The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1557 - Trans Activists Hijack A School Board Meeting To Verbally Attack A Concerned Mother

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, girls at a school in Illinois were allegedly forced to get changed

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00:01:28.860 When an obnoxious group of political activists suddenly goes silent, it's usually a sign that

00:01:33.840 they're regrouping in some way. That's especially true after the activists suffer a crushing defeat

00:01:38.260 in a national election. It's only natural to assume that under those circumstances,

00:01:41.680 the activists have gone underground for a bit in order to refine their messaging.

00:01:45.840 They're putting their best minds together to come up with a platform that might appeal to

00:01:49.040 more people. Or at the very least, they're taking steps to make sure that when they emerge from

00:01:53.800 hiding, they're not seen as even crazier and less convincing than they were before.

00:01:58.120 That's the bare minimum you would expect. Think about how the Indians realized that they were 1.00

00:02:02.520 on the losing side of the whole debate over who gets the land, so they came back and decided to

00:02:06.440 settle for owning a bunch of casinos instead. It's kind of a strategic retreat. It's an effective

00:02:11.380 way to come back and get back in the game. This is the playbook that we've seen again and again,

00:02:16.740 but after this week, it's clear that trans activists and the LGBT movement have thrown out

00:02:22.440 this manual. Following their rejection at the ballot box in November, trans activists have decided

00:02:28.240 against the idea of moderating their insanity. Instead, they've elected to double down on the

00:02:33.560 most extreme and demented aspects of their ideology. They've devolved to a degree that if you weren't

00:02:40.200 paying attention, you might have thought was impossible. We're now at the point where trans activists

00:02:43.980 are embracing cruelty that isn't even cloaked with the usual lies about scientific consensus or

00:02:49.860 anything like that. These people are now endorsing child abuse without reservation right out in the

00:02:55.060 open, without even euphemisms anymore. That's always what they've stood for, but now they're not even

00:03:00.080 attempting to hide it. And in order to understand the depths of depravity that I'm talking about,

00:03:05.380 you need to watch the scene that unfolded at a school board meeting on Thursday in a suburb of Chicago

00:03:11.060 called Deerfield. A woman named Nicole Georges began by telling the school board that her daughter

00:03:16.760 is a 13-year-old student at a local middle school. And recently, her 13-year-old daughter

00:03:21.980 was forced to share a bathroom with a male student. Watch.

00:03:26.720 This nightmare began on February 5th when my daughter was using the girls' bathroom and was

00:03:31.100 stunned that a biological male student was using it as well. She came home frightened and was extremely

00:03:36.040 upset. I asked her to talk with her teachers and find out more information. She was told by the

00:03:40.800 administration that a student can use the bathroom as well as a female locker room because they now 0.99

00:03:45.360 identify as female. I expressed that the school was in clear violation of federal policy. The Trump

00:03:52.020 administration issued an executive order restricting biological males from participating in sports and

00:03:57.340 accessing female locker rooms. That day, I filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of my daughter 1.00

00:04:03.380 with the Department of Justice. Now, just to clarify, if you're watching the video and you see all the

00:04:08.500 people in COVID masks and you hear the trans-extremism that we're going to play in a few 1.00

00:04:14.620 minutes, it would be understandable if you assume that this video was from like 2021. But it's not.

00:04:22.720 It's from last week. And yet, this is what it looks like. And before we play the rest of Nicole

00:04:27.960 Georges' statement, it's worth pointing out that, strangely enough, no one on the left is calling the

00:04:33.580 situation a constitutional crisis. Even though she's pointing out correctly that the state of Illinois

00:04:38.680 is defying Trump's executive order on gender ideology. In the process, they're disregarding

00:04:43.820 the civil rights of children at a systematic level. And if you listen to the left's complaints about how

00:04:48.100 outrageous it was that the Trump administration ignored a judge's order when he deported Venezuelan

00:04:52.500 terrorists the other day, you might think that they'd be equally upset about what the state of

00:04:56.520 Illinois is doing in this case. But of course, there's no outrage because these people are more than

00:05:01.700 happy to ignore orders when they feel like it, if it's orders that they don't like. And the state

00:05:06.100 of Illinois should lose federal funding immediately. As a result, that's just the beginning. We'll talk

00:05:11.400 about what other penalties should be imposed in a second. And if you don't agree with that, then you'll

00:05:17.120 change your mind after you hear the rest of Nicole Georges' statement. Listen as she explains what the

00:05:23.240 adults at this middle school allegedly forced her child to do against her will. Listen.

00:05:29.140 The situation went from bad to worse. A few days later, the male student was present in the

00:05:35.580 girls' locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice to not change into their PE clothes 0.78

00:05:40.640 with a biological male student present. The next day, Assistant Principal Kathy Vantrese pulled the 0.98

00:05:47.220 girls into their office questioning them. The same day, Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford, Kathy Vantrese,

00:05:53.840 and multiple teachers all came into the girls' locker room making them change into uniform. This 1.00

00:05:59.720 went on all week with the addition of Ginger Laugerman. My daughter refused to take part in having her 1.00

00:06:04.720 privacy being violated. How dare they? She ran out and called me for help. Principal Weigley

00:06:11.080 answered, was, answered, were offering my daughter a new, answers was offering my daughter a new PE class.

00:06:17.840 The answer was, no. She is not changing for the remainder of the year, and she is not changing into another

00:06:23.280 class. The girls just want their privacy, and they want their locker room back. 1.00

00:06:28.220 So just to restate what we heard, this woman is saying that school officials forced her 13-year-old daughter 0.93

00:06:33.960 and several other girls as well to change in front of a male student in a locker room at a middle school. 1.00

00:06:40.400 And so this was not just, as bad as it is, this was not just allowing the boy into the locker room.

00:06:48.140 That's bad enough. This was the school officials in the locker room forcing them to disrobe and get

00:06:56.780 changed in front of this boy. And those school officials, she said, include the district assistance

00:07:02.380 superintendent for student services, the school's assistant principal, and the director for student

00:07:07.000 services. Now, if this claim is true, and as you'll see in a moment, there's no reason to doubt that it

00:07:11.940 is, then the school officials who forced these girls to change in front of a boy are guilty of sexual

00:07:17.560 assault. You could probably add kidnapping and child endangerment charges as well. You know, the fact that

00:07:24.120 this took place in a school should not provide any kind of cover for these people. If anything, it makes

00:07:28.520 the charges even more serious. And whatever charges are brought, it would still be too light of a

00:07:34.900 punishment. I mean, try to imagine what you would do as a parent if you learned that an adult was

00:07:39.980 forcing your daughter to get changed in front of a male against her will. I mean, criminal charges would

00:07:47.180 probably be the least of that particular adult's problems, I would hope. At a minimum, we need

00:07:52.420 conservative DAs to start pressing those kinds of charges against the people pushing this kind of

00:07:57.940 madness. This goes beyond the realm of a political debate or a constitutional crisis. This is child abuse.

