The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1532 - Radical Feminist Lawmaker Maims Herself To Make A Statement That No One Cares About

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a Democrat politician announces that she has sterilized herself to avoid getting pregnant in Donald Trump's America.

00:00:06.080 She had to do this, I guess, because of the imaginary law Donald Trump just passed requiring all women to get pregnant. 1.00

00:00:11.860 Also, one of the staffers working for Doge goes by the name Big Balls, and now CNN is on the case.

00:00:17.180 They are on the Big Balls beat and tracking everything that Big Balls does.

00:00:21.000 And a trans-identified male actor was on the verge of making history by winning the Best Actress Award at the Oscars,

00:00:26.160 but now his dreams are crashing down after some old tweets have come to light.

00:00:29.660 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:14.640 If you have a job or any kind of normal human interest whatsoever, you probably have not heard of something called the 50-51 movement to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk, etc.

00:02:25.240 But it's a real thing that just happened in this country.

00:02:27.820 This is one of several protests, along with the recent Day Without an Immigrant protests, that have apparently occurred and that pretty much no one noticed.

00:02:36.320 I don't know if you realize, but we went a day without immigrants and not a single person noticed, which I don't think is the message they were trying to send.

00:02:44.720 And this is the state of the anemic anti-Trump resistance this time around.

00:02:48.560 So the idea of the 50-51 movement in particular was apparently to have 50 protests in 50 states in one day.

00:02:53.740 And so they mashed all those numbers together and told everyone to show up to their local state capital on this past Wednesday.

00:03:00.080 It was something that started as an idea on Reddit in some kind of semi-viral post.

00:03:04.580 And it turned out exactly how you'd expect a Reddit-created movement to go.

00:03:08.820 Every aspect of this movement has been a colossal failure.

00:03:11.380 In fact, it was such a failure in so many entertaining ways that it's worth talking about a little bit now.

00:03:16.280 So first of all, the turnout was abysmal.

00:03:18.420 I skimmed about a dozen news articles on this protest from the AP to ABC to various local news outlets.

00:03:24.640 Not a single one of them mentioned the total number of state capitals that were involved in these protests.

00:03:28.140 That obviously suggests that they didn't get anywhere near all 50 of them.

00:03:31.660 Instead, it looks like a handful of protesters, less than 1,000 people in many cases, showed up to a handful of state capitals.

00:03:38.000 And they held signs that contradicted themselves in many cases.

00:03:41.300 So here, for example, was the scene in Salem, Oregon.

00:03:43.920 And you'll notice that they have signs that say, deport Elon, alongside signs that say, education, not deportation, and no human is illegal.

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00:04:20.920 So one thing you'll notice is that the highest concentration of people in COVID masks that you'll find anywhere since like September of 2021.

00:04:29.920 And you have to wonder what would happen if one of these protesters with a no deportation sign happened to bump into somebody with the deport Elon sign.

00:04:37.920 It's like the beginning of a Netflix rom-com.

00:04:39.920 They'd look at the signs, they'd look into each other's eyes, and they'd say something that nobody would understand because they both are wearing N95 masks and a ventilator.

00:04:48.920 If Amelia Perez can get 13 Oscar nominations, then that idea is worth at least 14, I would say. 0.94

00:04:53.920 Now, in any event, this is one of the little inconsistencies that you always notice very quickly whenever you pay attention to leftists for five seconds.

00:05:00.920 They support gun confiscation unless you want to use your gun to shoot a health insurance CEO.

00:05:04.920 They say the legal system is corrupt and we should defund the police, and then they celebrate as prosecutors attempt to destroy pro-lifers, Donald Trump, January 6th protesters, and so on.

00:05:13.920 And now they say they oppose deportations unless we're talking about one of their political enemies like Elon Musk, even though Elon Musk is a U.S. citizen.

00:05:21.920 But as entertaining as all this is, there was one moment that really stood out from these 50-51 protests, and it occurred on the lawn outside the Michigan State Capitol.

00:05:31.920 Here's what happened, according to the outlet called Michigan Advance.

00:05:34.920 Quote, Michigan State Representative Lori Pahutsky said Wednesday that she underwent surgery earlier this year to become voluntarily sterile out of fear for the future of reproductive health care access with President Donald Trump back in office.

00:05:47.300 Yes, a Democrat state lawmaker sterilized herself because, in her estimation, Trump might end her reproductive health care access. 1.00

00:05:56.960 And here's how the representative explained her decision on Wednesday.

00:05:59.360 Quote, just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America.

00:06:06.140 I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.

00:06:14.040 If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I'm going to repeat myself.

00:06:19.080 A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain that she would be able to access contraception in the future.

00:06:27.620 Close quote.

00:06:29.060 Now, before we even get into the specifics here, we need to talk about that last line.

00:06:35.220 I'm not usually one for nitpicking how politicians deliver their speeches.

00:06:39.140 Well, I guess I am.

00:06:40.600 I nitpick it all the time.

00:06:41.520 But this does cross a line.

00:06:43.660 She starts talking about herself in the third person as a way to lend some gravitas to what she's trying to communicate.

00:06:49.680 She says a sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because of Donald Trump.

00:06:53.920 That's how serious things are.

00:06:55.860 But the government official that she's talking about is herself.

00:06:58.020 So this just doesn't work as a rhetorical device. 0.98

00:07:00.520 It just makes her look crazy. 0.86

00:07:01.680 If things were really this serious, then other people would be sterilizing themselves, too.

00:07:06.860 And she could use them as examples. 0.97

00:07:08.240 But she has to use herself as an example because nobody else, even in a state like Michigan, is quite as insane as she is.

00:07:15.240 But the bigger issue, of course, is that Hutsky's decision to spay herself like a house cat makes no sense whatsoever.

00:07:21.880 I mean, first of all, believe it or not, and this is something that all feminists should probably listen to and hear, it is possible to avoid getting pregnant without sterilizing yourself. 1.00

00:07:36.660 Guess what?

00:07:37.340 Even if Project 2025 outlaws contraception and abortion, even if that happens, that would still be true. 1.00

00:07:45.920 You could still avoid getting pregnant. 1.00

00:07:47.160 So it's like if you decided that you really hate jogging and you never want to go for a jog again, so you cut your own legs off to avoid it.

00:07:56.740 I mean, it's overkill, to say the least.

00:07:59.520 But at a Reddit protest, this kind of thing apparently gets applause, so presumably that's why she did it. 0.79

00:08:04.640 But the other problem here is that even by Hutsky's own logic, she has no reason to sterilize herself.

00:08:09.540 That's because abortion is legal in Michigan. 1.00

00:08:12.080 And it's legal in Michigan because leftists like her have spent their entire political careers making sure that mothers can kill their children pretty much any time they want for any reason in her state. 1.00

00:08:22.160 Hutsky has put out several videos on social media talking about how abortion is readily available in Michigan thanks to her efforts.

