The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1567 - Why I Went To Speak In Front Of The California Assembly Yesterday

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, I testified in California yesterday in support of a bill that

00:00:03.140 would keep men out of women's locker rooms and sports teams. We'll talk about that. Also, 1.00

00:00:06.520 some female members of Congress banded together to demand that they be allowed to vote from home 1.00

00:00:11.380 in defiance of the Constitution. And a prominent race hustler declares that every law written before

00:00:15.880 1965 should be abolished because they were all written by white men. Plus, Cory Booker

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00:01:54.000 You won't find many instances in modern life where there is near unanimous agreement on anything.

00:01:59.920 It doesn't really matter what the issue is. You're probably not going to find a consensus.

00:02:04.040 There was a recent poll that supposedly showed that around a third of millennials believe the

00:02:07.380 earth is flat, for example. So whatever explains this phenomenon, whether it's the internet or drug use

00:02:12.900 or a large-scale mental health crisis or some combination of the three, it's hard to deny that

00:02:17.460 it exists. As a country, we simply cannot agree on much. And we weren't always like this. Not so long

00:02:24.100 ago, presidential candidates like Nixon and Reagan could win 49 states. Try picturing that happening

00:02:28.980 again in your lifetime. It's very hard to imagine. But despite this sea change in American politics,

00:02:33.400 there are still some issues that remain uncontroversial. Not many, but they do exist.

00:02:38.920 And maybe the most important point of consensus is that despite the relentless corporate propaganda

00:02:44.920 to the contrary, Americans still believe that basic observable biology is indeed real. They have

00:02:52.100 not fallen for the scam of gender ideology, at least not to the extent that many people assumed that

00:02:56.760 they had. Specifically, 79% of Americans do not believe that men should play in women's sports. And we've

00:03:02.840 talked about that poll before. It was from the New York Times recently, which is of course one of the

00:03:08.620 main proponents of gender ideology. But even the New York Times had to admit that Americans can see

00:03:14.540 through the propaganda. According to the results, 67% of Democrats also agree that men, whether they're

00:03:20.640 supposedly trans or not, should stay out of women's sports. And to put that number of context, you will 0.72

00:03:26.580 not be able to get 67% of Democrats to agree that Donald Trump shouldn't be hauled before an Antifa

00:03:33.020 firing squad and summarily executed without a trial. But on this issue, there's broad agreements

00:03:38.980 across political parties. And that's why even Gavin Newsom is taking the side of the 67%

00:03:43.300 of his own party. And that makes sense, of course, because in order to believe that men should be

00:03:48.520 able to play against women in sports, you have to ignore what you can see with your own eyes. I mean, 0.96

00:03:54.380 it's one thing to harass and intimidate millions of Americans into going along with the fiction

00:03:58.620 that biological sex is meaningless and that men can become women in the abstract. Yes, it's an 0.97

00:04:05.780 egregious lie, but it's also tempting for many Democrats to go along with it. After all, if we're

00:04:10.600 just talking about words and pronouns, they might say, then what's the harm of affirming this, even if

00:04:17.780 it's not true? This is the logic that many Democrats have internalized, in no small part because in many

00:04:22.760 cases they know that they'll lose their jobs and their friendships if they don't. But it's an entirely

00:04:28.120 different proposition to convince people that there's no issue with trans-identifying men playing

00:04:32.820 sports against women. Because for someone to go along with that particular lie, it's not enough 0.97

00:04:38.160 for them to fall victim to propaganda from the Human Resources Department or their university's DEI

00:04:42.780 office about how gender is supposedly malleable and meaningless. They have to go a step further than 1.00

00:04:48.020 that. They have to also pretend that high school boys' soccer teams can't actually destroy the

00:04:52.860 women's Olympic soccer team, even though everyone can verify that that happened. They have to ignore 0.99

00:04:57.980 the obvious strength differences between men and women that they see constantly in everyday

00:05:01.640 life. They have to affirm, in other words, that what they're seeing with their own eyes

00:05:06.080 is in fact a lie. They have to go full 1984. And it's very difficult to get a majority of people

00:05:11.000 to do that, even if they're Democrats. What's remarkable is that despite this consensus among both

00:05:16.640 conservative and liberal voters, politicians in the Democrat Party continue to insist on forcing

00:05:23.060 women to play against men. They have continued to ride this 80-20 issue where they are on the 20

00:05:29.100 side. They've continued to ram through their egregiously unpopular agenda, which is something

00:05:35.400 that can only happen if people don't speak up. If 80% of voters want something and their elected

00:05:41.260 representatives ignore them, then we can deduce that voters are not holding the representatives

00:05:46.600 accountable. They're not showing up to hearings, making their opinions known. They're not ejecting

00:05:51.760 anyone from office for defying them. They're staying silent in the face of an extraordinary

00:05:55.740 rejection of basic biology that everybody knows is completely insane. And that's why yesterday I

00:06:01.760 flew across the country to speak at a hearing in the California State Assembly. And this hearing

00:06:06.320 concerned a bill that was proposed by Republican lawmaker Bill Assaylee. The bill would reverse

00:06:11.300 California's current law, which allows males to compete against females from elementary levels all the

00:06:16.560 way up to college, as long as the males claim that they're really women. That law has been on the

00:06:21.340 books since 2013 in California and Assaylee's bill would overturn it, which again, is what the

00:06:26.220 majority of voters want in the country, but also in California. But it was my turn to speak. Of course,

00:06:34.140 I only had two minutes. That's why I decided to focus on the single most important aspect of this

00:06:40.420 entire debate, which is actually not fairness or safety as important as those are. Here's what I told

00:06:47.060 the California Assembly to watch. Today, I'm not going to talk about fairness, although it's certainly

00:06:52.160 true that allowing men to compete in women's sports is deeply unfair. And I'm not going to talk about 0.97

00:06:56.620 safety, although it's certainly true that allowing men into female sports teams and into their bathrooms 1.00

00:07:00.920 is incredibly unsafe. I'll let others highlight those important points. I want to talk about something

00:07:06.540 even more important and even more basic. It's the most basic thing of all. It's truth. You must keep men out of 1.00

00:07:11.660 sports and out of their facilities for the simple reason that they are men. Men are not women. A man 0.73

00:07:18.240 who claims he is a woman is still not a woman. So why shouldn't men play in women's sports? Because 1.00

00:07:24.320 they aren't women. It isn't true. We should not allow men into women's sports for the same reason 1.00

00:07:28.960 we shouldn't go around claiming that two plus two equals seven. It's just not true. It is a lie.

00:07:34.040 The man who identifies as a woman is either deluded and confused, or he is a cross-dressing fetishist 0.80

00:07:39.420 looking to play out his fantasies in public. In either case, the claim that he's making, the claim to

00:07:44.960 womanhood, is not true. And compelling women to take part in this untruth is evil, perverse, and predatory. 1.00

00:07:51.680 If you would use the force of law to compel young girls to use a changing room with a boy, you are 0.96

00:07:57.300 yourselves predators. Transgenderism is a lie. It is, in fact, the most deranged lie that mankind has ever 1.00

00:08:04.080 invented. In a free country, nobody should ever be forced to participate in a lie. As lawmakers,

00:08:10.820 you have an obligation to the truth. It is a truth that I know you all recognize because every human

00:08:15.960 who has ever lived on earth recognizes it, that men are men and women are women. It is that simple.