00:08:04.900 And if there were any good faith members of the trans activist community, if any of them were

00:08:09.240 capable of some level of basic human decency, they would admit that. They would at least say that,

00:08:16.320 hey, listen, yeah, of course you should not force 13-year-old girls, you should not have adults 1.00

00:08:20.820 standing there forcing 13-year-old girls to take their clothes off. But obviously, that is well beyond

00:08:28.260 anything that could be remotely considered acceptable in a school or in any other context.

00:08:33.060 You know, you would have some trans activists saying that, but none of them are. None of them

00:08:38.980 are. Because they are totally incapable of human decency. If they were, they would acknowledge that,

00:08:46.280 indeed, it is possible to go too far in the process of affirming gender ideology. And that point is

00:08:52.840 reached when you're forcing children to expose themselves to members of the opposite sex. 0.61

00:08:56.980 But because there are no good faith trans activists or any decent ones either, you could 1.00

00:09:02.340 probably guess how this mother's statement was received. As soon as she was finished, booze rang 0.73

00:09:06.940 out in the room. And one person asked her why she was obsessed with the genitals of children, 0.93

00:09:11.840 which is one of those stock arguments these activists use all the time, even though it makes

00:09:15.260 no sense whatsoever. I mean, they could be exposing themselves to you and your children in the park.

00:09:20.120 And then when you object to it, they'll say, well, why are you so obsessed? Why are you so obsessed

00:09:25.700 with me not doing this? Then a few other activists spoke at the school board meeting and they continue

00:09:32.500 to take cheap shots at this mother. Watch. Thank you. 0.94

00:09:37.680 Executive order 2019-11, which my kid was standing next to Pritzker when he signed, yes, an executive

00:09:54.680 order from the governor. And in that order, it's called strengthening our commitment to affirming

00:10:01.140 and inclusive schools, which protects trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming students

00:10:06.660 from the type of bullying that this parent represents.

00:10:13.320 And let's consider who is pushing this complaint. I'm here because I was alerted that Moms for Liberty

00:10:17.860 was organizing a presence here today, who have been identified as an extremist hate group by the

00:10:23.280 Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading bigotry and division. This isn't just about a locker room

00:10:31.940 policy. It's part of a national effort to roll back LGBTQ plus rights. 0.72

00:10:38.100 Just disgusting people. I mean, the adults in this room that are attacking this mother because she 1.00

00:10:46.780 doesn't want her daughter to be abused. These are just disgusting, evil people. 1.00

00:10:51.880 Demonic, Satanists, just the worst kinds of people. Nothing redeeming about them whatsoever. 1.00

00:10:57.500 And as you see, this is the dominant mode of thought, such as it is among trans activists at

00:11:02.800 the moment. If you're a mother who doesn't want your daughter to be forced to strip in front of 1.00

00:11:06.700 males in middle school, then you're a bully. Not wanting your daughter to have to take her clothes 0.73

00:11:12.600 off in front of a boy makes you a bully. You're bullying the boy by depriving him of the experience

00:11:19.620 of having girls get changed around him. I mean, how can your mind even form those kinds of thoughts?

00:11:29.040 Well, it's because your mind is forming those kinds of thoughts because you're just a radical,

00:11:37.400 incapable of any kind of rational thought. Which means that if you want to protect your child in

00:11:44.000 their minds, you're an extremist. You're obsessed with genitalia somehow. And on and on. One 0.99

00:11:52.540 particularly threatening trans activist took things a step further and railed against white supremacy and 0.90

00:11:57.500 the white God. And this person did so while wearing a shirt that reads protect trans kids with a picture

00:12:03.980 of a knife. Watch. Thank you to the board for prioritizing the safety of the student that's

00:12:15.800 been targeted by a organization that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of 0.71

00:12:29.940 their cis white husbands. Thank you.

00:12:41.760 Excuse me. Excuse me. This is it's I have to be respectful. Please be respectful of each other's

00:12:48.060 times. Targeting a middle school student because of your white God. Yeah. Excuse me. 0.93

00:12:59.840 Can we pause for a second? I'm just I'm really grateful to see how full this room is of support

00:13:05.720 for this kid.

00:13:11.340 Instead of the petty women that target him. 0.53

00:13:14.800 Now, the framing, of course, is that the male student is being targeted.

00:13:20.480 So they can force a girl to undress in a place she doesn't want to undress in front of a 1.00

00:13:24.600 of a male student. Otherwise, the male is being targeted.

00:13:29.460 The girl isn't being targeted in that scenario, apparently. Instead, it's the male.

00:13:35.060 He's not getting to see the girls undress. So he's the victim.

00:13:39.200 I mean, it doesn't exactly take Freud to understand the psychology underlying this entire movement.

00:13:44.520 And to the extent that any of those activists presented something approaching an argument,

00:13:48.020 it was to suggest that actually these girls did have the option of requesting private 0.97

00:13:52.500 changing rooms. That came up a few times during the school board meeting. But I'm going to focus

00:13:57.140 on this one clip featuring a trans identifying individual who uses the name Charlie. And Charlie

00:14:01.700 uses they he pronouns. So we're going to go ahead and use she to describe her because it seems like

00:14:07.700 it's probably the most accurate option here. Charlie says that she also has a trans middle schooler,

00:14:13.200 which, of course, is maybe the least surprising revelation imaginable. If trans activists are good at 1.00

00:14:16.660 anything, it's indoctrinating their own children. In any event, here's Charlie's big moment where she

00:14:22.740 reads from an Illinois state law that's supposedly about human rights. Also under the Illinois Human

00:14:29.140 Rights Act, Section 3B-1, the use of restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms may not be restricted

00:14:37.800 based on a student's physical anatomy or chromosomal sex. A student must be permitted to access restrooms

00:14:43.880 or bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms that align with their gender-related identity

00:14:48.440 and without having to provide documentation or other proof of gender. Under this act, and it is stated,

00:14:54.520 the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons

00:14:59.280 to deny or limit the full and equal use of those facilities based on a student's gender-related

00:15:04.640 identity. Instead, any student, teacher, or other individual seeking more privacy should be accommodated

00:15:10.520 by providing that individual with a more private option upon their request. Sounds like that would

00:15:15.480 be a great option in this case for your kids.