00:08:28.240 Here's one of them.

00:08:28.820 I just wanted to take a little bit of time to talk about how I'm so immensely grateful for all of the work that has gone into advancing abortion rights.

00:08:37.620 Obviously, voters protected the right to abortion in our state's constitution. 1.00

00:08:42.120 Here in the legislature, we've been expanding that right and the accessibility to it.

00:08:46.080 But there's a lot more work to do.

00:08:47.480 So the anniversary of Roe v. Wade is a really good time to reflect on everything that we've gotten done, but also acknowledge that we still have our work cut out for us.

00:08:54.420 So voters protected the right to an abortion, but they still have their work cut out for them.

00:09:01.500 At the time, it wasn't clear what she meant by that, but I guess now we know.

00:09:05.000 It means women have to get sterilized. 1.00

00:09:07.100 That's the final stage of Lori Pohutsky's abortion advocacy. 1.00

00:09:11.000 It's not really about giving women the, quote, right to choose.

00:09:13.340 It's about making sure that women don't have children, period. 1.00

00:09:16.640 On social media, Pohutsky has been desperately defending her decision.

00:09:19.260 For example, she wrote, quote,

00:09:20.160 The fact that so many conservative men take personal offense to a decision that I made with my husband about my health care and future just proves the point that we shouldn't assume that the right is secure.

00:09:31.840 Just to be clear, nobody is offended by the fact that you sterilized yourself, Lori. 0.84

00:09:38.580 We're not offended by that. 0.99

00:09:39.640 We just think it's dumb. 0.97

00:09:40.500 This is like if you started banging your own head against a brick wall and we watched it and said, well, that's strange behavior. 0.99

00:09:49.040 And then you shouted, ha, you snowflakes are triggered, aren't you? 0.91

00:09:53.040 As you continue to bash your own skull into dust.

00:09:56.800 I will say, though, assuming what she's saying is actually true, that she did get sterilized, which who knows?

00:10:02.100 There probably does need to be an investigation of whatever doctor performed this procedure.

00:10:05.560 You know, if I go to my doctor tomorrow and say that I need to be sterilized because Democrats are going to force me to have kids, then it's pretty clear I'm not sane enough to consent to any kind of surgery.

00:10:20.480 At the same time, I don't really need to say much more about this particular politician.

00:10:24.160 Every post she makes is getting completely roasted on social media.

00:10:26.860 Her stunt has backfired on her.

00:10:28.280 And it's not the first time that this kind of thing has happened to Lori Pohutsky, by the way.

00:10:32.160 Why don't you take a look at this footage just because it's fun.

00:10:36.240 It's from a couple of years ago.

00:10:38.660 And it shows this same woman making some remarks in the statehouse about the importance of repealing an old abortion ban in Michigan.

00:10:45.000 As you watch this clip, pay close attention to the big law book that she has on the desk next to her,

00:10:51.140 in which she's going to use as her prop to make this big performative show. 1.00

00:10:56.760 Watch.

00:10:58.360 Speaker recognizes Representative Pohutsky.

00:11:02.900 Thank you, Madam Speaker.

00:11:05.560 Last November, voters in Michigan overwhelmingly supported Proposal 3.

00:11:10.620 Everyone serving in this chamber was sent here with a clear task after last November.

00:11:14.660 And I am grateful that we are finally, finally addressing it and repealing this archaic and punitive law once and for all.

00:11:26.840 Thank you, Madam Speaker.

00:11:28.280 Now, of course, if you're just listening to the audio podcast, you didn't catch it.

00:11:33.380 Even if you're watching the video, you might not have caught it.

00:11:35.140 So, Pohutsky has the law book open to the page where the abortion ban is in the law book.

00:11:41.420 But then the page flips a bunch of times when she starts speaking so that she loses her place so it's no longer on the page with the abortion law. 0.60

00:11:50.340 And at the end of the clip, in her big moment of rhetorical flourish, Pohutsky grabs the book, which is now open to the wrong page, turned to some completely different page.

00:11:59.020 Like, there's a different law in there now that she's like, and she seems to notice this and hesitate before she decides she doesn't care.

00:12:04.340 And she just rips that random page out of the law book and then performatively tears it up. 1.00

00:12:09.820 It was a simple stunt that this woman somehow managed to screw up. 1.00

00:12:13.420 So, now I'm wondering if she actually did sterilize herself or did she go in wanting to be sterilized, but instead she accidentally got a root canal or something. 0.91

00:12:24.120 Anyway, Lori Pohutsky is a self-described radical feminist, one of many who has spent the last few years engaging in dumb performances like this instead of actually accomplishing anything at all. 1.00

00:12:35.040 And now, as Trump's second administration gets underway, these people look more pitiful than they've ever looked, which is saying something because they've always looked quite pitiful. 0.60

00:12:45.460 You know, a few years ago, you may remember, we were promised a massive backlash against Republicans with, you know, women rising up across the nation because of Roe.

00:12:55.080 We were told that fighting for the unborn would doom the party, the Republican Party, to irrelevance.

00:13:01.340 That's what we were told, even by people on the right, even by conservatives.

00:13:05.040 But that didn't happen and still has not happened.

00:13:09.380 Instead, Trump, who got into office in a massive landslide and with the popular vote, he's turned around and defended, quote, unquote, women's rights more than Joe Biden ever did or Kamala Harris ever would have.

00:13:25.200 Because of radical feminists like Lori Pohutsky, Democrats have thrown all of their political capital behind the deranged proposition that men can transform into women and that men should be able to invade women's private spaces as well as women's sports. 0.95

00:13:38.840 Democrats' commitment to this insanity led to this moment at the White House this week, which we talked about the other day.

00:13:43.900 But let's watch it again.

00:13:46.160 In a few moments, I'll sign a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women's sports. 0.98

00:13:53.640 It's about time.

00:13:54.760 My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.

00:14:00.240 From now on, women's sports will be only for women. 1.00

00:14:04.560 In recent years, the radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology.

00:14:15.860 We're honored to be joined today by many incredible advocates for women's sports, including the brave swimmer at the forefront of this battle.

00:14:24.420 And Riley Gaines is a person that I've been watching.

00:14:27.200 In my action this afternoon, we're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms,

00:14:38.200 you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.

00:14:42.840 There will be no federal funding.

00:14:45.140 So you contrast that footage of Trump signing an executive order preserving women's sports as he's flanked by smiling young women

00:14:52.240 with the footage from the so-called 50-51 movement.

00:14:57.240 Contrast the footage of Trump with the bitter, vengeful feminists who are now maiming themselves for no reason they can explain. 0.98

00:15:08.680 In less than three years after the Dobbs decision, Republicans are more appealing to most women than the so-called feminist movement. 0.98

00:15:15.960 And it's not even close.

