The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1593 - Disturbing Investigation Into Planned Parenthood Reveals SHOCKING New Details

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a new investigation reveals that Planned Parenthood is shipping gender transition drugs to children across the country.

00:00:06.660 This raises an important question, among others, why exactly are we funding these people?

00:00:12.140 And of course then, the major news, a new pope.

00:00:14.200 What do I think of the pope?

00:00:15.480 What is my analysis of his papacy, which has lasted for about 18 hours so far?

00:00:19.160 We'll talk about that.

00:00:19.940 And yet another parent has been criminally charged for violence committed by their children.

00:00:23.860 This seems to be happening more and more, but there's a certain pattern with these prosecutions that we need to discuss.

00:00:29.080 We'll talk about all that.

00:00:30.000 And more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:31.200 We'll be right back.

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00:02:08.000 We've spent a lot of time on this show discussing psychiatric drugs like SSRIs, and the problem with these drugs is that they're incredibly potent, potentially dangerous, and they affect the mind in ways that the doctors prescribing them don't fully understand.

00:02:21.620 And all these problems are compounded by the fact that they are increasingly easy to obtain.

00:02:26.420 In fact, as the problems with psychiatric medications become more evident, the barriers to access those drugs only become lower.

00:02:33.300 You know, it seems that, you know, things should be working the opposite way, but that's not how it goes.

00:02:38.900 And if you want to get a highly potent, dangerous, mind-altering drug these days, you can get it.

00:02:45.520 In fact, you probably don't even have to leave your house to get it.

00:02:47.360 You can get it mailed to you.

00:02:48.720 And this trend is becoming more and more common with an ever-increasing array of drugs.

00:02:53.180 They are very easy to get.

00:02:55.060 There's very little oversight.

00:02:56.640 And you don't have to leave your house to obtain them.

00:02:58.740 This is a major problem.

00:03:00.120 It will require all kinds of legislation to fix.

00:03:02.000 But there are some steps we can and must take immediately to address this problem, address the problem of fraudulent life-altering drugs being handed out in large quantities to young people in particular, basically on demand.

00:03:13.640 One of those steps is to defund some of the largest distributors of these life-altering drugs, which is something that should have happened a long time ago, of course.

00:03:22.460 If we can't ban these people from operating outright, then at the very least, we should stop giving them money and we should stop giving them tax breaks.

00:03:29.820 What's happening is a genuine crisis, and it's not limited to SSRIs. 0.87

00:03:35.300 They extend to a whole host of other drugs as well.

00:03:37.860 And a new investigation by Live Action, the pro-life nonprofit, has just brought renewed urgency to this crisis and how completely out of control the problem really is.

00:03:46.760 What I'm about to play is part of an undercover investigation by Live Action where they contacted various Planned Parenthood locations posing as a 16-year-old girl.

00:03:54.580 And in these conversations, Live Action's 16-year-old girl requests, quote-unquote, gender-affirming care, including cross-sex hormones.

00:04:02.540 And Planned Parenthood responds by saying that this is completely fine.

00:04:05.600 They say that they'll do it virtually over, you know, Zoom or something like that.

00:04:09.600 And then they suggest that if the girl goes to a clinic in person, she does not need to be accompanied by her mother in the examination room.

00:04:17.440 Watch.

00:04:17.680 Thank you for calling Planned Parenthood.

00:04:20.500 Thank you for choosing Planned Parenthood, Greater New York.

00:04:23.440 Thank you for calling Planned Parenthood, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.

00:04:27.540 Hello, good afternoon.

00:04:28.840 Thank you for calling Planned Parenthood.

00:04:30.700 Hi, my name's Sophia.

00:04:32.220 I'm just trying to schedule some gender-affirming care.

00:04:36.060 I really just want to be able to get some testosterone to start my journey.

00:04:39.600 So we just have to start by booking your initial appointment so you can come in to see one of our providers.

00:04:45.600 Are you over a case?

00:04:47.020 No, I'm 16.

00:04:49.160 You're good to be seen here then.

00:04:50.960 16 and older.

00:04:52.380 Okay, good.

00:04:53.200 You're okay to do it for minors?

00:04:54.860 Yes, you can legally get hormones under 18.

00:04:58.580 How old are you?

00:04:59.780 16.

00:05:00.580 I know my mom has to come in with me. 0.88

00:05:02.500 Does she have to be in there the whole time? 0.99

00:05:05.140 Like, how does that work?

00:05:06.260 Because I don't know if I'm comfortable with that.

00:05:08.140 At some point in the appointment, maybe she doesn't have to be in the edamining room with you.

00:05:13.560 You said I could do it virtually?

00:05:14.820 Yeah, you could do it virtually.

00:05:16.560 So what would that look like?

00:05:18.180 So I'd just talk to a doctor and then they'd be able to prescribe me?

00:05:23.240 Yes.

00:05:23.720 If it's virtual, you'll still meet with the doctor and then go over all necessary information.

00:05:30.980 At the end, they will then be prescribing hormones that would then be scripted out to your local pharmacy.

00:05:36.960 I don't need any, like, therapy or anything first.

00:05:39.740 Like, you don't need any record of that?

00:05:41.940 Not that I know of.

00:05:43.300 I don't need any sort of, like, records of having gone to therapy or anything like that, right?

00:05:47.440 Yeah.

00:05:47.780 So unless you have TRICARE insurance, it would not be required.

00:05:51.200 Now, this footage is part of an extensive investigation by Live Action into Planned Parenthood.

00:05:57.220 And the full report was just released this week.

00:06:00.040 To put things in context, Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion mill in the country.

00:06:03.560 They commit roughly 40% of the abortions in this country all by themselves.

00:06:07.380 And they receive something like $700 million from taxpayers every single year.

00:06:12.960 So what exactly is that money buying, aside from abortions and irreversible drugs for children?

00:06:19.760 Well, according to Live Action, citing various investigations, it's allowing Planned Parenthood to traffic in human body parts,

00:06:25.000 commit all kinds of health code and privacy violations, engage in anti-white racism at all levels of the operation.

00:06:31.940 And I'm not going to go through the entire report now.

00:06:33.680 It's online if you want to view it, and you should.

00:06:35.400 But I will highlight this one particular section.

00:06:40.200 Quote, at least 40,000 patients went to Planned Parenthood for gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, in 2023 alone,

00:06:46.940 a number that has risen tenfold since 2017.

00:06:50.720 The largest proportion, about 40%, were 18 to 22-year-olds.

00:06:55.300 According to Live Action, 45 out of Planned Parenthood's 49 affiliated facilities provide this so-called care.

00:07:01.720 And Planned Parenthood is now the second largest provider of so-called gender-affirming hormones in the entire country.

00:07:08.860 The report continues, Planned Parenthood targets minors for gender-affirming care by disseminating pro-transgender ideology online and in schools.

00:07:16.220 It's also stated that it would like to expand its gender-affirming care to a greater number of minors.

00:07:20.780 The report cites a video from Planned Parenthood in which the organization claims that puberty blockers are, quote,

00:07:27.700 like a stop sign that pauses puberty without any potential side effects, which is completely false.

00:07:34.680 Planned Parenthood also provides sex education materials to elementary schools, according to this report,

00:07:38.880 including, quote, information about puberty blockers and graphics of pubic hair art.

00:07:43.840 Now, in some cases, Live Action notes that Planned Parenthood was caught referring a 14-year-old undercover actor to gender-affirming treatments at another organization

00:07:54.200 so that he could hide his so-called transition from his parents.

00:07:58.600 And it goes on and on.

00:07:59.600 Every page of this report is extremely difficult to read, and it's all very damning.

00:08:04.520 Even if you put all the baby murder to the side, which you can't because that's still obviously the most evil thing this organization does or any organization does on the planet.

00:08:15.500 But even if you did somehow forget about that, Planned Parenthood still remains one of the most evil organizations in the country.

00:08:21.940 Their explicit goal is to permanently alter the lives of young people with surgeries and hormones long before they're able to consent to anything like that.

00:08:30.220 And as the report outlines, half the time, they don't even follow their own protocols as limited as those protocols already are.

