vagina in its place. So there's no denying it. As was the case with lobotomies, 0.99

00:04:21.760 children are being permanently disfigured in the name of junk science. But as of yesterday, 0.60

00:04:27.900 the analogy to lobotomies ends there. That's because this time around, the Trump administration

00:04:33.960 has made it very clear that we're not going to wait for the whole rest of the world to ban this

00:04:39.500 barbarism. We're going to do it ourselves. Now, thanks to four years of Democrat rule,

00:04:44.300 we are still, once again, behind much of the Western world here, where, in many cases,

00:04:49.700 this stuff has already been outlawed. But better late than never. And it has now been declared at the

00:04:55.220 highest levels of government that there is no justifiable reason whatsoever to castrate,

00:05:01.700 sterilize, or mutilate a young child in order to affirm that child's alleged gender identity, 0.61

00:05:07.220 which is a meaningless, invented, and completely unscientific concept in the first place.

00:05:12.980 We're going to lay the groundwork for massive lawsuits against the butchers who have taken part

00:05:17.440 in this affront to common sense and human decency. We're going to stop forcing taxpayers to subsidize

00:05:22.600 the quacks behind this fraud. We're going to empower the DOJ to pursue criminal action 1.00

00:05:27.180 against anyone who mutilates the genitals of a child. And that's just the beginning.

00:05:32.700 Now, all of these tenets were outlined in the executive order that Donald Trump signed yesterday,

00:05:36.640 which is entitled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.

00:05:40.800 Now, to be clear, this is distinct from Trump's other orders on gender ideology,

00:05:43.940 which we've already discussed. Previously, Trump has banned trans-identifying people in the military.

00:05:48.980 He's established that there are only two genders. He's eliminated all forms of DEI in the federal

00:05:54.400 government. But as important as those orders are, this one is even more expansive and far-reaching.

00:06:01.320 And it's not an exaggeration to say that Trump, I think, has just signed one of the top five

00:06:07.100 most important executive orders in the history of the United States, at a minimum.

00:06:12.460 So let's go through this in detail. And as we do, I'll make it clear what this order does and what

00:06:19.500 it doesn't do. So to begin with, the order defines gender-affirming care as the equivalent of chemical

00:06:26.060 and surgical mutilation, which encompasses everything from surgeries to puberty blockers

00:06:29.740 and cross-sex hormones. So right away, the federal government has just eliminated the Biden

00:06:34.240 administration's endorsement of gender-affirming care. And now we've replaced it with much more

00:06:39.120 accurate terminology. And if that was the only thing this executive order did, it would already

00:06:43.700 be a significant, huge win. But of course, it does a lot more than that. So the order then makes,

00:06:50.480 by far, its most important contribution to ending gender ideology in this country.

00:06:55.520 And I'll read a bit from the order here, and I'll explain why this matters so much. Quote,

00:07:00.100 the blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity,

00:07:05.000 spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH,

00:07:10.420 which lacks scientific integrity. And the order then states that all federal agencies, including

00:07:15.160 HHS, must rescind any and all reliance on WPATH guidelines. And then it states that the new HHS

00:07:23.440 secretary, quote, shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting

00:07:27.880 the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based

00:07:34.040 confusion. Now, on the surface, you might think that this particular part of the order

00:07:40.680 isn't necessarily that important, but it's actually critical for two reasons. First of all,

00:07:47.400 as I've outlined at some length before, WPATH is and has always been an organization full of 0.99

00:07:53.000 dishonest and demented charlatans. The internal WPATH filed, as reported by Michael Schellenberger, 0.81

00:07:58.760 demonstrated very clearly that WPATH understands that children can't consent

00:08:03.680 to chemical or physical castration, but they pushed it anyway, in part because the Biden

00:08:08.320 administration encouraged them to do so. And yet, major hospitals have adopted WPATH guideline for

00:08:13.860 so-called trans medicine wholesale over the last few years. This is happening for a very specific

00:08:20.060 reason. Doctors, including gender doctors, are terrified of one thing, which is malpractice lawsuits. 1.00

00:08:28.640 Because malpractice lawsuits can bankrupt doctors. They can destroy entire hospitals if they're big

00:08:34.760 enough. So, you know, there's a lot of risk involved in sterilizing or castrating a child.

00:08:40.240 A lot of financial risk. At the same time, these doctors desperately want to perform these procedures

00:08:45.400 because they make a lot of money for the hospital. As you might remember, I found a video of a Vanderbilt

00:08:50.380 doctor saying exactly that, that these things are a cash cow. So the solution that these gender doctors 1.00

00:08:58.160 have decided on is to defer to the self-appointed experts at WPATH. And they know that if they can

00:09:04.920 point to an established, quote, standard of care from some governing body, then they're basically

00:09:10.620 immune from malpractice lawsuits. Because that's how malpractice law works. If doctors can show that 0.93

00:09:15.840 they were just following guidelines, then you can't sue them. You know, even if they've done

00:09:21.480 something horrible to you, like castrate you as a child. And that's why this Trump executive order

00:09:26.540 is so important. You know, because from this point forward, the WPATH guidelines are no longer

00:09:32.560 the standard of care by any definition. The federal government and its health care agency, the HHS,

00:09:39.100 has just publicly rejected everything that WPATH stands for. The White House and HHS have just labeled

00:09:44.660 WPATH junk science, which is exactly what it is. So doctors can no longer hide behind WPATH's

00:09:50.800 guidelines to avoid malpractice lawsuits. And right away, that's going to cause their malpractice 0.98

00:09:56.500 insurance to go through the roof. It'll dramatically enhance their liability. And eventually,

00:10:00.700 it will make them stop these procedures entirely because it's just not financially sustainable.

00:10:05.500 But just in case it doesn't, the executive order contains this provision, quote,

00:10:09.220 the head of each executive department or agency that provides research or education grants to

00:10:14.500 medical institution, including medical schools and hospitals, shall immediately take appropriate

00:10:19.300 steps to ensure that institutions receiving federal research or education grants end the

00:10:24.280 chemical and surgical mutilation of children. So in other words, if a hospital receives any kind

00:10:28.380 of federal funding, which every major hospital does, then they need to stop castrating and sterilizing

00:10:33.160 children. Otherwise, they stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. And in fact, they might lose

00:10:38.860 even more than that because the order continues by mandating that, quote,

00:10:41.860 the attorney general shall review Department of Justice enforcement of Section 116 of Title 18,

00:10:46.880 United States Code, and prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation.

00:10:52.300 And additionally, the attorney general must, quote, in consultation with the Congress,

00:10:56.220 work to draft, propose, and promote legislation to enact a private right of action for children and

00:11:00.180 the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals

00:11:03.480 practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, which should include a lengthy statute of limitations.

00:11:08.620 So taken together, these two provisions don't just make it easier for victims to sue doctors who

00:11:14.380 perform these barbaric procedures. They also open the door for the federal government to investigate

00:11:18.120 and even imprison doctors who mutilate the bodies of children. As you may remember, around 20 years

00:11:24.200 ago, the left claimed that it cared about female genital mutilation in Africa. So they passed a law

00:11:30.340 outlawing the practice in the United States. But now under the guise of trans medicine,

00:11:35.860 female genital mutilation is supposedly progressive somehow. So now the Trump administration is

00:11:41.400 threatening to use that criminal law to go after these gender doctors. And at the same time,

00:11:46.000 the Trump administration is also cutting any kind of government-sponsored insurance that would

00:11:50.320 cover these practices. Now, having said all that, I need to make it clear that this executive order,

00:11:55.680 as momentous as it is, does not by itself ban child sterilization and mutilation in this country.