00:15:20.040 Okay. Talk to everyone now. Don't point us out. Do not look at us.

00:15:24.940 Excuse me.

00:15:25.380 So the whole audience is that direction.

00:15:27.740 Excuse me. It's his time to talk, right?

00:15:32.860 Thank you.

00:15:34.360 So this is the extent of the concessions that these people were willing to offer. They're saying that

00:15:39.100 anyone who wants more privacy under the law can use a separate bathroom. Now, they can request some

00:15:44.560 other accommodation. Now, put aside the fact that in this case, the other accommodation apparently

00:15:48.600 was not provided. What they don't address is the obvious question, which is, why can't the boy

00:15:53.920 request the other accommodation in this scenario? Why do all the girls have to request their own 1.00

00:16:00.440 accommodation, but the male doesn't? If you've got one person who's got a problem with the bathroom

00:16:05.900 arrangement, doesn't it make the most sense to, if you're going to, give him the separate accommodation?

00:16:11.300 Now, I don't think he should get any separate accommodation at all. If a boy wants to use

00:16:15.580 the girl's bathroom, the girl's locker room, you just say to the boy, too bad. Here's your locker

00:16:20.500 room. Deal with it. But if you're going to go this other accommodation route, why would it be for

00:16:27.480 the girls? Why do they have to make a special request? Well, the reason is apparently that it would 0.99

00:16:33.760 make the boy feel bad if he is not included in the girl's locker room. But the fact that his presence

00:16:39.660 makes girls feel bad, feel unsafe and vulnerable, simply doesn't register. As you heard from that

00:16:46.660 trans activist, the girl's feelings of discomfort are simply invalid. The trans activists never 0.99

00:16:52.360 explain why this discomfort is invalid. Neither does the Illinois law. They also don't explain why,

00:16:58.500 well, if feelings of discomfort are invalid, then why can't we say the same thing about the boy?

00:17:03.320 Why can't we say the same thing about the trans person? It's actually there. If you're a trans 0.99

00:17:10.960 identified person and you feel uncomfortable in the bathroom that aligns with your actual biological

00:17:18.000 sex, those feelings are irrelevant to anyone else. That is your own problem. That's your own little

00:17:26.280 hang-up. That's your own issue. Okay, deal with that on your own time. That's not anyone else's

00:17:32.280 problem. And we all know the explanation, which is that these activists, above all else, are sadists 0.93

00:17:39.260 who crave power. They relish the prospect of forcing women and girls to take part in this charade.

00:17:44.440 From their perspective, the more degrading the process is, the better. Everyone must be forced

00:17:49.380 to participate. Whatever mental harm 10 or 20 middle school girls might suffer as a result,

00:17:52.880 they just don't care. Their only goal is to ensure that the male in the scenario gets his 1.00

00:17:57.340 satisfaction. Now, I watched the rest of this hearing and the arguments from these trans activists

00:18:01.360 only got worse from here somehow. Here's just a couple of them.

00:18:06.420 I wanted to say also that a lot of cis, part of the education is to know that a lot of transgender

00:18:13.000 people pass. You wouldn't know that they're transgender. And so what do you want to do? Like have 1.00

00:18:19.060 genital checks of people? Talk about privacy and invasion of privacy. That is a logistical hurdle

00:18:25.880 that you would not want to even try to accomplish. I don't think.

00:18:32.020 There are safe people. And please, please, we need to expand this just from the locker room and teach

00:18:37.400 respect. Using appropriate pronouns is the first thing you do. Do not call this child a he. She is a

00:18:44.600 she from her soul. Her brain and heart match that. Please.

00:18:50.220 He's a he. What are you going to do about it? I'm just thinking out loud here, but 1.00

00:18:56.300 when I watch these kinds of videos, I think, you know, maybe I need to show up there.

00:19:03.180 How would you guys feel about that? You trans activists up there. What if I show up with 5,000

00:19:07.460 of my closest friends? How about that? What then? Who are you going to shout down then?

00:19:11.560 So the second woman just yells about pronouns. Nothing new there. And the first woman makes a 1.00

00:19:19.400 familiar logistical argument saying some trans-identifying children supposedly pass.

00:19:23.940 And therefore, unless we want to inspect their bodies, we need to just accept whatever these

00:19:27.520 kids say. Now, first of all, of course, it's not true that any trans-identifying middle schoolers

00:19:33.300 actually pass for a member of the opposite gender. The child in this situation certainly didn't come 1.00

00:19:38.060 close to, quote unquote, passing. And passing is like a myth that it's a it's a it's a myth that

00:19:44.440 trans activists have made up to make themselves feel better. It's like it doesn't. It's not real. 1.00

00:19:50.360 OK, it's like it's none of you guys are passing. We all know. OK, we all know. We all know. We all know.

00:19:57.460 And for that matter, none of the activists at the school board meeting come close to passing either.

00:20:03.160 Humans have evolved for a very long time to develop certain sex specific traits and to perceive those

00:20:07.640 traits and others. A child who throws on a wig from Party City is not going to overcome that.

00:20:13.720 But even if we assume for the sake of argument that some child somehow manages to fool everyone

00:20:17.860 at school into thinking that he's really a girl, it's completely insane to endorse the idea that he

00:20:22.780 should then have access to girls' locker rooms. You set the rule, no boys in a girls' locker room. 1.00

00:20:29.980 If a boy manages to sneak in, that's really bad.

00:20:32.320 And but just because he manages to fool people and sneak into these locker rooms doesn't make his

00:20:37.680 actions justified. It doesn't mean that we change the rule. You know, it's like saying that a bank

00:20:42.840 robber is justified if no one ever notices that he pulled off the heist. Deception is wrong, whether

00:20:48.480 it's detected or not. This is a basic moral principle, one of many basic moral principles that

00:20:54.360 trans activists have abandoned. If the school board meeting demonstrates anything, it's that these 0.67

00:20:58.580 people are never going to become more moderate or more sensible, no matter how badly they lose

00:21:03.720 national elections. As I pointed out before, most of the adult trans activists who continue in the

00:21:08.520 fight, a lot of the people we see in that room, are either trans themselves or they have trans kids.