00:15:17.140 This is a victory that a lot of people, including conservatives, thought was impossible not all that long ago.

00:15:22.980 They made the case that we should compromise on abortion and gender ideology in order to appeal to women out of political experience. 0.51

00:15:30.980 But as lunatics like Lori Pahutsky embarrass themselves and leftists hold protests that nobody attends, 0.95

00:15:37.280 it's hard not to notice that nobody's making that argument anymore.

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00:16:56.580 So the media have been digging into DOGE, which is, of course, the Department of Government Efficiency,

00:17:01.440 and they've been trying to figure out who these dastardly villains are who are concocting this devious scheme to save taxpayers' money.

00:17:11.680 They're very worried about it, the media is.

00:17:13.400 So yesterday, CNN had a report on one of these DOGE staffers, and what they discovered is pretty disturbing.

00:17:23.060 This is pretty disturbing stuff.

00:17:24.900 Listen.

00:17:25.360 So this is a 19-year-old high school graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname Big Balls online, so that would be one way that we could refer to him.

00:17:36.320 He is now working at Musk's behest inside DOGE, and we looked into his background.

00:17:42.420 And so we found, you know, several notable things, Erin, one of which is that this individual has founded multiple companies,

00:17:50.680 including one with another unfortunate name, Tesla.Sexy LLC, which he established in 2021.

00:17:58.120 He would have been around 16 years old.

00:17:59.880 Now, this LLC controls dozens of web domains.

00:18:02.740 So, Cara, you know, you hear this, and you have known Elon Musk for years.

00:18:07.440 So now you look at these young men who are now in data and in the private information about maybe hundreds of millions of American citizens as young as 19,

00:18:15.320 the big balls here that Katie's talking about.

00:18:19.260 Most of them are in their early 20s.

00:18:20.640 There's an exception I'm going to get to in a minute.

00:18:22.400 I'm curious, though, Cara, how well does even Musk know these young men, do you think?

00:18:27.560 I have no idea.

00:18:28.620 I think there is no vetting whatsoever, as you can see, that's taking place.

00:18:31.600 It took Katie and the really great team.

00:18:33.280 Wired has done an astonishing job here.

00:18:35.020 You know, I could make a joke that's probably why he was hiring, for all this ridiculous nonsense and other nefarious things.

00:18:42.040 But, you know, there's an expression in technology that's not a feature, not a bug.

00:18:50.900 Now, she keeps saying these are unfortunate names.

00:18:53.160 I disagree.

00:18:53.900 I think that they're quite fortunate.

00:18:55.240 I think these names are, this is quite fortunate. 0.99

00:18:57.940 Big balls, Tesla.Sexy, whatever. 1.00

00:19:02.040 It's fortunate because it forces them to say the names. 0.99

00:19:04.740 That's what's fortunate about it. 0.99

00:19:06.120 Anyway, big balls. 0.99

00:19:08.860 You know, I might have known. 0.99

00:19:11.620 I should have known. 0.99

00:19:12.520 Of course, this is the work of big balls. 0.98

00:19:15.240 When I first heard about Doge and what they were doing, I said to myself, 0.99

00:19:19.320 this has big balls written all over it. 0.98

00:19:22.140 Big balls is up to no good. 1.00

00:19:24.440 Big balls, that mischievous scoundrel. 1.00

00:19:28.140 Damn you, big balls. 1.00

00:19:30.840 That's what I said. 1.00

00:19:32.220 I said that.

00:19:33.620 Here's another interesting fact. 0.94

00:19:34.860 I don't know if you knew this, but big balls is actually his birth name.

00:19:39.240 That's actually the man's name. 0.96

00:19:42.380 His last name is Balls.

00:19:44.000 And so his parents said they named their, what else are they going to name him?

00:19:48.920 I mean, with a last name like Balls, what kind of first name are you going to get?

00:19:52.900 What are you going to call him, Small? 0.99

00:19:53.660 I mean, of course, you're going to call him the big balls. 0.99

00:19:56.040 It makes a lot of sense. 0.98

00:19:57.060 So I'm glad that CNN is on the case. 0.93

00:20:01.880 And they're going to be tracking big balls.

00:20:04.320 They're going to be watching big balls very closely.

00:20:06.320 From what I understand, Anderson Cooper has also volunteered for the big balls tracking team.

00:20:12.960 That's just a report I heard.

00:20:14.260 I heard that he, I heard when the CNN said they're going to be doing all these reports 0.94

00:20:18.680 and looking into big balls.

00:20:19.680 And Anderson Cooper said, I'm there. 0.99

00:20:21.100 I'm on it.

00:20:21.560 I'll be, I'm on it.

00:20:22.760 Um, that's what, that's what he said. 0.96

00:20:25.100 So I don't know why, but, uh, and so they're all, they're all going to be watching big balls.

00:20:30.060 They're going to be watching big balls to make sure that they're not going to let, 0.89

00:20:32.820 tell you what, these women and Anderson Cooper, they're not going to let big balls out of their sight. 1.00

00:20:37.840 They won't. 0.99

00:20:39.180 We can be sure of that.

00:20:40.200 Uh, so big balls aside, you know, I have to say that the reaction to Doge and what, um, 0.61

00:20:53.440 you know, when even I have trouble getting through this with a straight face, we know, you know, 0.95

00:20:57.260 Mr. Big balls, you know, it's comedic genius.

00:21:01.020 Uh, man, I don't know when he thought of that nickname, but I like to think that this was some long con on his part, 0.95

00:21:10.560 that the whole point of taking on this nickname was just for this.

00:21:14.720 Uh, the, the, the greatest trolling job of all time in that case. 0.92

00:21:20.580 Uh, and maybe he didn't know, maybe when he took on the nickname big balls, he didn't know what

00:21:24.900 was going to have, he didn't know what he was going to do, but he did know.

00:21:28.320 He said, I'm going to take on this name and then I'm going to do something that forces CNN to report on me.

00:21:36.160 Maybe that's what happened.

00:21:39.040 So I have to say the reaction to Doge and what Elon Musk and his team is doing has been, uh, of course,

00:21:44.440 very revealing and we've talked about, about it.

00:21:46.540 But what it shows is that for the establishment, no cuts to the federal government,

00:21:53.500 no spending cuts of any kind are acceptable because what Doge is doing, you know,

00:21:59.940 this is what it actually means to cut waste and fraud and abuse.

00:22:06.160 It means you have to open the books and go through them line by line and then actually start

00:22:10.880 cutting out all the BS.

00:22:12.320 You have to assemble a team of people who, uh, know how to get into these systems and identify

00:22:17.960 the waste and then let them do what they do that. 0.95

00:22:20.280 This is, this is the way it's done.

