Ep. 1557 - Trans Activists Hijack A School Board Meeting To Verbally Attack A Concerned Mother
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A school in Illinois allegedly forced a 13-year-old girl to change in front of a male student in order to accommodate a transgender student. Also, France has requested that we return the Statue of Liberty. And the process of decolonizing Shakespeare has officially started. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, girls at a school in Illinois were allegedly forced to get changed
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in front of a boy, all in the name of trans inclusion and in defiance of Trump's executive
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order. Also, France has requested that we return the Statue of Liberty. I can think of one small
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part of the statue, but I wouldn't mind sending them. I'll explain. And the process of decolonizing
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Shakespeare has officially started. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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When an obnoxious group of political activists suddenly goes silent, it's usually a sign that
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they're regrouping in some way. That's especially true after the activists suffer a crushing defeat
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in a national election. It's only natural to assume that under those circumstances,
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the activists have gone underground for a bit in order to refine their messaging.
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They're putting their best minds together to come up with a platform that might appeal to
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more people. Or at the very least, they're taking steps to make sure that when they emerge from
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hiding, they're not seen as even crazier and less convincing than they were before.
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That's the bare minimum you would expect. Think about how the Indians realized that they were
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on the losing side of the whole debate over who gets the land, so they came back and decided to
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settle for owning a bunch of casinos instead. It's kind of a strategic retreat. It's an effective
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way to come back and get back in the game. This is the playbook that we've seen again and again,
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but after this week, it's clear that trans activists and the LGBT movement have thrown out
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this manual. Following their rejection at the ballot box in November, trans activists have decided
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against the idea of moderating their insanity. Instead, they've elected to double down on the
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most extreme and demented aspects of their ideology. They've devolved to a degree that if you weren't
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paying attention, you might have thought was impossible. We're now at the point where trans activists
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are embracing cruelty that isn't even cloaked with the usual lies about scientific consensus or
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anything like that. These people are now endorsing child abuse without reservation right out in the
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open, without even euphemisms anymore. That's always what they've stood for, but now they're not even
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attempting to hide it. And in order to understand the depths of depravity that I'm talking about,
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you need to watch the scene that unfolded at a school board meeting on Thursday in a suburb of Chicago
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called Deerfield. A woman named Nicole Georges began by telling the school board that her daughter
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is a 13-year-old student at a local middle school. And recently, her 13-year-old daughter
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was forced to share a bathroom with a male student. Watch.
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This nightmare began on February 5th when my daughter was using the girls' bathroom and was
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stunned that a biological male student was using it as well. She came home frightened and was extremely
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upset. I asked her to talk with her teachers and find out more information. She was told by the
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administration that a student can use the bathroom as well as a female locker room because they now
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identify as female. I expressed that the school was in clear violation of federal policy. The Trump
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administration issued an executive order restricting biological males from participating in sports and
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accessing female locker rooms. That day, I filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of my daughter
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with the Department of Justice. Now, just to clarify, if you're watching the video and you see all the
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people in COVID masks and you hear the trans-extremism that we're going to play in a few
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minutes, it would be understandable if you assume that this video was from like 2021. But it's not.
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It's from last week. And yet, this is what it looks like. And before we play the rest of Nicole
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Georges' statement, it's worth pointing out that, strangely enough, no one on the left is calling the
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situation a constitutional crisis. Even though she's pointing out correctly that the state of Illinois
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is defying Trump's executive order on gender ideology. In the process, they're disregarding
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the civil rights of children at a systematic level. And if you listen to the left's complaints about how
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outrageous it was that the Trump administration ignored a judge's order when he deported Venezuelan
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terrorists the other day, you might think that they'd be equally upset about what the state of
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Illinois is doing in this case. But of course, there's no outrage because these people are more than
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happy to ignore orders when they feel like it, if it's orders that they don't like. And the state
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of Illinois should lose federal funding immediately. As a result, that's just the beginning. We'll talk
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about what other penalties should be imposed in a second. And if you don't agree with that, then you'll
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change your mind after you hear the rest of Nicole Georges' statement. Listen as she explains what the
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adults at this middle school allegedly forced her child to do against her will. Listen.
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The situation went from bad to worse. A few days later, the male student was present in the
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girls' locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice to not change into their PE clothes
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with a biological male student present. The next day, Assistant Principal Kathy Vantrese pulled the
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girls into their office questioning them. The same day, Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford, Kathy Vantrese,
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and multiple teachers all came into the girls' locker room making them change into uniform. This
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went on all week with the addition of Ginger Laugerman. My daughter refused to take part in having her
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privacy being violated. How dare they? She ran out and called me for help. Principal Weigley
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answered, was, answered, were offering my daughter a new, answers was offering my daughter a new PE class.
