00:06:03.220I'm sorry. Am I taking too long pleading for my life?
00:06:06.220You remembered how many children I have and the two of them are trans.
00:06:11.220I speak as both the B and the T in the LGBT.
00:06:16.220I'm multiply disabled. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder
00:06:22.220that causes me immense physical pain. I'm on the autism spectrum and I have narcolepsy
00:06:30.220and I couldn't drive myself here. So I had to hide from my driver that I was in drag,
00:06:36.220which is not an easy thing to do in drag.
00:06:38.220I do not want to be here. It's my day off. I do not want to be in your DMs.
00:06:44.220I have narcolepsy. I have autism. I'm disabled. I stubbed my toe this morning.
00:06:56.220I have a strange rash on my foot. I have athlete's foot.
00:07:03.220Just got to list. This is how it works at a council meeting when there are a bunch of leftists showing up.
00:07:08.220You just begin, you know, they get three minutes to speak and the first two and a half minutes are consumed by them listing all of their, you know, credentials.
00:07:17.220And their credentials are just all the things that they're, you know, all the different ways that they're victims and all the things they're whining about.
00:07:23.220And we say this a lot, but it really does feel like a parody when you watch the video.
00:07:27.220You know, it's like these people can't be real, yet they are.
00:07:32.220I don't want to be here, complains the trans activist.
00:08:32.220I mean, she looks like a Scooby-Doo villain and not very threatening, but still the sort of person who, if you did see her in public,
00:08:41.220your first move is to cross the street and keep some distance.
00:08:45.220I mean, anyone who chooses to dress like a demonically possessed department store mannequin is clearly not the sort of person that you want to consort with.
00:08:53.220And again, just to be clear, this city council meeting is about a meaningless resolution to declare Worcester a sanctuary city for transgenderism.
00:09:00.220This is a resolution that does not affect the law in any way.
00:09:03.220It doesn't give any new protections to anyone.
00:09:06.220It doesn't change day to day life at all for anyone.
00:09:09.220But trans activists were threatening the city council over it.
00:09:13.220And as the meeting continued, their behavior became even more irate and even more unhinged.
00:09:32.220I speak as someone who is always misgendered like all the time.
00:09:39.220People refer to me as sir when I prefer to be referred to as ma'am.
00:09:45.220I speak as someone who is afraid to use public toilets.
00:09:50.220I speak as someone who is a member of this community and is a queer person.
00:09:57.220The quote there was, I speak as someone who is afraid to use public toilets.
00:10:04.220And that may be the first time in American history that that exact line has been uttered at a city council meeting or in any official meeting of any kind.
00:10:12.220And he delivered that line with no sense of irony or hesitation or shame or anything.
00:10:17.220Like it's part of his identity or some kind of advanced qualification.
00:10:21.220Somebody else might say I speak as a doctor or I speak as an experienced plumber, but not this guy.
00:10:27.220He speaks as someone who is afraid to use public toilets.
00:10:30.220So quiet down and listen to what he's about to say.
00:10:33.220Now, frankly, it's a line worth thinking about because it does suggest that at least in this guy's case, there's a chance his problem can be solved pretty easily.
00:10:41.220Obviously, everyone's going to keep calling him sir because he's a male.
00:10:45.220Well, that particular issue is a nonstarter.
00:10:47.220But the toilet problem, you know, I mean, I don't want to I don't want to think too much.
00:10:51.220It's like could just be a dietary thing.
00:10:53.220You know, many, many adult males have been afraid to use public toilets at one time or another.
00:10:58.220Maybe the root of the problem is that the public toilets in Worcester don't flush properly or something.
00:11:03.220Now, this is an issue that maybe demands more investigation.
00:11:07.220But at the same time, this footage is also proof that the federal government should stop funding the city of Worcester, Massachusetts immediately.
00:11:14.220If anybody from Doge is listening, this is a pretty obvious place to make some more cuts.
00:11:18.220The second congressional district in Massachusetts, which includes the city of Worcester, received more than $20 million from the federal government in the last fiscal year alone.