00:08:21.120 And the question before you is just as simple. The question is this. Will you side with the truth,

00:08:26.880 a truth so basic that every toddler understands it, or will you disgrace yourselves by denying it?

00:08:33.260 That is your choice to make.

00:08:36.560 Now, after I spoke, a student who lives in Riverside, California, named Taylor Starling,

00:08:41.040 testified about how her spot on the varsity cross-country team was stolen by a male student.

00:08:46.520 Taylor worked very hard for her spot on the team. She lost it because of California's law. 0.96

00:08:52.160 At no point did any Democrat on the committee express any sympathy for Taylor. They didn't care at all,

00:08:57.240 of course. Instead, when it came time for the two Democrat witnesses to testify, they attempted to

00:09:02.160 basically rebuke Taylor indirectly. So listen to these two activists and pay attention to the

00:09:07.360 arguments they're making and the arguments they don't make. Listen.

00:09:11.540 For well over a decade, California has allowed transgender student athletes to compete alongside

00:09:17.700 their cisgender peers and to use the restrooms and facilities that best aligned with their gender

00:09:23.520 identity. These policies have been working for years. The author of AB 844 frames this bill as an effort to

00:09:32.560 protect women and girls. As the mother of a 21-year-old daughter, I worry about my daughter's safety

00:09:38.900 constantly. Sexual assault and violence directed at women and girls is at epidemic levels. But that threat

00:09:47.300 of violence comes largely from their coaches, intimate partners, and family members. There is no credible

00:09:54.220 evidence to suggest that trans students are a threat to their classmates or their teammates. And this is 0.90

00:10:00.820 why anti-sexual assault and domestic violence organizations denounce bills such as this.

00:10:07.000 I'm also the proud mama bear for my daughter who is trans, and I'm here to make sure that you understand

00:10:12.600 that everyone deserves to have equal access to facilities in alignment with their gender.

00:10:19.140 I know we just talked a lot about sports, and the issue of sports and facilities is actually very

00:10:24.720 tied together. My daughter has played soccer, baseball, roller derby, and hockey. And I have to say,

00:10:31.860 I love it when she has a game or a practice. She comes home feeling grounded in her body. With her safe

00:10:38.860 involvement in sports, she gets to stow off the sparkly, wonderful human that she is.

00:10:45.180 By contrast, in spaces where she has not felt comfortable using facilities aligned with her

00:10:51.020 gender, I've seen her physically uncomfortable with stomach aches that have sometimes kept her home from 1.00

00:10:56.780 school. As you can hear, they offer a bunch of lame deflections that were geared towards the kind of

00:11:03.140 testimony that Taylor Starling delivered. They implied that Taylor's emotions didn't matter because

00:11:07.920 their so-called trans child was getting tummy aches when his gender wasn't affirmed at all times.

00:11:15.120 Not being allowed to, into the, you know, girls changing room, was making his tummy hurt.

00:11:20.940 That's what she just said. They suggested that trans identifying males aren't assaulting female

00:11:26.180 athletes in locker rooms. Conservatives are making a big deal out of a handful of incidents.

00:11:31.260 You know, girls are saying they don't want to be forced to change in front of boys, and the answer from 0.91

00:11:34.640 these activists is that, well, the girls shouldn't complain because the boys aren't physically assaulting

00:11:40.060 them, except when they do. Those deflections are morally deranged and, to put it mildly,

00:11:45.620 unconvincing. But more importantly, they do absolutely nothing whatsoever to respond to the point that I

00:11:51.080 was making, which is like the, again, the fundamental point. At no point did either of these witnesses

00:11:58.600 actually defend the proposition that men can become women or that boys can become girls.

00:12:04.280 The mama bear with the alleged trans child didn't launch into any kind of explanation of how sex is 0.95

00:12:10.520 meaningless and how, you know, she was, she was really the one who was on the side of truth and

00:12:15.400 basic biology. Instead, she talked about how sad her son felt whenever people didn't lie to him and say

00:12:20.300 that he's really a girl. This is all the trans activists have because they know their underlying

00:12:25.300 position is incoherent and also massively unpopular. My point is that the fundamental claim they're

00:12:32.440 making, the claim that men can be women, is false. And none of them address that point at all, as if

00:12:39.600 the truth or falseness of their fundamental claim is somehow irrelevant. As if to prove my point, or to

00:12:46.200 prove this point in general, prior to my testimony, a California lawmaker named Rick Chavez-Zibor

00:12:52.320 announced that everybody who believes in basic human biology is in fact a Nazi. So young girls 0.65

00:12:58.740 who don't want to change in front of boys are morally indistinguishable from concentration camp 0.95

00:13:04.080 guards, according to this maniac. He made these comments during a hearing for a similar bill,

00:13:08.420 which would have banned male athletes from competing against women in high school in California. 0.63

00:13:12.960 Listen to this maniac. Listen.

00:13:14.460 Really reminiscent to me of what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. We are moving towards 0.93

00:13:23.740 autocracy in this country. In Nazi Germany, transgender people were persecuted, barred from

00:13:32.880 public life. Mr. Gonzalez. This is about this. This is about this bill. They were barred from

00:13:46.620 public life. They were detransitioned. They imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. And the way that

00:13:52.980 it started was the same kinds of things that are happening in this country by the Trump administration.

00:13:59.740 Really reminiscent. So when this moron, when he sees a bathroom that says women, he looks at that and 1.00

00:14:07.840 says, oh man, this reminds me of the Holocaust. Nazis weren't fans of transgenderism, he says. And 1.00

00:14:15.300 therefore, if you don't believe in the lie of transgenderism, you're a Nazi. And if you're not 0.98

00:14:19.340 familiar with basic logic or history, and if you have an IQ hovering around room temperature,

00:14:24.240 then maybe this kind of reasoning is persuasive to you. But very quickly, it also leads you down a

00:14:31.120 pretty unsustainable path. For example, you might come to believe that highways are racist,

00:14:36.760 because after all, the Nazis created the Autobahn, and we wouldn't want to be like the Nazis.

00:14:41.940 Therefore, you don't get to drive on the interstate. Which, come to think of it, I mean,

00:14:47.080 Pete Buttigieg also says that highways are racist. So maybe we're starting to see a pattern here.

00:14:51.240 Along the same lines, the Nazis banned many forms of animal experimentation.

00:14:55.740 So if you think that's a good idea, well, then I got bad news for you. You're probably a Nazi. 0.95

00:15:00.000 So this lawmaker is not making any kind of coherent argument, nor is he addressing the issue at hand, 0.63

00:15:04.400 which is whether men should compete against women in sports. Even less is he addressing the

00:15:08.820 fundamental issue underlying it, which is whether it's actually true that a man who says he's a woman

00:15:14.780 really is a woman. He skips over all of that, instead accuses everybody else of being a Nazi.