00:22:21.580 It's the only way to do it.

00:22:22.860 And it's only shocking to us or to CNN anyway, and to the left more broadly because nobody's

00:22:28.040 ever done it.

00:22:29.260 You know, no president has ever actually made any attempt to cut any waste at all.

00:22:34.140 Every Republican has talked about it.

00:22:36.660 None of them have done it until now.

00:22:40.380 And one other quick point about Doge, there's all this hand wringing about the fact that

00:22:43.800 these are unelected employees who are going in and rooting out this waste and fraud.

00:22:49.280 And just keep in mind, of course, that when all these people complain about the unelected

00:22:54.500 employees, when they defame and slander the good name of Mr. Big Balls, uh, they're utterly 0.99

00:23:02.100 full of crap because the federal government is comprised of literally millions of unelected 0.99

00:23:09.300 bureaucrats, millions of them. 1.00

00:23:11.840 So unelected bureaucrats have exercised profound, unchecked, dictatorial control over our lives

00:23:23.420 for decades. 1.00

00:23:24.340 So do you have these morons that are saying, oh, but these, these Doge employees, they have 1.00

00:23:30.220 so much access to our personal information. 1.00

00:23:33.080 Big Balls is looking at our personal information.

00:23:36.360 Uh, yeah.

00:23:38.100 Well, unelected bureaucrats have been doing that forever. 1.00

00:23:40.620 What do you mean?

00:23:42.640 Like the only reason that they have access to that information is because other bureaucrats 0.86

00:23:47.560 had access to it.

00:23:48.740 So the whole thing is, uh, is they don't mean it.

00:23:56.840 Like they don't actually have a problem.

00:23:58.180 They have no sort of philosophical problem with unelected employees having access to all

00:24:08.260 of this kind of supposedly sensitive information, because that has been the case since approximately

00:24:14.380 forever.

00:24:14.940 And then Big Balls gets his hands on it. 0.94

00:24:20.040 And all of a sudden, it's a problem.

00:24:21.960 All of a sudden, people got an issue with it.

00:24:26.180 Um, here's someone who's a fan of Big Balls.

00:24:31.120 AOC, well, I don't know how she feels about Big Balls, actually, but AOC is giving advice 0.99

00:24:34.780 on, uh, I didn't figure out some kind of transition there, but, uh, AOC is giving advice to her

00:24:40.060 fans on how to resist ICE and deportations.

00:24:46.600 Listen to this.

00:24:48.160 Principle number one in what you can do is that when one of these things comes to your

00:24:55.360 backyard, you can resist.

00:24:58.540 And what that happens over millions of people is that you generate enough friction that they

00:25:07.600 cannot go as fast as they want to go.

00:25:11.080 Okay.

00:25:11.620 So I'm going to give you some examples that have already been working.

00:25:15.900 Let's start with immigration and ICE.

00:25:18.400 When people say, what can we do?

00:25:19.740 In my community, we are a heavily immigrant community.

00:25:25.980 ICE raids deeply affect and disrupt our community.

00:25:31.920 So number one, if you live in a community with a lot of immigrants, know your rights.

00:25:42.260 That's one tangible thing you can do that I want you to do.

00:25:47.920 And that means know your rights if you are a U.S. citizen as well.

00:25:52.840 Okay.

00:25:53.720 Here's one way that we're going to create some friction in this system.

00:25:59.340 Tom Homan, who's directing a lot of these ICE operations nationally, et cetera.

00:26:03.240 He went on TV practically crying.

00:26:07.040 This dude was whining his ass off because ICE went into the city of Chicago and Chicago had

00:26:15.520 prepared for them, community organizers, activists, and their mayor and local elected officials

00:26:23.200 who were solid on this issue.

00:26:25.120 They educated the city on their legal rights.

00:26:29.740 Because what ICE tries to do is that they rely on people not knowing their rights in order

00:26:34.900 to enter buildings, in order to search workplaces, et cetera.

00:26:38.460 So when you know your rights, you are able to tell them no, and they do walk away.

00:26:45.400 What you can do is protect people around you and also make sure that you are slowing down

00:26:52.620 this system.

00:26:54.140 The slower they operate, the less they can break.

00:26:59.080 So there's not a lot to even say about this that hasn't already been said, and to this

00:27:07.960 audience, it will all be quite obvious that what you're hearing from AOC is, now she's

00:27:16.320 trying to cloak it in, know your rights, know your rights.

00:27:19.260 And she's attempting to frame it that way so that she's not guilty of multiple crimes by

00:27:31.320 advising people on how to avoid federal law enforcement, how to obstruct the legitimate

00:27:40.300 legal operations of the federal government.

00:27:41.860 That's what she's advising people on.

00:27:43.320 But she cloaks it in, know your rights.

00:27:49.460 But it's not about rights.

00:27:51.000 I mean, she gives the game away multiple times by saying, this is not simply her.

00:27:56.760 Well, know your rights, and as long as your rights are being respected, then the federal

00:27:59.600 government should be able to do what they do, and they should be able to enforce the border

00:28:03.460 and enforce our immigration law.

00:28:05.880 That's not it.

00:28:06.580 But explicitly, her intention here is, she says, to slow down the system, to obstruct the

00:28:15.400 system, to create friction, she says.

00:28:19.880 And you add this to the Democrats who have more explicitly, and I think in less subtle ways,

00:28:28.880 advised people to break the law or even stated outright that they themselves are going to break

00:28:36.040 the law.

00:28:36.440 We know the governor of New Jersey, I believe it was Phil Murphy, who said he was, implied

00:28:42.540 heavily that he was hiding illegal aliens in his own house.

00:28:47.080 And I believe it came out after the fact, after Tom Homan responded to that by saying,

00:28:50.200 well, we're going to look into it.

00:28:50.860 If it's true, we're going to prosecute.

00:28:53.220 Then Phil Murphy came out and said, well, I didn't, I didn't mean it literally.

00:28:56.780 I mean, you know, metaphorically.

00:28:59.020 There's a metaphorical illegal alien in my metaphorical basement.

00:29:01.880 So he backed away from it.

00:29:05.560 But these people are, at a minimum, coming very close to the line of breaking the law,

00:29:13.460 committing federal crimes.

00:29:15.300 And we are certainly going to get to the point, I think, when an example is going to have to

00:29:21.020 be made of somebody, some prominent, ideally more than one, but at least some prominent

00:29:29.840 elected Democrat figure, is going to have to be prosecuted for this kind of thing. 0.99

00:29:38.160 Because you are directly, explicitly trying to obstruct the operations of the federal government.

00:29:43.620 You're trying to obstruct them from enforcing federal law.

00:29:47.800 And that's, they're going to have to make an example out of someone.