00:11:27.220Several million of your taxpayer dollars went to alleged improvements on something called Mill Street in Worcester,
00:11:32.220including the establishment of even more bike lanes that interrupt the flow of traffic.
00:12:48.220The kids are watching and we're ready to vote you out.
00:12:51.220The applause at the end is almost as disturbing as everything that came before it.
00:12:58.220This is a child who's clearly being manipulated in about a million different ways.
00:13:03.220And the trans activists in Worcester loved it.
00:13:06.220They have no problem poisoning the mind of a young child exploiting children, as we know.
00:13:11.220They're happy to convince a child that he needs to be castrated.
00:13:14.220I mean, this is this is this is what they've been doing now for years.
00:13:19.220So, of course, they're also going to be happy to hand a child a script in order to push some low effort emotional blackmail.
00:13:25.220And the script doesn't even make sense, by the way.
00:13:27.220I mean, he says at the end, the kids are watching and we're going to vote you out.
00:13:30.220But of course, children can't vote even in Massachusetts.
00:13:34.220So whoever wrote this script and it was not the child, but whoever wrote it kind of slipped up a bit there.
00:13:40.220As far as I could tell, the point of this speech was to attack a member of the city council who supposedly referred to a self-described non-binary member of the Worcester City Council as an it instead of a they.
00:13:51.220And that led to a whole crisis in Massachusetts just a few weeks ago in which this non-binary, quote unquote, city councilman decided to go on a paid leave of absence.
00:14:00.220Watch this morning, the first openly non-binary lawmaker in Massachusetts history taking a leave of absence from their post.
00:14:08.220We're talking about Worcester City Councilor at large through when says it's to focus on their mental health, saying they faced a discriminatory and toxic culture on the council.
00:14:17.220Mr. Chairman, under your leadership, I have felt unsafe around this council body.
00:14:23.220I have faced transphobia with being misgendered and recently learned that I have been dehumanized to a point where I'm being referred to as it by my colleagues on this council.
00:14:34.220Councilor Wynn made those comments at a city council meeting Tuesday night.
00:14:39.220Wynn also said they attend the council meetings via Zoom because they feel unsafe at City Hall.
00:14:44.220I really, really wished I felt safe enough to show up on the council floor.
00:14:51.220By the way, it is in fact the grammatically correct gender neutral pronoun.
00:15:02.220They is not because they refers to multiple people.
00:15:07.220It is actually the correct, the grammatically correct gender neutral pronoun.
00:15:12.220If it sounds dehumanizing, it's because it is.
00:15:19.220And that's because in the human species, you're either male or female.
00:15:24.220There is no such thing as non-binary in the human species.
00:15:27.220And so if you identify as non-binary, you have dehumanized yourself.
00:15:32.220You are claiming to be something other than human.
00:15:36.220Because if you're human, you can only be male or female.
00:15:39.220But of course, no one would explain that to this person who I think is a male.
00:15:47.220And but you see, it's just too dangerous in the Worcester City Council.
00:15:52.220So I'm afraid that in addition to not showing up to work and doing everything remotely, he's saying, I'm just going to, I'm not going to do anything at all.
00:16:00.220I'm not going to work and the taxpayers are going to continue to pay me.
00:16:03.220An indefinite paid vacation is the only thing that can heal my, my deep wounds.
00:16:09.220And you really can't blame this person.
00:16:12.220Honestly, if people in Worcester are so dumb that they fall for this, they deserve to have their money stolen.
00:16:16.220They deserve for their city to turn into a circus act, which is what's happened while the representatives skip work because of, quote unquote, misgendering.
00:16:23.220At the very least, it's entertainment for the rest of the country.
00:16:26.220As soon as we cut their funding, then we could just sit back and truly enjoy it.
00:16:31.220Or we wouldn't be able to enjoy it if not for the fact that there are kids getting mixed up in the middle of all this nonsense.
00:16:36.220And for Democrats, you know, it will not be so enjoyable.
00:16:41.220And that's because these activists are self caricatures who have been steering the ship for the Democrat Party for many, many years.
00:16:48.220Based on what just happened at the DNC that we talked about a few days ago, we know that they're still steering the ship.
