The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1667 - The Pope Hosts Cringe ‘Climate Justice’ Event

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00:00:26.700 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Pope Leo hosts a climate justice event at the Vatican. Should

00:00:31.480 climate justice be a priority in the midst of Christian persecution all over the globe? Should

00:00:34.840 it be a priority under any circumstance? Also, the Trump administration restores law and order in

00:00:38.720 Memphis. Don Lemon lashes out against white men again. And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launches

00:00:44.040 a horrific and bigoted attack against the bearded community. All of that and more today on the Matt

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00:03:36.560 As I said yesterday on the show, as a lifelong and devout Catholic, I don't enjoy criticizing

00:03:43.200 the Pope. I would prefer not to do it. I also don't especially enjoy the backlash that I will

00:03:49.460 inevitably get from certain other Catholics who believe that I am behaving inappropriately or even

00:03:53.820 committing a sin by issuing these criticisms publicly. But if anyone in the audience feels that

00:04:00.280 way, I won't be able to convince you otherwise. I have to do what I believe is the right thing.

00:04:05.020 And in a time when we simply cannot rely on church leadership to actually lead with moral

00:04:11.120 clarity, it falls on the rest of us to speak up. Because the only other option is to be silent

00:04:18.240 or to pretend that we're okay with something that is very obviously not okay. And I can't convince

00:04:25.020 myself and have no interest in trying to convince myself that the latter is the correct course of

00:04:30.300 action. So here we are. After a 30-day stretch in which one of the most prominent Christians in the 0.81

00:04:37.940 country was murdered in front of the entire world, prompting thousands of public celebrations, a murder

00:04:43.320 that was bookended by mass shootings at two churches, one of which was targeted by a trans-identifying

00:04:48.400 terrorist who explicitly despised Jesus Christ, you might hope that Christian leaders throughout the 0.71

00:04:55.300 world and in all positions would be focused on that crisis. That's especially true since in Nigeria,

00:05:02.460 Christians are currently being systematically slaughtered by Islamists in a genocide that's 0.98

00:05:07.420 been ongoing for many years. This would be the ideal time for the most important Christian leader,

00:05:13.060 the leader of the Catholic Church, the Pope, to say something that might reassure Christians and

00:05:18.420 Catholics and rally them, motivate them, those who are increasingly being targeted with violence because

00:05:25.800 of their faith. Christians need moral guidance, have always needed it, need it now more than any other

00:05:33.760 time in recent memory, maybe in history. That's just not the approach that Pope Leo has decided to

00:05:41.580 take. As we discussed the other day, he gave a profoundly bad answer when he was asked about

00:05:47.960 Dick Durbin's Lifetime Achievement Award. First, the Pope stated that you're not pro-life if you support

00:05:53.960 the death penalty, a position that contradicts scripture, Catholic tradition, and any semblance of moral

00:05:58.840 logic. He made it an equivalence between abortion, which is the execution of innocent children, and capital

00:06:05.800 punishment, which is the execution of convicted murderers. He suggested that although Durbin supported

00:06:10.960 it and enabled the mass murder of children, overall, you know, he had a pretty decent career, if you forget

00:06:17.300 about all the baby killing. And then in the next breath, the Pope suggested that you're not really pro-life if

00:06:22.540 you don't open the borders to hordes of illegal aliens from the third world. With respect, and as charitably as I

00:06:30.880 can, I would say that these are the kinds of ideas that are very compelling to posters on Reddit. And I'm not trying to

00:06:40.120 be smug when I say that. It's just, that's what we're dealing with. There's no getting around the fact that

00:06:47.400 the statement he issued on this subject could have come from any random NGO spokeswoman or Democrat

00:06:54.380 politician. And that's what makes it so disturbing. Unfortunately for Catholics who would prefer to think 1.00

00:07:01.480 of that moment as kind of a blip on the radar screen and not indicative of any deeper or more serious

00:07:06.620 problem, we have now another Poblio moment that we need to discuss. He just appeared at the Vatican's

00:07:12.420 latest international conference in Italy, which was entitled, Raising Hope for Climate Justice.

00:07:20.600 Now already, just from the name of this event, you know this is going to be something extremely

00:07:26.140 problematic. Because the only people who use terms like climate justice and environmental justice,

00:07:32.000 without exception, are communists who also prattle on about equity and unhoused folks and racial

00:07:39.020 justice. This is language that by design identifies the speaker as a committed true believer of the

00:07:46.140 left-wing cause, someone whose sole purpose is advancing leftist ideology. No Catholic, let alone a Catholic

00:07:51.380 in a position of leadership, let alone the Pope, should be using or endorsing the idea of climate

00:07:58.140 justice. It is a communist term. It is a term with deep and very bad political implications.