00:21:14.420 Or in some cases, both, as we saw at the school board meeting. So they'll never let it go because

00:21:19.040 they, to let it go would be to admit that they've maimed and mutilated themselves or their children.

00:21:24.160 That's a level of self-reflection and acceptance that trans activists, as the ultimate narcissist, 1.00

00:21:28.900 are simply incapable of achieving. And what that means is that it's now the responsibility of law

00:21:34.300 enforcement officials at both the state and federal levels to prevent trans activists from

00:21:38.360 continuing to abuse children in this way. There are clearly no limits to their depravity at this point.

00:21:44.180 If we want to end this sickness, executive orders and court cases are not going to be enough on their

00:21:48.340 own. The school officials who embrace this need to go to prison. The school districts that enforce

00:21:53.500 these policies need to lose all federal funding. Simply put, there is no legal penalty too excessive

00:21:59.880 for child abuse. And if we want to protect children and prevent anything like this from happening again,

00:22:06.020 it's time that the people responsible start facing those penalties. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:23:28.680 slash Walsh. New York Post reports the wing of a Delta Airlines plane hit the runway at LaGuardia

00:23:34.560 Airport during an unsteady landing on Sunday night. The packed flight was heading home from Jacksonville

00:23:39.500 when the pilot attempted to go around following an unstable approach around 10, 10 p.m. During the go

00:23:45.880 around the left wing of the plane struck the runway. Everybody was safe, but of course, a very close

00:23:50.820 call. We do have some audio of the pilot communications with air traffic controllers, and

00:23:55.920 you know, pay close attention to this and tell me what you noticed. Listen.

00:24:00.720 Somebody saw some sparks from one of your wings. Do you guys feel anything?

00:24:05.440 We do. We'll check it.

00:24:06.900 The Delta regional flight arrived from Jacksonville, Florida just after 10 Sunday night. 80 passengers and

00:24:12.900 crew on board. Conditions were suboptimal, but not extreme. Winds gusting to 35 miles per hour with

00:24:19.480 some mist in the air. The plane then circling for another landing attempt. In a statement, Delta says

00:24:25.400 the crew executed a go around, then landed safely and proceeded to its arrival gate. Adding, we apologize

00:24:32.160 to our customers for the experience. So you heard the audio there. And now look, I believe that as human

00:24:41.620 beings, sometimes our need to find patterns can go a bit haywire. That's how you end up with the craziest

00:24:48.280 conspiracy theories. The, you know, Sandy Hook was staged, that sort of thing. Sometimes we find patterns

00:24:54.380 that just aren't there. But this is not one of those times. There does appear to be a very unmistakable

00:25:00.780 pattern in nearly all of the recent airline disasters and near disasters. The pattern, if I have to spell it

00:25:07.160 out, is that women pilots were involved in like all of them. And keep in mind that female pilots are still 0.89

00:25:15.820 only about 5% of commercial airline pilots. And, you know, before you think that the small number disproves the

00:25:22.220 claim that they're using DEI to hire more women, you should know that the number of female pilots has increased by 1.00

00:25:27.820 70% since the early 2000s. And that did not happen naturally. Okay. That kind of growth in one

00:25:36.260 demographic does not happen on its own without major policy changes to manufacture that kind of growth.

00:25:44.260 So there's been a concerted effort to get more female pilots in the cockpit. And now, even though they 0.99

00:25:50.340 still only comprise 5% of the total, they seem to be involved in like every hazardous situation that we

00:25:55.800 hear about. What are the official numbers? How many accidents and near accidents are the fault of

00:26:00.660 that 5% or are the 5% involved in? Well, we don't know exactly. And we'll never know because nobody in

00:26:07.180 a position of authority will ever give us those numbers. All we could do is gather information from

00:26:11.420 news reports and just, and that sort of thing. And just based on that, yeah, there appears to be a

00:26:16.600 real pattern here. Let's just be honest about it. So at what point will we all acknowledge that female 0.97

00:26:21.880 pilots are in fact a real problem? I mean, we have a real female pilot problem. We do. 1.00

00:26:30.620 How many more of these kinds of issues do we need before everyone will say, yeah, this, there's an

00:26:36.940 issue here. We have lowered the standards apparently to get more and more women involved. And now look at 0.63

00:26:46.360 all that's happening. Air travel is more dangerous now than it's been in a very long time at the other

00:26:53.840 end of all this DEI stuff. And look, with this latest thing, you know, there was a female pilot 0.99

00:27:00.240 on the radio from the sound of it. That doesn't mean that she was the one landing the plane. Maybe

00:27:04.820 it was a dude actually steering the plane. It's possible that this incident doesn't actually fit

00:27:08.880 into this pattern. We don't, we don't have all the information because they never tell us.

00:27:11.820 That's the other thing. We don't, they never give us all the information so we can only just

00:27:15.100 scrape together what they do tell us. All we know is that there have been a number of

00:27:22.500 airplane issues recently and female pilots seem to be in the mix for all of them. Again, even though 1.00

00:27:31.500 they're a very small minority. And so this is not just a joke anymore. It's not just something we joke

00:27:39.540 about with the female pilots. No, there's a, there's a, like I said, how many more of this

00:27:44.780 do we need before everyone will say, yeah, we got to take a look at this. This is a, this is a real

00:27:51.180 thing that's happening. Um, you can call it sexist, you can call it whatever you want to call it, but,

00:27:57.400 but there's clearly a problem here. Um, the express reports, a member of the fresh governments

00:28:06.820 requested the return of the statue of Liberty claiming America had lost its way and no longer

00:28:11.240 represented what the statue was meant to symbolize. Raphael Glucksman has been, uh, highly critical

00:28:17.380 of president Donald Trump and said, uh, we're going to, we're going to say to, to the Americans who

00:28:21.480 have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding 0.50

00:28:24.780 scientific freedom. Uh, we gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it'll be just

00:28:30.640 fine here at home. So he wants the statue of Liberty back. Catherine Levitt had a chance to,

00:28:35.720 the White House, uh, uh, spokeswoman had a chance to respond to this. And here's what she said.

00:28:41.040 Nothing different. There is now a member of the European parliament from France who does not think

00:28:46.500 the U S represents the values of the statue of Liberty anymore. They want the statue of Liberty back.

00:28:52.180 So is president Trump going to send the statue of Liberty back to France?