00:08:37.200 Now, what's left unanswered in all of this is why Planned Parenthood still receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

00:08:47.980 Republicans, as you may know, control Congress and the White House.

00:08:53.320 So why the hell are we still sending all this money to these butchers? 0.73

00:08:57.480 To be clear, as Live Action's report outlines, you probably don't even need legislation to stop this funding.

00:09:03.700 There are dozens of violations listed in this report which document Planned Parenthood's issues with patient privacy, fraud, trafficking of fetal remains, and so on.

00:09:12.020 All of these problems by themselves are grounds for an executive order shutting down the funding immediately.

00:09:17.920 But that hasn't happened yet, and Congress hasn't done anything either.

00:09:23.500 Nor have they done anything about the mass prescription of SSRIs.

00:09:26.520 Now, to be clear, Planned Parenthood should be forcibly shut down by law.

00:09:33.300 I mean, the entire organization should just be, the whole organization should be banned, and all of its executives and employees at every level of the company should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

00:09:42.920 There should be a Nuremberg for Planned Parenthood executives, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon, unfortunately.

00:09:50.920 There are a lot of things that should happen but won't, and this is probably number one on that list.

00:09:55.660 So what I'm saying is that defunding them is the bare minimum.

00:10:00.060 I mean, it's not even close to the full extent of what should be done to shut down these butchers and child abusers and bring them to justice.

00:10:06.960 It's just the most meager first step.

00:10:10.880 It's the step where we at least stop forcing Americans to fund these psychopaths, and yet we haven't even done that.

00:10:19.940 Republicans control the federal government, and yet somehow we are still sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood.

00:10:28.320 Why?

00:10:30.020 What is the reason?

00:10:31.600 I mean, what would be the negative consequence of defunding Planned Parenthood?

00:10:38.040 The left will be mad?

00:10:40.200 The media will complain?

00:10:42.900 What the activists will scream and sing protest songs in the street?

00:10:48.040 Now, that last bit is pretty painful, I admit, but is any of that enough to override the great moral necessity of defunding an organization that kills and castrates children?

00:10:59.660 Obviously not.

00:11:03.920 Especially because the protesters will be shrieking and screaming anyway.

00:11:07.960 The media will complain regardless.

00:11:11.000 The left will be mad no matter what.

00:11:14.380 They're going to cry no matter what.

00:11:16.300 We might as well give them something real to cry about.

00:11:19.980 Now, that's not to say that Republicans in Congress haven't done anything at all.

00:11:23.760 They're technically still showing up to work.

00:11:26.480 Later in the show, we'll talk about what they accomplished this week, though, spoiler alert, it's not exactly groundbreaking stuff, although it is good.

00:11:36.200 But it's well past time for elected Republican representatives, along with the White House, to take decisive action on the ghouls and butchers who call themselves health care providers. 0.68

00:11:45.820 You know, last time Republicans controlled the entire government, nothing was done about Planned Parenthood funding.

00:11:53.040 We just kept funding them.

00:11:54.380 And that cannot happen again.

00:11:56.620 It just cannot.

00:11:57.740 If we can defund NPR, and the White House says we can, then we can defund these abortionists, too.

00:12:07.420 And we can stop corporations from distributing psychoactive drugs like they're candy while we're at it.

00:12:13.740 After all, this is what we voted for.

00:12:17.740 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:19.080 We'll see you next time.

00:12:49.080 We'll see you next time.

00:13:19.080 Okay, let's talk about the major historic news yesterday, which is that, of course, a new pope was elected.

00:13:49.360 Robert Francis Prevost, who will now be Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope.

00:13:55.680 As you've heard, he's from Chicago.

00:13:58.760 What do I think of this pope?

00:14:00.900 What is my analysis?

00:14:02.100 Well, you know, he's been pope for precisely one day, so it's a little hard to assess his papacy at this juncture.

00:14:18.840 And I will say that it's been very strange to be on social media, especially on X, over the past 24 hours as a Catholic, because this is the first time that a pope has been chosen.

00:14:32.220 And then immediately people start combing through the pope's old tweets.

00:14:35.880 It's weird. It's a strange thing.

00:14:39.540 And I get that if you're not a Catholic, it doesn't seem strange to you because you see the pope as essentially a political figure because you're viewing it from the outside.

00:14:51.600 But as a believing Catholic, you know, that's not how we see it.

00:14:57.580 And so it's just a strange thing.

00:15:00.420 It's a strange thing to see.

00:15:02.240 I mean, this is the pope.

00:15:03.740 And we're doing the screenshots of the old tweets.

00:15:06.660 And, you know, because people are many people are treating the selection of a pope as if he's as if he'd just been nominated to be a cabinet secretary or something.

00:15:17.880 And it's, as I said, sort of a strange thing to say to see.

00:15:22.500 Now, as for his old tweets, and you've probably seen some of them, there are some red flags there.

00:15:29.600 I mean, there's some cause for concern.

00:15:31.480 And he's taken moderate or left-leaning stances on things like immigration, things like climate change.

00:15:38.300 He was critical of J.D. Vance, which is very unfortunate.

00:15:41.480 He's been critical of Trump's immigration policies, along with amplifying other people who've criticized him, retweeting.

00:15:52.220 So people are going through and finding the pope's retweets.

00:15:56.820 Now, so that's all.

00:15:58.540 Those are red flags.

00:15:59.340 There's no way around it.

00:16:00.300 I mean, that's that's cause for concern.

00:16:04.120 Now, on the other hand, he's a registered Republican.

00:16:06.800 He was an active Republican primary voter.

00:16:09.940 Which is also a weird thing to say about a pope.

00:16:12.140 You know, it's strange to say that, that the pope, the pope is a Republican voter is is strange.

00:16:20.300 Better than the alternative, of course, much rather that than he was a Democrat voter.

00:16:24.460 But but so that's that's on the positive end of things.

00:16:30.100 He's on the record taking very conservative traditional stances on marriage, on the family, on abortion.

00:16:38.360 And that's all good.

00:16:39.600 The name he took, Leo XIV, is a good sign.

00:16:43.240 Leo XIII is a great pope.

00:16:44.360 Some people have pointed out that this pope wore the traditional papal vestments when he first came out to address the crowd, which Francis did not.

00:16:53.220 So that's a signal.

00:16:55.760 That's a nod towards tradition, which is also good.

00:16:58.120 And that's, again, a lot of what you're seeing in the pope analysis is it's why a lot of it is like cross purposes, because, again, if you're not I'm not saying that if you're not Catholic, you shouldn't talk about it.

00:17:09.720 Or, of course, everyone, it's a it's a it's a major world event.

00:17:14.440 And also as a Catholic, I'm proud of that.

00:17:16.560 I'm proud of the fact that I'm part of the Catholic Church.

00:17:20.140 And when we get a new leader, it's a it's a it's a fact that matters to everybody.

00:17:25.720 I think that's great.

00:17:26.760 Right. So I have no objection to people outside the church offering their analysis, but you're just looking at it from a very different lens.

00:17:35.740 And so we end up talking sometimes at cross purposes.

00:17:39.180 And and so.

00:17:41.980 If you're not a Catholic and somebody were to say that, hey, yeah, here are some some red flags, but here's a good sign. 1.00

00:17:49.720 He wore the the vestments. 0.97

00:17:52.440 If you're not a Catholic, that might seem totally silly to you.

00:17:55.440 Like, really, what does that have to do with anything?

00:17:57.660 He just was so it's like what the red he wore some red on his on his on his robe instead of the all white robe.

00:18:05.280 So why does that matter?

00:18:07.500 But from a from a Catholic perspective, as a believing Catholic.

00:18:10.620 You know, you see this as respect for church tradition.

00:18:20.080 Which is very important in and of itself.

00:18:23.800 And also it's important because of what it potentially signals and symbolizes.

00:18:29.520 And especially coming from the previous pope who notoriously, infamously did not have the same level of respect for church tradition.

00:18:42.160 And that's probably putting it mildly.

00:18:43.720 So I see kind of a mixed bag, although.

00:18:48.560 This pope in that mixed bag appears to be conservative in the most important areas for a pope to be conservative.