00:29:52.060 And make the Democrats regret, having already set the precedent here.

00:29:57.340 Because here's the thing.

00:29:58.200 If Donald Trump were to, let's say, prosecute Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for explicitly trying

00:30:11.840 to obstruct the federal government and the enforcement of federal law, if he were to do

00:30:16.040 that, it would not even be an unprecedented, unheard of thing.

00:30:21.620 After all, these are the same people who spent four years trying to put a former president

00:30:26.480 in prison.

00:30:29.140 So they've normalized, as much as they worry about normalizing, they've normalized this.

00:30:35.680 And I think it's going to come back to bite them.

00:30:37.300 And it should.

00:30:38.980 Daily Wire has this.

00:30:39.660 A Pennsylvania school superintendent announced he would resign amid questions from parents

00:30:43.000 about his decision to allow a genderqueer witch, quote unquote, to survey students on

00:30:48.720 sexual matters without their consent.

00:30:50.960 Unionville-Chads Ford School District, Superintendent John Sandville, said Friday that he'd be stepping

00:30:56.120 down from his position on July 31st.

00:30:59.340 Over the past year, Sandville has faced criticism from parents after a self-identified genderqueer

00:31:03.880 witch surveyed students about their sexual history at the end of the 2023 school year.

00:31:10.060 He didn't mention the ongoing investigation as a controversy when he stepped down, but it's

00:31:13.440 clear that that's the reason he's stepping down.

00:31:16.380 You know, it's good that this guy is resigning.

00:31:19.520 I think he should be in jail too, but a resignation is better than nothing.

00:31:26.820 This does bring up an important point that I want to make, which is that the wokeness problem, 1.00

00:31:32.040 as we call it, is deeply, deeply embedded in the public school system, which means that

00:31:37.400 even as a lot of this stuff seems to be dying out, even as it seems to be receding in the

00:31:42.920 general culture, that's not really the case in public school.

00:31:47.180 Now, I think parents have gotten better in recent years at identifying and responding

00:31:51.100 to the most egregious examples of left-wing radicalism in the schools, like here when

00:31:55.380 a genderqueer warlock or whatever is talking to kids about sex.

00:32:00.560 That's about as egregious as it could possibly get, and the parents spoke out and they got

00:32:04.300 accountability, and they got rid of the superintendent, which is a pretty big deal.

00:32:08.220 I mean, that's a big victory.

00:32:09.560 As far as accountability goes in a public school environment, that's the most you could

00:32:15.080 possibly hope for, and that's great.

00:32:17.980 My point, though, is that the public school system is a left-wing institution down to its

00:32:24.120 core.

00:32:26.800 Even when I was in school, that was the case, and that was long before the term woke had 0.88

00:32:31.960 ever been used or had been coined.

00:32:33.560 And so even if we can get wokeness back to like 2002 levels, back when we called, it

00:32:39.980 wasn't wokeness, we just called it political correctness, but even if we do that, it still

00:32:44.720 would not be a good environment to send your kids into every day for their whole childhood.

00:32:50.640 The public school system will remain radically left-wing, most likely for several more generations

00:32:55.640 at least.

00:32:57.680 And how will we know, you know, how will we know that things have actually improved?

00:33:03.860 I think here's how we'll know that the school system, well, not just improved, I mean, I

00:33:08.000 think things in general are improving in the school system ever so slightly.

00:33:13.660 But here's how we'll know that the school system is not a left-wing indoctrination camp anymore.

00:33:19.020 I'll give you two indicators.

00:33:22.460 These are two signs to look out for.

00:33:25.740 One is this, comprehensive sex education is no longer taught in schools in any form.

00:33:34.020 Getting rid of the most egregious and depraved excesses of sex education is fine, it's good,

00:33:40.280 but there's no such thing as an appropriate, much less conservative public school education

00:33:45.940 course.

00:33:46.640 It doesn't exist.

00:33:47.280 Comprehensive sex education was invented to sexually indoctrinate children, to groom 0.69

00:33:51.640 children.

00:33:52.420 That's why it was invented.

00:33:53.660 It's been doing that for many, many decades.

00:33:56.220 Long before I was even in elementary school, that was the case.

00:33:59.000 So the abolition of sex education period is one indicator that maybe the school system is

00:34:07.380 no longer a left-wing indoctrination camp.

00:34:10.740 Here's another one.

00:34:11.600 When the schools teach a form of history, a true form, an honest form of history, where

00:34:21.540 men like Christopher Columbus are presented as heroes, which is what they are, what he

00:34:27.620 was especially.

00:34:28.220 And the schools haven't done that in a very long time.

00:34:33.200 Again, even when I was in school, what we were told about Christopher Columbus was basically

00:34:37.660 that he was nothing but a genocidal freak.

00:34:39.600 I mean, that was the case 30 years ago.

00:34:42.160 So wokeness, radical leftism has very deep roots in the public school system.

00:34:47.380 Then just imagine a public school system where there's no sex ed of any kind, and kids are

00:34:55.700 taught to admire our historical heroes like Christopher Columbus.

00:34:59.780 Now, those two things alone don't mean that they're getting a quality education, but they're

00:35:04.660 very strong indicators, very, very strong indicators that the education system is no longer leftist

00:35:09.320 down to its core.

00:35:10.700 And we are a very far way, we're a very far way off from that.

00:35:17.100 You know, we've got a long way to go.

00:35:21.000 So what should you do in the meantime?

00:35:22.600 Well, it won't surprise you that my answer is homeschool.

00:35:25.380 That's get these depraved freaks out of out of the school as much as possible, but you 0.97

00:35:31.880 can't get them all out.

00:35:32.760 So homeschooling is the answer.

00:35:35.300 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:37:13.100 Can Matt be funny or entertaining without sarcasm?

00:37:16.680 He's so incredibly reliant on it.

00:37:19.020 I'd really like to see this guy just take 15 seconds at the end of each sarcastic monologue

00:37:22.880 to just issue a plain, clear thought.

00:37:25.480 That'd be the best version of Matt, in my opinion.

00:37:29.620 I mean, isn't that like asking Jimi Hendrix to play without his guitar or, you know, like

00:37:34.500 asking Rembrandt to use colored pencils instead of paint?

00:37:38.640 Sarcasm is my medium.

00:37:39.880 It's my instrument.

00:37:41.580 It's the paint.

00:37:42.760 It's the paint that I use.

00:37:45.420 Although I guess I could take your suggestion and explain my sarcasm every time I use it.

00:37:52.860 Just right at the end of every monologue, I could go, but seriously, folks, here's the

00:37:57.900 lesson that I want you to take away from this.

00:38:00.280 I could do that.

00:38:01.780 That wouldn't ruin the joke at all, would it?

00:38:04.000 So thanks for the suggestion.