00:28:57.180 Absolutely not. And, uh, my advice to that unnamed low level French politician would be

00:29:04.420 to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that, uh, the French 0.79

00:29:09.480 are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful, uh, to our great country.

00:29:15.360 Yeah. Here's an idea. I liked her response. Let's, um, I'll make this deal. We give the statue

00:29:23.080 of Liberty back to France, but the deal is that we also give France back to Germany. I mean, if we're

00:29:30.360 returning, if we're returning things back to their rightful owners, then, um, then, uh, then, then

00:29:36.760 let's make that deal. And also France has to cover the shipping and handling, uh, for the statue of

00:29:42.720 Liberty. I have no idea shipping that UPS. I don't know what the cost of that's going to be,

00:29:48.140 because it'd be pretty substantial. Um, now, of course, when this dumb politician says that 0.99

00:29:53.600 America no longer represents what the statue symbolizes, he's talking mainly about the poem 0.98

00:29:58.520 on the statue. Like what does the statue symbolize in his mind? Well, he's talking about the poem,

00:30:05.100 right? And especially the part that says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning

00:30:09.080 breathe, breathe three, breathe free the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these the 1.00

00:30:15.700 homeless tempest toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Right. That's the poem. And the

00:30:24.140 French politician actually quoted that poem when he was saying that we no longer stand by what the

00:30:27.400 statue represents. And so clearly that's what he was referring to. And we hear this all the time.

00:30:32.500 The statue of Liberty poem is quoted all the time as though it represents some fundamental American value.

00:30:40.040 But can we just say this about the poem? First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the

00:30:45.600 Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem was added to the base of the

00:30:51.660 statue in the, in the early 1900s, like 1903, I think. And the poem is just a poem that somebody wrote.

00:31:02.200 It's not a founding document. It's not the constitution. It's not the declaration of independence.

00:31:05.920 Some poet wrote it in, you know, in the, in the late 19th century. And it was then put on a plaque and added to the

00:31:13.960 pedestal of the statue. The poem in no way represents any kind of core American value. It is the work of one woman 0.98

00:31:21.540 named Emma Lazarus. And so the poem speaks to the core values of Emma Lazarus, not of the United States

00:31:31.840 of America. Personally, if we could just be honest about it, I think the poem is pretty lame.

00:31:36.840 I think it sucks. The poem sucks. Let's just be real. It's a mediocre, bad poem. It's not a great 1.00

00:31:43.280 poem. So how about this? Let's take the poem off of the statue and send that to France. Now they didn't 0.75

00:31:51.740 write the poem. It's not, it wasn't originally on the statue, but they want the statue back. So they

00:31:56.320 didn't say what part of the statue. So let's take the poem off and ship them that. I mean, shipping and

00:32:02.340 handling on that's going to be a lot cheaper. I'll tell you that. So they can have that. Put it on

00:32:07.860 the Eiffel tower if you want. How about that? I mean, on a pure artistic level, it's a C plus poem at

00:32:14.920 best on its merits, judging the content, judging the message. It's an F minus effort. I totally disagree

00:32:23.080 with the sentiment of it's not, it's not un-American. Well, how could you disagree? It's a poem on the

00:32:28.560 Statue of Liberty. I don't care. Some woman wrote it and just put it on the Statue of Liberty. It

00:32:34.300 doesn't mean I just come American. I have to agree with it. It does not speak to any core value of

00:32:39.920 this country at all. You know what? I know I don't want your tired, poor, homeless man. I don't want

00:32:47.380 your, uh, your, uh, wretched. What's the phrase exactly? The wretched refuse. I don't, I don't want 0.94

00:32:56.900 the wretched refuse of any country. Why the hell would we want that? No, I do not want that. No, 0.75

00:33:02.680 please keep your wretched refuse. I do not want them. We don't want them. Why would we want them? 0.98

00:33:09.020 We, no, please, no. America is not an international homeless shelter. It's not.

00:33:16.180 So, um, and, and nobody ever thought of America as an international homeless shelter until that dumb 0.95

00:33:24.380 poem was added to the Statue of Liberty. That stupid, awful poem. We are a country. We are a 1.00

00:33:31.620 nation. We are allowed to prioritize our own well-being. We are allowed to care more about

00:33:36.220 our own people than about the huddled homeless masses and wretched refuse of third world immigrants. 1.00

00:33:44.440 Every other country does. They either prioritize their own people or they cease to exist. France

00:33:48.660 has basically ceased to exist as a nation. France is not a country anymore. It doesn't exist. It's not a

00:33:53.700 real country. France is not a real country. Um, France is a, is a, is a cesspool. France is a,

00:34:01.880 I would never go there. Any, you know, I had no interest in ever visiting France because of what

00:34:06.880 it's become. Why would I ever want to go there to that, to that, that dirty, filthy cesspool of a 0.94

00:34:12.960 country? That's what it's become. That's what it's allowed itself to become. And we don't want to be 0.90

00:34:17.820 that. So, um, France is dead and France wants us to be dead just like them. No, we're, we are a 0.92

00:34:29.120 country and we do not. It's, it is actually suicidally insane to have as any kind of national

00:34:39.180 slogan that, Oh, we'll take all your worst people. Bring us all your worst people by the boatload 0.71

00:34:45.820 constantly. Please send us the worst people that you have in a never ending stream eternally.

00:34:55.680 No, that is the slogan of a nation that wants to die. It's not our slogan. It never was our slogan. 0.75

00:35:06.740 So get rid of the poem, send it to France, let them have it. You know, I had, I had a new poem 1.00

00:35:12.360 that I composed as a, as a replacement. And I would submit this as a replacement. Uh, once we get rid

00:35:18.880 of the, um, Emma Lazarus poem, my, here's my pie. I just, I just composed it. You want to hear it?

00:35:25.280 You didn't know that I was a poet, but I am. It goes, um, roses are red, violets are blue.

00:35:30.580 America is closed. We don't want you. And put that on the statue of Liberty. How about that?