00:18:56.720 And this is another thing that I think some people don't quite understand.

00:19:01.220 You know.

00:19:01.580 There are a lot of things that the Twitter commentary doesn't quite understand about the pope.

00:19:06.400 And this is one of them.

00:19:07.620 Immigration is an extremely important issue.

00:19:10.220 Of course.

00:19:11.160 I talk about it all the time.

00:19:13.100 But for a pope.

00:19:15.580 It's more important that he gets the issues of life, marriage and sexual morality right.

00:19:21.820 Because those issues are more fundamental, first of all.

00:19:28.680 They are more morally fundamental.

00:19:31.980 And also as a pope, he's leading the universal church.

00:19:35.900 He's not leading just the American church.

00:19:38.300 He's leading the universal church.

00:19:41.000 And so American sovereignty is incredibly, deeply important.

00:19:46.060 But it's not a universal issue in the same sense that the institution of the family.

00:19:50.880 The institution of the family is universal in the sense that it's important across the entire globe and for all time.

00:19:59.480 The institution of the family existed since the beginning of humanity before the United States of America existed.

00:20:09.740 And it will outlast this country because all countries in the end are temporal.

00:20:17.460 So it's more important to get that right as a pope.

00:20:20.880 Like, so for me, when I'm looking at a new pope, the first thing I'm checking is where is he on those issues?

00:20:29.180 That's the most important thing.

00:20:31.400 And then these other things can be important, but they're secondary.

00:20:33.520 Now, look, I think it would be great if the pope was a right-wing nationalist like me.

00:20:41.860 But I never had any expectation that that would be the case.

00:20:46.620 I'm not surprised that it isn't.

00:20:49.120 And it would be different if he was the president.

00:20:55.780 You know, if he was elected president of the United States, then his stance on American sovereignty would be of much greater importance.

00:21:05.080 Which isn't to say that it's of no importance for the pope, but we have to see these things in a certain perspective.

00:21:11.680 Now, that said, you know, the pope supporting or calling for mass migration, the invasion of the third world into the first world, you know, the third world invasion in first world countries.

00:21:24.040 If the pope calls for that or supports it, that's a huge problem.

00:21:28.100 That's deeply damaging.

00:21:29.240 And if this pope does that, if he does it as pope, then I will oppose it.

00:21:36.220 I will come out against it, just like I did with Francis.

00:21:39.780 And that's my whole point here.

00:21:41.180 If this pope does things as pope that I personally think are objectionable or harmful or wrong, I'll say so.

00:21:47.740 My track record on that is very clear.

00:21:50.520 But I also want to give him a chance, and I think that's reasonable.

00:21:53.440 So, you know, if eight months from now, Pope Leo XIV comes out and condemns American immigration policy and declares that we have a moral duty to accept an unchecked flood of third world immigrants. 1.00

00:22:11.740 And if that were to happen, you don't have to come back to me and say, see, Matt, I told you so.

00:22:19.480 You were wrong.

00:22:21.020 I'm not saying that won't happen.

00:22:22.560 I'm saying I want to see what happens.

00:22:25.820 I'm saying I hope it doesn't happen.

00:22:28.440 And I'm saying I don't want to condemn the pope's papacy ahead of time.

00:22:33.620 I don't want to condemn his tenure as pope ahead of time.

00:22:37.080 So you can call that cope or whatever.

00:22:39.220 You know, I don't care.

00:22:40.420 I think it's just obviously the most reasonable stance to take.

00:22:45.000 And it's a more charitable stance.

00:22:48.300 And, yeah, as a Catholic, I want to take a charitable stance towards the pope.

00:22:51.560 You got me guilt guilty as charged.

00:22:54.280 And I'm also not suggesting that this pope will miraculously become based on, you know, issues like immigration and climate change.

00:23:05.780 That could happen.

00:23:06.820 I don't think it will.

00:23:10.080 I think the more likely positive outcome is that what I'm hoping for, what I think is plausible, though I don't know how likely,

00:23:19.040 is that for this pope, issues like immigration and climate change are just not a major focus of his papacy.

00:23:30.040 They were a major focus for Francis.

00:23:32.940 My hope is that they're just not a focus.

00:23:37.300 He doesn't spend a lot of time on them.

00:23:38.940 And instead he focuses on moral and spiritual matters, on the fundamental moral and spiritual matters.

00:23:45.380 That's what I'm hoping for.

00:23:46.900 Am I predicting that?

00:23:48.560 No.

00:23:50.200 I'm not.

00:23:50.920 I'm hoping for it.

00:23:52.620 I'm praying for it.

00:23:53.380 One other point, you know, as others have pointed out, and I think it is important to keep this in mind,

00:24:00.480 is that I know that Knowles has hammered this point, that the modern American political paradigm

00:24:07.040 cannot be so easily or cleanly grafted onto the papacy.

00:24:12.360 It cannot be so neatly applied to a 2,000-year-old institution.

00:24:18.040 So when someone says that the pope is woke or liberal, that label only goes so far.

00:24:24.640 I mean, even for Francis, who I criticized a fair amount.

00:24:28.460 But even then, it only went so far.

00:24:31.840 So for instance, this pope, just like Francis, appears to be stringently opposed to abortion.

00:24:39.740 Transgenderism has spoken out against transgenderism and spoken out against gay marriage.

00:24:46.740 And it's pretty incoherent, right, by our political standards, to call somebody woke when they have those positions.

00:24:57.740 I mean, those are the high sacraments of wokeism.

00:25:01.120 And he's against them.

00:25:02.620 So, I mean, how could you possibly?

00:25:04.000 No one who we call woke would accept you into their club if those are your positions, right? 0.90

00:25:11.660 And it's especially incoherent coming from some conservative influencers.

00:25:15.840 There are some conservative influencers who I've seen sort of condemning this pope as woke,

00:25:24.060 or maybe condemning might be too strong a phrase for some of them,

00:25:27.620 but warning of this pope's wokeness.

00:25:29.800 There are some who have done that, who I know support gay marriage and also support abortion,

00:25:40.940 at least up to a certain point in pregnancy.

00:25:43.100 Those are the two wokest positions you can have.

00:25:47.540 And so you're really not in a spot to call anyone else woke

00:25:49.920 when you are okay with the definitional destruction of the marital institution

00:25:55.860 and the desecration of the sanctity of human life.

00:26:00.400 I mean, if you're on board with that or okay with it,

00:26:02.880 then you are woke on the two most important things, yourself.

00:26:07.980 And the problem is that in American politics, this dynamic doesn't really exist.

00:26:18.240 You're not going to find an American politician who is quote unquote far right

00:26:24.560 on homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion, and yet left-leaning on immigration.

00:26:32.180 That doesn't exist in American politics.

00:26:36.780 I can't think of an example.

00:26:38.080 Can you?

00:26:38.420 Can you think of an example of an American politician

00:26:41.280 who would have what we would call right-wing positions,

00:26:45.180 even far right positions on homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion,

00:26:50.100 and yet have what we would consider left-leaning positions on immigration?

00:26:54.460 I can't think of a single example of that.

00:26:56.640 It basically doesn't exist.

00:26:58.240 It does, however, exist for popes.

00:27:04.440 And now I'd prefer for them to be on the right on everything like I am.

00:27:09.120 But again, it just shows that American political categories don't fully apply here.

00:27:16.340 Which is why if you're trying to apply those categories,

00:27:19.020 you end up either claiming that a guy who marched in the March for Life

00:27:22.520 and came out against homosexual lifestyles is woke, 0.59

00:27:25.480 which doesn't make a lot of sense,

00:27:26.600 or you end up claiming that a guy who talks about climate change

00:27:29.940 and criticizes Trump's immigration policies is conservative,

00:27:32.880 which in our political landscape also is confusing.

00:27:36.940 So that's just something to keep in mind.

00:27:42.840 And that brings me back to I'd like to see what happens.

00:27:45.860 I want to give this pope a chance.

00:27:47.320 One thing I will predict is that whether this ends up being a good pope or a bad pope

00:27:55.220 or something in between.