00:16:54.220And in the end, that is a pathway to complete and total disaster for the simple reason that these people are incapable of leading anything.
00:17:02.220They can't lead a political movement, much less a country, because they're all pathological narcissists who can't see even two inches beyond their own egos.
00:17:10.220As it stands, Worcester, Massachusetts seems determined to turn itself into a haven for these self-absorbed crackpots.
00:17:19.220And the end result will be that the vast majority of Americans, sane people, are going to stay far away from both Worcester, Massachusetts and the Democrat Party.
00:17:28.220They think they're creating a sanctuary, but they've actually created something else entirely.
00:17:32.220They've created a monument to the confusion and incoherence of gender ideology.
00:17:37.220And like Worcester, Massachusetts, that ideology is now collapsing in dramatic and sometimes hilarious fashion right before our eyes.
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00:18:49.220Daily Wire reports, the United States government is set to spend over $1.5 million in taxpayer money bankrolling a far-left group's LGBT mentorship program for children as young as 12 years old in Los Angeles and on campus activism for K-12 students.
00:19:04.220The LifeWorks Mentorship Program is one of the initiatives from the Los Angeles LGBT Center that's benefiting from the financial backing of the federal government with the Department of Health and Human Services agreeing to put up nearly a million dollars in support of it.
00:19:18.220The LifeWorks 101 mentoring program gives LGBTQ plus youth ages 24 and under the opportunity to be matched with an adult in the community, according to a description from the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
00:19:31.220And if you go to this website, you'll find a video all about this mentorship program, and we'll play a little bit of that.
00:23:52.220Representative Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce HR 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery.
00:23:59.220Did this on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide scale rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the federal government.
00:24:07.220The bill, which had 130 co-sponsors in the last session, is not likely to advance under the Republican-controlled Congress.
00:24:13.220And the White House has previously been opposed to any reparations effort.
00:25:05.220And for those that would say we need to just get over it, that's interesting.
00:25:12.220When, as a nation, you are benefiting right now from an economy that was built on the brutalized backs and the indignities and the horrors of chattel slavery and our African ancestors.
00:26:34.220You see, because if you had yourself suffered some outrage, some indignity, some terrible experience years ago, and all you did was just talk about it and whine about it.
00:26:48.220Then I would tell you that at a certain point in your life, you do need to get over even that and get back to living your life.
00:26:57.220No matter what happens to you, at a certain point, you have to get over it at least enough so that you can live a life and focus on other things.
00:27:09.220And that's what I would say if you personally had suffered some sort of terrible event.
00:27:18.220But if the terrible thing happened 150 years ago to people who are all dead now, to people who are all not you, then yes, even more so, you need to get over it.
00:27:31.220Because it's not even your thing to get over.
00:28:25.220And I want to say one other thing too, which is that, you know, Ayanna claims that this country, this economy was built on the backs of slave labor.
00:28:49.220I think, in fact, there were multiple people who put out this thing during the Super Bowl where they claiming that.
00:28:55.220And I don't know why the Super Bowl has brought this idea out, but claiming that black people built America, meaning what they're saying, again, is the same thing Ayanna Pressley did said, which is that the country was built.
00:29:09.220The economy was built on the backs of black slaves.
00:29:14.220And again, this is a claim that we hear a lot.
00:29:17.220And the notion that the argument for reparations rests really on that claim.
00:30:47.220It killed 600,000 people, died in the Civil War.
00:30:51.220But it did not take long before America was back on track.
00:30:56.220And without slave labor, the country thrived.
00:31:01.220If our economy really depended on slave labor, if black slaves were in fact the backbone, if everything was resting on the backs of African slaves, if they were the driving force of the economy, then when you abolish slavery, it would collapse everything.
00:31:19.220OK, it would be the collapse of the country.
00:31:24.220And if you if it ever clawed itself back, it would take decades and probably longer.
00:31:57.220Well, whatever you mean by the term, it was predominantly white men.
00:32:04.220White men developed our system of government.
00:32:07.220White men came up with our Constitution and also the philosophical foundation of our Constitution and our system of government.