00:12:04.960 It makes it far more risky for doctors to perform these procedures. It suggests that the DOJ might

00:12:10.480 be launching criminal investigations soon, and it makes it a lot harder for some of these hospitals

00:12:14.160 and insurance companies to collect taxpayer money. But it's not a direct ban by itself. Outside of the

00:12:19.980 many states that have banned this insanity already, it remains legal in places like California,

00:12:24.560 Minnesota, and so on. And on top of that, if Democrats retake the White House in four years,

00:12:28.500 they can reverse all of this. So Trump has done the absolute maximum of what a president can do

00:12:35.180 on this issue. He can say with absolute sincerity that he has done everything he can to put an end to

00:12:41.640 this insanity. But to finish the job, he's going to need help. He can't do that all on his own.

00:12:48.300 So therefore, what's needed, as I've said many times before, is a law, a federal law,

00:12:56.880 banning these procedures nationwide outright. This is clearly an ideal moment to advance a national

00:13:04.520 ban like that, because gender ideology is now less popular than it's ever been. 0.97

00:13:09.000 Trans activists have been utterly humiliated and rejected on the national stage. They haven't even 0.97

00:13:13.340 really mustered any kind of sustained outrage about Trump's previous executive orders dismantling

00:13:20.060 their ideology. So it stands to reason that they would be powerless as Congress passes the kill

00:13:26.040 shot, which is a complete and total ban on chemical and physical mutilation in the name of gender

00:13:31.180 ideology. Now, as the executive order itself states, quote, across the country today, medical professionals

00:13:36.040 are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false 0.95

00:13:40.000 claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.

00:13:45.140 This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history, and it must end.

00:13:50.200 Now, just a year ago, as a man pretending to be a woman led our nation's federal health agency,

00:13:55.180 it was easy to doubt that this moment would ever come. Now, I've said for years that child gender 0.79

00:14:00.420 transitions will eventually be a thing of the past, and nobody will want to admit that they ever 1.00

00:14:06.180 supported it or tolerated it. Now, that time is almost here. The barbarism of child gender butchery 1.00

00:14:14.880 is on its very last legs, and very soon, you're not going to be able to find a single person in the

00:14:19.540 country who admits to having ever supported it. For the sake of millions of confused and vulnerable

00:14:26.060 people all over the country, and in particular for the sake of children, we have no choice now but

00:14:31.140 to finish the job. Now, I want to say one other thing about this. The child butchery business

00:14:40.220 is collapsing, and soon it will be gone. It will be ash, and history will look back on it with horror

00:14:49.240 and shame and confusion. But I want to be clear about something, that if you're a doctor or a medical

00:14:56.580 professional or a therapist or a psychiatrist who pushed this insanity on children, if you participated

00:15:02.600 in and profited from the psychological and physical abuse of children, this is not over for you.

00:15:12.540 You don't get to just move on. Those of us who have been fighting you for years will not let you

00:15:19.040 just walk away scot-free. We are not going to rest until you are punished for what you've done.

00:15:27.380 Now, what you deserve is a military tribunal and the sentence that is given to those who commit

00:15:34.000 human rights atrocities, but that probably won't happen. So instead, we will settle with seeing that 0.67

00:15:40.400 you are bankrupted and humiliated and shamed and ostracized and forever alienated from civilized

00:15:46.840 society. We will not forget you. We will remember your names. For as long as there are people in

00:15:53.800 this country who must live forever with the damage you inflicted on them as children, then you also

00:15:59.060 should have to live with the consequences. Those children cannot pretend that this never happened.

00:16:08.580 And so neither should you. Hopefully you've noticed that the conservatives you've had to deal with

00:16:14.880 in this fight are a bit of a different breed. We tore down your whole industry piece by piece.

00:16:23.500 We did exactly what we said we would do. We beat you. And so now when we say that we're going to make

00:16:31.900 sure that you are held accountable for your crimes against humanity, you should know that we mean it

00:16:37.020 and we will do it. So this isn't over. I promise you that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:16:52.360 Yesterday was the first White House press briefing of the new Trump administration. The new White House

00:16:57.120 press secretary, Carolyn Levitt, had her debut and she did a nice job. The makeup of the room for the

00:17:04.120 press briefing look different than what we usually have seen. And because Trump is allowing outlets

00:17:11.160 other than the typical legacy media outlets into the room, they're still in the room, but he's also

00:17:15.780 allowing others. The Daily Wire is there now with our excellent reporter, Mary Margaret Olihan.

00:17:21.720 And they also announced that there will be a new media seat, which I think is the idea is they're going

00:17:29.460 to give one day passes to various figures in new media to attend press briefings, which of course

00:17:37.000 means that I have to apply, right? I mean, I have to do it, don't I? I have to get into the press

00:17:45.920 briefing room and try to ask a question. Now granted, it won't be as fun for me as it would have been

00:17:50.620 had I got press credentials during the Biden administration, because then I could troll Biden's

00:17:57.560 press secretary, which would have been a lot of fun. The trolling takes on a different tone when

00:18:01.140 I actually like the people. So it's a friendlier troll, which is just frankly not as fun. But

00:18:07.900 either way, I feel like I do have an obligation, so we'll have to look into that. But for now,

00:18:13.860 I want to play one moment from the briefing. Levitt, as promised by Trump, revealed the truth behind

00:18:20.860 those drones that had everybody freaking out for like a month. And Trump had promised that he would

00:18:27.020 look into it and whatever he finds out, he'd let us know. And so she opened the press briefing by

00:18:32.720 giving us the update. And here it is. After research and study, the drones that were flying

00:18:38.520 over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other

00:18:46.020 reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy

00:18:52.820 flying Jones. In meantime, in time, it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.

00:19:01.000 So that's the answer, we're told, to the drone mystery, which should be major headline news,

00:19:07.680 shouldn't it? I mean, people were obsessed with the drones for a month, weeks on end about the

00:19:12.820 drones. And now Trump is coming out with a statement to explain what it was all about.

00:19:16.920 And people are like, yeah, whatever. And this is how it goes. So we go from caring obsessively

00:19:22.660 about something to not at all. We don't even stop. There's no stopover in between. There's no

00:19:28.300 pit stop along the way from caring obsessively to not at all. It's either care obsessively or not at

00:19:33.940 all. There's no mild interest. That's not a gear that we have in the internet age.

00:19:41.300 It's just how the news cycle works, I guess. Now, granted, the explanation Trump gives is quite

00:19:47.140 boring. These are drones authorized by the FAA combined with hobbyists and recreational drones.

00:19:53.660 And if that's the case, it, of course, raises a question, which is, why didn't the Biden

00:19:59.660 administration just say that? If the drones were authorized by the FAA, the FAA would have

00:20:06.720 obviously known that. And so the Biden administration would know that. And which

00:20:13.360 would mean that there was never any mystery about the drones. From the moment people started asking

00:20:17.780 questions about it, the Biden administration knew exactly what it was. And it, but they didn't just

00:20:23.260 say that. They didn't tell us. Now, there is another explanation here, of course. And a lot of

00:20:28.760 people in social media are just kind of refusing to believe that this explanation is correct.

00:20:32.660 They're saying that there must be something that we're not being told. There must still be more

00:20:37.620 to the story. And that might be the case. I don't know. But I actually find it extremely plausible

00:20:44.340 that this, that there was a benign explanation for this, that Biden just refused to give us.

00:20:52.100 That is also very plausible. I mean, that tracks, right? That's the kind of totally gratuitous

00:20:59.840 disrespect for the American people that you would expect from the Biden regime.