00:27:58.060 I mean, there have been bad popes and there have been great ones.

00:28:02.900 But whatever ends up being the case,

00:28:05.600 the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church.

00:28:08.080 And I'll pray for this pope and the church.

00:28:10.200 And that's where I'm at right now.

00:28:15.740 To be continued, I guess, is what I'll say.

00:28:19.340 All right. 0.93

00:28:19.880 We have our we have our our dumb Jasmine Crockett segment for this week. 0.60

00:28:24.120 I don't I don't think we've done one yet this week. 0.82

00:28:26.580 Maybe we have, but it's Friday. 1.00

00:28:28.300 So here she is again being dumb. 0.99

00:28:31.300 They try to act like, oh, political violence. 1.00

00:28:34.300 It's the Democrats and it's the liberals.

00:28:36.380 And it's like, actually, it's actually, actually, actually.

00:28:39.220 I mean, I'm not going to say that like a left leaning person cannot be violent

00:28:43.120 because that would be like crazy to say that somebody can't be. 0.97

00:28:46.440 But baby, baby, y'all got the white supremacist galore. 0.97

00:28:51.040 OK, like all of them.

00:28:52.660 You got the proud boys.

00:28:54.000 You got you got the neo-Nazis.

00:28:56.120 You have people that literally should be classified as domestic terrorists,

00:29:01.840 because a lot of times that is what they are doing.

00:29:04.360 They're engaging in domestic terrorism.

00:29:07.500 And guess what?

00:29:08.160 They all align with your side.

00:29:10.380 Yeah.

00:29:10.960 Including the KKK.

00:29:12.200 So, like, I mean, this is this is who aligns with that.

00:29:16.100 So, like, inherently in like who you are, y'all are violent.

00:29:21.860 Like, like, yeah, and most of your violence has to do with people that got a little bit of melanin.

00:29:26.680 But nevertheless, like, y'all are a violent group of like you attract violent actors.

00:29:31.980 And like, I'm sorry, I know they try to make Black Lives Matter out to be the most violent. 0.97

00:29:36.760 They say, oh, what about Black Lives Matter?

00:29:38.540 No, no, no. 1.00

00:29:40.640 So, well, she's dumb. 1.00

00:29:42.560 I mean, I know I call everybody dumb because lots of people are. 1.00

00:29:45.820 But in the term low IQ is probably overused. 0.99

00:29:48.000 But she truly is.

00:29:49.760 I mean, I would be shocked if she had an IQ above, let's say, 90. 1.00

00:29:53.180 And I mean, that's that's being pretty generous. 1.00

00:29:56.600 So this is a very dumb person. 0.99

00:29:59.180 Although you do have to admire the intellectual rigor she applies here. 1.00

00:30:02.920 She says that conservatives are the violent ones.

00:30:05.880 And one of the most obvious counterexamples to that claim is BLM.

00:30:11.100 And her way of dispelling that argument is just to say, no, no, no.

00:30:16.560 OK, well, never mind.

00:30:17.400 Hey, Jasmine, I mean, you said that conservatives are violent, but BLM, you know, they burn whole city blocks and murder people in the streets, smash cops in the heads with cinder blocks. 0.71

00:30:25.140 Isn't that violent?

00:30:26.660 No, no, no.

00:30:29.520 Oh, all right.

00:30:30.180 Well, good point.

00:30:31.540 Oh, well, never mind then.

00:30:32.840 OK.

00:30:33.200 So this is not a serious person at all.

00:30:35.960 She tries to she tries to prove that conservatives are not just violent, but inherently violent.

00:30:40.580 And, yeah, she doesn't know what inherently means.

00:30:42.380 But she's you know, she she picked up that word somewhere along the line and liked it.

00:30:46.240 But that's what she's claiming.

00:30:47.400 Her evidence is the Proud Boys.

00:30:51.260 Who haven't done anything or been seen anywhere in years, really.

00:30:56.620 And who, by the way, through the whole course of their existence, committed less violence cumulatively and collectively than BLM did at one single riot in one single city on one single night.

00:31:07.360 So she says them and then the KKK, which essentially doesn't exist.

00:31:12.720 The last one's the last time the KKK was a relevant force in American life.

00:31:19.120 When's the last time you had to worry about the KKK?

00:31:22.520 What, like 1932?

00:31:25.680 So the KKK has not been a relevant force in America since I've been alive, since way before I've been alive.

00:31:30.580 Very few people who no one listening to this and very few people who could listen to this have lived in a country where the KKK was a thing that anyone had to worry about.

00:31:44.400 And those are her two examples.

00:31:47.320 An example that would have applied like 90 years ago and then the Proud Boys.

00:31:52.100 And that's even leaving aside the obvious dunk here, which is like the KKK were actually Democrats.

00:31:56.100 But, you know, so there's that, too.

00:31:59.320 So, but that's that's not even that that's I won't even reach for the like obvious Republican comeback on this.

00:32:09.940 It's more just it's not relevant.

00:32:12.640 So obviously, the left is more violent.

00:32:14.880 That's clear.

00:32:15.540 And there's a reason for that.

00:32:16.800 It's not just you know, this is not just about keeping tally.

00:32:19.960 It's not about keeping score.

00:32:21.100 It's not about pointing the finger back at them and saying, no, you're violent.

00:32:25.260 No, you are.

00:32:26.380 No, you like that's not that's not what this is.

00:32:28.500 Like leftism is actually inherently violent and inherently means, Jasmine.

00:32:33.060 I know you don't know this, but inherently means belonging to something by its nature.

00:32:37.920 Like it's in your nature.

00:32:40.000 Right.

00:32:40.580 To be a certain thing.

00:32:41.660 That's what inherent means.

00:32:43.060 And so leftism is violent by its nature.

00:32:49.560 Conservatism is not.

00:32:50.580 I mean, it's right there in the name of the thing that conservatism is not inherently violent.

00:32:56.920 It's conservative.

00:32:59.240 Conservatism is.

00:33:01.480 Conserving.

00:33:02.140 Right.

00:33:02.340 You're trying to conserve it.

00:33:03.340 There's there's not a you're trying to conserve what already exists.

00:33:08.560 Which is not an act of violence to conserve a thing that exists.

00:33:13.840 Now, it can require violence sometimes, but it's always going to be a defensive violence.

00:33:19.800 If you want to protect something that already exists.

00:33:23.120 Right.

00:33:23.560 You want to protect your home.

00:33:24.760 You want to conserve that your home.

00:33:27.200 That's not a violent thing in and of itself.

00:33:30.000 Now, it it only becomes violent if someone is doing trying to do violence against you and your home.

00:33:34.420 And then in in in service of protecting it, then you're committing violence.

00:33:38.520 So it's always defensive.

00:33:39.800 It's always an act of self-defense.

00:33:40.960 Um, but leftism is is is a destructive force is and it's right.

00:33:48.640 It's it's the language that they use.

00:33:53.140 Like dismantling.

00:33:54.820 We want to dismantle.

00:33:56.600 We want to dismantle the patriarchy.

00:33:59.120 We want to dismantle, um, you know, white supremacy.

00:34:05.980 What?

00:34:06.520 How do you dismantle?

00:34:07.400 It's an act of violence.

00:34:08.500 Dismantling is by definition, inherently an act of violence.

00:34:15.820 So and the other thing, too, is it is that there's there are two things.

00:34:19.060 Well, this is part of it.

00:34:21.340 There are two leftism teaches two things.

00:34:24.380 One is that the ends justify the means.

00:34:27.700 Any act is a good act as long as it has what you perceive to be a good end, a good result.

00:34:34.280 This is the argument for every affirmative action policy, every DEI policy.

00:34:40.440 They say, sure, you know.

00:34:43.060 It's OK to discriminate in this case because the end result is greater inclusion of racial minorities, which they see as an objectively positive result. 0.96

00:34:51.780 And so it's OK.

00:34:52.980 So ends justify the means.

00:34:54.020 And the flip side of that is that a bad end automatically means that the thing that was done to achieve that resulted in the bad end is wrong.

00:35:02.540 So, for example.

00:35:04.460 Every leftist in the country wanted Daniel Penny to go to prison.