00:32:14.220White men were primarily the ones who fought and won our war of independence.
00:32:19.220White men and the labor of white men accounted for the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of our economy during slavery and after and before.
00:32:30.220White men were the pioneers and the soldiers and the inventors and the politicians and the generals and the business leaders.
00:32:41.220OK, almost all of the great leaders in all of these areas were white men.
00:33:00.220And the fact that the fact that that it's even remotely controversial to say this is such an indictment on many things, but mainly our education system.
00:33:13.220Because everything I'm saying right now, it should be like, well, it should be baffling that I'm even saying it because it's so obvious.
00:33:23.220You know, but but instead it's it's this is.
00:33:30.220To to people who were raised in the public school system and didn't do much of their own research when they hear a statement like, well, white men actually were the ones who primarily built the country.
00:33:43.220When they hear that, that's that's shocking.
00:36:57.220It's that, you know, if you have a work spouse, quote unquote, it means that you've established an intimate friendship with a member of the opposite sex.
00:37:09.220Which is just never OK as a married person.
00:37:14.220A married person should not have any intimate friendships with members of the opposite sex.
00:37:20.220Now, does that mean a married person can't have any friends, period, who are the opposite sex?
00:37:26.220That doesn't really mean that, you know, there are appropriate ways for, say, a married man to be friends with a woman.
00:37:35.220And the best option is that this is someone who you and your wife are both friends with.
00:37:44.220And so so so you and your spouse are friends with this other couple.
00:37:49.220OK, that's a there's a scenario where you might be, quote unquote, friends with a member of the opposite sex as a as a married person.
00:37:58.220And it's fine, you know, for a married couple to have friends that are other married couples.
00:38:01.220That's fine. That's healthy. That's a good thing.
00:38:04.220You should have those kinds of friends.
00:38:06.220But outside of that, you know, if you have a friend of the opposite sex as a married person and this is not a mutual friend who is part of a couple that you and your spouse are friends with.
00:38:16.220If this is just your friend, then by friend, we should be talking about someone who you work with and are friendly with and maybe get along with.
00:38:27.220But it shouldn't be more than that. Like, that's all that the word friend should really mean in that case.
00:38:34.220You certainly shouldn't be going out to lunches one on one with this person or, you know, texting all the time or hanging out one on one or just building any intimacy at all.
00:38:47.220You should not be doing it should be a friend in the broadest, broadest sense.
00:38:52.220And intimacy is really the point here. Like, that's that's the point.
00:38:57.220Intimacy doesn't always mean, you know, you talk about being intimate with someone.
00:39:03.220We use that euphemistically to mean sexual activity, but it doesn't have to mean that intimacy just means most literally closeness.
00:39:11.220You know, if you are, you know, if someone is an intimate friend, it means that you're it's a close friend.
00:39:17.220This is a close bond. A close bond is intimacy.
00:39:21.220And as a married person, you should simply not have any close bonds with anyone of the opposite sex unless they're an immediate family member.
00:39:31.220And there should be no intimacy being built or established, formed with a member of the opposite with a member of the opposite sex.
00:39:42.220And if there is like that can that can only lead to bad places.
00:39:49.220There's no win there. Like, what's the win as a as a if you're a married woman and you have a job.
00:39:56.220And you're building an intimate close relationship with a guy that you work with and he's not your husband.
00:40:01.220What's the win? Like, how does that make your life better in the end?
00:40:05.220What's what's the what's the where's this going?
00:40:07.220What's the you know, what's the five year plan here?
00:40:12.220What do you think this looks like five years from now?
00:40:18.220The best you can hope for is that it won't damage your marriage as much as it could.
00:40:26.220Like it's this now it's just damage mitigation.
00:40:29.220The best you can hope for is that this intimate relationship you're building with someone who's not your spouse won't completely destroy your marriage.
00:40:47.220I mean, I'll never forget the controversy around Mike Pence.
00:40:52.220You know, way back in ancient times, back in 2016 or whatever, when he infamously said that he doesn't go on lunch dates with women who aren't his wife.
00:41:04.220And this was treated as some sort of shocking statement.