00:15:19.000 For his part, the chair of the committee, Chris Ward, was not much better. Here were his remarks

00:15:25.240 towards the end of the hearing over the bill that we were testifying about.

00:15:30.100 You know, it's been mentioned here that the basis for, I presume, both of these bills,

00:15:34.900 but it was stated here for this bill, is that transgender women are not women, that they are men.

00:15:39.980 Again, I do not agree with that. I'm going to go back to my own exploration as I came to realize

00:15:50.160 that I was gay. Because in that era, as we know in the 90s, we were told that this is not biologically

00:15:57.720 possible. It is not possible, nor is it normal for a man to love a man or a woman to love a woman. 0.67

00:16:03.920 And many actually still agree with that here today as well. And we fought long and hard for the rights

00:16:10.320 that we've gotten there, some of which are under threat today. Now, kind of flipping the coin on

00:16:14.560 its head under this bill, a transgender boy would be forced to change in a girl's locker room, 0.99

00:16:20.080 even though they might have a facial hair, they might very much express or look like a boy. And

00:16:25.820 how uncomfortable might that be to girls who are in that locker room? 1.00

00:16:30.240 So you hear his little spiel there. Now, throughout this entire hearing, the Democrats

00:16:35.700 on the committee, including Chris Ward, refused to ask me any questions, nor did they ask Taylor

00:16:41.700 or anyone else any questions. Instead, during the question period, they gave little speeches like

00:16:48.900 this one, accusing those of us on Team Sanity of being Nazis and bigots. His bit there about

00:16:55.420 there's been claims that trans women are not women. That's directly in response to what I said.

00:17:00.040 In fact, he's looking right at me. But not, but making sure to not frame it as a question,

00:17:05.920 because then I'd have a chance to respond. He didn't want to give any of us a chance to actually

00:17:09.780 respond. They certainly didn't want to give, say, Taylor Starling also a chance to talk and to

00:17:15.820 elaborate. I would have liked to see, you know, Chavez say to give Taylor, the young girl who,

00:17:23.640 you know, doesn't want boys in a locker room with her or on her team, give her a chance to respond 1.00

00:17:28.200 to his claim that she's apparently a Nazi. But that was not, there was no opportunity for that.

00:17:33.180 And that all culminated in this moment when the assemblyman running the hearing looked right at

00:17:37.700 me and claimed that trans women are indistinguishable from actual women, but would not allow any 1.00

00:17:42.220 discussion of that point. Instead, he invokes the gay rights movement and comes up with a

00:17:47.400 hypothetical about a tomboy in a girl's locker room and then moves on. Of course, it's not a remotely

00:17:51.800 relevant hypothetical. It's pretty obvious that women would much rather have an actual girl in 1.00

00:17:57.400 their locker room, regardless of what the girl looks like. Like no, no woman has a problem with 1.00

00:18:00.980 that. Even if there's a tomboy or, or, you know, a more masculine looking woman, that's, that's not 0.99

00:18:07.300 the issue. You'd much prefer that over a man who gains access to the locker room simply by claiming 0.60

00:18:12.420 that he's a woman. Girls would also much rather compete against an actual girl, even if that girl 1.00

00:18:17.340 somehow has facial hair, as he says. And the gay rights comparison makes even less sense because

00:18:24.460 the point is that a trans identified male is not actually a woman. Claims to be a woman, but he

00:18:30.020 isn't. We are denying the fundamental claim of transgenderism. On the other hand, nobody denies 0.92

00:18:38.100 that gay people exist. Now what some of us, including myself, do deny is that quote unquote gay marriage

00:18:45.320 can exist, but homosexuality itself is a thing. I mean, that, that exists. Um, transgenderism 1.00

00:18:54.960 is not. Transgenderism is a, is, you know, an ideological claim that we reject.

00:19:02.780 Now, the reason these lawmakers didn't engage with me or any of us in any way is that they know

00:19:08.580 that they're on the losing side and on the indefensible side. They're on, they're on the side

00:19:13.100 of total incoherence. And everyone who was in that room could see it immediately, which is why one

00:19:18.780 thing I noticed as I, and anyone else who watched this could notice is that as each member of the

00:19:23.940 public came up to voice their approval or opposition to the bill, in almost every case, you knew where

00:19:30.920 they stood before they said anything. And there was a, this is the way they do it in California.

00:19:36.920 Apparently you have the hearing and then there's a mat and then however many members of public want

00:19:41.820 to come up and voice approval or opposition are allowed to do so. In this case, there were men,

00:19:47.520 it was a very long line. There were probably, you know, probably over a hundred people. Um,

00:19:52.700 and so you're kind of looking at this line and it was actually kind of a fun game to play in your head

00:19:56.680 before each person spoke to, to guess what their position was going to be just by looking at them.

00:20:03.100 And I was playing this game in my head and I was right probably 95% of the time because it was

00:20:09.900 pretty simple. If a person looked normal and healthy, they look like the kind of person you

00:20:14.300 wouldn't mind sitting next to on the subway. They were in almost every case on our side.

00:20:19.360 If they look like the kind of people that you would rather stand and then sit next to,

00:20:23.360 uh, they were almost in every case on the other side. So here's a few clips just to show you what

00:20:27.600 I'm talking about. Here's what the, uh, the opponents of this bill, the, the pro-trans side

00:20:33.400 look like. Watch.

00:20:35.800 Ari Critch Brinton, niece of a cisgender woman who had male characteristics and was cruelly denied the

00:20:44.540 women's room throughout her too short life. I oppose this bill. 1.00

00:20:47.980 Hi, Eve Banas representing the Sacramento LGBT community center and strong opposition.

00:20:53.280 Hello. I am Lilac Fildre and I'm a college student and former student athlete. I oppose this bill.

00:20:59.880 My name is Catalina Zambrano. I'm an out and proud trans woman. I'm the executive director

00:21:04.460 of CalPride Valle Central and I'm in strong, oppose this bill.

00:21:08.860 Hello. My name is Catherine Darrow. I'm an out and proud trans woman on behalf of the trans youth

00:21:13.980 and of Sacramento and California. I vehemently oppose this bill. Thank you.

00:21:21.280 Hello. My name is Sophia Usher. On behalf of the trans youth of California and Sacramento,

00:21:25.920 I strongly oppose this bill.

00:21:30.420 My name is Dean Wild and I strongly oppose this bill. Segregation is wrong and we shouldn't have

00:21:34.580 to say this in 2025.

00:21:39.680 My name is Alex Judd and as a non-binary resident of Citrus Heights,

00:21:43.260 I strongly oppose this bill.

00:21:46.000 My name is Jenny Antsir and I'm a voter from Rancho Cordova and I'm here to adamantly oppose

00:21:52.080 AB 844.

00:21:54.100 Hello. My name is Jocelyn Wagner. I am with Bay Area Derby. I am a trans athlete and I strongly

00:21:59.820 oppose this bill.

00:22:01.220 My name is Tiffany Thompson. I remain the mother of the slowest girl on her track team,

00:22:06.420 my trans daughter. On behalf of her, her peers, and Sacramento Rainbow Kids,

00:22:11.180 I strongly oppose this vitriolic bill.