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The answer was, no. She is not changing for the remainder of the year, and she is not changing into another
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class. The girls just want their privacy, and they want their locker room back.
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So just to restate what we heard, this woman is saying that school officials forced her 13-year-old daughter
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and several other girls as well to change in front of a male student in a locker room at a middle school.
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And so this was not just, as bad as it is, this was not just allowing the boy into the locker room.
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That's bad enough. This was the school officials in the locker room forcing them to disrobe and get
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changed in front of this boy. And those school officials, she said, include the district assistance
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superintendent for student services, the school's assistant principal, and the director for student
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services. Now, if this claim is true, and as you'll see in a moment, there's no reason to doubt that it
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is, then the school officials who forced these girls to change in front of a boy are guilty of sexual
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assault. You could probably add kidnapping and child endangerment charges as well. You know, the fact that
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this took place in a school should not provide any kind of cover for these people. If anything, it makes
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the charges even more serious. And whatever charges are brought, it would still be too light of a
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punishment. I mean, try to imagine what you would do as a parent if you learned that an adult was
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forcing your daughter to get changed in front of a male against her will. I mean, criminal charges would
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probably be the least of that particular adult's problems, I would hope. At a minimum, we need
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conservative DAs to start pressing those kinds of charges against the people pushing this kind of
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madness. This goes beyond the realm of a political debate or a constitutional crisis. This is child abuse.
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And if there were any good faith members of the trans activist community, if any of them were
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capable of some level of basic human decency, they would admit that. They would at least say that,
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hey, listen, yeah, of course you should not force 13-year-old girls, you should not have adults
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standing there forcing 13-year-old girls to take their clothes off. But obviously, that is well beyond
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anything that could be remotely considered acceptable in a school or in any other context.
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You know, you would have some trans activists saying that, but none of them are. None of them
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are. Because they are totally incapable of human decency. If they were, they would acknowledge that,
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indeed, it is possible to go too far in the process of affirming gender ideology. And that point is
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reached when you're forcing children to expose themselves to members of the opposite sex.
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But because there are no good faith trans activists or any decent ones either, you could
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probably guess how this mother's statement was received. As soon as she was finished, booze rang
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out in the room. And one person asked her why she was obsessed with the genitals of children,
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which is one of those stock arguments these activists use all the time, even though it makes
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no sense whatsoever. I mean, they could be exposing themselves to you and your children in the park.
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And then when you object to it, they'll say, well, why are you so obsessed? Why are you so obsessed
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with me not doing this? Then a few other activists spoke at the school board meeting and they continue
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to take cheap shots at this mother. Watch. Thank you.
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Executive order 2019-11, which my kid was standing next to Pritzker when he signed, yes, an executive
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order from the governor. And in that order, it's called strengthening our commitment to affirming
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and inclusive schools, which protects trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming students
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from the type of bullying that this parent represents.
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And let's consider who is pushing this complaint. I'm here because I was alerted that Moms for Liberty
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was organizing a presence here today, who have been identified as an extremist hate group by the
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Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading bigotry and division. This isn't just about a locker room
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policy. It's part of a national effort to roll back LGBTQ plus rights.
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Just disgusting people. I mean, the adults in this room that are attacking this mother because she
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doesn't want her daughter to be abused. These are just disgusting, evil people.
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Demonic, Satanists, just the worst kinds of people. Nothing redeeming about them whatsoever.
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And as you see, this is the dominant mode of thought, such as it is among trans activists at
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the moment. If you're a mother who doesn't want your daughter to be forced to strip in front of
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males in middle school, then you're a bully. Not wanting your daughter to have to take her clothes
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off in front of a boy makes you a bully. You're bullying the boy by depriving him of the experience
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of having girls get changed around him. I mean, how can your mind even form those kinds of thoughts?
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Well, it's because your mind is forming those kinds of thoughts because you're just a radical,
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incapable of any kind of rational thought. Which means that if you want to protect your child in
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their minds, you're an extremist. You're obsessed with genitalia somehow. And on and on. One
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particularly threatening trans activist took things a step further and railed against white supremacy and
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the white God. And this person did so while wearing a shirt that reads protect trans kids with a picture
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of a knife. Watch. Thank you to the board for prioritizing the safety of the student that's
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been targeted by a organization that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of
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Excuse me. Excuse me. This is it's I have to be respectful. Please be respectful of each other's
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times. Targeting a middle school student because of your white God. Yeah. Excuse me.
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Can we pause for a second? I'm just I'm really grateful to see how full this room is of support
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Now, the framing, of course, is that the male student is being targeted.