00:38:05.020 I'll think about implementing that.

00:38:07.340 Is it just me or has Matt beefed up significantly?

00:38:09.560 I'm not mad.

00:38:11.580 It's just steroids.

00:38:12.520 I started taking steroids.

00:38:13.620 I started taking steroids just so I could sit here and do a podcast.

00:38:16.740 I shoot up steroids and then come into this room and do a podcast because why not?

00:38:21.860 The screen time problem is so very serious and appalling.

00:38:24.160 I have a nine-month-old baby and I'm in a Facebook group of women with eight and nine-month-old

00:38:27.420 babies from all around the country, thousands of women.

00:38:29.760 I was truly, truly shocked at how many of these women are giving their babies not only screen 1.00

00:38:33.140 time on a daily basis, but who are giving their babies an hour or more of screen time

00:38:36.540 every day at nine months old?

00:38:39.200 Well, that's insane.

00:38:40.200 I mean, you know, there should be zero screen time at nine months old.

00:38:45.600 There's just no reason.

00:38:47.220 Like, I'm not saying that if you walk through a room and the TV's on, you got to hide your

00:38:52.000 baby's face or something.

00:38:53.320 Like, their brain is going to melt the instant they look at a screen.

00:38:55.900 But there's just no reason why you should be putting your child in front of a screen at

00:39:02.180 the age of nine months old.

00:39:03.080 That is insane.

00:39:05.480 And unless your intention is to condition them so that they are utterly reliant on screens

00:39:15.120 from birth.

00:39:17.740 And the only reason why parents would intend to do that or would want to do that is just

00:39:22.320 because it makes their own lives easier.

00:39:23.680 It's just because as a parent, if you're doing that, it's because your primary concern as

00:39:29.480 a parent is just to make your life easier and to keep the kid quiet so that you can do

00:39:34.440 what you want, which also ends up inevitably being just going on, you know, using a screen.

00:39:41.800 And that is very wrong.

00:39:45.840 You need to give your child a chance to develop interests outside of the screen.

00:39:51.040 And you should, and this is not impossible to achieve this, where you should, it should

00:40:01.920 end up that by the time your child is, you know, seven or eight years old, where even

00:40:08.980 if you tried to just put them in front of a screen all day, you wouldn't be able to because

00:40:16.040 they would be bored and would want to just go run and play outside.

00:40:22.400 Right?

00:40:23.540 If you've done this right, then by the time your kid is seven or eight, you don't even

00:40:27.700 have to, it's not as much of a fight to get them to not use screens all the time because

00:40:31.300 they don't want to just sit and watch screens all the time.

00:40:34.140 I'm Gen X and really enjoyed television when I was a kid to the point that it was something

00:40:39.660 I really looked forward to, to watch as much as possible.

00:40:41.660 Then I spent six months in my teens in a household with no TV.

00:40:44.240 That made a huge difference in my development to the point that once I got back around it,

00:40:47.500 I really despised the trite, over-commercialized dreck and I couldn't stand to be around it.

00:40:51.720 Eventually I would watch a show or two, but I never really had the taste for it in the

00:40:54.320 same way.

00:40:54.720 It opened up my mind to the inner contemplation and ability to self-entertain dramatically.

00:40:58.960 I think that kids and phones are very similar in a much more extreme way to television,

00:41:01.720 the way it primes you for passive entertainment.

00:41:04.740 You crave that constant entertainment and begin to depend on it to stimulate your mind to the

00:41:08.560 exclusion of normal thought.

00:41:10.040 It's very damaging since any new discoveries or great ideas are crowded out by the craving

00:41:13.480 and stimulus of a screen.

00:41:15.160 Exactly right.

00:41:15.880 And I think that, yeah, I do think something very similar happens with phones and social

00:41:20.160 media, which is why it can be very useful and it's a very healthy thing to, you know,

00:41:25.760 you hear people going on a detox from screens and it just not, you know, putting the screens

00:41:32.320 away for a week, two weeks, whatever.

00:41:36.220 And I can say that in my case, just personally, when I go on vacation, I'm pretty determined

00:41:43.620 not to scroll through my phone and not to use the screens, not, I don't go on social media

00:41:48.540 or anything like that when I'm on vacation.

00:41:51.200 And what I find is that when I come back, I kind of have a similar experience to you,

00:41:57.900 that when I, when I come back and now I'm, now I'm back to life and I'm back to work.

00:42:01.240 And for me, part of my job is I have to use, I'm on screens all the time, part of the job.

00:42:07.120 Social media is literally part of my job, as absurd as that might be.

00:42:11.800 And I find that I really have to force myself to get on social media again.

00:42:16.440 Now, once you get into the rhythm of it and you're conditioned again, then it's the opposite.

00:42:23.660 You know, you have to force yourself to not pick up your phone and start looking at X or whatever.

00:42:27.640 But when you've kind of detoxed from it, you don't have that instinct anymore.

00:42:33.060 And you kind of have to force yourself to do it.

00:42:37.680 And I think that probably tells us something about, about these screens.

00:42:41.920 Is Matt excited for the new Saw movie?

00:42:44.920 I mean, are you kidding?

00:42:46.960 It's Saw 11, right?

00:42:48.860 Is what we're on?

00:42:51.820 Yeah, I know that.

00:42:52.860 I'm just testing you.

00:42:53.740 Saw 11.

00:42:54.380 I can't even, I'm, I can't even sleep at night.

00:42:57.880 I mean, that's how excited I am for the new Saw movie.

00:43:02.560 You know, 11 Saw films, 11 of them.

00:43:04.900 And that's not enough.

00:43:05.880 I need, I need a Saw film every month.

00:43:08.720 I need a new one every month.

00:43:10.500 Because they made the first one like 20 years ago.

00:43:13.700 So they make one Saw movie like every two years.

00:43:17.000 That's not nearly enough in my view.

00:43:20.280 You know, they made a movie about people being tortured by a serial killer.

00:43:23.180 And then they said, we need 10 more of these.

00:43:25.500 We need these to never end.

00:43:27.660 We just, we just need this exact plot, this exact movie repeated over and over and over again.

00:43:32.880 We just need to see more and more people being tortured.

00:43:36.560 With no, actually there is no plot.

00:43:38.620 You don't need a plot.

00:43:40.200 We just need this.

00:43:41.460 We need, we need this to continue forever.

00:43:43.740 We need 25 hours of this.

00:43:45.820 We need a, we need a decade and a half of movies about people being tortured to death.

00:43:50.260 That's what the world needs right now.

00:43:52.120 That's the kind of material the world needs is that.

00:43:55.720 That's what they said when they made the first movie.

00:43:57.360 And I couldn't agree more.

00:43:58.300 And, and I'm just so excited.