00:22:13.920 Hello. My name is Christina Lee. I'm a California voter and I strongly oppose this bill.

00:22:19.880 Thank you.

00:22:21.240 On behalf of my trans elders and my queer community and the people who are here and occupy this on

00:22:30.080 this stolen land long before you ever were, you get to decide whether or not you want to be here

00:22:34.600 doing the work that we are doing or you end up having to, you know, be on the wrong side.

00:22:40.500 I mean, you know, I'll take that as a position of opposition.

00:22:47.420 So you see how easy this game was. It wasn't like I said, it was a fun game, but after a while,

00:22:52.460 it's not fun because they make it so easy to guess who's going to be on what side.

00:22:57.740 I was waiting for someone to throw us for a loop, maybe one person to get up there with a face mask 0.71

00:23:01.500 and then be in support of the bill, but that didn't happen. Just to reiterate in case you missed it,

00:23:04.780 here was one of the opponents of the bill that we just showed.

00:23:07.240 This is, if you can't see it because you listen to the audio, that's a person decked out in a full

00:23:11.900 mask and face shield in April of 2025. And this was not unusual. Without exception, every single

00:23:17.580 person who wore a COVID mask this hearing ended up announcing that they were opposed to the bill.

00:23:21.600 In fact, every single person who looked like a patient who just escaped from an asylum

00:23:25.280 when they got up to the podium came out against the bill. And by contrast here, I'll just,

00:23:30.220 we'll just show like a quick clip of this, but here's what the supporters, the supporters of the

00:23:35.780 bill, meaning the sane people, the people that want to segregate sports by sex and locker rooms.

00:23:40.960 Here's what they look like. And there were quite a few of them who showed up, but just a few here.

00:23:46.780 Hello, my name is Sarai McCullough and I am also a Young Women for America ambassador and former

00:23:52.660 multi-world champion in martial arts. And I played for over 10 years and I am in strong support of this bill.

00:23:59.840 Hello, my name is Natalie Mendes. I am from Young Women for America as well. And I played basketball,

00:24:08.500 softball and golf in high school. And I am in strong support of this bill.

00:24:12.520 Hello, Mark Escobel, dad talk today and national family justice. I would just like to

00:24:17.820 back up both the claims here by my gentlemen, Asalie and Matt Walsh. They are a hundred percent

00:24:25.980 correct. My name is Mariam. I'm here on behalf of Women Are Real and Cause, Californians for sex-based

00:24:31.640 evidence in policy and law. Males can never be females. I'm in full support of this bill. Thank 0.97

00:24:36.640 you. Thank you. My name is Emmett Adams. I am 18 years old. I am a newly registered Democrat.

00:24:43.960 I am a gay man. And according to assembly member Rick Chavez, I am also a Nazi because I support this 0.63

00:24:49.060 bill. Thank you. Hi, my name is Jean Chadbourne. I'm from Oakland, California. I'm a lifelong Democrat.

00:24:59.460 Just everyone that just looked like a normal person, they were all in favor of the bill.

00:25:04.100 And I'm not pointing out the differences here in order to get laughs or make a cheap point

00:25:07.460 or just to mock these people, although that is also fun. This is not just an incidental observation.

00:25:13.580 The point is that the dividing line in our culture is increasingly a line between normal people

00:25:17.960 and people who despise normalcy. Ironically, at one point, one of the members of the public

00:25:23.080 went up to the microphone and took a shot at me. He pointed in my direction and said that he didn't

00:25:28.140 realize the circus was in town. I'm supposed to be the circus, apparently. But as he made that

00:25:33.560 comment, there was an entire line of circus clowns behind him, and they were all on his side. 0.98

00:25:40.040 Crossdressers, hypochondriacs, and face shields, bearded women, all on his side. Yet the circus, 0.98

00:25:45.700 in his mind, is all the normal, well-adjusted families who don't want their daughters to be

00:25:50.620 forced to change in front of boys. These people are so bizarre, so abnormal, that they see normal

00:25:55.880 as abnormal. They hate normalcy, and that, again, is the dividing line. Now, fortunately, contrary to

00:26:02.540 what you may have heard or assumed, the normal side is actually pretty well represented in California.

00:26:08.680 A huge number of people showed up in favor of the bills, and from talking to some of the lawmakers

00:26:12.940 and staffers, they tell me that California voters are pretty firmly in their camp on this issue. It's

00:26:17.660 an 80-20 issue in California also, just as it is across the country. But at the moment, this consensus

00:26:23.520 is not reflected in their state assembly, which is why both bills to re-segregate sports based on sex 0.93

00:26:29.180 were voted down 6-2 yesterday. The Democrats won't even let the bills make it to the floor for a full

00:26:34.820 debate. And as a result, in California, males will continue to compete against females, even though

00:26:39.280 no one, including the state's government, can explain why that makes sense. As a result, the

00:26:43.980 Trump administration, which is already investigating the state of California for violating federal law

00:26:47.620 in this area, should terminate funding to the state's education department. That's roughly $15

00:26:52.040 billion in funding. The state is openly defying both the federal government and its own voters,

00:26:56.720 and there should be consequences for that. And in the meantime, more voters in California and every

00:27:00.760 other state with demented legislation that forces women to compete against men should attend hearings

00:27:07.020 like this one. And if that happens, then very quickly, these cowards will realize that they're not 0.93

00:27:12.200 anywhere near as powerful as they think they are. And this could not be more important or more urgent 0.59

00:27:17.020 than it is. Acknowledging the truth is the basic prerequisite for a functioning society. But the leadership

00:27:24.220 of the state of California, along with several other states, has established that they're not concerned

00:27:28.600 with the truth or even with what their voters want. They're committed to a path that will lead

00:27:33.120 inevitably to absurdity, authoritarianism, and ultimately destruction. And yesterday, we made

00:27:40.260 our position very clear on that point. The Democrats plugged their ears and pretended they couldn't hear

00:27:44.720 us. So we'll keep going until sanity reigns supreme again. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:29:02.720 Okay, NPR reports, two moms brought business on the floor of the House of Representatives to a grinding 0.99

00:29:08.740 halt on Tuesday over their push to allow remote voting for new parents. Representative Brittany Peterson

00:29:14.520 or Peterson said, we don't F with moms. She said that on the steps of the U.S. Capitol alongside

00:29:22.660 Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican. We worked as a team, Luna said, and I think that today

00:29:29.040 is a pretty historical day for the entire conference and showing that the body has decided that parents

00:29:32.540 deserve a voice in Washington and also to the importance of female members having a vote in 0.99

00:29:36.500 Washington, D.C. Luna and Peterson have been working to pass legislation that would allow new parents

00:29:42.680 to vote by proxy for 12 weeks around the birth of a new child. So there's a lot of procedural stuff

00:29:51.220 going on, but it all boils down to business and Congress being shut down for the sake of trying to

00:29:56.280 force through a rule that would allow moms of young children in Congress to vote from home for a period of 0.78

00:30:03.720 several weeks. So they don't have to show up to Congress. They can just cast their vote through

00:30:08.840 Zoom or something. And here is what Representative Brittany Peterson holding her newborn, making her 0.92

00:30:15.680 point as dramatically as she could. But here she was arguing in favor of this.