00:08:06.820 There's no way around that. And indeed, the footage of this event bears that out.

00:08:14.020 Now you may have seen this viral moment from the conference in which the Pope blesses a block of ice

00:08:18.220 to the delight of all the climate hippies in attendance. Let's watch that again. Here it is.

00:08:24.500 I would now like to invite you to stand for the blessing of the waters.

00:08:28.680 Lord of life, bless this water. May it awaken our hearts,

00:08:55.480 cleanse our indifference, soothe our grief, and renew our hope. Through Christ our Lord.

00:09:06.700 We will raise hope by demanding that leaders act with courage, not delay. Will you join with us?

00:09:14.380 Now, in a vacuum, there is, of course, nothing wrong with the Pope blessing something,

00:09:39.700 least of all water, or frozen water in this case. But the context makes this scene very troubling.

00:09:49.640 Pope Leo, as you saw, blesses a block of ice and then stands there while a bunch of communist weirdos 0.93

00:09:55.240 do some kind of, I don't know what that is, weird earth-worshipping hippie ritual. I mean,

00:10:02.480 it's not a Catholic. There's nothing about that. It was not a Catholic. And this is one of the

00:10:06.040 problems. I've had people, I've had questions from people saying, well, what is this? Is this some

00:10:09.200 kind of Catholic? Is this a Catholic? That's not, that's not, nothing in there. It's not Catholic.

00:10:14.700 That's not what that is. I've been going to Catholic church for 39 years. I've never seen

00:10:20.040 anything. I don't know what that is. I've never seen anything like that.

00:10:22.320 And yes, your eyes weren't deceiving you. Arnold Schwarzenegger was there flapping the playground

00:10:29.780 parachute around as the incantations got going. And we'll have more on Schwarzenegger's role in a

00:10:34.760 moment. And for now, it needs to be said that, you know, the leader of the Catholic church just

00:10:40.820 shouldn't be anywhere near this nonsense. It's not just cringe and embarrassing. It's scandalous 0.97

00:10:46.040 to any non-Catholic who sees this and thinks that this event represents Catholicism in any way.

00:10:51.320 It doesn't. The conference began with a speaker who stated that the event was, quote,

00:10:55.820 directly connected to COP30, which is the UN Climate Summit. He also talks about the cry of the

00:11:02.940 earth and the cry of the poor, which was the theme of the event. You know, left-wing climate activism

00:11:08.580 always, always has heavy undertones of, you know, Gaia worship, which is just one of the reasons why

00:11:14.700 Catholics should stay far away from it. And this event was, you know, kind of proves the point. Watch. 1.00

00:11:21.320 the way of peace.

00:11:22.320 The way of peace. We're gonna rise up, rise up. We're a million different colors dancing to the beat.

00:11:32.940 Rise up, rise up. We're a million voices singing as one. We choose peace. Oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh. Hey, we choose peace.

00:11:45.380 Oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh, hey, hey, oh. In the name of what people live and fight. We stand with every child that suffers poverty and work as we eat. We choose the way of peace.

00:12:01.840 Now, on one level, you know, you see that and you almost want to laugh as the, you can't help it. It's just an absurd scene. It's just absurd. It's just absurd.

00:12:13.320 Of all the other problems with it, like, the Pope should not be partaking in something that is absurd. And that's what this is. And that's the most charitable way to describe it.

00:12:24.560 And you see, you know, the various members of the audience checking their watches and staring blankly ahead while these middle-aged hippies declare that they want peace.

00:12:36.380 You might wonder, what does peace have to do with the climate? And who cares if these random women want peace? And what exactly is the point of any of this? Who is this supposed to appeal to? 0.98

00:12:45.180 Why is any of this happening? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?

00:12:54.120 But really, it's not particularly funny, nor is it worth joking about. When Christians are being slaughtered, the appropriate response is not to host a dollar store Woodstock with the Pope. 0.72

00:13:04.320 And yet, at no point did anyone at this conference demonstrate any interest in defending Catholic teaching or Catholics from the actual threats they're facing.

00:13:15.180 Instead, speakers lined up one by one to insist that, you know, the weather is going to kill us or whatever.