00:21:05.020 You know, it, something is happening. People are asking about it. The Biden administration could

00:21:10.440 just tell us, but chooses not to, chooses to let people panic needlessly. Why? Well, in part,

00:21:18.080 it's because it's, it was a nice distraction. And I think for the Biden administration, anything

00:21:23.140 that distracted people from the fact, from the, the failures of the Biden administration was a

00:21:28.260 positive. So there was that, but also I think they just had a contempt for the American people.

00:21:33.460 And then they resented the idea that they should have to explain anything to us.

00:21:39.740 So if people were living in New Jersey and feeling a bit vulnerable, not sure if there was some sort of,

00:21:48.160 these were Chinese drones, if there was some kind of attack, alien, alien attack.

00:21:53.160 I think the Biden administration looked at that and they said, I don't care.

00:21:59.440 Okay. Yeah. I don't care if they feel that way. Yes. We could easily say something that would calm

00:22:05.260 these fears, but we're just not going to. So that, that tracks that to me, that is perfectly believable.

00:22:13.700 Um, but who knows? All right. Now we have some tragic news. CNN anchor and longtime Trump hater,

00:22:23.340 Jim Acosta made the announcement on a show yesterday that he is quitting. It was his last show. And, uh,

00:22:30.100 the background here is that CNN wanted to move Jim Acosta from his daytime slot to midnight. I think he

00:22:36.940 was on at 10 AM and they wanted to move him to midnight, which is, I mean, that's how much faith

00:22:44.600 and pride the CNN brass had in Jim Acosta. That that's how, you know, right. That you're,

00:22:50.160 you're doing a great job on TV when your bosses come to you and say, uh, we, you know, we want to,

00:22:56.680 we want to move your time slot. Oh, how far do you want to move it? Oh, about 14 hours.

00:23:00.800 We want to, we want to just push it back a bit, about 14 hours, you know? And, uh, because there

00:23:08.860 are probably about 10 people watching CNN at midnight, which is only half of their primetime

00:23:13.500 audience. So it's a pretty steep drop. And, uh, so Acosta wouldn't do it. Acosta would not allow

00:23:18.240 his show to be moved to midnight, which is a little surprising considering that Jim Acosta, 0.97

00:23:23.980 no offense, is a blood sucking vampire goblin. So you'd think that midnight would be perfect for him

00:23:31.380 as a brainless zombie. You'd think that the graveyard shift would be right up his alley, 0.91

00:23:36.080 but he said no. And, uh, so he gave his dramatic sign off yesterday. Here it is.

00:23:43.760 There's never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the press to

00:23:49.760 hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN. And I plan on going, doing, uh, all

00:23:55.060 of that in the future. One final message. Don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear. Hold

00:24:02.760 onto the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message. I will not give

00:24:10.140 into the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you

00:24:17.020 too. I'll have more to say about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all

00:24:22.400 of you for tuning in. It has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years.

00:24:26.960 That's the news reporting from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta. Good Lord. What a dork. I mean,

00:24:35.560 I know this is not the most profound insight, but what a dork this guy is just a dork. Like this is, 0.99

00:24:42.640 I don't condone bullying, but, but this is why you need, this is why bullies fill a role in society.

00:24:50.220 This is someone who just needs to be shoved into a locker. Like this is, this is someone who just

00:24:54.640 needs to have his head dunked in a toilet and be shoved into a locker. I'm not condoning it. 0.98

00:24:59.600 I'm not saying that should happen. I guess I did just say it should happen, but that's not,

00:25:05.360 I was figuratively like metaphorically in a metaphor, totally metaphorical, non-physical sense. 0.93

00:25:10.960 He needs to be, uh, have his head dunked in the toilet and shoved into a metaphorical locker. 0.99

00:25:14.660 Just a dork, you know, take out your phone, post this message on your social medias. 1.00

00:25:20.980 I will not give into the lies. You know, he's trying to start. So, and nobody posted that by 1.00

00:25:25.520 the way, not a single person. He's trying to start a movement posted on your social media.

00:25:30.040 No one, no one did. Not a single person did. You can tell he wanted this so badly to be his

00:25:35.860 network moment, right? You know, his, uh, I'm mad as hell. I'm not going to take it anymore.

00:25:40.960 Moment. He wanted this to be iconic. This is his iconic, defiant, uh, uh, bold, brave.

00:25:52.080 He doesn't remind me to turn this off. That's on you.

00:25:57.260 He wanted this to be his defiant moment and it just didn't, uh, it didn't work. Uh, and, uh,

00:26:03.940 and instead it was just lame and boring. And on top of that, you know, he fumbled over his words

00:26:08.780 multiple times. So huge dork. And that, that's it for Jim Acosta. I can only imagine that seeing 0.99

00:26:16.680 him leave so abruptly was very upsetting for his viewer. Uh, so my condolences to that person.

00:26:24.600 Um, and, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll wait to see what Jim Acosta does next. I mean, no one is

00:26:31.280 waiting to see what he does next. No, nobody, nobody cares, but, um, I'm sure we'll hear anyway.

00:26:38.340 Here's something a bit, a bit, uh, some, some heavier news here. The New York Post reports

00:26:42.880 the homeless man who allegedly shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train

00:26:48.520 made a chilling confession, telling cops, I did it because I wanted to. A court heard yesterday.

00:26:54.160 Marquis Brazillis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23 year old victim into an on, uh, an, on an

00:27:01.380 incoming A train at the 168th street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning

00:27:07.060 attack. Um, he told cops, I pushed her into the train because I was high and I was mad. I did it

00:27:15.000 because I wanted to. Now, I, you know, when people tell you why they do things, you should

00:27:23.800 believe them. And we heard it from this guy directly. Why did he randomly throw a woman

00:27:30.080 in front of a train? Well, because he wanted to, that's it. That's the reason. And I, I've been

00:27:37.820 saying this exact thing for a long time, violent and dangerous vagrants roaming the streets who do

00:27:43.740 terrible and violent things. Why do they do it? Well, it's not because they're victims of systemic

00:27:49.700 racism. It's not because of their socioeconomic situation. It's not even because they're crazy.

00:27:56.560 Guess what? You know, I know we like to think that all these people committing random acts of

00:28:00.720 violence are crazy, but they aren't. A crazy person cannot speak so clearly and rationally about their

00:28:08.240 motives. A crazy person doesn't know why they do things. This guy does. He, he did it because he 0.93

00:28:15.900 wanted to, but why did he want to? I have no idea. I can't relate to that desire. I've never had the

00:28:23.520 desire to throw anyone in front of a train. So I, I don't know why he wanted to, but he, he wanted to

00:28:27.980 for whatever reason, he had the free will, the ability to not do it. He could have not acted on that

00:28:36.320 perverse, dark desire, but he did. And why did he act on it? Because he's evil. That's why he's a bad

00:28:45.040 person. This is an evil person. He causes pain and suffering just for fun, just because he wants 0.99

00:28:50.380 to. And that's what we call an evil person. We used to understand that human evil exists.

00:28:57.980 That's a thing. People are evil. Evil people are out there. There are evil people in the world.

00:29:02.260 Not everything is a matter of mental health. You know, of course, these days we like to,

00:29:08.100 we like to take any terrible thing that someone does. And you hear from both sides of the political

00:29:13.020 aisle about there's a mental health crisis in America. Well, it's the mental health. This is

00:29:17.760 about mental health. It's no, it's, you know what it is very often. It's just, these are bad people.