00:30:22.500 Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this rule, which restricts moms and dads from doing

00:30:27.980 their jobs after welcoming a new child. Like so many of our colleagues, it's one of my greatest honors to

00:30:33.280 be a mom. I have two little boys, a son named Davis, who's five, and my little guy here, Sam, who's now nine

00:30:39.900 weeks old. It's also one of my greatest honors to have been elected by my constituents to represent them in

00:30:45.520 Congress. And I can tell you after being a mom here and being only the 13th member to have ever given birth while

00:30:54.400 serving in Congress voting member, I can tell you we have a long ways to go to make this place accessible for young

00:31:00.880 families like mine. When I was pregnant, I couldn't fly towards the end of my due date because it was unsafe

00:31:09.020 for Sam and you're unable to board a plane. And I was unable to actually have my vote represented here

00:31:15.880 and my constituents represented. After giving birth, I was faced with an impossible decision. Sam was four

00:31:22.540 weeks old. And for all of the parents here, we know that when we have newborns, it's when they're the

00:31:31.340 most vulnerable in their life. It's when they need 24-7 care, when taking them even to a grocery store

00:31:38.460 is scary because you're worried about exposure to germs and them getting sick, let alone taking them

00:31:44.720 to an airport on a plane and coming across the country to make sure that you're able to vote and

00:31:50.560 represent your constituents. Yeah, yeah. So, okay. So, no, this is a no. Sorry, no. We cannot have our

00:31:58.460 elected representatives voting from home. They are constitutionally obligated to come and vote in

00:32:03.660 person. And that's what taxpayers deserve. We deserve to have representatives who show up to work. 0.86

00:32:09.160 They don't work that many days. They work like nine or 10 days a month. I think in the week of April,

00:32:15.620 they're going to be in Congress for like, yeah, nine or 10 days. So, yeah, you need to show up for

00:32:23.200 that. It's only nine or 10 days and we need you there, not on Zoom. We already have a huge problem

00:32:30.740 of a lack of accountability, a lack of transparency in government. This makes it worse. All of that

00:32:35.640 becomes worse if you have lawmakers like doing the business of Congress, not even in person. 0.99

00:32:41.900 And anyone who thinks that this would stop at mothers of newborns is just a fool. I mean, you let 0.98

00:32:48.360 them do this and within a couple of years at the latest, they're going to have all kinds of exceptions.

00:32:52.320 We all know that. All kinds of other life circumstances that would allow them to not come

00:32:57.380 to work in person. And I say hell no to that. Just absolutely hell no. There were some conservatives

00:33:05.420 kind of rallying around this, I think, because, you know, Representative Luna was involved, who's a

00:33:13.280 Republican. And it's like kind of mind boggling that you have conservatives rallying around the

00:33:20.420 notion that members of Congress, that the work obligations for members of Congress are too onerous

00:33:27.120 and we need to make it easier on them. Like what? What? Um, if you cannot juggle being a politician

00:33:37.620 and a mom, then stop being a politician. Prioritize your child, resign from your position 0.98

00:33:46.120 and let somebody else take over. You could do that. You should do that. It would be better for your child

00:33:51.940 to be better for the country. And, uh, this is what makes this story, I think, kind of relevant

00:33:57.200 on a cultural level beyond DC, because it's another example of the, of the feminist have my cake and eat 1.00

00:34:04.440 it to approach. They insist that women are superheroes who can do everything. They can be a mom and have a 1.00

00:34:10.620 full-time job and be politicians and leaders of nations and do all of that at the same time.

00:34:15.740 But pretty quickly, we find out that actually they can't do all of that.

00:34:21.100 They can't do everything and be everything. So they start demanding accommodations. And in many cases,

00:34:25.800 they demand that we upend rules and laws and customs and policies that have been in place for centuries.

00:34:32.280 All so that they don't have to choose between one thing or another. So these women want to be mothers. 1.00

00:34:41.020 They don't want to leave their children with babysitters, which of course is, I mean, that's,

00:34:46.140 that's always an option, but they don't want to do that. Um, they also want to be in Congress.

00:34:53.520 So they want to be mothers, don't want to use babysitters, but they do want to be in Congress.

00:35:00.320 They want all of that. Well, guess what? You can't have all of that. Okay. It's like people are

00:35:07.840 allowed to tell, you know, you can't just have it's well, but I want all of that. Well, but you

00:35:12.480 can't. Okay. Yeah. We would all like to have everything all the time, but you can't, you have

00:35:19.040 to choose. You have to make hard choices. That's part of leadership and their inability to make a

00:35:24.840 hard choice right now just proves all the more that they're not good leaders. This is leadership.

00:35:29.620 One-on-one is making hard choices, trade-offs. I know this is scandalous news to a feminist, 1.00

00:35:35.740 but you can't actually always have everything you want. You have to make choices. You have to

00:35:39.580 make hard choices, make a choice and stop trying to drag us into your indecision. You want to be in

00:35:45.160 Congress? Well, then you'll either have to forego having kids or you'll have to use childcare. 0.99

00:35:52.960 Um, you'll have to start hiring childcare. We know what you people get paid. We know that you work 0.96

00:35:57.160 part-time hours and you get paid and we know what you get paid. You get 180,000, 200,000,

00:36:02.680 whatever it is for part-time hours. So we know, so we know you can afford childcare. You can't claim

00:36:06.540 you can't. We know we're paying you. We know what your salary is. So, um, so if you want to be in

00:36:13.900 Congress, those are your options. You could have, you just not have kids or, uh, and I think it's

00:36:20.540 great to have kids, obviously as someone with six of them, or you can have childcare. Um, but if you

00:36:27.440 want to be a mother and not rely on childcare, well, then you can't be in Congress. There's a 1.00

00:36:34.100 million other things you can do. You just can't do that. Sorry. You just can't do that. But I want

00:36:38.760 to, well, I don't care what you want. You can't do that. There are, there are policies in place here.

00:36:44.340 What, see what the taxpayers want is more important than what you want. You can't be everything and do

00:36:52.580 everything. You have, you, you have to choose. And this is the kind of messaging that women hear all 0.99

00:36:57.360 the time. You hear people say this all the time. They say, well, women can have it all. Why should 0.95

00:37:01.420 they have to choose? Women can? No, you can't. Okay. Nobody can have it all. Not women, not men. 1.00

00:37:09.000 Life is about trade-offs. And it's just that you want everyone else to make the trade-offs. You want

00:37:15.080 everyone else to make the adjustments and the changes so that you don't have to. You want us,

00:37:20.120 the taxpayers to make the trade-off here. Okay. You want us to throw out, uh, what has been the

00:37:26.600 policy in this country since it's inception. You want us, so we have to sacrifice that so that you

00:37:32.840 don't have to sacrifice. No. Again, the fact that you're even demanding that proves that you are not

00:37:41.740 a leader fit to be in Congress. You can't have it all. You can't, you do need to choose. And, um,

00:37:51.920 and that's it. And I don't care if there are, the fact that there's a Republican representative

00:37:55.200 behind this doesn't mean that all of a sudden, oh, you're not, you're not loyal to the MAGA agenda.