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So they can force a girl to undress in a place she doesn't want to undress in front of a
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of a male student. Otherwise, the male is being targeted.
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The girl isn't being targeted in that scenario, apparently. Instead, it's the male.
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He's not getting to see the girls undress. So he's the victim.
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I mean, it doesn't exactly take Freud to understand the psychology underlying this entire movement.
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And to the extent that any of those activists presented something approaching an argument,
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it was to suggest that actually these girls did have the option of requesting private
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changing rooms. That came up a few times during the school board meeting. But I'm going to focus
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on this one clip featuring a trans identifying individual who uses the name Charlie. And Charlie
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uses they he pronouns. So we're going to go ahead and use she to describe her because it seems like
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it's probably the most accurate option here. Charlie says that she also has a trans middle schooler,
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which, of course, is maybe the least surprising revelation imaginable. If trans activists are good at
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anything, it's indoctrinating their own children. In any event, here's Charlie's big moment where she
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reads from an Illinois state law that's supposedly about human rights. Also under the Illinois Human
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Rights Act, Section 3B-1, the use of restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms may not be restricted
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based on a student's physical anatomy or chromosomal sex. A student must be permitted to access restrooms
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or bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms that align with their gender-related identity
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and without having to provide documentation or other proof of gender. Under this act, and it is stated,
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the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons
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to deny or limit the full and equal use of those facilities based on a student's gender-related
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identity. Instead, any student, teacher, or other individual seeking more privacy should be accommodated
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by providing that individual with a more private option upon their request. Sounds like that would
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Okay. Talk to everyone now. Don't point us out. Do not look at us.
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So this is the extent of the concessions that these people were willing to offer. They're saying that
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anyone who wants more privacy under the law can use a separate bathroom. Now, they can request some
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other accommodation. Now, put aside the fact that in this case, the other accommodation apparently
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was not provided. What they don't address is the obvious question, which is, why can't the boy
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request the other accommodation in this scenario? Why do all the girls have to request their own
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accommodation, but the male doesn't? If you've got one person who's got a problem with the bathroom
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arrangement, doesn't it make the most sense to, if you're going to, give him the separate accommodation?
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Now, I don't think he should get any separate accommodation at all. If a boy wants to use
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the girl's bathroom, the girl's locker room, you just say to the boy, too bad. Here's your locker
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room. Deal with it. But if you're going to go this other accommodation route, why would it be for
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the girls? Why do they have to make a special request? Well, the reason is apparently that it would
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make the boy feel bad if he is not included in the girl's locker room. But the fact that his presence
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makes girls feel bad, feel unsafe and vulnerable, simply doesn't register. As you heard from that
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trans activist, the girl's feelings of discomfort are simply invalid. The trans activists never
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explain why this discomfort is invalid. Neither does the Illinois law. They also don't explain why,
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well, if feelings of discomfort are invalid, then why can't we say the same thing about the boy?
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Why can't we say the same thing about the trans person? It's actually there. If you're a trans
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identified person and you feel uncomfortable in the bathroom that aligns with your actual biological
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sex, those feelings are irrelevant to anyone else. That is your own problem. That's your own little
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hang-up. That's your own issue. Okay, deal with that on your own time. That's not anyone else's
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problem. And we all know the explanation, which is that these activists, above all else, are sadists
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who crave power. They relish the prospect of forcing women and girls to take part in this charade.
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From their perspective, the more degrading the process is, the better. Everyone must be forced
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to participate. Whatever mental harm 10 or 20 middle school girls might suffer as a result,
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they just don't care. Their only goal is to ensure that the male in the scenario gets his
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satisfaction. Now, I watched the rest of this hearing and the arguments from these trans activists
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only got worse from here somehow. Here's just a couple of them.
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I wanted to say also that a lot of cis, part of the education is to know that a lot of transgender
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people pass. You wouldn't know that they're transgender. And so what do you want to do? Like have
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genital checks of people? Talk about privacy and invasion of privacy. That is a logistical hurdle
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that you would not want to even try to accomplish. I don't think.
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There are safe people. And please, please, we need to expand this just from the locker room and teach
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respect. Using appropriate pronouns is the first thing you do. Do not call this child a he. She is a
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she from her soul. Her brain and heart match that. Please.
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He's a he. What are you going to do about it? I'm just thinking out loud here, but
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when I watch these kinds of videos, I think, you know, maybe I need to show up there.
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How would you guys feel about that? You trans activists up there. What if I show up with 5,000
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of my closest friends? How about that? What then? Who are you going to shout down then?