00:35:07.800 That was a clear example of self-defense.

00:35:10.340 But the end, the result was that a black person died and a white person lived. 0.59

00:35:16.920 And to a leftist, that's bad in their mind, which means that whatever happened to bring about that result is also bad.

00:35:26.060 That's how leftists think.

00:35:28.020 And leftism also teaches that human life is not inherently sacred.

00:35:30.940 It has no intrinsic value.

00:35:32.260 It has no inherent value.

00:35:33.380 And that's the only way to support abortion. 0.98

00:35:35.760 It's the only way to support and applaud and celebrate, promote, fund the slaughter of 60 million babies. 0.97

00:35:41.820 So, the ends justify the means.

00:35:45.080 Human life is not sacred.

00:35:48.520 We're trying to dismantle things.

00:35:50.140 What does all this mean?

00:35:50.860 It means violence.

00:35:52.460 The ideology expressly justifies, even requires in some cases, violence.

00:35:57.400 Conservatism doesn't.

00:35:58.200 And this is why conservatives are much more squeamish about violence.

00:36:06.080 Unless the means are obviously justified, like in the case of self-defense.

00:36:11.220 And this is why there's almost never a right-wing riot.

00:36:14.860 When I say that, of course, anyone on the left who's listening is, oh, no, January 6th.

00:36:19.540 Yeah, well, right, exactly.

00:36:21.920 There's one that you can name.

00:36:25.840 Like, ever.

00:36:26.460 I mean, there's only one.

00:36:28.860 If I were to say, left-wing riot.

00:36:32.600 If I was talking to 100 people and I said, okay, shout out the first thing that comes to mind when I say this.

00:36:37.380 Left-wing riot.

00:36:39.040 They're going to shout 100 different riots.

00:36:42.260 They're not even, they're going to, they'll have, there'll be 100 different examples of what comes to mind when they think.

00:36:48.300 But if I were to say to 100 people, right-wing riot.

00:36:50.720 Every single one of them is going to say January 6th.

00:36:53.400 Because that's the only example of that thing that exists in modern American history.

00:36:59.220 So, and why is that?

00:37:05.260 Because a riot is fundamentally left-wing.

00:37:10.080 It is a fundamentally left-wing tactic.

00:37:13.680 It is rampant, random destruction.

00:37:19.020 It endangers random, innocent lives.

00:37:22.660 And so it's the kind of thing that you can only justify if you believe, number one, the ends justify the means.

00:37:29.300 And number two, that human life has no intrinsic value.

00:37:35.140 And number three, if you believe that there's, that there's a certain value in and of itself to dismantling and destroying.

00:37:43.600 If you see civilization in particular as a thing that needs to be dismantled and destroyed, then again, then what will, then a riot makes a lot of sense, actually.

00:37:52.540 A riot is a random, just random destruction of whatever happens to be around.

00:37:55.960 So, that's why the left is actually violent and will always be the much more violent political movement.

00:38:15.480 All right.

00:38:17.020 Let's see.

00:38:17.780 I'm hesitant to discuss this story, this next story, only because I might want to do a longer monologue on it next week and I don't like to repeat myself.

00:38:25.960 Which may come as a shock because I repeat myself all the time, but I just, I didn't say I don't repeat myself, I just said I don't like to.

00:38:31.460 So, but speaking of repetition, stop me if you've heard this one before.

00:38:36.200 The parent of a school shooter has been charged in connection with the shooting.

00:38:40.480 This is the third such case by my count in just the last year or so.

00:38:46.700 The third time that a parent has been charged with a crime that his child committed.

00:38:51.740 And so, let me read a little bit of this story and the details, and then we'll talk about it.

00:38:59.720 And I'm going to have to read more of this article than I normally would, but there are just important details here so that we can offer any kind of coherent analysis.

00:39:08.880 Wisconsin prosecutors have charged the father of a teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting last year with allowing her to access the semi-automatic pistol that she used in the attack.

00:39:20.040 The criminal complaint against 42-year-old Jeffrey Rupno of Madison details how his daughter, 15-year-old Natalie, struggled with her parents' divorce, showing her anger in a written piece entitled War Against Humanity.

00:39:32.440 Her father tried to bond with her through guns, the complaint said, even as she meticulously planned the attack, including building a cardboard model of the school and scheduling the shooting to end with her suicide.

00:39:44.840 Prosecutors filed the complaint Wednesday, but didn't unseal until after Jeffrey Rupno was arrested.

00:39:49.780 He faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18, causing death, and contributing to the delinquency of a child.

00:39:55.860 All the charges are felonies.

00:39:57.020 Jeffrey Rupno told investigators that his daughter lived with him but had been struggling with his divorce from her mother in 2022, saying she hated her life and wanted to kill herself.

00:40:08.920 He said she used to cut herself to the point where he had to lock up all the knives in his house.

00:40:12.700 She had been in therapy to learn how to be more social until the spring before the attack.

00:40:16.620 Her mother, Melissa, told executives that the, or rather detectives, that the therapist told her that Natalie was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from the divorce.

00:40:24.760 One of Natalie's friends told investigators that Jeffrey Rupno was frequently verbally aggressive and that he was a drinker.

00:40:33.640 Jeffrey Rupno told investigators that he took Natalie shooting with him on a friend's land about two years before the abundant life attack.

00:40:44.580 She enjoyed it, and he came to see guns as a way to connect with her, but he was shocked at how her interest in firearms snowballed.

00:40:49.760 He kept Natalie's pistols in a gun safe, telling her that if she ever needed them, the access code was his social security number entered backwards.

00:40:57.440 About 10 days before the school attack, he texted a friend and said that Natalie would shoot him if he left the fun safe open right now.

00:41:05.940 Okay, and then after the attack, he sent a letter, a message to detectives saying that his biggest mistake was teaching Natalie how to handle a gun safely and urging police to warn people to change their gun safe combinations every two to three months.

00:41:27.160 And so that was his warning, okay, so there are two things we need to talk about here.

00:41:36.000 First of all, as to the merits of these charges and allowing for the fact that there might be details that, I mean, there certainly are details we don't know.

00:41:44.020 There might be very salient and important details that detectives and investigators know that we don't.

00:41:48.460 They haven't told us yet, they haven't told us yet, and so if I'm judging just based on what we read, this could change if there's more we weren't told that comes out, and then maybe it will change my analysis of this.

00:41:59.960 But based on what we know, well, it's in that article, I would say that I don't think he should be charged with a crime.

00:42:08.800 In fact, based on what we just read, I think that it seems like a gross miscarriage of justice to charge him with a crime.

00:42:16.160 Now, did the father make mistakes here?

00:42:19.280 Yes, obviously.

00:42:21.220 Very serious ones.

00:42:23.500 But this write-up anyway makes it sound like he was a father trying to connect with his daughter, doing what he could.

00:42:32.680 They had her in therapy.

00:42:34.560 Therapy is very often useless and makes things worse, but again, he's doing what he thought was the right thing.

00:42:39.540 Taking her shooting, because it's, you know, as the father, the daughter lives with him, which is a very interesting detail.

00:42:49.140 That's unusual to have a divorce and the daughter lives with the father rather than the mother.

00:42:55.300 So there's all kinds of backstory there that we don't know about, but the daughter lives with him.

00:43:01.580 So he, as a now single father, he's trying to bond with his daughter, and so he's doing it in the only way that he knows how as a man with bringing her into his sort of masculine activities.

00:43:12.820 And for him, he's really into shooting, and so he brings her into that.

00:43:15.640 Okay, he notices her spiraling, he keeps the guns locked up, and then it, one important thing I think I skipped over as I was skimming is that he, a couple days before the shooting, let me see if I can find it.

00:43:35.080 He took a gun out to clean it so that Natalie could clean it, but then he got distracted, and he wasn't sure if he put the weapon back in the safe or not.

00:43:44.740 Okay, so that was like the biggest mistake of all.

00:43:50.220 So, and that's a serious mistake.

00:43:52.960 Those are very serious mistakes.

00:43:54.760 But here's what we don't see.