00:38:00.020 If you don't, so we have to agree with everything. So, so if a politician comes along and shouts MAGA,

00:38:05.400 now we have to agree with everything they say about everything. Now we have to get on board with

00:38:09.760 this ridiculous idea that the work requirements for Congress members are too onerous, that it's

00:38:15.200 too much to ask them to show up to work for 10 days a month because they wear a MAGA hat. Give me a

00:38:21.760 break. Um, all right. Here's something else absurd. Ellie Mistles, the, uh, he's the overweight race 1.00

00:38:31.700 hustler who you probably don't know by name, but when you, when you see this guy, you'll think, 0.99

00:38:35.640 oh yeah, that freaking guy. So he has a new book out called bad law, which is apparently all about

00:38:40.800 the laws that he thinks are bad and, uh, that we should get rid of because he says that a lot of

00:38:46.120 laws are racist and misogynist. So we should just do away with them. But which laws exactly, which

00:38:51.820 law should we get rid of? Well, here he appeared on the view where, you know, is a great, great place

00:38:55.720 to have these kinds of, these kinds of legal conversations in depth, in depth legal analysis

00:39:00.640 this is what you turned to the view for. And he gave his answer there. Let's listen.

00:39:05.800 My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should

00:39:11.460 be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were

00:39:16.680 functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived here could vote here. So why should 0.99

00:39:21.260 I give a, about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s, like the Immigration and

00:39:27.340 Nationality Act? Um, okay. So I'm pretty sure he just said my premises for the book. Did he just say

00:39:36.640 that? Did I hear that right? Not my premise, but my premises. Anyway, this is an author, uh, illiterate.

00:39:44.820 No, no big deal. No reason why you can't write a book just because you're illiterate. So every law

00:39:49.300 before 1965 is presumptively unconstitutional, man, get rid of all of them, he says. This is

00:39:54.740 the nuanced in-depth analysis that you get from a guy who describes himself in his press release for

00:39:59.280 his book as a brilliant legal mind. This is the brilliant legal mind at work. Every law written

00:40:04.400 by old white guys should be abolished. They are presumptively unconstitutional. Well, maybe if 0.99

00:40:11.860 you're smarter than Ellie, which is to say, if you're smarter than a sofa cushion, you, uh, you, 1.00

00:40:19.020 who, you know, he has the intelligence of a sofa cushion, but also the physique of one.

00:40:24.560 Um, but if you're smarter than that, you may have already pinpointed one major issue here.

00:40:29.360 Calling them unconstitutional obviously assumes that the constitution itself is valid,

00:40:34.900 but the constitution was written long before 1965. And it was also written by white guys.

00:40:42.860 In fact, our system of government was invented by white guys. Democracy is an invention of white guys. 0.98

00:40:49.340 You know what else white guys did, Ellie? They passed the laws abolishing slavery. So

00:40:56.040 I've got some bad news, Ellie. If we're abolishing every law made by a white guy before 1965,

00:41:03.300 well, you just put slavery back on the menu, apparently. In fact, you've abolished every good

00:41:08.760 law that's ever been passed in this country. I mean, you know, and, and, and if you're rejecting

00:41:13.800 everything that white men did in general, then you're rejecting Western civilization itself, which

00:41:17.800 of course, someone like him, he'd probably say, well, yes, I do reject it. Um, but so what he's

00:41:24.460 actually rejecting is everything that gives his life, that makes his life enjoyable and meaningful

00:41:28.020 and free, you know, he's rejecting all of that. And look, I've given this speech a million times

00:41:32.780 and, um, I'm sure that I'll give it a million more times, but I'm not, I won't give it right now.

00:41:41.800 The whole, the whole speech about how white men deserve gratitude for being the driving force 0.99

00:41:46.320 behind basically all the best things about this country and Western civilization.

00:41:49.820 But this is the reason why I give the speech as often as I do, because I'm very tired of this

00:41:57.860 just casual disdain towards white men. There's no embarrassment. They're not embarrassed by,

00:42:04.520 there's no shame, no hesitation. You can just go on national TV and say, yeah, everything that white 0.94

00:42:09.340 men did, it was all crap. It was all terrible. You know, it was damn white men. And for a long time, 1.00

00:42:16.960 we have responded to this sort of thing defensively. Um, the response, if there is a response at all,

00:42:24.440 the response has been, Oh no, white men aren't that bad. Come on guys. But that's not good enough.

00:42:30.800 That response is not good enough. What we need to say is, Hey, you ungrateful brat. Why don't you say 0.99

00:42:37.220 thank you? Why don't you say thank you to the white men who gave you this country? How about that? 0.62

00:42:42.660 Okay. No, that's what I want to hear out of you is thank you. Um, I think that needs to be the

00:42:49.660 response. All right. Well, let's touch on this briefly. We've, we've dealt with a lot of,

00:42:55.160 dealt with a lot of fake news on this show, but, but sometimes the fake news is so fake that you

00:43:00.020 have to stop and almost admire it. And that's how I felt about this headline from CBS news.

00:43:05.020 The headline says one out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting according

00:43:11.240 to university of Colorado study. Now it's a shocking statistic, isn't it? One out of every 15

00:43:17.260 adults in this country have been at a mass shooting. That's about 7%. There are something

00:43:25.300 like 260 million adults across the country. So do the math. That means that around 20 million adults

00:43:29.980 have 18 to 20 million adults have been at a mass shooting. Now, what does that mean? What does

00:43:37.900 been at me mean? It's like an odd way of phrasing it. Been at a mass shooting. It's like, it's like,

00:43:46.320 hey, ever been at a mass shooting? Um, it's just a weird way of putting it. Does that include people

00:43:53.000 who've been at the site of a mass shooting after the fact? Are we including everybody in the city or state

00:43:59.880 where a mass shooting occurred? Is that how we're getting to these numbers? Well, we can find out if

00:44:05.360 we skip the CBS article, we just go right to the study itself. We see that the respondents in this

00:44:09.720 survey, 10,000 respondents, uh, I think the respondents were asked if they were physically

00:44:15.040 present on the scene of a mass shooting. And it was clarified that physically present means you were

00:44:20.420 in the immediate vicinity of where the shooting occurred while it was occurring such that the bullets

00:44:26.620 were flying in your direction or you could see the shooter or you could hear the gunfire. That's how

00:44:31.160 it's all defined. So yes, this study is claiming that 20 million Americans were actually there at a

00:44:38.420 mass shooting while the bullets were flying, which is insane. Obviously this is totally insane. Okay.

00:44:46.180 Unless they were polling only the residents of downtown Chicago, uh, then these results are totally

00:44:52.460 bogus. And this is why I don't trust studies. Studies are a fake science. If you can use a

00:44:58.160 supposedly scientific method to achieve any preordained result that you have in your mind,

00:45:03.500 then it's fake. It's a fake method. So how do they get these results? Well, I don't know.