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So the second woman just yells about pronouns. Nothing new there. And the first woman makes a
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familiar logistical argument saying some trans-identifying children supposedly pass.
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And therefore, unless we want to inspect their bodies, we need to just accept whatever these
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kids say. Now, first of all, of course, it's not true that any trans-identifying middle schoolers
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actually pass for a member of the opposite gender. The child in this situation certainly didn't come
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close to, quote unquote, passing. And passing is like a myth that it's a it's a it's a myth that
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trans activists have made up to make themselves feel better. It's like it doesn't. It's not real.
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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.
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And for that matter, none of the activists at the school board meeting come close to passing either.
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Humans have evolved for a very long time to develop certain sex specific traits and to perceive those
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traits and others. A child who throws on a wig from Party City is not going to overcome that.
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But even if we assume for the sake of argument that some child somehow manages to fool everyone
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at school into thinking that he's really a girl, it's completely insane to endorse the idea that he
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should then have access to girls' locker rooms. You set the rule, no boys in a girls' locker room.
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If a boy manages to sneak in, that's really bad.
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And but just because he manages to fool people and sneak into these locker rooms doesn't make his
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actions justified. It doesn't mean that we change the rule. You know, it's like saying that a bank
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robber is justified if no one ever notices that he pulled off the heist. Deception is wrong, whether
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it's detected or not. This is a basic moral principle, one of many basic moral principles that
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trans activists have abandoned. If the school board meeting demonstrates anything, it's that these
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people are never going to become more moderate or more sensible, no matter how badly they lose
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national elections. As I pointed out before, most of the adult trans activists who continue in the
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fight, a lot of the people we see in that room, are either trans themselves or they have trans kids.
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Or in some cases, both, as we saw at the school board meeting. So they'll never let it go because
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they, to let it go would be to admit that they've maimed and mutilated themselves or their children.
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That's a level of self-reflection and acceptance that trans activists, as the ultimate narcissist,
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are simply incapable of achieving. And what that means is that it's now the responsibility of law
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enforcement officials at both the state and federal levels to prevent trans activists from
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continuing to abuse children in this way. There are clearly no limits to their depravity at this point.
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If we want to end this sickness, executive orders and court cases are not going to be enough on their
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own. The school officials who embrace this need to go to prison. The school districts that enforce
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these policies need to lose all federal funding. Simply put, there is no legal penalty too excessive
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for child abuse. And if we want to protect children and prevent anything like this from happening again,
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it's time that the people responsible start facing those penalties. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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that just aren't there. But this is not one of those times. There does appear to be a very unmistakable
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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
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
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
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
00:26:21.880
pilots are in fact a real problem? I mean, we have a real female pilot problem. We do.
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:29:53.600
America no longer represents what the statue symbolizes, he's talking mainly about the poem
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
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
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
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
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
00:32:56.900
the wretched refuse of any country. Why the hell would we want that? No, I do not want that. No,
00:33:02.680
please keep your wretched refuse. I do not want them. We don't want them. Why would we want them?
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
00:33:24.380
poem was added to the Statue of Liberty. That stupid, awful poem. We are a country. We are a
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
00:44:26.460
entitlement, the rudeness, the stupidity of some of these people makes you hate people. If you do
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
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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
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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,
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00:47:47.760
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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
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,
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is wrong. And in a lot of ways, we're seeing a similar effort unfold right now in the UK where
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William Shakespeare is getting the Dr. Seuss treatment. For all their differences, Dr. Seuss and
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Shakespeare do have one thing in common, which is that they both pose a clear and intolerable threat
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to anti-white racial narratives that have become fashionable on the left. Shakespeare, as arguably the
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greatest and most prolific writer to ever live, is an example of excellence that very few other
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countries or cultures have ever come close to matching. There is no Shakespeare of Africa or
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Shakespeare of Pakistan, for example. And if you're trying to make the case that those countries and
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cultures are far superior to places like America and Europe because they have fewer white people,
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which is the argument the leftists genuinely try to make, then Shakespeare's status is obviously
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inconvenient. After all these years, he stands alone, so now they're coming for him too. But as we saw
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with Dr. Seuss, they're not going to admit that that's why they're doing it. Instead of saying
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that they want to tear down Shakespeare because he was white, they're saying that Shakespeare needs to
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be decolonized. This is a word we've talked about before in several different contexts, and every
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single time it's used, decolonization is always a cover for anti-white hatred and ultimately
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for racial violence. They claim that it's about removing remnants of colonialism, whatever that means
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exactly, but really their motives are transparent. Quoting from the Daily Mail, it says,
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William Shakespeare's birthplace will be decolonized over fears that portraying his success as the
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greatest playwright benefits the ideology of white European supremacy. Shakespeare's birthplace
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trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown. It wants to create a more inclusive museum
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experience and announce that it will move away from Western perspectives after concerns were raised
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that Shakespeare's ideas were used to advance white supremacy's ideas. Close quote. Yes, they're
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supposedly going to decolonize the place where William Shakespeare was born, and they're going
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to accomplish that task by installing foreign influences from all over the world into the place
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where Shakespeare was born. They're going to import Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshops,
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for example, and they're going to host events celebrating Bengali poets. Presumably, they're also going to
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remove a bunch of Shakespeare-themed objects from the Shakespeare Museum in the place where
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Shakespeare was born. They're going to replace them with more inclusive artifacts. In other words,
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they're going to decolonize Shakespeare's birthplace by colonizing it until it's completely and totally
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unrecognizable. I mean, if the word colonize means anything anymore, which it doesn't, then that's
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exactly what they're doing to this little town. And things make less sense when you realize that
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Shakespeare wasn't alive anywhere near the period when Britain became a sprawling worldwide empire.