00:43:57.500 We don't see, we clearly don't see a father who was in any way directly or intentionally involved in this terrible crime.

00:44:06.820 We don't see what appears to be criminal neglect.

00:44:09.920 The worst thing we hear about his parenting style is that he could be verbally aggressive, whatever that means.

00:44:17.220 I mean, that could mean anything.

00:44:18.940 Not even verbally abusive, but verbally aggressive.

00:44:21.300 Okay, well, I mean, again, that could mean anything.

00:44:24.100 So we don't see evidence of any intentional involvement.

00:44:29.160 We don't see criminal neglect.

00:44:30.560 What we do see is a father with a daughter spiraling mentally and emotionally who doesn't know how to handle, and he, as the father, doesn't know how to handle that.

00:44:38.440 And we see that, you know, if there was one action taken by the parents that we could connect directly and most directly to this crime, it was the divorce.

00:44:48.280 The divorce is what, by all accounts, made everything start crumbling down.

00:44:52.820 If they hadn't got divorced, probably this never happened.

00:44:56.540 Are we going to arrest every parent who gets divorced after their child goes and commits a violent crime?

00:45:02.480 Is that what we're going to do?

00:45:08.100 And that brings us to, I think, the greater point here.

00:45:10.340 Is this crime the father's fault?

00:45:15.620 Directly?

00:45:16.060 No.

00:45:16.240 Now, you know, kids, they do have their own free will, and they make decisions, and they can make really awful decisions.

00:45:27.780 And I've talked before about, you know, we use this phrase about controlling our kids.

00:45:31.620 You know, if you see a kid that's wild, that's acting wild, we will often say, oh, that kid's out of control.

00:45:38.760 Control your kid.

00:45:39.660 Control your kid.

00:45:40.340 Well, when you become a parent, you discover very quickly that you can't control your kid in the most literal sense.

00:45:51.660 In that your kid is not, there's no, like, remote control where you can make your kid do a certain thing.

00:45:58.560 Now, you can, especially as they're young, you can physically, you can pick them up and take them somewhere.

00:46:03.880 That's forcing them.

00:46:05.080 You can physically force it.

00:46:06.600 They want to go to their room, or you send them to timeout, and they refuse to go.

00:46:10.060 You can pick them up and bring them there.

00:46:11.560 Like, you can, in that sense, control them, but especially as they get older, you can't literally directly control everything they do, say, and think, obviously.

00:46:26.500 So when we say control, what we really mean is influence.

00:46:30.300 As parents, there's a little bit of direct control that goes into it.

00:46:34.060 When they're very young, there's a lot.

00:46:35.760 As they get older, there's less and less of it, of direct, like, physical control of what they're doing.

00:46:42.320 As they get older, there's less of that, and then the influence becomes more important.

00:46:46.040 And so when we say kids out of control, what we really mean is that they have not been properly influenced by their parents.

00:46:54.220 Their parents are not influencing their behavior at all, or their parents are influencing their behavior in the wrong kind of way.

00:46:59.840 Right?

00:46:59.980 But, and so in this case, you know, this is a child who was not being influenced the right way, who was, the father apparently was trying to influence her, trying to bond with her.

00:47:23.560 And that wasn't connecting, it wasn't working, or it was, or it was, it was, it was being interpreted in the wrong way.

00:47:30.140 And, and that's what we're seeing.

00:47:31.960 So, you know, is he indirectly at fault for this?

00:47:40.120 Well, maybe partially.

00:47:42.220 He got divorced.

00:47:43.960 The parent, I mean, I don't know who's at fault for the divorce, right?

00:47:46.260 But they got divorced.

00:47:48.340 That's a big thing.

00:47:49.260 And it sounds like they didn't properly handle their daughter's mental collapse after that.

00:47:56.400 But, so my answer is, no, he's not directly at fault, obviously.

00:48:00.820 Is he indirectly at fault?

00:48:01.980 Probably, to some extent.

00:48:04.720 In the same way that if you're a parent, whatever your kids do, like, it can at least be indirectly tied to you.

00:48:13.780 Because you have a lot of influence over your kids.

00:48:15.680 And if you don't have influence over them, then that's also goes back to you.

00:48:19.140 That's, that's bad parenting.

00:48:20.400 You fail, you, that's a failure as a parent if they, if you've, if you've lost influence over them.

00:48:25.600 But if that translates to criminal charges, if this is enough to hold him criminally liable,

00:48:32.380 then the question is, how in God's name can you justify not also charging the parents of literally thousands of violent criminals who are in prison right now? 0.91

00:48:47.940 Every damn day in this country, there are kids in the street committing violent crimes, including murder and including with guns. 0.89

00:48:55.240 Guns that the parents, usually the mom, because in this scenario, the dad is completely absent. 0.99

00:49:01.800 These are guns that the parents either know about or don't know about because they're incredibly neglectful and not monitoring their children at all.

00:49:09.980 You know, we, so we could say, oh, well, so the father should go to jail here because it was his gun.

00:49:14.680 Um, okay, well, so if it's a 14 year old kid running around the streets of Baltimore with a gun that he got from somewhere else and, and the mom doesn't even know about it, is that better?

00:49:30.220 Is she, is she off the hook even more?

00:49:32.500 I'd say if anything, that's like worse.

00:49:34.800 That's worse.

00:49:35.500 If you're, if your kid's going out on his own and getting a gun at the age of 13 or 14 and you don't even know about it, you're at least equally as neglectful.

00:49:44.420 Right.

00:49:45.200 At least.

00:49:47.960 So, um, but none of those parents are ever charged.

00:49:55.160 You know, they, you have these kids who, who kids, teens, young adults also committing crimes and, and, uh, and the parents through their inaction, through their recklessness, through their lack of parental oversight, allowed it to happen.

00:50:14.420 Every day this happens every single day, every single day, right now, as we are speaking, there is a 15 year old kid out in the street in some city about to take out a gun.

00:50:28.720 And rob a liquor store and his mom is a block away at home.

00:50:35.480 Okay.

00:50:36.340 And we'll, here's what we know that mom will not be charged with a crime.

00:50:40.200 No one will even consider it.

00:50:41.620 Even if it turns out that that mom is at home on, on methamphetamine.

00:50:47.160 And so that's why she was, she was too busy with meth to be worried about what her son is doing.

00:50:52.880 She still won't be charged with a crime.

00:50:54.460 And we know that it will not happen.

00:50:56.460 So, look, people don't like it when I say it, uh, but the only parents who are charged in these kinds of cases are middle-class white parents.

00:51:08.060 And, uh, you know, people are going to say, oh, Matt's making it about race again.

00:51:11.400 You know what? 1.00

00:51:11.900 I, if that's what you're saying, just shut up, shut up. 1.00

00:51:15.780 You fraud, you lying, sniveling, little weasel, weakling coward. 1.00

00:51:19.100 Uh, because what I am noticing is a very clear and unmistakable pattern. 1.00

00:51:23.760 It just is real.

00:51:24.840 Okay.

00:51:25.160 It's just a thing that's happening.

00:51:26.920 Okay.

00:51:27.420 I, what do you want me to tell you?

00:51:29.360 What do you want me to tell you?

00:51:31.480 There, there are thousands of violent criminals in cities all across the country with awful, terrible parents who have done nothing to raise their kids properly.

00:51:40.560 And, and none of those parents are ever charged ever, ever, ever, not ever.

00:51:44.640 And so what do you want me to do with that?

00:51:47.600 Oh, I'm just going to pretend it's not happening.

00:51:49.520 Is that the better solution here?

00:51:52.620 So don't tell me that I can't notice it.

00:51:54.660 We're not doing that anymore.

00:51:55.640 We're not pretending that these patterns don't exist.

00:51:58.460 Go cry about it.

00:51:59.500 I don't care.

00:52:01.780 You know, I'm right.

00:52:03.300 You know, I'm right.

00:52:04.760 This is a standard only applied to white middle-class parents.

00:52:07.220 And you know what?

00:52:07.620 If I'm wrong, then, then, then don't, don't come crying.

00:52:10.160 Oh, they're making it about race.

00:52:11.980 Don't do that.