00:13:20.800 One of these speakers was, as we mentioned, the actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:13:25.340 When he was done playing with the playground parachute, he took to the podium and delivered an address.

00:13:30.040 And before we play his remarks, in case it's not obvious, Schwarzenegger should not have been invited to speak at this event.

00:13:36.260 He should not be speaking on a stage with the Pope.

00:13:38.600 I have no idea if he's a Catholic or not, but he did go on the record recently suggesting that heaven is a fantasy.

00:13:45.460 So the odds aren't looking great that this is any kind of devout or observant Catholic.

00:13:50.880 But more importantly, Schwarzenegger's intentions were very transparent.

00:13:54.180 He sees Catholics as a very large demographic that he can co-opt en masse for his political environmentalist project.

00:14:01.740 And he was very explicit about that. Actually, watch.

00:14:03.680 The Catholic Church has 1.4 billion members, 1.4 billion Catholics out there, 400,000 priests, 600,000 nuns, 200,000 churches.

00:14:29.940 Now, think about that. That power.

00:14:36.680 And for that to be involved in our movement, in our environmental movement, to terminate pollution.

00:14:48.620 To terminate pollution.

00:14:50.440 And, of course, I'm very honored to be here because I'm next to an action hero.

00:15:05.180 Now, you're laughing because he doesn't look maybe like one, like you see in the movies with the muscles and with the guns and all that stuff. 0.99

00:15:16.880 But the reason why I call him an action hero is because as soon as he became the Pope, he ordered the Vatican to put solar panels on top of the buildings.

00:15:30.540 Think about that.

00:15:32.200 Now, one thing you'll notice about the speech is that Arnold has a tendency to say, think about that.

00:15:37.100 Right after he says something that you absolutely, unequivocally do not need to think about.

00:15:42.860 You know, the idea that the Pope is a hero because he had solar panels installed at the Vatican is one of those lines that no one should ever think about ever again in any context.

00:15:52.520 But the earlier part of Schwarzenegger's speech, the one where he says that, you know, he wants every Catholic in the world to join his environmental movement, is the bigger tell.

00:15:59.760 Well, it's pretty clear that to him, the most exciting thing is the size of the Catholic Church, not its teachings, but its size.

00:16:10.220 That's the key asset.

00:16:11.760 And he wants to take advantage of that asset for his own manipulative and cynical and political reasons.

00:16:17.820 Well, it made this whole event so galling.

00:16:19.560 One of the things that made it galling anyway is just how rote and predictable it was in many respects.

00:16:24.880 They're all channeling the same language that Greta Thunberg was using five years ago before she decided that Gaza was more important than climate change.

00:16:32.600 And it's obvious why she made that decision, by the way.

00:16:34.480 After all, it's pretty hard to talk about how the world's going to end in five years for your entire career.

00:16:38.160 Sooner or later, people start to realize that, you know, the world is still around.

00:16:42.120 If Greta accomplished anything, it's making clear that when leftists talk about climate justice, they're not really talking about the climate.

00:16:51.000 They're talking, again, about communism.

00:16:52.860 They're talking about destroying the West and eradicating all of these supposedly oppressive institutions, including the family and the church.

00:17:01.400 This is from an article that Greta Thunberg wrote just a few years ago.

00:17:04.140 Quote, schoolchildren, young people and adults all over the world will stand together demanding that our leaders take action, not because we want them to, but because the science demands it.

00:17:12.880 That action must be powerful and wide ranging.

00:17:15.940 After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment.

00:17:19.340 It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will.

00:17:22.040 Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. 0.71

00:17:26.660 We need to dismantle them all.

00:17:28.280 Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.

00:17:32.720 Now, this is what the left means when they say climate justice.

00:17:36.540 This is what it always means.

00:17:39.140 It never means, and can never mean, anything else.

00:17:42.660 They want to dismantle everything.

00:17:46.040 It's why they oppose nuclear power, even though it would eliminate all of their concerns about greenhouse gases while providing affordable energy to tens of millions of people who desperately need it.

00:17:54.760 Leftists seek to dismantle Western civilization.

00:17:58.300 Every single one of their pet projects, from racial justice to climate justice to immigration justice to homeless justice to employment justice,

00:18:04.560 and anything that they attach the word justice to are merely different fronts in this battle, different vehicles towards the same objective.

00:18:17.860 Climate justice is an inherently left-wing political concept.

00:18:21.780 It comes bundled with every other leftist project.