00:29:26.480 They're just bad people who do bad things. This is actually not a problem that can be simply solved

00:29:33.800 with drugs. And, um, and that, and that brings us to some other hard truths about this guy. And mainly

00:29:43.620 it's this, that he almost certainly cannot be reformed. Him and everyone like him, you know,

00:29:52.280 all the violent vagrants and people walking around committing random acts of violence,

00:29:57.180 they cannot be reformed. He will be a danger to society forever. He will be a liability forever.

00:30:05.940 Now, no human being is outside the mercy of God. Anyone can be forgiven and transformed and redeemed.

00:30:11.380 I certainly believe that, but that's between him and God. We as a society can never trust that he's

00:30:18.660 reformed. We can't know that God can know that, but we can't. And, uh, so there will never be a time

00:30:27.860 when we can safely and reasonably assume or trust that he can be assimilated back into society. There

00:30:34.520 will never be a time when I would feel comfortable standing near train tracks with this guy around,

00:30:40.480 which means that the only solution is to permanently remove people like this from society. Uh, and I

00:30:49.820 mean that through the legal process, through the courts, lawfully, in accordance with the constitution,

00:30:56.180 these people need to be permanently removed from society. It's the only answer. Uh, there's,

00:31:02.600 there's no, there is no other answer. Like we talked about yesterday, Trump had, uh, one,

00:31:08.160 one idea for, for solving that problem. One idea as to how we, uh, permanently remove something like

00:31:13.840 this from society. And that is ship them overseas, set up a, essentially a penal colony somewhere,

00:31:20.020 set up a, a, a, a prison camp somewhere in some country, preferably a really a rough country,

00:31:27.500 the kind of country you don't want to be in and send them there. And just that's, and that's where

00:31:31.940 he's going to live until he dies. And we're just going to forget that you exist. Uh, society will

00:31:37.960 just forget about you. And you know, you'll be given three meals at the, well, maybe not three

00:31:47.020 meals, but you'll be given food. You'll be given food on a daily basis. You're not going to starve

00:31:51.540 to death, but it's going to be a miserable life. It's going to be a horrible life. And then you're

00:31:55.860 going to die and you'll be buried in an unmarked grave and we'll never think about you again. Um, 1.00

00:32:00.520 that is the fate of someone who, like, if you're the kind of person where we have to worry that,

00:32:07.960 that if you're the kind of person where I can't stand next to you on the train, by the train tracks, 0.97

00:32:12.520 then you are the kind of person who deserves to be sent to a prison camp and to die and to be 1.00

00:32:17.720 forgotten and to just die. Uh, you know, that's what you deserve. And, uh, and so maybe, 1.00

00:32:27.340 I don't know, it's, uh, it, it kind of seems far-fetched that we'll actually see this happen,

00:32:34.400 that we're going to start shipping, you know, uh, criminals to some prison camp in Uganda somewhere

00:32:41.040 or something. It seems far-fetched, but Hey, I mean, if you had told me that Trump would be as

00:32:47.220 productive as he has been in the last two weeks, I would have thought, well, that's, I mean,

00:32:50.640 that's not even possible. So maybe this will happen. We'll see.

00:32:56.560 Trump's freeze on foreign aid has brought out all the expected sob stories. And we're now hearing

00:33:01.340 from the media and the Democrats that Trump in particular is failing in his duty to fight

00:33:06.360 AIDS in Africa. So this has become a talking point now. It's been a lot of reporting about

00:33:10.680 how the AIDS epidemic will be made worse, uh, without foreign aid. Democrat Congressman Dan

00:33:16.620 Goldman tweeted as much. He said, Trump's freeze on all foreign aid is an abdication of our duty as a

00:33:21.740 global leader. That money fights AIDS, malaria, and famine, including in Sudan. Now this indiscriminate

00:33:28.380 freeze will cause more people to die like his blanket pardons. It's a small minded, dangerous and

00:33:34.040 harmful. Now I asked Dan this question on X and still haven't gotten an answer shockingly, but

00:33:39.500 let me pose it here again. It's a simple question for Dan or, you know, for anyone. Um,

00:33:46.380 here's the question. Why should working class American taxpayers have to pay to fight AIDS

00:33:56.140 in an African country, 7,000 miles away?

00:34:01.480 Why? Why is that our problem to solve? Because I'll be honest with you. When I think about all the

00:34:07.560 pressing concerns and problems that need to be solved, I know we, we always hear about AIDS in

00:34:12.960 Africa as one of the great epidemics that we should all really be concerned about. But 0.99

00:34:16.240 when I think about all the problems that are most pressing to me as an American citizen, AIDS in Africa

00:34:24.120 doesn't even make the list. It's just not on the list. Now I have no ill will towards people

00:34:32.440 suffering from AIDS in Africa. I wish them the best. Uh, but I care first and foremost about the

00:34:40.120 people who are suffering in my own country. And I have an obligation to my family, my friends, my

00:34:45.440 community, and my nation. I have no obligation to Sudan, Sudan, uh, none at all. Like what is, that's maybe 1.00

00:34:56.620 another way of phrasing the question. Just taking myself as a, as an American citizen. What is my

00:35:04.520 personal obligation to Sudan? What is it? And where does it come from? In what way am I obliged to help

00:35:16.140 Sudan? Uh, the answer is that there is no obligation. And this is to say nothing of the fact, the perhaps

00:35:25.000 most relevant fact, that the aid money going to allegedly fight AIDS in Africa and these other

00:35:31.000 things is obviously not working. You know, when we talk about foreign aid, of course, the reality is

00:35:36.700 that most foreign aid is a scam anyway. It doesn't even go towards the thing it's supposed to, allegedly.

00:35:43.200 What, I mean, why does, why does Africa still have an AIDS epidemic? The Western world has long 0.99

00:35:50.300 since gotten AIDS largely under control. So why can't Africa figure it out? It's a serious question. 0.98

00:35:57.540 Why can't they figure it out? And at what point are these countries expected to stand on their own

00:36:05.360 two feet and take care of themselves? At what point? Never, never. Is that the answer?

00:36:12.740 So is it our job forever, forever to sustain these countries and solve their problems for them?

00:36:21.080 Forever? Really? Well, if you ask Dan Goldman, that's what he would say. I mean, he wouldn't say

00:36:28.380 that out loud because he knows how it sounds, but that is his answer. His answer is that you as

00:36:35.280 an American citizen have a permanent obligation to Sudan that will last forever. And again, he won't 0.98

00:36:43.480 say it because he knows that sounds insane and it cannot possibly be justified. But, but that's what

00:36:52.000 they think. Because here's the thing. It's not like we're being told that we need to give these

00:36:57.960 countries a little help to get, to get them over the hump and, and get them back on their feet and then

00:37:03.860 they'll, they'll be good to go. Right? That we're not being told that that's not the pitch. No,

00:37:10.180 what we're being told implicitly is to keep, keep giving them our money forever, permanently

00:37:16.960 forever, because they will just never be able to take care of themselves, which means that not only

00:37:24.420 are we as taxpayers getting totally built and scammed, but also the money isn't accomplishing anything in

00:37:30.640 the longterm. Clearly. I mean, for how long have we been, have we been giving taxpayer money to AIDS 0.91

00:37:37.940 in Africa? How long has this been going on? Decades. And it's still an epidemic. How is that

00:37:45.520 possible? How is this problem not under control by now? And what makes you think that continuing to

00:37:52.260 give money will, will help anything if it hasn't done anything yet? You know, give a man a fish and

00:37:58.200 feed him for a day, teach him to fish and feed him for life. And that was the old, uh, the old saying

00:38:01.740 and, and, um, okay, well, well, why can't these people fish? Right? You know, when I was in Kenya, I

00:38:10.040 remember driving through the towns and seeing just these massive piles of trash, massive mountains

00:38:16.040 of trash in the middle of every town. Right? And, and, um, this is one of the reasons why they struggle

00:38:23.560 with diseases that the rest of the world has mostly eradicated because the hygiene and the basic

00:38:28.540 cleanliness is non-existent, but it's like, why can't you figure out basic trash removal?