00:52:12.780 Give me a counter example.

00:52:14.340 Go ahead.

00:52:15.180 Give me, I go ahead.

00:52:16.060 Please, please do. 0.99

00:52:17.600 Find me the, the violent, young black criminal who committed a crime, a violent crime, and 1.00

00:52:24.380 his parents were charged for that crime. 0.99

00:52:29.040 Go ahead and do it.

00:52:30.500 I dare you.

00:52:31.680 But you can't.

00:52:32.760 Because it doesn't happen.

00:52:34.820 And that's a problem.

00:52:37.160 That's a problem.

00:52:37.960 And it also just means that we can't even really have a conversation about the principle here

00:52:46.720 of, should we be charging parents with crimes that their kids commit?

00:52:50.340 That's an interesting conversation.

00:52:53.580 I think we should have it.

00:52:56.120 I'm, I'm, I very much tend on the side of what we shouldn't.

00:53:00.500 I understand the argument for doing it.

00:53:02.520 It's not, it's not an unreasonable argument.

00:53:04.360 I understand the argument.

00:53:07.640 But the problem is that the standard is not being equally applied.

00:53:10.780 So, you know, that's the theme that we're dealing with this week.

00:53:12.880 And we deal with all the time is that there's a standard that we can't even really talk about

00:53:17.240 because first we have to deal with the fact that that standard is not equally applied.

00:53:22.680 And so first we have to equally apply it.

00:53:26.720 And then once we've done that, then we can have a really interesting, honest, productive conversation about the standard.

00:53:36.700 And if you would say, well, but we can't apply that standard equally because that would just be insane.

00:53:44.020 You might say that, well, yeah, but we can't really do this equal.

00:53:48.640 Because then, then like, then we're, tomorrow we're going to be locking up 100,000 parents.

00:53:54.620 We can't do that.

00:53:57.440 Well, if that's the case, then like maybe that tells us something about the standard.

00:54:01.660 If that's our answer, and maybe it is.

00:54:04.040 Maybe the answer is like, yeah, you know what?

00:54:06.380 In the interest of justice, there's an argument to be made for it.

00:54:09.100 But practically, we just can't do that.

00:54:12.720 Okay, well then, but we shouldn't be doing it over here then.

00:54:14.960 So, so then, so then why are we doing it randomly with these few cases if we're not going to do it consistently?

00:54:27.240 This is one of the reasons why I harp so much on consistent standards is because, you know, that's just justice.

00:54:33.800 That's right.

00:54:34.420 It's fairness.

00:54:34.840 But also, one of the ways to discover whether a standard is prudent, whether it is just, whether it makes sense, is to consistently apply it.

00:54:47.280 If you're taking a standard and only applying it in a minority of random arbitrary cases, then you might, there might be a lot of problems with that standard that you're not going to really discover because you haven't expanded the scope of it in the way that you should.

00:55:00.880 And I think that, and I think that this is a perfect example of that.

00:55:04.960 Take that standard, apply it universally, and see where we're at.

00:55:09.600 And if it's a standard that applied universally means that we have to go out right now and build 600 more prisons to put all the parents in, then we might say to ourselves, well, I just don't, you know, I don't think we can do that.

00:55:25.280 And then, by the way, like, those parents all have other kids who are now orphans, and what are we going to do about that?

00:55:30.260 It causes all kinds of problems.

00:55:32.760 So, but you've got to apply the standard equally, and this is a conversation that we just have to have.

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00:57:13.400 Being a parent is hard, especially if you're trying to do it right.

00:57:16.000 And this Mother's Day weekend, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has a few things to say about that.

00:57:19.860 Here's the trailer for his new series, which is coming to Daily Wire Plus.

00:57:23.480 It's called Parenting. Here it is.

00:57:25.900 There is nothing you'll do in life that's more challenging, difficult, and rewarding than being a parent.

00:57:31.200 Nothing with greater highs or lower lows.

00:57:36.580 You have little kids for a very short period of time.

00:57:39.720 It is a major mistake not to notice that and not to appreciate it.

00:57:46.960 We're dealing with a pattern of misbehaviors with our son, who's three years old.

00:57:50.800 Whenever we want to leave the house, he starts running away.

00:57:53.380 We have to be places at certain times.

00:57:55.800 When a disciplinary issue arises, you need to make space to master it.

00:57:59.840 I have to not do what I thought I was going to do for 10 minutes to set this right.

00:58:05.300 Our 13-year-old throws tantrums quite often when he doesn't get his way.

00:58:09.280 We spoil the heck out of him.

00:58:10.700 When you spoil a child, so to speak, you take away from them the opportunity to develop their own competence by doing too many things for them.

00:58:19.300 The consequences of his abdication of thought is that other people think for him.

00:58:24.620 That's what will happen.

00:58:26.580 Our daughter was bullied at her school.

00:58:29.940 As this is happening, our son turned to some substance abuse.

00:58:33.160 Look for mood changes and behavioral changes, and then you can tell your kid,

00:58:39.220 look, it might be an unpleasant conversation that we have to have,

00:58:43.080 but I'm not going to let you be miserable and drift away.

00:58:54.060 Discuss the disciplinary strategies.

00:58:56.220 Discuss the rules.

00:58:57.600 Discuss what it is that you want from your child.

00:59:00.120 Talk that through so that you're the same person.

00:59:03.160 The more effective you are in laying out these disciplinary rules, the more they'll like you.

00:59:10.420 Rules consistently applied with minimal force and plenty of patience.

00:59:15.640 You don't want to let your worry destroy the pleasures of the moment.

00:59:18.980 Just because children know less about the world doesn't mean they're not paying attention, 0.99

00:59:23.840 and it certainly doesn't mean that they're stupid. 1.00

00:59:26.540 They're not stupid, and they're watching. 0.99

00:59:33.160 Parenting with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson premieres May 25th, only on DailyWirePlus.com. 0.95

00:59:42.860 Don't miss it.

00:59:43.740 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:59:44.920 The biggest criticism that you can level against Republicans in Congress at the moment,

00:59:55.200 as we alluded to at the beginning of the show,

00:59:56.960 is that they aren't doing enough to codify the Trump administration's agenda.

01:00:00.480 Donald Trump can sign a dozen executive orders, but unless Congress turns them into laws,

01:00:04.700 then we can be certain that the next Democrat president will reverse them.

01:00:07.560 But on top of that, there's a lot of issues that Congress could tackle by itself,

01:00:10.440 like cutting spending, especially to demonic organizations like Planned Parenthood.

01:00:14.920 And they don't seem interested in doing that either.

01:00:16.640 At the same time, we do have to give some credit to Republicans in the House, and that's because

01:00:20.140 yesterday, they managed to pass a bill that officially changes the name of the Gulf of

01:00:24.440 Mexico to the Gulf of America, which of course was one of Donald Trump's first acts

01:00:28.400 in his second administration.

01:00:30.660 Watch.

01:00:31.720 The yeas are 211. 0.85

01:00:33.520 The nays are 206. 0.99

01:00:35.460 The bill is passed.

01:00:36.480 With that House vote, the Gulf of Mexico is one step closer to becoming the Gulf of

01:00:41.180 America under federal law.

01:00:43.180 On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order renaming the body

01:00:46.720 of water.

01:00:47.340 The Republican-led bill not only changes the name, but also requires federal agencies

01:00:52.000 to update maps and documents with the new title.

01:00:54.800 As we rename the Gulf, the Gulf of America, we are also taking pride in those waters.

01:01:00.560 The legislation now moves to the Senate for consideration, though it's unclear if it will pass there.

01:01:05.240 But it appears the Trump administration is not done making changes to the map.

01:01:08.940 The president is expected to announce next week that the US will soon refer to the Persian

01:01:13.460 Gulf as the Arabian Gulf, a move that Iran has called, quote, hostile.

01:01:18.600 I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings.

01:01:20.160 I don't know if feelings are gonna be hurt.

01:01:22.400 Well, I have a case right over here.

01:01:23.720 It's called Gulf of America.

01:01:25.920 Now, this is obviously a symbolic piece of legislation.