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Britain was just beginning to settle North America when he died, which is why saying Shakespeare is
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a relic of colonialism, it's a bit like saying that Mark Twain is a symbol of the moon landing.
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I mean, the timing doesn't really work. To find out more, I looked a little deeper into the whole
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Shakespeare decolonization effort. I dove headfirst into the belly of the beast. And I came to find out
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that it's been active in this country for a while, too. So here, for example, is a lecture delivered by
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an English professor from Arizona State University named Ayanna Thompson. Watch as she explains
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what exactly it means to decolonize Shakespeare.
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So in thinking about how you can encourage an oppositional gaze or decolonize thinking in your
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Shakespeare classroom, I think one of the things that you can start with is by encouraging juxtaposition.
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So it's not just creating juxtaposition, right? So it's not just that you say we should read
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August Wilson's King Headley next to William Shakespeare's King Lear, which, by the way,
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do go really well together. It's that you also allow your students to bring in things that they want
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to juxtapose with Shakespeare. Tanjirai, I think his last name is pronounced Amonye Vu,
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is a Zimbabwean playwright. And he has also written a play about Shakespeare called The Moors. And it's
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quite brilliant and interesting. So I just feel like there's so many ways to allow dialogues to exist.
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Jay-Z, of course, he's got a lot to say about Shakespeare, a lot, a lot. And if you explore
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some of his interviews, Shakespeare keeps coming up and he keeps asking interviewers who are
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challenging him about why he thinks he's the best. And he keeps saying, why don't you think I'm
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Shakespeare? And he said this numerous times. It's really interesting. So, you know, why not allow
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your students to bring that into the classroom? Now, Jay-Z and Shakespeare is indeed quite the
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juxtaposition. This is the cutting edge of academia, apparently. Just think of all the places
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students could go with it. They could talk about how sorry they are for Macbeth, because while they
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might have 99 problems, which ain't one? Or they could ask the age-old question, to be or not to be
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big pimpin'. I mean, the possibilities are just endless. And those are the extent of my
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Shakespeare-Jay-Z crossover puns that I could come up with. By the way, tuition to attend this
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professor's school runs up to $32,000 for out-of-state students. So if you want your child
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to be able to experience life-changing lessons like this, you better start saving now. I mean,
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it's worth every penny. In case you fell asleep during that clip, the professor begins by saying
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that decolonizing Shakespeare is all about juxtaposition and the oppositional gaze or whatever.
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It's a fancy way of saying that instead of talking about Shakespeare, you talk about non-white
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writers and entertainers instead. That's the whole scam. I watched a decent amount of this lecture,
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for which I deserve hazard pay of some kind. And pretty much the entire thing is her rattling off
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a bunch of random, mostly no-name, non-white people that she wants to promote. That's what
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decolonizing means, I guess. It means assigning a ton of literature based on the skin color of the
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person who wrote it so that you don't have to talk about Shakespeare. Of course, they try to drown
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this nonsense with so much academic jargon that no sane person can make sense of it or even sit
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through it. That's because when you strip away the filibustering and the jargon, you're left with
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anti-white race hatred. This is what decolonization is about. It's what it's always been about.
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Shakespeare is perhaps the single greatest writer to ever live, and that may make a lot of people
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angry. It might undermine a lot of racial narratives. But it happens to be true. And no matter how much
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Jay-Z and Toni Morrison you force students to pay attention to, and no matter what you do to
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Shakespeare's hometown, it will remain true. And that is why everyone attempting to cancel
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William Shakespeare and to decolonize his birthplace are today canceled. That'll do it for the show
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today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.