00:44:00.920 I'll be first in line.

00:44:02.160 You better believe it.

00:44:03.320 I'll be camping out overnight to get into the Saw 11.

00:44:05.420 I'll be the only one.

00:44:06.200 It'll be, it'll be a line of just me camped out with my sleeping bag three days ahead of time to see Saw 11.

00:44:14.360 Really excited.

00:44:15.880 Let's get to the Daily Cancellation.

00:44:23.640 It was just a couple of weeks ago that we discussed the sudden rise of an actor named Carla Sofia Gascon,

00:44:29.020 who stars in one of the worst movies ever made, Emilia Perez.

00:44:31.560 And in case you're not familiar with it, which you probably aren't because no one has actually seen this film,

00:44:35.560 Emilia Perez is a musical about a male cartel boss who gets a sex change so that he can reinvent himself as a caring family man or family woman, I guess.

00:44:43.480 Nothing about the plot makes sense.

00:44:44.680 The acting's atrocious.

00:44:45.700 The musical numbers are excruciating, seemingly by design.

00:44:49.220 To give you an idea of the caliber of writing on display, at one point an actor in a gender clinic sings the line, 0.98

00:44:54.260 from penis to vagina. 0.93

00:44:55.440 So you can pull up the footage if you're so inclined. 0.98

00:44:58.080 I'm not going to, I can't bear to play it again, but if you want to, you can find it.

00:45:02.500 Nevertheless, the movie has been a huge hit with, I mean, it has not been a hit with any, with audiences or in theaters or even really with movie critics,

00:45:10.480 but it has been a hit with the awards shows because Gascon identifies as transgender.

00:45:15.440 So they finally have some of that trans representation they're always demanding. 0.96

00:45:20.060 At long last, a so-called trans character was being played by a man who identifies as a woman.

00:45:25.580 In Hollywood, this is an achievement on par with, you know, the moon landing or even, even greater than that.

00:45:32.000 For months, they haven't been able to contain their excitement.

00:45:35.100 So the Academy, in their enthusiasm, nominated Gascon for the Best Actress Award along with 12 other awards,

00:45:41.660 making it one of the most nominated films of all time.

00:45:44.420 Now, at the time, it seemed pretty clear how this story would play out.

00:45:47.560 It was easy to assume, as I did, that Gascon would inevitably win the award, become the first ever man to win Best Actress.

00:45:54.340 For the first time in history, men would win both major acting awards at the Oscars.

00:45:59.240 And then all the actual women would have to pretend to be very enthusiastic about this development. 1.00

00:46:03.060 And this would be how the Academy would strike back at Donald Trump, fascism, and so on.

00:46:06.880 In fact, in some ways, I was kind of looking forward to it.

00:46:08.660 I was looking forward to the clip of this man winning Best Actress

00:46:12.500 and then cutting immediately to all the women who lost and just seeing them pretend to be excited in that moment.

00:46:19.180 I was kind of looking forward to that.

00:46:21.360 And, but it looks like it may not happen, tragically.

00:46:25.340 As it turns out, at the last minute, the script has been totally upended.

00:46:29.760 And it's been upended in the most fitting way, which is that Carlos Sofia Gascon has just been canceled because of his old tweets.

00:46:39.220 Yeah, we have ourselves a good old-fashioned old tweets cancellation for the first time in a while.

00:46:43.720 I mean, this is like a relic from a lost civilization or something.

00:46:48.960 But it's happening again.

00:46:50.480 It's pretty fascinating.

00:46:51.360 Watch.

00:46:51.600 Oscar nominee Carla Sofia Gascon is catching heat for controversial takes she posted online in recent years

00:46:58.320 about everything from Islam to George Floyd.

00:47:02.080 The Amelia Perez's stars' posts on X started to make the rounds early Thursday morning and were deleted not soon after.

00:47:08.720 Less than a month after Floyd was murdered in Minnesota in 2020, inciting nationwide Black Lives Matter rallies,

00:47:14.560 Gascon shared these words, saying,

00:47:16.420 I truly believe that very few people ever cared about George Floyd and calling him a drug addict and a hustler.

00:47:24.820 Later that year, she took aim at Muslims in her native Spain when she wrote this post that says, in part,

00:47:30.140 Sorry, is it just my impression or are there more and more Muslims in Spain?

00:47:33.960 Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school, there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. 1.00

00:47:39.040 So these are the first two highly incendiary, totally cancel-worthy tweets that the Hollywood Reporter chose to cite.

00:47:46.600 And it's a little odd since there's nothing remotely interesting about either tweet that they read.

00:47:51.580 Saying that there are a lot of Muslim people in Spain is just an observation about demographics also happens to be true. 1.00

00:47:56.460 Then, of course, there's the first tweet, which is equally inoffensive, saying that George Floyd was a drug addict and a hustler is probably the kindest, most sanitized way that you could describe George Floyd, a.k.a. drug Floyd.

00:48:14.100 If anything, I'm offended that he was far too nice to George Floyd.

00:48:18.660 But to be clear, that tweet was one of several that Gascon posted about Floyd.

00:48:23.380 Here's another.

00:48:24.020 The post that's translated on X read as follows, quote,

00:48:27.160 So if there's anything offensive about that tweet, it's that he got the facts wrong.

00:48:44.300 First of all, the predominant drug in Floyd's system was not meth, it was fentanyl.

00:48:48.020 He had enough fentanyl in his body to kill a horse when he died, something that the prosecution repeatedly lied about during the trial. 0.93

00:48:52.680 Secondly, the policeman was not an idiot, nor did he kill George Floyd. 0.96

00:48:57.400 So these are basic facts that Gascon got wrong.

00:48:59.500 But to be fair, a lot of people in the media, rather in general, get those facts wrong because the media lies about them constantly, even now.

00:49:06.360 At this point, you know, as we're reading through this, I wasn't sure what the fuss was about.

00:49:09.380 So I kept on reading.

00:49:10.060 And then I found some of the spicier tweets, as the kids would say. 0.67

00:49:13.640 For example, there's this one, quote,

00:49:15.400 More and more, the Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films.

00:49:18.880 I didn't know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration, or the 8M feminist strike.

00:49:25.080 Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.

00:49:26.980 Well, okay, now we're getting somewhere, maybe.

00:49:31.260 You could start to see why the Academy is taking some of this personally.

00:49:34.500 At the same time, again, he's right, and his take is completely reasonable.

00:49:38.800 He called out the Oscars for implementing DEI everywhere and using the awards ceremony for activism.

00:49:43.980 The Academy even implemented explicit racial quotas in its selection process a few years ago, and it shows. 0.99

00:49:48.980 But at the same time, of course, these tweets are hitting a little close to home for the Oscars, I suppose.