00:45:10.360 I mean, it doesn't really matter. Maybe they rigged the sample size. Maybe they only polled people in high

00:45:15.940 crime areas. Maybe they're, maybe people are just liars. Maybe the, maybe the real headline is that 20

00:45:20.600 million Americans are unrepentant liars. I don't know. Who knows? What I do know is that mass

00:45:25.960 shootings are not nearly so common or so widespread that, that, that, uh, that 20 million adults in

00:45:32.620 this country have been physically present for one. Now, if you told me that 20 million adults have

00:45:38.980 been present for a mass shooting and 19 and a half million of them live in the inner city, maybe I'd

00:45:43.860 believe that. If you grow up in the inner city and live there for years, your chances of at least

00:45:48.800 being in the vicinity for a shooting where four or more people are injured or killed seems relatively

00:45:55.100 high, probably, probably still not high enough to get to those kinds of numbers. But, um, if that was

00:46:00.860 the claim, it'd be a little bit more credible. That's not the claim though. They're trying to claim that

00:46:05.740 this is a widespread national problem so that if you get a hundred random people in a room, it's likely

00:46:13.220 that seven or eight of them have been at a mass shooting. That's the claim. And, um, I just don't

00:46:21.540 believe it. And, and academia has tried to make us susceptible to this kind of ridiculous propaganda 0.93

00:46:27.060 by convincing us that we cannot trust our intuitions. We cannot trust our common sense.

00:46:33.280 There's been one campaign after another where our supposed intellectual betters say, yeah, well,

00:46:38.380 you think this doesn't make any sense, but that's because you're uneducated. You can't trust your

00:46:43.140 common sense. They did that, did that with COVID. They did that with the vaccine. They did that with

00:46:47.460 all the trans stuff and on and on and on. The goal is to break us down to the point where we don't trust 1.00

00:46:52.880 our gut level instincts. They want to get us to the point where basically we don't have gut level

00:46:58.600 instincts anymore, where we are these little baby birds with our mouths open, ready to guzzle down

00:47:04.660 whatever they regurgitate unthinkingly. And so that's where you get this game where they make

00:47:09.300 some kind of outlandish claim. And then you say, you know, I don't know. That doesn't really make

00:47:12.500 sense to me. And they say, oh yeah, well, here's a study that says that it's true. This is science.

00:47:18.640 Stop questioning science, you science denier. And you're supposed to throw your hands up and say,

00:47:24.900 okay, well, if the studies say that, then I believe you. But we need to get to a point. I think many of us

00:47:31.020 are already at this point where we say, I don't give a damn what your study says. Okay. That's

00:47:35.960 nonsense. I know nonsense when I hear it. And that's nonsense. Oh, well, have you looked into

00:47:42.360 the methodology of the study? No, I haven't. I just know that's not true. I know 20 million

00:47:47.820 Americans are, have not been present at a mass shooting. I just know that's not true. I don't

00:47:52.020 need to look into it. I don't need to find some other study that prove it. I just know it's not true.

00:47:56.520 It's nonsense. I just know that because I have common sense. And, uh, and, you know, that's,

00:48:06.380 that really is the only response to this kind of, uh, this kind of nonsense. Let's get to the daily

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00:49:49.300 lately that Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028. He's got a podcast where he talks to

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00:49:57.660 positions. He's also one of the few Democrats who's capable of speaking coherently in public,

00:50:01.560 which immediately vaults him to the status of a presidential contender. Even if he let entire

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00:50:09.740 That's how thin the bench is. But while the bench may be thin, it's not entirely empty,

00:50:14.460 as it turns out. Beginning on Monday night, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey decided to announce in his

00:50:19.740 own very theatrical and flamboyant way that he plans to run for president in 2028. But unlike Newsom,

00:50:25.460 Cory Booker didn't make this de facto announcement with a podcast. Instead, he decided to turn the Senate

00:50:30.760 floor into his own podcast by launching into a filibuster. Now, as you probably know, the filibuster

00:50:37.020 is a tactic that involves speaking for a very long time in order to delay or prevent some kind of

00:50:42.380 action in the Senate. A decade ago, Rand Paul spoke for 13 hours to block a vote on CIA Director John

00:50:48.260 Brennan. Huey Long filibustered for 15 hours to protest legislation from the New Deal, read a bunch of plays

00:50:55.060 by Shakespeare as well as oyster recipes to pass the time. Back in the 50s, Strom Thurmond filibuster

00:51:00.220 for 24 hours in an attempt to block the Civil Rights Act. In all of these cases, there is a point 0.60

00:51:04.880 to the filibuster. There's an objective. At no point in the history of this country has anyone imagined

00:51:12.300 that a Senate senator would engage in a filibuster for no reason at all. But that's exactly what Cory

00:51:18.700 Booker just did. Beginning on Monday night around 7 p.m., Booker announced that he intended to

00:51:23.040 disrupt the business of the Senate without explaining why. He just rattled off a bunch of

00:51:28.200 complaints, none of which had anything to do with any legislation before the Senate. There was no

00:51:32.760 clear message or theme to any of it. So here's just a few clips from his filibuster extending from

00:51:38.300 7 p.m. to around 4 a.m. on Tuesday. Listen.

00:51:42.880 I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long

00:51:49.220 as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.

00:51:56.700 We are not solving the deficit in what they're proposing here. They're cutting and cutting and

00:52:01.800 cutting things that make no sense to cut. And they're doing it for a tax breaks which disproportionately

00:52:11.380 go to the wealthiest. Placing tariffs on our biggest trade partners is beyond unfair. This drives the

00:52:16.900 cost of goods up and the consumer is the one who ends up paying the increase. Even with universities

00:52:23.260 got too woke and had too excesses, the antidote to that isn't to try to shut down the thought of the

00:52:30.380 left. It's to try to make a fair, more competitive marketplace for ideas from all around the political

00:52:35.920 spectrum. Now, one of the problems here is that just a few years ago, Cory Booker wrote on Twitter,

00:52:42.820 quote, the filibuster has been abused to stop reform supported by the vast majority of Americans from

00:52:46.680 background checks to protecting the right to vote. We must stop this abuse of power. That was back

00:52:51.020 when Democrats had control of the Senate. They wanted to pass a federal law requiring that mail-in

00:52:55.100 ballots become a permanent nationwide feature of our elections. In other words, they wanted to make

00:52:59.140 voter fraud easier and the filibuster stood in their way. But now the filibuster is good again.