00:35:36.460 And put that poem down, right? All it put it, engrave it onto the border wall in, in every 10

00:35:43.560 feet. I think it's a beautiful poem personally. All right. One other quick clip to play. I don't

00:35:56.480 know why we're going to play this, but we are Don Lemon showed up on Bill Maher's podcast and he

00:36:01.360 articulated his vision for the future of the Democrat party. And I personally love his

00:36:07.180 vision. Here it is. People love AOC. People love Jasmine Crockett. People love Eric Swalwell

00:36:15.600 and the like. And I think that the democratic party should put the people out there who the people

00:36:21.400 want. They should put the, the, the politicians out there who the people want, who they're asking

00:36:26.860 for, who are meeting the moment with the same energy. They're not asking for AOC. Yes, they

00:36:31.980 are. The people you party with. No, no, no. No, no. The people I party with don't like AOC. Oh,

00:36:36.560 please. No, they don't at all. Well, most people don't, but she's very far left. This, let me tell

00:36:41.600 you why I'm saying that because AOC, because people will vote for AOC and Donald Trump on the same ticket

00:36:48.000 because they're authentic. No, because they're authentic. I don't think that. Okay. That Don,

00:36:54.180 I think you're wrong about that. What people like about people like Trump and Fetterman is there,

00:36:58.800 because it's irrelevant to her life. But you don't know her life. I, I, I know that being a

00:37:06.040 gorgeous woman who I wouldn't even know was Hispanic in a city that's has a million Hispanics. 0.69

00:37:11.420 So we heard the, okay, that's enough. We, we heard, um, kind of the money quote there. People love

00:37:17.260 Eric Swalwell. That's a sentence that this total doofus just said out loud. It is the 0.94

00:37:24.160 first time that the words love and Eric Swalwell have ever been used in the same sentence.

00:37:32.200 Maybe the second. Okay. I'm sure the Chinese spy probably told him she loved him. She probably

00:37:38.220 said, I love you, Eric Swalwell. And he didn't even think it was weird that she used his full name.

00:37:44.140 But anyway, Don Lemon has just singled out the three most excruciatingly unlikable people

00:37:49.940 in modern politics and said that people love them. Jasmine Crockett. I mean, imagine being so

00:37:57.380 hopelessly out of touch that you think people love Jasmine Crockett. Now, first of all, most people

00:38:03.260 have no idea who Jasmine Crockett is. Her name recognition is almost non-existent. And if you

00:38:09.700 show them a video of Jasmine Crockett speaking and ask them to guess what she does for a living,

00:38:15.280 most people would say, oh, well, she works the drive-thru at Arby's. Oh yeah, I've seen that 0.98

00:38:22.180 exact woman at my local Arby's. She works the drive-thru. She's always in a bad mood and she 0.99

00:38:26.740 always gets my order wrong. If you told them that she's actually a member of Congress, they would

00:38:33.280 be horrified. But this is why the Democrats are doomed. It's not just that they have these unlikable

00:38:39.920 tools in their party. I mean, Republicans have unlikable tools too, let's be honest. But

00:38:44.680 it's that nobody on their side has any gut level instinct for what might actually be appealing to

00:38:53.400 the average person. They truly have lost touch completely with the average person. They just

00:39:00.020 have no idea. And so I think we're pretty safe. I mean, you know, if you're a conservative, you're

00:39:08.660 maybe worried that the Democrats are going to figure things out and go and find someone to lead

00:39:17.180 their party in the future who actually has some kind of mass appeal, somebody who's at least likable

00:39:23.420 at a visceral level. And I think that that's not, I think that we can rest easy. That is obviously

00:39:29.520 not going to happen. Let's get to the comment section.

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00:41:04.660 Okay, just a couple of comments here. First one, El Salvador is becoming my second favorite country in

00:41:10.200 the world behind the U.S. I don't know about second favorite country, but certainly second favorite

00:41:13.660 government. Second favorite world leader, I will say, in El Salvador. There are a host of other

00:41:19.820 countries that I'd rather visit than El Salvador, but Bukele is the world leader that I would elect as 0.99

00:41:26.400 president of this country if he was American. You know, if he was American and we could constitutionally

00:41:31.760 elect him, then I would elect him. If Trump actually eats his steaks well done, that's grounds for

00:41:37.880 impeachment. Well, as far as we know, Trump does eat his steaks well done with ketchup. I'm not sure

00:41:45.480 if we have Trump himself on the record saying that he enjoys his steaks that way, but so maybe this is

00:41:51.120 all fake news, but I think it's pretty common knowledge that Trump enjoys well done steaks slathered

00:41:58.040 in ketchup, which is just an abomination. I mean, it's easily the most controversial and offensive

00:42:04.060 thing about him, easily. I am actually offended by it anytime I think about it. I'm personally

00:42:11.700 offended by it on a deep level. I don't even believe in using steak sauce on your steak. I think

00:42:17.420 using A1, if your steak needs A1 steak sauce in order to be palatable, it means that you didn't cook it

00:42:22.720 well. And if you're eating a high quality steak cooked the right way, you shouldn't need steak

00:42:28.800 sauce. You shouldn't need ketchup. No. You shouldn't need any seasonings. You know, the people

00:42:34.580 that slather their, you know, their meats and all the, whatever, you get the rub, buy all the rubs

00:42:39.040 in the seasoning aisle. You just slather that crap on there. And a lot of people think that's good 0.99

00:42:45.840 cooking. You know, it's, well, you got to use a lot of seasoning. Then they just buy this rub and

00:42:50.500 just dump it on it. That's not, that's not good cooking. The whole point of seasoning is to bring

00:42:56.020 the natural flavors of whatever it is out. And so with steak, all you need is for seasoning is salt

00:43:03.520 and pepper. And it's mainly the salt that brings the flavor of the meat out. Not too much. You don't

00:43:08.020 want to overdo it, but that's what you need. That's seasoning. And of course, if you scorch it and cook

00:43:14.820 it until it's a chunk of coal, there are no natural flavors left. So yeah, Trump with the

00:43:20.480 steak thing, I, I, it's, it, it is, it is horrifying. Let's, it just is. I love how Matt

00:43:28.500 picks a different vegetable every time he refers to Biden's mental faculties, LMAO. Well, thanks for

00:43:34.500 noticing that. It means a lot because these are the little nuances of the show that I always wonder

00:43:39.300 if anyone notices and appreciates. They mean something to me. I take pride in them. I do try

00:43:46.320 to not repeat a vegetable when I'm making a joke about Biden's dementia. So at this point,

00:43:52.860 I've been through the whole salad bar like 20 times. I'm going to have to start reaching for

00:43:57.540 more obscure vegetables. Yeah, I don't, for the joke to work, it has to be a vegetable everybody

00:44:03.380 immediately recognizes. But at this point, I'm going to have to start, you know, saying that Biden

00:44:08.980 has the mental capacity of a, of a, of a Jerusalem artichoke or of a rutabaga. And I don't even know 0.94

00:44:16.880 what a rutabaga is, but that's, that's where we're going to find ourselves. Being in customer

00:44:22.840 service for 30 years, I can tell you that customers should take some of the blame, the level of 1.00

00:44:26.460 entitlement, the rudeness, the stupidity of some of these people makes you hate people. If you do 0.99

00:44:29.880 customer service for too long, customer service workers should not have to tolerate being called

00:44:34.620 names, threatened, bullied, harassed. We're just following the policy of whoever we work for,

00:44:38.900 but people think they can do it and get their way when they're in the wrong.