00:49:55.500 Now, there are other tweets that have been dug up, apparently, although he deleted his account,

00:49:59.380 and the tweets are in a different language, so it's hard for me to verify most of them.

00:50:03.380 Not that I'm interested in expending that kind of effort for something like this anyway.

00:50:07.160 Evidently, he tweeted something insulting about one of his co-stars, Selena Gomez,

00:50:12.680 although I believe it was before they worked together.

00:50:15.060 And allegedly, he posted some other tweets about Muslims that were considerably more insulting

00:50:18.840 than the one that I read a couple of minutes ago.

00:50:21.120 So, and whatever you think of whatever this guy tweeted, you know, that was his opinion.

00:50:26.600 And you wouldn't think it would have any impact, one way or another,

00:50:29.280 on how his performance in the film or the film itself are perceived.

00:50:34.820 Now, both the film and his performance are already terrible,

00:50:37.540 but if you thought they were both brilliant, as Academy voters apparently did,

00:50:42.120 you should still think that.

00:50:43.560 But, of course, they're throwing him under the bus, and in response,

00:50:48.340 he came out and delivered a big apology in a desperate attempt to save his bid for Best Actress.

00:50:54.080 Here's one report on what he said.

00:50:57.580 Oscar nominee Carla-Sofia Gascon is apologizing amid online controversy.

00:51:03.620 The Amelia Perez star expresses her regret for recently resurfaced past offensive posts she made on X,

00:51:11.600 formerly known as Twitter, that appeared to target Muslims,

00:51:15.600 the killing of George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars.

00:51:19.700 In a statement shared to NBC News via a Netflix spokesperson,

00:51:24.260 on January 30th, Carla says,

00:51:26.820 quote,

00:51:27.160 I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt.

00:51:32.940 As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well,

00:51:38.340 and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain.

00:51:41.880 All my life I have fought for a better world.

00:51:44.680 I believe light will always triumph over darkness.

00:51:49.940 Inspiring.

00:51:51.220 So he immediately hides behind the idea that he's in a marginalized community, quote, unquote,

00:51:55.020 even though he was just nominated for an Oscar for a film that is objectively atrocious.

00:51:59.160 It's actually the opposite of being marginalized,

00:52:02.420 and the whole act isn't working anymore.

00:52:04.000 The social media mob was not appeased.

00:52:05.520 As a result, Gascon isn't being allowed to appear at any Oscars event for the film,

00:52:12.040 and now his own director doesn't want anything to do with him.

00:52:14.820 Here's what the director told Deadline, quote,

00:52:16.360 It's very hard for me to think back to the work I did with Carla Sofia,

00:52:19.900 the trust we share, the exceptional atmosphere that we had on set that was indeed based on trust.

00:52:24.320 And when you have that kind of relationship,

00:52:25.580 and suddenly you read something that the person has said,

00:52:27.820 things that are absolutely hateful and worthy of being hated,

00:52:30.720 of course that relationship is affected.

00:52:32.220 It's as if you fall into a hole.

00:52:34.240 Because what Carla Sofia said is inexcusable.

00:52:36.200 I haven't spoken to her, and I don't want to.

00:52:39.060 She is in a self-destructive approach that I can't interfere in, 0.88

00:52:41.920 and I really don't understand why she's continuing.

00:52:44.260 Why is she harming herself? 1.00

00:52:45.420 I don't understand it.

00:52:46.720 What I don't understand about this, too,

00:52:48.460 is why she's harming people who are already close to her. 1.00

00:52:51.500 She's really playing the victim.

00:52:53.120 She's talking about herself as a victim, which is surprising.

00:52:56.060 It's as if she thought that words don't hurt, close quote.

00:52:58.240 And of course, in your head, put the air quotes around she and her throughout that entire quote.

00:53:02.740 I was just telling you what the guy said.

00:53:03.860 But, and this, by the way, is like everyone in Hollywood,

00:53:08.460 I think some of his co-stars, too,

00:53:09.720 but they're just throwing them under the bus completely.

00:53:12.140 This is the kind of loyalty.

00:53:13.320 This is the director of a film you worked with for a long time,

00:53:17.040 professed to be a friend,

00:53:18.400 and just immediately throwing them under the bus.

00:53:21.860 Like, no hesitation.

00:53:25.820 Total disavowal, right, of a friend.

00:53:28.480 This is the loyalty you get in Hollywood.

00:53:31.400 And now, now we're being told that the trans-identifying actor is not allowed to play the victim.

00:53:38.180 Even though when he stood up at the Golden Globes and said trans people were being killed in the streets or whatever,

00:53:43.740 which isn't true, that was fine.

00:53:45.660 But now his cloak of marginalization doesn't work anymore.

00:53:48.360 Now he's persona non grata in Hollywood.

00:53:50.500 In a matter of weeks, he's gone from giving weepy speeches at the Golden Globes

00:53:55.720 to being disowned by his own director.

00:53:59.260 And this whole saga, a sordid and weird tale as it is,

00:54:03.700 tells us everything we need to know about modern Hollywood.

00:54:06.320 Because Gascon hasn't been canceled for starring in one of the worst movies ever made.

00:54:11.000 It's not as if everyone just woke up and actually watched this film

00:54:14.040 and realized how unimaginably bad it is.

00:54:16.040 That didn't happen.

00:54:17.140 Nor has Gascon been canceled for deciding in middle age that he's really a woman,

00:54:21.640 even though no one with two functioning eyes or ears would confuse him for a woman.

00:54:25.580 None of that happened.

00:54:26.620 When they loved this guy, were ready to shower him with awards

00:54:28.800 when he was a cross-dressing man appropriating womanhood in the worst movie ever made. 0.70

00:54:32.380 But he crossed the line by tweeting some true things about George Floyd four years ago.

00:54:37.260 And then people went looking through his other tweets

00:54:38.720 and saw that he made fun of Selena Gomez and the Hollywood elites.

00:54:41.840 And in the end, that's what will cost him the Best Actress award.

00:54:45.540 Hollywood has gone so insane that a terrible male actor in a bad film

00:54:51.580 will now lose out on the Academy Award for Best Actress,

00:54:55.220 but for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact

00:54:57.240 that it was a bad performance in a bad film

00:55:00.060 or with the fact that he is, you know, a man.

00:55:04.200 And that is why all the people who are canceling

00:55:06.420 Carla Sophia Gascon for his old tweets,

00:55:08.500 instead of the fact that he's a man pretending to be a woman

00:55:10.420 and that he can't act and that his movie is bad,

00:55:13.180 are today themselves canceled.

00:55:16.020 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:55:18.060 Talk to you next week.

00:55:19.560 Have a great weekend.

00:55:20.620 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 07, 2025

Ep. 1532 - Radical Feminist Lawmaker Maims Herself To Make A Statement That No One Cares About

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