00:38:37.100 Okay. Can we, it's a, to use the left's phrase, can we have an uncomfortable conversation about some

00:38:41.480 of this stuff? Let's have an uncomfortable conversation. Why can't you figure out trash

00:38:45.320 removal? This is one of the most basic fundamental skills required to build a functional civilization.

00:38:50.860 civilization civilizations that existed 3000 years ago, figured that out with technology that was

00:38:57.420 3000 years old. So, so why can't Kenya, like, why, why can't you solve that problem? 0.86

00:39:06.620 Why haven't you solved it? Waste management.

00:39:12.540 Um, we're talking about like a training wheel level skill and, and Kenya gets like a billion dollars a

00:39:18.900 year in USAID or something, a billion dollars a year, every year for decades. And they don't know

00:39:25.620 what to do with their trash. So my point is that the aid is not, it's obviously not, obviously not

00:39:33.180 building a sustainable, healthy, thriving Africa. And that's what I would like to see. I'd like to see

00:39:41.640 that happen. I'd like for every country in the world to be healthy and thriving and sustainable.

00:39:48.040 I wish for nothing but the best for every country in the world. That that's what I would love to see.

00:39:54.380 But the point is that we can't do that for you. It's not our job. It's not our obligation.

00:40:03.040 And we can't do it anyway. So at a certain point, these countries need to figure out how to stand

00:40:15.080 on their own two feet. And which is why Trump has, has temporarily put a freeze on foreign aid,

00:40:23.820 which is great. Um, I think that there's, that the, the freeze should be permanent.

00:40:29.880 I think we should withdraw all foreign aid from everybody because it, and I've said this before 0.99

00:40:40.880 and I know how it comes across to some people. And I, of course, I don't care what it comes across.

00:40:46.080 If you, if you need USAID in order to exist as a country, if you cannot function as a country without

00:40:55.580 USAID, then you don't deserve to exist as a country. Okay. Then you're a country that effectively

00:41:06.380 doesn't exist already. You, you are a, uh, a puppet. You're a, you're a failed state that is, 0.97

00:41:14.080 is weekend at Bernie's on the international stage. But you're already a dead country. You are a dead 0.98

00:41:21.080 country. If you need welfare payments permanently from American taxpayers in order to exist. 0.94

00:41:29.520 And so I think that the only solution is to just let the chips fall where they may take out,

00:41:34.140 revoke all USAID from everybody and, uh, and, and let these things shake out.

00:41:41.820 And maybe if you're a country that can't, can't be sustained on your own,

00:41:45.620 then probably what ends up happening is that a stronger country comes in and takes over,

00:41:51.600 you know, which is how the world worked for thousands of years. If you can't take care of

00:41:56.180 yourself, if you can't, if you can't stand on your own two feet as a nation, then some other

00:41:59.440 country is going to come in and they're going to conquer you and they're going to, they're going

00:42:02.540 to take, that's just the way it works. Um, which is, would be hard to lament as any great tragedy,

00:42:09.180 considering you, you, you, you, you had all this time to figure out how to exist as a country

00:42:14.160 and you couldn't figure it out. Um, so, uh, you know, maybe the, uh,

00:42:27.040 it's a dog eat dog world out there. And, uh, so maybe that's a process that we should just allow

00:42:33.680 to play out a little bit. Um, because if the other option is that we have to take food out of

00:42:40.920 our children's mouths forever to prop up all of these countries who, by the way, do nothing for us,

00:42:47.500 give us nothing in return and don't even display even the faintest hint of gratitude ever. Um,

00:42:54.740 you know, if that's, if that's the alternative, well then

00:42:57.180 that's just not an acceptable alternative. I hate to say it. I mean, I don't hate to say it

00:43:05.700 actually. Let's get to the comment section. It's weird that none of these proud Mexican 1.00

00:43:20.060 patriots want to live in Mexico. Yeah, that is a strange thing, isn't it? Yeah. There are a lot

00:43:24.660 people in this country who are deeply proud of the countries that they came from, uh, that they

00:43:30.060 desperately fled from and are terrified of the prospect of going back to it. And yet they're proud

00:43:36.720 of it. I'm so proud of my home country. Okay. Well then you can go back to it. No, not that anything

00:43:43.400 but that. And you're proud of them. It's like, it's like saying you're proud of your family, but

00:43:52.140 under no circumstances will you ever invite any of them over for Thanksgiving. It's like, I don't

00:43:57.300 know. How proud are you? Um, replace Jefferson with Trump on Mount Rushmore. No, that, that look,

00:44:08.620 I think Trump, I I've said, if Trump repeals the income tax, if he figures out a way to,

00:44:14.180 which he can't do on his own, of course, but, but if, if, if he can lead the fight to get rid of the

00:44:17.800 income tax, he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, which I, I stand by. Um, you can make an argument

00:44:24.020 if that, if Trump, even if that doesn't happen, if Trump just keeps up somehow this pace that he's

00:44:28.500 on right now for four years, uh, you can not only make an argument, but I think it would be

00:44:33.080 very much obviously the case that he would deserve to be on Mount Rushmore, uh, for that.

00:44:39.580 Uh, but it, hopefully you could just add them. I mean, there's, there's, I think there's enough

00:44:43.620 room on the mountainside to, to Adam. If, if for some reason it is an interesting kind of a fun

00:44:48.400 little thought experiment. If let's just say for some reason you, you were not, you couldn't,

00:44:55.460 you can't add someone, you'd have to carve his face over one of the faces that's already on Mount

00:45:01.500 Rushmore. Then who, who has to go in favor of Trump? That's a fun, that's a little bit of a,

00:45:09.180 that's a, that's a fun game. Um, I would say you can't get rid of Jefferson. I mean,

00:45:13.360 Jeff Jefferson stays, George Washington stays, uh, for, for, for me, Teddy Roosevelt,

00:45:22.200 a personal favorite president, he has to stay. So really, I mean, Lincoln is the odd man out.

00:45:30.000 I think in that case, uh, Lincoln's got to go. Sorry. Sorry, Abe. You know, yeah, you got a lot of,

00:45:36.300 he's got plenty of other monuments. I think he's, he's done pretty well for himself posthumously.

00:45:40.560 So that would be my vote. If you got, if you got to vote one of the Mount Rushmore presidents off

00:45:47.020 the island or off the mountainside, uh, and then, then it would probably be him, you know?