00:44:46.420 Yeah, look, I'm very, I agree with what you're saying, at least about the part of some customers

00:44:52.020 can be awful. I try to be very polite to customer service workers. I try my best to not cause any

00:44:56.180 problems. I tip very well. I'm a great tipper. Anyone who's ever been my waiter or waitress can

00:45:03.040 attest to that. Uh, I, I'm also cognizant of the fact that in many cases, if I have an issue with a

00:45:10.660 business, the person I'm talking to likely has nothing to do with the issue and didn't cause the

00:45:17.900 issue. Of course, on our end as customers, that's what causes a lot of the frustration

00:45:22.580 that if we have a problem with, you know, Verizon or, or some big company like this and we have to

00:45:29.820 call somebody, you know, and the company has done something wrong, they've screwed up. We can't find

00:45:37.080 anyone to talk to who, you know, much is let alone responsible for, we can't find anyone to talk to

00:45:45.880 actually cares about the problem. And so that, that, that creates. And so when you talk about the,

00:45:50.320 the awful customers, a lot of it is just frustration on our end that we've got some

00:45:54.640 problem. It might, it might be a significant problem. Maybe it's a problem with the billing.

00:45:57.820 Maybe it's a big problem with the service or whatever. And, um, we're trying to talk to someone

00:46:03.440 who at least will care enough to get the problem solved. And we go through 15 people and nobody cares

00:46:10.240 and we can't get our problem solved. Yes, we get frustrated also. And that's your job to deal with.

00:46:20.400 That's why you're paid. Dealing with difficult and frustrated customers is the job. People are

00:46:26.980 difficult. Your job is dealing with people, which means your job is dealing with difficult people

00:46:33.200 because people are difficult. That's the whole job. Um, it, it's, and so yes, you can commiserate.

00:46:47.440 You can, you can complain about it in your break rooms and amongst yourselves. When I work customer

00:46:54.720 service, I certainly did, but your job is to put on a happy face and to have happy, positive energy

00:47:04.540 and to deal with difficult customers and to not get frustrated, no matter how frustrated they are.

00:47:12.320 That again is the job. So it's just like, uh, it, it, it's probably, it probably gets emotionally

00:47:21.460 exhausting for a doctor to deal with sick people all the time, but that's the job. I understand how

00:47:30.340 it might be taxing, but that is the job. That's what you're, that's the whole thing. That's the

00:47:34.520 whole job is to do that. So no, I mean, if a doctor loses his cool and starts screaming at a patient,

00:47:42.140 I'm not going to be understanding of that. Maybe you don't want to do this and don't sign up for the

00:47:47.760 job. Do something else. The left needed a trophy. So they took Derek Chauvin and threw him in prison.

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00:48:21.800 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:29.140 A few years ago, you may remember that there was a concerted effort on the left to cancel Dr.

00:48:34.160 Seuss, of all people, and it went all the way up to the Biden administration. The White House removed

00:48:37.720 all of Dr. Seuss's books from Read Across America Day, which is the annual celebration that takes place on

00:48:42.660 Dr. Seuss's birthday. Officially, Dr. Seuss's crime, which had somehow gone undetected for the better

00:48:47.440 part of a century, was that he didn't include enough so-called people of color in his various

00:48:52.000 children's books. The University of California even conducted an exhaustive investigation

00:48:55.200 into the matter. And in the end, they found that out of the approximately 20 or rather 2,000 human

00:49:01.040 characters in Dr. Seuss's books, only 45 were non-white. On top of that, some of these non-white

00:49:07.460 cartoon characters were not drawn to the satisfaction of left-wing activists. And as

00:49:12.040 if that wasn't bad enough, Dr. Seuss wasn't even a real doctor. He was like the Dr. Pepper of

00:49:17.420 children's literature. And therefore, Dr. Seuss was canceled. His name was banned from his own

00:49:21.420 birthday celebration. Now, of course, these justifications were pretexts. Anyone capable of

00:49:26.760 reading at the first grade level could see that. Dr. Seuss wrote allegories about why racism is bad

00:49:32.360 about as explicitly as he possibly could. We're not talking about subtle messaging here. And that's

00:49:37.940 the real reason why ultimately Dr. Seuss had to be canceled. The belief that racism is morally wrong

00:49:41.880 is incompatible with leftism, which is now premised on attacking and demonizing white people at every 0.69

00:49:46.820 opportunity. They just couldn't say that part out loud, so instead they pretended that they were

00:49:50.940 canceling Dr. Seuss for being a racist when, in fact, the exact opposite was true. He committed the mortal

00:49:56.000 sin of teaching children that all forms of race hatred, including race hatred against white people,

00:50:00.140 is wrong. And in a lot of ways, we're seeing a similar effort unfold right now in the UK where

00:50:04.600 William Shakespeare is getting the Dr. Seuss treatment. For all their differences, Dr. Seuss and

00:50:08.900 Shakespeare do have one thing in common, which is that they both pose a clear and intolerable threat

00:50:12.900 to anti-white racial narratives that have become fashionable on the left. Shakespeare, as arguably the

00:50:19.840 greatest and most prolific writer to ever live, is an example of excellence that very few other

00:50:25.140 countries or cultures have ever come close to matching. There is no Shakespeare of Africa or

00:50:31.260 Shakespeare of Pakistan, for example. And if you're trying to make the case that those countries and

00:50:35.960 cultures are far superior to places like America and Europe because they have fewer white people, 0.99

00:50:41.040 which is the argument the leftists genuinely try to make, then Shakespeare's status is obviously

00:50:45.360 inconvenient. After all these years, he stands alone, so now they're coming for him too. But as we saw

00:50:51.800 with Dr. Seuss, they're not going to admit that that's why they're doing it. Instead of saying

00:50:55.180 that they want to tear down Shakespeare because he was white, they're saying that Shakespeare needs to 0.98