01:01:29.200 It's not anywhere near the kind of action that we should be seeing from the House GOP at this

01:01:33.200 point.

01:01:35.520 I mean, it's worth doing, but it doesn't go anywhere close to the full extent of what we

01:01:39.940 should be seeing.

01:01:41.620 But it's still a useful bellwether for where the House of Representatives stands and how

01:01:45.840 they're likely to act on future legislation to codify the administration's agenda.

01:01:49.560 It's also a logical piece of legislation that everyone should support.

01:01:52.080 But not every Republican did support it.

01:01:54.140 The bill passed in the House by a vote of 2-11 to 2-06 with every Democrat and one Republican,

01:02:01.360 Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, in opposition.

01:02:06.160 And here's what Don Bacon told CNN by way of explaining his no vote on the bill, quote,

01:02:11.100 So the implication is that Wilhelm and Napoleon, two of the most important figures in the history

01:02:28.140 of Europe, are not worth emulating in any way.

01:02:30.820 In fact, he's saying it's sophomoric to emulate them.

01:02:34.620 Never mind the fact that we're still talking about Napoleon long after his death because

01:02:39.200 of his significance to the world at large.

01:02:44.600 Never mind the fact that in all likelihood, no one's going to be talking about Don Bacon

01:02:48.580 in 20 years unless it's the name of a new special at Denny's.

01:02:52.180 Instead, we're supposed to conclude that instead of acting like great men of history, we should

01:02:56.280 be as meek and passive as we possibly can.

01:02:59.280 Here's Don Bacon to explain.

01:03:02.720 I just think, you know, there's bigger things for us to be working on and voting on, too.

01:03:07.480 You know, I get it.

01:03:08.220 You know, the president, you know, campaigned on it, but I didn't campaign on it.

01:03:11.480 And again, I just, I think Americans see this as, you know, like a junior high type of move.

01:03:18.300 And I think America's better than this.

01:03:22.740 You know, that objection never makes any sense.

01:03:25.020 Oh, there's better things to vote on.

01:03:26.480 Okay, but yeah, but you are voting on it.

01:03:29.120 So, like, you have to cast a vote one way or another.

01:03:32.220 It takes just as much time to say no as it does yes.

01:03:35.800 So the fact that there are better things to vote on, that might be a reason to object

01:03:40.980 to it coming to the floor in the first place.

01:03:42.560 But once it's there, it's there, you're voting on it.

01:03:46.240 So are you in favor of it or not?

01:03:47.880 It takes a second, one way or another, to say, so, but he doesn't want to object in principle

01:03:55.320 to the thing.

01:03:56.460 He does object in principle.

01:03:57.380 He doesn't want to frame his objection that way.

01:03:59.160 So instead, he's pretending that this is all about not wasting time.

01:04:02.340 And the point about how there's more important things to vote on, it's true.

01:04:05.820 That's not in dispute.

01:04:06.700 But we're now in the month of May.

01:04:08.260 And the House still has not voted on most of those very important agenda items.

01:04:12.340 So at this point, it's nice to have some progress, even if it's not the most time-sensitive

01:04:16.220 or urgent piece of legislation.

01:04:17.920 It's also nice to have some sense that Republicans in Congress are capable of, you know, acting

01:04:21.540 like a cohesive unit without random dissenters complaining for no discernible reason.

01:04:27.800 In this clip, Don Bacon sounds a lot like every single Democrat in Congress, which isn't

01:04:32.360 exactly a great sign.

01:04:34.120 Actually, I'll revise that last statement.

01:04:35.480 Don Bacon, as much as I disagree with his position, does sound quite a bit better than at least

01:04:39.560 one Democrat in Congress.

01:04:40.560 I'm talking about the Democrat congressman from Delaware who uses the name Sarah McBride

01:04:44.780 after changing his name from Tim.

01:04:46.760 The other day, McBride attempted to criticize her public legislation while using the House

01:04:51.780 subway system.

01:04:53.000 And here's what he came up with.

01:04:55.300 Listen. 0.98

01:04:56.600 We are on our way to the House floor to vote on what is possibly the dumbest bill we could

01:05:02.380 be spending our time on, legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf

01:05:07.540 of America. 0.88

01:05:08.920 This is ridiculous. 0.98

01:05:11.240 And look, you might think that we're doing this because it's another opportunity for 0.97

01:05:14.620 House Republicans to be sympathetic to the man in the White House.

01:05:17.600 But the other reason why we're doing this is despite how unpopular this name change is,

01:05:24.280 they would rather us be talking about nixing the Gulf of Mexico rather than talking about

01:05:30.280 how House Republicans are trying to nix health care for millions of Americans.

01:05:33.560 They would rather us talk about the Gulf of Mexico than talk about how Donald Trump's reckless and

01:05:39.600 erratic tariff policy is crashing the economy.

01:05:43.520 Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico in this economy?

01:05:47.180 What the hell are we doing here?

01:05:48.840 Yes. 1.00

01:05:50.780 According to this man in address who changed his name from Tim to Sarah, it's dumb and 0.98

01:05:56.600 ridiculous to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. 0.78

01:06:00.340 But actually, if you think about it for two seconds, one of those two things is a lot 0.77

01:06:04.940 more reasonable than the other.

01:06:06.600 On the one hand, changing the name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America makes sense

01:06:11.200 because we're in the North American continent.

01:06:13.260 And clearly, the Gulf doesn't belong to Mexico.

01:06:16.700 It touches a significant amount of U.S. coastline, and it's critical to our economy.

01:06:20.540 We're talking about a body of water that is surrounded by both North America and South America.

01:06:26.220 Therefore, if you want to convey the fact that there is a body of water that's important to

01:06:30.300 multiple countries and continents, it makes more sense to name the Gulf after the continent

01:06:36.220 rather than arbitrarily picking one of those countries.

01:06:39.140 On the other hand, we have the name change from Tim to Sarah.

01:06:42.560 And that's a name change that makes a lot less sense because we're talking about a man. 0.95

01:06:47.060 And it's extremely dumb and ridiculous to call a man Sarah, even if he does put on a 0.98

01:06:52.000 dress and wear some makeup. 0.98

01:06:53.640 It's certainly a lot less logical than using the term Gulf of America.

01:06:57.820 And this guy's position is especially absurd given that McBride has previously told conservatives

01:07:03.260 that renaming famous landmarks is no big deal.

01:07:07.720 Here's one of McBride's tweets from a few years ago, quote,

01:07:09.560 In other words, McBride mocked conservatives who didn't want Mount McKinley's name to be changed.

01:07:23.980 He hinted at some indigenous colonizer mumbo-jumbo that no one actually can explain. 0.61

01:07:29.500 And then he told conservatives to shut up.

01:07:31.800 But now a few years later, McBride is pretending to be outraged that the Gulf of Mexico has been

01:07:36.820 renamed to something a lot more sensible.

01:07:39.340 And throughout all this, McBride is putting out videos like this one, accusing Republicans

01:07:43.000 of engaging in absurdity.

01:07:45.000 Watch.

01:07:46.980 Oh, hi.

01:07:47.820 I didn't see you there.

01:07:49.020 You're probably wondering why you're in my Washington, D.C. office refrigerator.

01:07:52.940 Well, let me tell you.

01:07:54.080 The absurdity never ends in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

01:07:57.900 Yeah, I'm wondering a lot of things about you, but that's not really one of them.

01:08:05.140 If you wanted any more reason to support the name change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf

01:08:08.860 of America, here it is.

01:08:09.860 The single most confused member of Congress, which is quite an achievement, opposes the name change.

01:08:15.660 That should be all the reason you need to celebrate the fact that four months into Donald

01:08:18.760 Trump's second term, Republicans have taken at least one step towards codifying his policies.

01:08:23.860 Viewed as optimistically as possible, it's maybe a sign that some more laws like this

01:08:30.780 are about to be passed.

01:08:32.420 And it's also why Congressman McBride, who once again has made the GOP's point far better

01:08:38.000 than the GOP ever could, is today canceled.

01:08:42.140 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:08:43.920 Have a great weekend.

01:08:44.680 Talk to you all Monday.

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