00:41:08.220Meanwhile, to any normal person, you're like, well, yeah, of course not.
00:41:13.220What do you who of course you're not going to lunch date with a woman is not my wife.
00:41:18.220That's bizarre. I would never do that.
00:41:20.220But to a lot of people, they they saw it as strange, which is which is one of the reasons why, you know, a lot of people.
00:41:30.220Just have a very hard time forming and maintaining romantic relationships and marriages.
00:44:32.220Like I there's been studies done on this.
00:44:35.220And I don't know how much you can trust the studies or how exactly you measure that.
00:44:38.220Well, there are things you can measure, you know, the number of accidents, moving violations and that sort of thing.
00:44:42.220But most of the studies and surveys that have been done have have have have have have have have showed this as well, that driving the quality of driving in this country is is getting worse.
00:45:41.220There's you should never be slamming your brakes on the highway at all unless you have to because there's someone slamming their brakes in front of you.
00:45:51.220But slamming your brakes to change lanes should just never happen.
00:45:55.220And this kind of thing happens all the time.
00:45:57.220I mean, I had someone break suddenly on the highway a few days before that because they were about to miss their exit.
00:46:04.220Like I said, this kind of every day I feel like I see this.
00:46:07.220Someone's about to miss their exit and they panic.
00:46:10.220They just slam on their brakes dead stop on the highway in order to hit the exit.
00:46:18.220If you're about to miss your exit and the only way to make it is to slam on your brakes or swerve across three lanes of traffic, just miss your exit.
00:46:58.220Here's a similar note, because this is something another thing.
00:47:02.220This feels like an everyday occurrence.
00:47:05.220If you're trying to make a left turn onto a busy road during rush hour and you want to make, you know, you want to make the left turn across two or three lanes of busy traffic and you're having trouble finding a safe opening.
00:47:50.220Maybe actually you end up saving time because you're not waiting so long to find an opening that you're comfortable with.
00:47:56.220OK, and this is the kind of this is the kind of just like panicked, unsure, lacking confidence, irrational decision making that I see people show demonstrating on the roads every single day.
00:48:15.220Everyone is either driving way too scared and overcautious or they're reckless to the point of suicidal.
00:48:22.220Those are the two extremes that I see from drivers every day.
00:50:03.220At least every five years, probably every two years, maybe every year is what we should do.
00:50:08.220And then just start taking driver's license away.
00:50:10.220Probably without exaggeration, I would without exaggerating, I would say probably at least 40% of the people on the road shouldn't be on it and should just have their driver's license revoked.
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00:52:20.220I want to let you know that tomorrow we've got a special episode of the Matt Walsh show tomorrow.
00:52:24.220We could do things a little bit differently.
00:52:26.220We don't do a lot of interviews on this show, but tomorrow, for the show tomorrow, I'll be interviewing, actually already sat down with him, Zachary Levi, who's of course a Hollywood actor.
00:52:37.220And we talked for a while about everything from acting to, you know, just the movie business and the direction of the movie business these days.
00:52:46.220Also, Zachary Levi sort of came out of the political closet back during the election endorsing RFK Jr. and then Trump.
00:52:56.220So we talked about that and about AI, which, as you know, we discussed this on the show.
00:53:02.220It's a particular concern of mine and of his, and I thought that was a fascinating part of the conversation.
00:53:06.220So that interview will be tomorrow for the Matt Walsh show.
00:54:30.220Is it ultimately helping me to flourish and be happy?
00:54:33.220And is it good for society when we're all just these sort of atomized individuals in our own little universes that are all contained on this phone and we're giving more of our attention to the screen than to the world around us?
00:57:40.220Matt is literally, literally, this is not a metaphor, advocating fascism.
00:57:44.220The fascist was the bundle of sticks bound around an axe that was carried by officers of the Roman Senate to symbolize the power the Senate had to enforce decisions.
00:57:53.220Matt is advocating for pure power here.
00:57:55.220Does he really not realize it or understand its dangers?
00:57:58.220No, I would say that you're advocating for pure power.
00:58:00.220I mean, you're saying that when a judge declares something, it must automatically be obeyed, even if he has no authority to declare it.