00:45:55.280 Let's see, Matt, I don't know if I missed it, but did you ever come back to give the rest of the

00:45:59.300 review for American medieval, American prime evils in the name of the show? We'll be quite interested

00:46:04.700 what you thought of it as a whole. Yeah. Well, thanks for reminding me. I'm, I'm, uh, I, yeah,

00:46:09.720 I did finish it. And, uh, I'm happy to report that American primeval, the new Western series on

00:46:14.560 Netflix did in fact stick the landing, uh, having seen the whole series now. Uh, and it takes us a

00:46:20.640 while. We don't, you know, my, my wife and I, we, uh, this thing people do where they binge a whole

00:46:27.660 series in a day and a half. I, we, that's just, I don't know how you do that. I mean,

00:46:31.420 your, your brain starts to turn to mush and leak out of your ears at a certain point watching that 0.67

00:46:36.480 much TV. So we, it takes us a little bit of time to get through a series. Um, so we, we did finally

00:46:42.420 finish it. And I can say that it's a very solid show. It's easily one of the few quality Westerns

00:46:47.180 of the last 20 years. And one of the best things that Netflix has put out, which low bars in both

00:46:53.160 cases, but still very, very, very solid show. It, it never lapsed into most of the woke cliches that

00:47:00.920 you expect the lead female character, which this is the thing that I found to be most surprising

00:47:07.400 about the show is that the lead female character never really became the kick-ass action hero,

00:47:14.040 Mary Sue type of character that that character always becomes in like every show and movie these

00:47:20.200 days. You know, you, you have a, in any show where it's kind of an action thing and there's a,

00:47:26.320 the, the lead character is a female and she's encountering bad guys and stuff. Um, in almost

00:47:32.620 every case, either she starts off right, right out of the gate as some ass kicking ninja, or at the 1.00

00:47:40.520 very least becomes that through the course of the show. But in this case, they resisted that temptation.

00:47:46.860 Now there's one scene, I'm not gonna spoil anything. There's one scene that kind of borders

00:47:53.240 on that trope, uh, a little bit. And, but if, if you watch the show and you see that scene,

00:48:00.220 it, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's forgivable. It's a forgivable, it's, it's, it's, I think justified

00:48:06.160 in the context of the story. But other than that, you've got this classic kind of mysterious drifter

00:48:11.380 guy who you have in all the great Westerns, you know, all the great, most of the great Westerns

00:48:15.840 anyway, the, the lead male character is this mysterious guy that doesn't talk a lot and,

00:48:21.640 you know, uh, gruff and masculine and, and you don't really know anything about his past, you know.

00:48:27.700 Um, and, uh, he, he, he comes off as, as maybe a bit cruel at first, but through the course of the

00:48:34.500 story, you see that underneath all that, he really is a good man. Uh, but anyway, he's the ass kicker. 0.99

00:48:41.000 And so in this, in this show, you know, you have that character and, uh, he is constantly saving and 0.97

00:48:48.340 bailing out this woman and her child through the whole series, right down to the, like the last

00:48:52.060 moment, which again, I'm trying to give you spoilers, but right down to the last moment, he is, um,

00:48:57.660 he's there protecting her and her son. So I thought that that was good. Um, it mostly avoids the woke 0.85

00:49:03.500 stuff with the Indians in the show, uh, by modern Hollywood standards, you know,

00:49:08.900 the evil white man themes by modern Hollywood standards are kept to a minimum. Uh, the,

00:49:15.860 the Indians are portrayed as warlike and brutal, which is what they were. And which to a certain

00:49:21.300 extent, everybody was back then, especially on the frontier. There is a female Indian chief who is

00:49:27.460 like the wise sage and is a pacifist and somehow speaks perfect English too, which is never explained. 0.95

00:49:34.220 And that's pretty silly. I mean, that's, it's the wokest that the show gets is with that character,

00:49:39.740 but it's, uh, you know, I, I think it's, again, I would call it forgivable. It's kept to a minimum.

00:49:45.600 And, you know, you can kind of look past it. Uh, the only thing I'll warn you about is that

00:49:51.720 the show is very brutally violent. And, um, I, I, I think in a way that for the most part is justified

00:49:58.840 by the storytelling, it does at times go overboard with the brutality and the bleakness. Uh, there's

00:50:06.680 one thing in particular, the very, the very end of the show, the last episode, there's this

00:50:12.400 subplot of, uh, uh, a, a husband who in the first couple episodes, uh, his wife is abducted.

00:50:21.320 And so he's trying to find his wife through the entire, uh, show. And at, in the final episode,

00:50:30.120 they encounter each other and that, that goes in a direction that is so bleak that it's, it's almost,

00:50:40.500 you almost have to laugh at it because it's so, it's so over the top depressing that you're almost

00:50:45.140 like, really that, uh, so there is a little bit of that in the show. And, um, but if, so if you find

00:50:52.880 that sort of thing overly upsetting, then I wouldn't watch the show. Uh, for me, I have a

00:50:56.980 fairly high tolerance for bleak and brutal stuff in, in stories. Uh, I personally, for a story like

00:51:04.420 this, I'd prefer it go overboard in that direction than in the other direction. I'd rather err on the

00:51:09.120 side of being a bit too brutal and too bleak than in sanitizing it too much. Um, and that's just me.

00:51:15.140 Uh, finally, talking about the Nancy Mace situation, people change. I personally used

00:51:24.120 to be a leftist until 2020 when I started to see the error of my ways, thanks to the George Floyd

00:51:28.840 movement. Well, yeah, look, people change and you saw the error in your ways because of the Floyd

00:51:35.120 stuff. Actually, now that you mentioned it, Nancy Mace did not see the error in her ways from that. 0.99

00:51:40.480 Even a year after Floyd's overdose, she was tweeting about how George Floyd had been murdered

00:51:44.680 okay. A year later, but in any case, yeah, people change. You know, the problem with Nancy Mace is 1.00

00:51:50.220 that she flipped on the trans issue and then immediately positioned herself as a leader on 0.96

00:51:54.440 that issue. And then as we talked about, started to try, trying to recast the whole argument in

00:51:59.200 feminist terms, but even leaving that part aside, which to me was, is the main problem. You know, 1.00

00:52:04.100 it's, it's, it's, that's the main thing is that you are using feminist ideology and feminist 1.00

00:52:10.440 ideology base is, feminist ideology is gender ideology. And so now you're trying to use that 1.00

00:52:16.900 and recast the fight against gender ideology in gender ideology terms. And that I can't allow you

00:52:24.160 to do that. You can't come in at the last moment and screw everything up by, by, by basically accepting

00:52:32.060 the premise of the gender ideologues. I can't let you do that. But even leaving all that aside,

00:52:40.060 I also just can't put up with someone coming that late to the party and then pretending

00:52:46.200 that you were on the front lines the whole time. So it's one thing, it's one thing to come in and

00:52:50.340 say, Hey, look, I got this thing wrong. I was wrong about this. I see that I'm wrong now. And Hey,

00:52:54.860 I'm ready to join this fight. If somebody says that I welcome them with, with open arms. I would

00:52:59.240 never, anyone who says that about anything, I say, great. You know, we don't need to dwell on

00:53:04.020 anything you said in the past. We're not going to dig up tweets. We're not gonna do any of that.

00:53:07.240 You've changed your mind. You've seen the air in your ways. Here you are. Let, you know,

00:53:10.320 brothers in arms. Fantastic. I'll be the first to say that I'm very consistent about that. But

00:53:15.480 when you come in, especially as a politician and there is no accountability, there is no admitting

00:53:22.220 that you were wrong. And you just barge to the front of the line and say, I'm the leader.

00:53:27.300 I was doing this the whole time. That, come on, that it's purely self-serving and dishonest. And,

00:53:34.640 and it's particularly from a politician. I'm just not going to put up with that. Why should we?