00:53:02.880 And we're not just talking about a procedural filibuster here. This is the real deal. The

00:53:07.380 talk until you can't kind of filibuster. Only there's no point to this one. He's not blocking

00:53:12.860 a law on mail-in ballots or anything else. There's no law or anything he's trying to block. He's just

00:53:19.360 talking. So there's not a whole lot to be gained from watching this particular filibuster. Even if for

00:53:24.780 some reason you're interested in seeing a random politician speak for 24 hours so that you can

00:53:29.700 observe his physical and mental decline in service of some kind of morbid fascination or whatever,

00:53:35.140 then you probably still won't be satisfied with this footage. That's because Booker, as we all know,

00:53:39.520 is the classic theater kid turned politician. His goal is to seek the spotlight, which means that

00:53:44.540 any anguish he demonstrates is probably fake. He did the same thing during the Kavanaugh hearings when

00:53:49.340 he supposedly risked expulsion from the Senate with his little Spartacus moment. Nothing about him is

00:53:54.500 genuine. But just for the record, here's how Cory Booker was acting early Tuesday afternoon, around

00:53:59.540 17 hours into the filibuster. He's either losing it a little bit or he's doing his best impression of

00:54:04.580 the drifter at your local gas station. You decide. To call to the conscience of this nation to say I

00:54:12.940 will not stand for another American to lose their health care for a billionaire. I will not stand for

00:54:18.200 another veteran who's dedicated to stopping the suicide of other veterans to lose their job. I won't stand

00:54:23.880 for the air quality in my community to make worse because we're letting polluters pollute more.

00:54:29.120 I won't stand for the collective assaults on the Constitution by a man who even the highest judge

00:54:35.900 in our land, a Republican-appointed judge, said stop threatening and bullying other branches of

00:54:43.720 government. When is it going to be enough? My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate

00:54:50.800 to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful. We are strong. We have changed

00:54:59.420 history. We have bent the arc of the moral universe. And now is that moral moment again. It's the moral

00:55:04.840 moment again. God bless America. We need you now. God bless America. If you love her, but I'm begging

00:55:15.320 people, don't let this be another normal day in America. Please, God, please, God, don't let them

00:55:21.500 take Medicaid away. Well, mission accomplished there. It's definitely not a normal day in America.

00:55:28.060 The question is, why isn't it a normal day? What exactly is Cory Booker doing? Why is he doing it?

00:55:34.140 What is he trying to achieve? I went looking through the accounts of various Democrats and Democrat-aligned

00:55:38.820 politicians, and I still have no idea how to answer this question. For example, DNC Vice Chair David Hogg wrote,

00:55:44.780 quote, Cory Booker is a legend. The official account of the Democratic Party posted, quote,

00:55:49.600 thank you, Senator Booker, for standing up for the American people. Meanwhile, Senator Lisa Murkowski

00:55:54.200 wrote, quote, whether you agree with him or not, the past 24-plus hours was what most people think

00:55:58.880 a filibuster actually looks like. Congratulations to Senator Booker for his historic feat while staying

00:56:04.100 on his feet. Now, at no point do any of these people tell us what he's filibustering or why he's

00:56:10.220 doing it. Even Booker himself refused to explain what exactly is going on here, what he

00:56:14.600 hoped to achieve. Booker wrote, quote, I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again

00:56:19.800 and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent. We must speak

00:56:23.860 up. What's most clear to me tonight is that this is just the beginning, that Americans across this

00:56:27.620 country, no matter their title or party, are ready to be heard. I believe that history will show

00:56:31.680 we rose to meet at this moment. It will show what we did not let the chaos and division go

00:56:37.080 unanswered. It will show that when our president chose to spread lies and so fear, we chose to come

00:56:41.800 together, to work together, and to rise together. Close quote. Okay, but still not answering the

00:56:47.360 question. You're filibustering something. So you're filibustering what? On the Senate floor,

00:56:57.240 the Democrats' leader, Chuck Schumer, led a round of applause for Booker. He said everybody was proud

00:57:02.040 of him, but again, he didn't explain why. Watch. Would the senator yield for a question?

00:57:08.360 Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no.

00:57:13.400 I just want to tell you a question. Do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud

00:57:19.780 this caucus is of you? Do you know how proud America is of you?

00:57:34.500 Now, just to add to the surreal humor of the situation, while the applause was ringing out

00:57:39.340 in the Senate to recognize Cory Booker's filibuster of absolutely nothing, one of Booker's staffers was

00:57:44.080 being arrested because of a crime that Booker himself facilitated. Apparently, the staffer is

00:57:48.700 one of Booker's bodyguards, and as Fox News reports, quote, a congressional staffer for

00:57:52.480 Senator Booker was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license after being escorted into the

00:57:56.220 U.S. Capitol by a member of Congress and allowed to bypass security by the New Jersey Democrat himself.

00:58:01.740 Booker led the aid around the U.S. Capitol Police Security Checkpoint on Monday night,

00:58:06.340 later resulting in the arrest. Capital police officers are required to check aides and others

00:58:10.320 at checkpoints, regardless if they're with a member of Congress or not. Close quote.

00:58:13.620 So, why did Booker sneak this guy in, and why was the staffer slinking around the Capitol

00:58:19.720 building with a gun while he wasted everybody's time? Nobody knows. At the moment, all we know is

00:58:24.900 that none of this seemed to bother Democrats in the Senate. For once, they didn't pretend to care

00:58:29.340 about gun crime. Instead, as Booker spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, they assisted his

00:58:34.500 filibuster by asking him fake questions to pad the time, and then when Booker finally gave up,

00:58:39.280 they all applauded. Watch.

00:58:42.760 The ideals that others are threatening, let's get back to our founding documents,

00:58:46.640 that those imperfect geniuses had some very special words at the end of the Declaration

00:58:50.760 of Independence. It was one of the greatest in all of humanity declarations of interdependence.

00:58:56.740 When our founders said we must mutually pledge, pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes,

00:59:03.660 and our sacred honor. We need that now, from all Americans. This is a moral moment. It's not left

00:59:11.740 or right, it's right or wrong. It's getting good trouble. My friend, Madam President,

00:59:21.400 I yield the floor.

00:59:39.180 Theatrical performative, as always, from Cory Booker. He never disappoints in that regard.

00:59:44.400 You always get a performance out of this guy. And to recap, so far this week, Cory Booker rambled

00:59:51.200 for more than 24 hours about nothing in particular. He didn't accomplish anything in that period,

00:59:55.700 except for helping a staffer commit a crime. And now, after these monumental achievements,

00:59:59.860 all of Cory Booker's colleagues are celebrating him as a hero. You will not find a better

01:00:04.620 encapsulation of the modern Democrat Party than this. I mean, it's perfect right down to the fact

01:00:09.500 that the stunt took place on April Fool's Day. Democrats in Congress have a national approval rating

01:00:14.160 of around 20%, and they're spending their time talking about nothing for no reason at all,

01:00:19.480 while they're aiding and abetting criminal activity. The good news for Democrats is that

01:00:24.200 Cory Booker has finally stopped talking. The bad news for them is that everyone has a chance to

01:00:29.660 listen to what he had to say, or more accurately, what he didn't have to say. Democrats have no ideas,

01:00:34.680 no substance, no coherence. They can only utter complete nonsense for the sake of it, as Cory Booker

01:00:39.600 has so clearly demonstrated for the entire world. And that is why Cory Booker and the leadership of the

01:00:45.660 Democrat Party that has embraced his degrading and pointless filibuster are today canceled.

01:00:51.820 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

01:00:54.140 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 02, 2025

Ep. 1567 - Why I Went To Speak In Front Of The California Assembly Yesterday

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