00:58:07.220So, at the very least, if I'm advocating for, quote unquote, pure power, then so are you.
00:58:15.220By your own logic, somebody in this scenario is wielding pure power.
00:58:22.220So, if you have a judge just declaring something, making an order that exceeds his own authority, and then you've got a president who is supposed to be subject to that order, like either the president gives in to the will of the judge, and so the judge is now exercising pure power that he has no right to exercise.
00:58:45.220Or the president says no, and exercises his own power.
00:58:48.220So, you know, either way, it comes back to that problem.
00:58:54.220Now, when judges are acting illegitimately, I agree, it does create a problem of, well, who decides, like, how do you, who decides if it was illegitimate?
00:59:06.220That's a problem, but that's a problem created by the judge.
00:59:11.220And so, what would, what is your, what's your alternative?
00:59:18.220You know, when you have a judge just standing up one day saying, you know what, the president has to do this thing over here, and he has no authority to tell the president to do it.
00:59:29.220What, what do you think should happen?
00:59:32.220Well, apparently, you think the president should just do it, even if he, even if, even if, even if there's no actual force of law behind what the judge said.
00:59:41.220And I, we gave several examples of judges acting that way, but I think, as I said yesterday, the most, the most egregious was the judge just telling the president that he has to put up certain web pages.
00:59:55.220Like, what? You tell me where in the Constitution this federal judge derives the authority to tell the president what websites he has to have on the, on the, or what, what information he has to have on the websites for his federal agencies.
01:00:13.220And when a judge is just being absurd and saying, oh, you have to do this, I think the, the only appropriate response is to ignore it.
01:01:14.100And because the Pope this week published a letter to U.S. bishops where he condemned Trump's immigration policies.
01:01:22.420And now, depending on where you go for your Catholic news and commentary, you may have heard that he didn't really condemn Trump's immigration policies.
01:01:34.700Now, if you're confused about what he said, well, that's because confusion is the name of the game and has been for as long as Pope Francis has been the Pope.
01:01:42.520These sorts of stories always follow the same pattern.
01:01:46.220Pope Francis will issue some unfortunate opinion about some subject.
01:01:50.360The left-wing press will latch onto it and suddenly rediscover a newfound respect for the Catholic Church, which will then be dropped five seconds later.
01:01:57.700Meanwhile, many, though certainly not all, Catholic commentators, even the conservative ones, will try to look for some nuanced way to avoid saying what we all know to be the case, which is that the Pope was wrong to have said whatever he said.
01:02:14.320The Pope's statements make this kind of obfuscation very plausible, and that's by design.
01:02:19.260The point of the Pope issuing any statement or opinion about anything should be to shed light, to lend clarity where confusion and disagreement otherwise reign.
01:02:28.780But Pope Francis very often does exactly the opposite, and I think pretty clearly he does it deliberately.
01:02:36.660And he's been doing it throughout his whole pontificate.
01:02:40.260He ensures that everybody will be more confused after he's finished talking than they were when he started talking.
01:02:46.440But if you sort through the opaque and weirdly passive language that he so often uses, you get to the heart of what he's actually saying.
01:02:54.540And too often, what he's actually saying is just simply wrong.
01:02:58.760And we must call it wrong, because if we don't, we are allowing falsehoods to be spread unchallenged.
01:03:05.500Many Catholics feel uncomfortable denouncing falsehoods from the Pope, but I would say that if falsehoods from anyone should be denounced, then they must especially be denounced from the Pope.
01:03:16.440As I said, this has been the case through his whole tenure.
01:03:19.960Most infamously, several years ago, the Pope made alterations to the Catechism, declaring that the death penalty is inadmissible.
01:03:28.980Now, thanks to the Pope's edits, the Catechism now says,
01:03:31.920There's an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes.
01:03:38.440In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state.
01:03:43.360Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure that the due protection of citizens,
01:03:48.560but at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.
01:03:53.120Consequently, the church teaches, in light of the gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.
01:04:02.220And she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.
01:04:05.580Now, there you see the kind of weird and passive opaque language that I mentioned.