00:53:43.000 You know? And that's my problem there. Let's be real. Mainstream media isn't just broken. It's

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00:54:18.700 Don't sit on the sidelines. Be a part of the revolution. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:30.080 Now, if you spend very much time on social media, you have probably seen the story of the 500 pound

00:54:37.460 aspiring female rapper who is suing Lyft after a driver refused to let her in the car because she was

00:54:44.800 too fat. And if you're a fan of this show, you probably assumed that it would be the subject of

00:54:50.760 a daily cancellation. And look, if you made that assumption, frankly, I have to say, I'm offended

00:54:56.420 that you think I'm so predictable. You just assume that I would do the easy and cheap thing and waste

00:55:03.580 your time and mine doing a whole monologue about a fat woman who didn't fit in a car. In fact, you 1.00

00:55:09.520 probably assume that I'll not only talk about this case, but I'll even play a clip of one of her music

00:55:14.460 videos, even though it has nothing to do with the story and adds nothing of value to the conversation.

00:55:19.500 Well, if you assumed all of that, you are, of course, totally correct. I mean, that is the point

00:55:25.460 of the daily cancellation. What is the point of it if I'm not going to use it as an occasion

00:55:29.120 to talk about a woman who ate so much Little Caesar stuffed crust pizza that she no longer fits

00:55:33.860 inside a midsize sedan? So let's start at the beginning. Dejao Blanding is the woman's real name.

00:55:41.360 Dank DeMoss is her rap name, or it might be the other way around. There's no way to know. In any case,

00:55:46.260 a few days ago, Ms. Dank went viral when she posted this video of her interaction with a Lyft driver

00:55:52.300 who regretted to inform her that his car will not fit a woman who is the approximate size of a female 0.85

00:55:57.520 polar bear. And I don't say that as an insult, by the way. This woman reportedly weighs about 500 1.00

00:56:02.200 pounds, which is in fact the upper range for a female polar bear. And I think that fact is

00:56:07.040 important. I'm just trying to put it in perspective because it puts the tremendous size of this woman

00:56:11.760 into perspective. And this story, a story that she made public, is all about her size. I mean,

00:56:17.120 that's what this all hinges on. So here's what she looks like for reference. There's the picture.

00:56:24.000 As you can see, she is, shall we say, a substantial woman. And here is the initial

00:56:33.860 video of her encounter with the unfortunate Lyft driver. Here it is.

00:56:37.720 So you're telling me I can't get a Lyft because I can't fit in your car.

00:56:46.060 What makes you think I can't fit in the car? What makes you think I can't fit in the car?

00:57:04.900 Because the car is small in the bedroom. My best friend has a biz that's newer than this

00:57:11.520 that I can fit in. That's the same size. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

00:57:18.200 So you're really telling me I'm too busy getting your car. So I got to order another Lyft.

00:57:26.680 And to be more and more specific with you, I got very tired of tires.

00:57:30.980 What? I got to do with your tires. Yeah, and you have no space. 0.98

00:57:37.420 How do you know I don't have no space? Yeah, I got no space in the bathroom.

00:57:41.680 So she asks what makes him think that she can't fit in his car. And the driver, because he's polite,

00:57:47.700 did not respond, well, ma'am, there are two things that make me think you can't fit in my car. 0.99

00:57:53.440 My eyes. And it's good that he didn't say that. That would have been unkind.

00:57:58.620 And so now, after that video made the rounds, Ms. Dank put out a statement addressing all the haters.

00:58:05.520 And I found her to be remarkably eloquent, to be honest with you. So check it out.

00:58:11.340 Let's talk about it. Since everybody and they bald-headed-ass mama got something to say about Dank. 0.99

00:58:18.860 First of all, let's touch bases on the big b****s in the back that got something to say about me. 1.00

00:58:24.740 I seen a b****s that go walk. B****s you cool. 1.00

00:58:28.460 Like, you only, like, one burger away from being my size. Like, y'all h***s got me f***ed up. 0.99

00:58:33.460 Stop calling yourself a BBW. 0.99

00:58:36.220 Because you not.

00:58:37.700 Other BBWs don't put other BBWs down. 1.00

00:58:40.160 Second of all, I never contacted Lyft.

00:58:46.760 Then y'all talking about, oh, she posted a video for Cloud. 0.65

00:58:49.760 I am the f***ing Cloud. 0.93

00:58:52.040 I've been doing this s*** for a long time. 0.97

00:58:54.260 I posted this video because y'all got us f***ed up. 0.96

00:58:57.160 Y'all always trying to put big people in a f***ing category.

00:59:00.160 Oh, big people this or big da-da-da-da-da or big this and da-da-da. 0.99

00:59:04.600 Stop doing that s***. 0.99

00:59:05.460 Y'all want us to be in a f***ing house, miserable, bored. 1.00

00:59:09.760 Oh, cover up or da-da-da-da-da-da lines. 0.99

00:59:12.220 You can't wear that.

00:59:13.320 You big and da-da-da. 1.00

00:59:14.840 F*** you. 1.00

00:59:16.080 F*** you. 1.00

00:59:17.400 Just below zero. 1.00

00:59:18.680 I'm outside and you pulling off on me. 0.98

00:59:21.220 I don't give a f*** if you gave me my f***ing money back. 0.99

00:59:27.020 I don't give a f*** about none of that s***. 0.99

00:59:29.160 Like, y'all got us f***ed up. 0.98

00:59:31.800 I'm not in a house. 0.57

00:59:32.980 I'm outside.

00:59:33.720 I'm showing my stomach.

00:59:35.460 That's what you're all talking about. 1.00

00:59:37.980 Stop playing with me on this f*** ass internet. 0.99

00:59:43.100 You know, I have to say when I first heard about this woman's plight, I was not, I confess, 0.99

00:59:48.640 especially sympathetic.

00:59:49.760 But then I watched that video and I started to understand her perspective.

00:59:53.380 And she's right. 0.99

00:59:54.520 Because I, too, am sick and tired of the f*** ass internet. 0.99

00:59:58.820 You can't deny. 1.00

01:00:00.160 You can't deny it is a f*** ass internet. 0.99

01:00:02.260 So she has a point. 0.99

01:00:03.520 And secondly, she says that we all need to stop putting large women like herself into categories.

01:00:09.480 And again, I agree.

01:00:10.860 I would never try to put her in a category.

01:00:13.500 She does not fit in any category.

01:00:16.740 Or any Toyota Corolla, as it turns out.

01:00:19.820 Which only proves her point, is what I'm saying.

01:00:22.800 So I think now is as good a time as any to take a quick detour and check out one of Miss Stank's music videos. 0.68

01:00:29.400 Will it help us understand her situation?

01:00:31.640 Will it clarify any aspect of this controversy for us?

01:00:34.820 No.

01:00:35.640 And no.

01:00:36.220 But we don't need an excuse, I think, to enjoy some quality music, do we?

01:00:40.740 So here you go.

01:00:41.780 We'll be right back. 0.98

01:01:11.780 I ain't jumping for these s***s and I stand on this s***. 0.98

01:01:14.700 I can outsmart a killin', ain't no scaring me. 0.99

01:01:16.840 So there you go.

01:01:20.260 You know, she, I'm sure you were tracking the lyrics there. 0.98

01:01:22.480 She said that at one point she says, these s***s under me. 0.98

01:01:28.360 And that, are the s***s okay? 0.98

01:01:33.820 We need to check. 0.97

01:01:38.620 We need to check on the s***s that were under you. 0.92

01:01:41.660 I'm concerned for their health and safety at this point. 0.97

01:01:44.500 But I have to say, the collective IQ in that room was quite impressive.

01:01:49.620 I think with their brain power all combined, I have no doubt that it would create an intellect powerful enough to graduate middle school.

01:01:56.320 And I mean that as a compliment, just to be clear.

01:01:59.800 Everything I'm saying is meant as a compliment.

01:02:03.140 So now we get to the inevitable part of this story where the requisite lawsuit is filed.