00:50:59.640 be decolonized. This is a word we've talked about before in several different contexts, and every

00:51:04.240 single time it's used, decolonization is always a cover for anti-white hatred and ultimately

00:51:09.520 for racial violence. They claim that it's about removing remnants of colonialism, whatever that means

00:51:15.120 exactly, but really their motives are transparent. Quoting from the Daily Mail, it says,

00:51:19.540 William Shakespeare's birthplace will be decolonized over fears that portraying his success as the

00:51:24.040 greatest playwright benefits the ideology of white European supremacy. Shakespeare's birthplace

00:51:29.820 trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown. It wants to create a more inclusive museum

00:51:35.020 experience and announce that it will move away from Western perspectives after concerns were raised

00:51:39.600 that Shakespeare's ideas were used to advance white supremacy's ideas. Close quote. Yes, they're

00:51:46.920 supposedly going to decolonize the place where William Shakespeare was born, and they're going

00:51:51.480 to accomplish that task by installing foreign influences from all over the world into the place 0.97

00:51:56.500 where Shakespeare was born. They're going to import Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshops,

00:52:02.620 for example, and they're going to host events celebrating Bengali poets. Presumably, they're also going to

00:52:09.100 remove a bunch of Shakespeare-themed objects from the Shakespeare Museum in the place where

00:52:13.120 Shakespeare was born. They're going to replace them with more inclusive artifacts. In other words,

00:52:17.520 they're going to decolonize Shakespeare's birthplace by colonizing it until it's completely and totally

00:52:23.520 unrecognizable. I mean, if the word colonize means anything anymore, which it doesn't, then that's

00:52:28.600 exactly what they're doing to this little town. And things make less sense when you realize that

00:52:34.380 Shakespeare wasn't alive anywhere near the period when Britain became a sprawling worldwide empire.

00:52:39.900 Britain was just beginning to settle North America when he died, which is why saying Shakespeare is

00:52:44.900 a relic of colonialism, it's a bit like saying that Mark Twain is a symbol of the moon landing.

00:52:49.760 I mean, the timing doesn't really work. To find out more, I looked a little deeper into the whole

00:52:54.220 Shakespeare decolonization effort. I dove headfirst into the belly of the beast. And I came to find out 0.88

00:52:59.840 that it's been active in this country for a while, too. So here, for example, is a lecture delivered by

00:53:03.940 an English professor from Arizona State University named Ayanna Thompson. Watch as she explains

00:53:09.680 what exactly it means to decolonize Shakespeare.

00:53:14.200 So in thinking about how you can encourage an oppositional gaze or decolonize thinking in your

00:53:22.400 Shakespeare classroom, I think one of the things that you can start with is by encouraging juxtaposition.

00:53:29.920 So it's not just creating juxtaposition, right? So it's not just that you say we should read

00:53:37.740 August Wilson's King Headley next to William Shakespeare's King Lear, which, by the way,

00:53:45.260 do go really well together. It's that you also allow your students to bring in things that they want

00:53:52.540 to juxtapose with Shakespeare. Tanjirai, I think his last name is pronounced Amonye Vu,

00:54:00.120 is a Zimbabwean playwright. And he has also written a play about Shakespeare called The Moors. And it's

00:54:10.020 quite brilliant and interesting. So I just feel like there's so many ways to allow dialogues to exist.

00:54:16.820 Jay-Z, of course, he's got a lot to say about Shakespeare, a lot, a lot. And if you explore

00:54:25.900 some of his interviews, Shakespeare keeps coming up and he keeps asking interviewers who are

00:54:31.820 challenging him about why he thinks he's the best. And he keeps saying, why don't you think I'm

00:54:37.560 Shakespeare? And he said this numerous times. It's really interesting. So, you know, why not allow

00:54:43.540 your students to bring that into the classroom? Now, Jay-Z and Shakespeare is indeed quite the

00:54:48.640 juxtaposition. This is the cutting edge of academia, apparently. Just think of all the places

00:54:53.180 students could go with it. They could talk about how sorry they are for Macbeth, because while they

00:54:58.800 might have 99 problems, which ain't one? Or they could ask the age-old question, to be or not to be

00:55:05.660 big pimpin'. I mean, the possibilities are just endless. And those are the extent of my

00:55:10.740 Shakespeare-Jay-Z crossover puns that I could come up with. By the way, tuition to attend this

00:55:16.560 professor's school runs up to $32,000 for out-of-state students. So if you want your child

00:55:21.340 to be able to experience life-changing lessons like this, you better start saving now. I mean,

00:55:25.560 it's worth every penny. In case you fell asleep during that clip, the professor begins by saying

00:55:29.880 that decolonizing Shakespeare is all about juxtaposition and the oppositional gaze or whatever.

00:55:35.160 It's a fancy way of saying that instead of talking about Shakespeare, you talk about non-white 1.00

00:55:38.400 writers and entertainers instead. That's the whole scam. I watched a decent amount of this lecture,

00:55:42.820 for which I deserve hazard pay of some kind. And pretty much the entire thing is her rattling off

00:55:47.180 a bunch of random, mostly no-name, non-white people that she wants to promote. That's what 1.00

00:55:51.680 decolonizing means, I guess. It means assigning a ton of literature based on the skin color of the

00:55:55.660 person who wrote it so that you don't have to talk about Shakespeare. Of course, they try to drown

00:56:00.940 this nonsense with so much academic jargon that no sane person can make sense of it or even sit

00:56:06.320 through it. That's because when you strip away the filibustering and the jargon, you're left with

00:56:10.940 anti-white race hatred. This is what decolonization is about. It's what it's always been about. 0.88

00:56:17.020 Shakespeare is perhaps the single greatest writer to ever live, and that may make a lot of people

00:56:21.540 angry. It might undermine a lot of racial narratives. But it happens to be true. And no matter how much 1.00

00:56:28.760 Jay-Z and Toni Morrison you force students to pay attention to, and no matter what you do to

00:56:33.780 Shakespeare's hometown, it will remain true. And that is why everyone attempting to cancel

00:56:39.280 William Shakespeare and to decolonize his birthplace are today canceled. That'll do it for the show

00:56:45.700 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:56:48.620 Thanks, guys.

00:56:50.000 Thank you too.

00:56:52.120 Thank you.

00:56:52.380 Thanks for listening.

00:56:55.820 Bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 18, 2025

Ep. 1557 - Trans Activists Hijack A School Board Meeting To Verbally Attack A Concerned Mother

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