01:02:07.620 Here's the local Fox affiliate with the earth-shattering news.

01:02:11.400 Georgia Blanding tells us she was just trying to get to a Detroit Lions watch party this month when her lift rolled up.

01:02:18.560 As I'm walking, I see him, like, making faces or whatever.

01:02:20.800 I'm like, oh, man.

01:02:21.740 She already knew.

01:02:23.160 I can fit in this car.

01:02:24.600 No, believe me, you can.

01:02:26.060 Yes, I can.

01:02:27.140 Believe me.

01:02:27.920 He told her there's not enough room in his car.

01:02:31.100 The kicker part was when he started to talk about his tires.

01:02:34.500 You know, I feel like that was a slap in the face.

01:02:36.920 That was like my tires, you know, like.

01:02:39.360 The driver said his tires could not handle her weight.

01:02:43.780 Every big person, you turn down because they can't fit in your car?

01:02:46.900 Yeah, because they need to order the Uber XL retail.

01:02:51.200 No, I don't ever have to order an Uber XL.

01:02:53.700 He apologized, canceled the ride, and left her there.

01:02:57.060 The rapper says she's pretty tough.

01:03:01.220 Dank DeMoss, as she's known at the mic, is crushed by the whole situation.

01:03:05.820 I just want them to know, like.

01:03:07.420 It really hurt my feelings.

01:03:10.420 It looks like a lift might be hurting pretty soon, too.

01:03:13.300 I knew it was illegal, and I knew that it was wrong.

01:03:15.140 Her attorneys, John Marco and Zach Runyon, say weight is a protected characteristic in Michigan by law.

01:03:21.500 It would be no different than a driver pulling up and saying, you know, I don't want to have black people in my car, 1.00

01:03:26.960 or I don't want to have Christians in my car or Muslims in my car. 0.90

01:03:30.040 It's the same, under the law, it's the same.

01:03:32.260 The lawsuit is filed.

01:03:33.880 Since she posted the encounter on social media, other full-figured folks have reached out saying the same thing happened to them.

01:03:41.560 Yes, you heard that right.

01:03:42.620 Full-figured folks.

01:03:43.980 That is now the euphemism for 500-pound human beings.

01:03:46.760 One might object that if you weigh more than the ATV parked in my garage right now, that your figure is several steps beyond full.

01:03:55.620 It reached its capacity about 300 pounds ago.

01:03:58.680 Because the human body, just like a vehicle, does have a capacity.

01:04:01.960 Your bone structure and internal organs are not designed to carry around and sustain that kind of weight.

01:04:06.560 They can't.

01:04:07.120 Which is why literally every single person the size of Ms. Dank will die and die soon. 0.98

01:04:11.760 She will either go on a diet and lose weight, or she will be dead within like 10 years, probably much sooner. 0.99

01:04:16.920 Especially now that she has scummy lawyers encouraging her to see her weight as a quote-unquote protected characteristic. 1.00

01:04:23.220 Her lawyer says that rejecting a person because they're extremely morbidly obese is no different than rejecting them because they're black. 0.96

01:04:28.060 But it is, of course, very different. 0.87

01:04:30.200 Ms. Dank was born black.

01:04:32.000 She was not born 500 pounds.

01:04:33.680 In fact, using a rough calculation, we know that in order to maintain 500 pounds of weight, you would need to consume something like 8,000 calories a day.

01:04:43.920 Though she almost certainly eats much more than that because she's doing more than simply maintaining. 0.99

01:04:48.040 But even 8,000 calories a day is a mind-boggling amount.

01:04:51.880 I mean, that's at least four times the recommended calorie intake for an adult woman. 0.98

01:04:55.580 She's eating enough for at least four people every day. 0.99

01:04:58.100 I mean, that's just a fact.

01:04:59.960 And in order to do that, you have to essentially eat all day.

01:05:02.840 I mean, think about how much eating you would have to do to take in those kinds of calories every single day.

01:05:08.220 This is basically nonstop eating.

01:05:10.080 You have to adopt the lifestyle of a panda, eating for 10 to 16 hours a day. 0.99

01:05:14.280 Of course, pandas eat that much because they're morons and they only eat bamboo, which has no nutritional value. 0.99

01:05:19.200 Ms. Dank is probably not surviving on bamboo, we can assume. 1.00

01:05:22.140 She's almost certainly eating nothing but processed foods all day, every day.

01:05:25.580 So it takes sustained, almost Herculean effort to be and remain that obese.

01:05:32.460 To say that someone's status as morbidly obese is protected, it's like saying that a man who chooses to walk around upside down on his hands all day is protected.

01:05:40.700 I mean, it makes no sense.

01:05:41.480 It's incredible effort is required to be in that position.

01:05:46.200 But this is obvious, of course.

01:05:48.300 I mean, obviously, it would be absurd if she wins a single dime in a lawsuit, which means that just as obviously a court in Michigan will probably award her $50 million, which is the same thing as giving her a death sentence. 0.95

01:05:57.860 Because she's going to spend the money on food and she's going to complete the slow motion suicide that she's been committing for years now. 1.00

01:06:05.180 It's also obvious that the Lyft driver is the real victim here. 0.72

01:06:07.660 I mean, it's pretty clear that he was embarrassed, as any normal person would be, having to tell her that she's too stupendously fat to fit into his vehicle.

01:06:15.960 I mean, he would have preferred to just give her a ride, take her money, and be done with it.

01:06:18.780 But she literally could not fit in the car.

01:06:21.460 He couldn't figure out how to make the geometry work.

01:06:24.020 And he was worried, rightly so, about the effect on his tires and the structural integrity of his car having that much weight bunched up on one side of it.

01:06:31.880 Even if he could wedge her in there like an overpacked suitcase, he was not at all sure that the sort of damage that would be done to his vehicle, which is the source of his livelihood.

01:06:42.000 So she owes him an apology for putting him in that position, not the other way around.

01:06:46.780 And all of that is self-evident, I think, to any thinking person.

01:06:49.480 We don't need to dwell on any of that any more than we already have.

01:06:52.220 To me, the bigger issue, no pun intended, is just the total lack of shame on the part of this woman.

01:06:57.480 The fact that you've eaten so much that anyone even has to question whether you will fit in a car, a car that was built to transport four entire people, the fact that they have to question whether you'll fit in it should embarrass you.

01:07:12.100 It should be the mother of all wake-up calls.

01:07:14.680 This is the equivalent of an alcoholic waking up naked in a back alley dumpster in a city he doesn't recognize.

01:07:19.260 Like, it's a moment when life is screaming at you through a bullhorn and carrying a giant neon blinking sign that says, you have a problem.

01:07:28.740 And if you aren't picking up on that hint, then your situation is hopeless.

01:07:33.120 And in Miss Dink's case, she not only is ignoring the hint, but interpreting it in exactly the opposite way.

01:07:38.560 The sign says, you have a problem.

01:07:40.620 She reads it as, everyone else is the problem.

01:07:44.460 That's what a chronic lack of shame and a pathological self-centeredness gets you.

01:07:48.060 It gets you to this moment of extreme humiliation, even if you're too narcissistic to feel it.

01:07:53.560 It's still got you there.

01:07:55.600 Just like it got you to 500 pounds.

01:07:58.960 And that is why our friend, Miss Dink, who doesn't fit into any categories or into most anything else, is today canceled.

01:08:09.480 That'll do it for the show today.

01:08:10.280 Thanks for watching.

01:08:10.740 Thanks for listening.

01:08:11.320 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:08:11.980 Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 29, 2025

Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology

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