00:18:24.720 That's the point, which is why, for example, if you go to the, speaking of the UN, they're working in cooperation with the UN for this event.

00:18:32.420 Well, if you go to the website for UN Women, you'll be told this.

00:18:36.900 Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change, 1.00

00:18:41.220 acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gender inequalities.

00:18:45.180 While women and girls experience its disproportionate impacts from climate change at the global level, the effects are not uniform.

00:18:51.400 Looking at climate change through the lens of intersectional feminism,

00:18:55.280 meaning the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exasperate each other,

00:18:59.240 it is clear that climate change risks are acute for indigenous Afro-descendant women and girls,

00:19:04.760 older women, LGBTQ plus people, women and girls with disabilities, migrant women,

00:19:08.440 and those living in rural, remote conflict and disaster-prone areas.

00:19:12.380 If you're invisible in everyday life, your needs will not be thought of, let alone be addressed in a crisis situation,

00:19:17.420 says Matcha Fornin, a lesbian feminist human rights defender who works to empower stateless and landless indigenous women,

00:19:25.060 girls and young LGBTQI plus people in Thailand's Chiang Mai, Mai Hong Sun, and Thak provinces.

00:19:34.100 Humanitarian programs tend to be heteronormative and can reinforce the patriarchal structure of society

00:19:39.400 if they do not take into account sexual and gender diversity, she explains.

00:19:43.240 If you go to the website for Greenpeace, you'll be told this.

00:19:47.900 We at Greenpeace are often asked,

00:19:49.180 why is an environmental organization talking about LGBTQIA2S plus issues?

00:19:55.100 What does queer justice have to do with climate change?

00:19:57.840 Why don't you stay in your environmental lane?

00:19:59.500 Because the fight for environmental justice cannot be achieved without the fight for LGBTQIA2S plus rights 0.82

00:20:06.360 and the fight for social and racial justice and gender equality.

00:20:09.320 As we tackle the crisis of climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity,

00:20:13.380 we must also address social issues and inequality and discrimination.

00:20:16.820 There is no justice if there is no liberation for all marginalized communities suffer the most in the climate crisis

00:20:20.980 and during times of disasters.

00:20:22.780 Further marginalized groups within the diverse LGBTQIA2S plus community,

00:20:27.800 especially people of color and low-income communities,

00:20:30.000 experience even greater impacts of climate and environmental injustice.

00:20:34.700 Okay, I could go on.

00:20:35.520 The point is that this is a package deal.

00:20:40.300 Climate justice comes with LGBT, feminism, you know, bring down the patriarchy, all the rest of it. 1.00

00:20:49.320 It has always been this way.

00:20:51.840 This is what the climate justice movement is, has always been, since its inception, since day one.

00:20:58.040 At its core, there is no Catholic version of it.

00:21:00.840 And that's why Christians, especially Christian leaders, shouldn't be anywhere near it. 1.00

00:21:08.940 Nowhere near it.

00:21:10.420 Now, that's not to say that Christians shouldn't love God's creation and seek to preserve and protect it.

00:21:16.140 Of course, everyone can agree with that.

00:21:19.200 Which is, by the way, one of the reasons why we don't need to spend a lot of time on it.

00:21:21.840 If we're just talking about loving, you know, God's creation, protecting the earth and those sorts of things, protecting nature,

00:21:31.280 everyone agrees with that.

00:21:33.180 Yeah, like we don't need to, especially amid everything happening in the world right now,

00:21:38.760 we don't need to spend time on that.

00:21:40.440 We just don't need to.

00:21:41.480 But the climate justice movement is a left-wing political movement, again.

00:21:51.720 And its goals, very explicitly, are the destruction of Western civilization, starting with the church itself. 0.78

00:21:57.480 You don't have to take my word for it.

00:21:59.200 Ask them.

00:22:01.460 Go up to any leftist who's going on about climate justice.

00:22:05.160 Ask them how they feel about the church.

00:22:07.160 Ask them how they feel about the family.

00:22:09.120 Now, if the Pope is going to gather a bunch of climate justice activists together in a room,

00:22:17.520 it should be to rebuke them for being anti-human communists.

00:22:24.700 That's the kind of leadership we need.

00:22:29.380 Need.

00:22:31.540 And it's the kind of leadership we must demand.

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00:26:50.040 All we ask from you is to show up at roll call every single night with your brothers and sisters in the federal government

00:26:57.040 and to go out and get the criminals off the street.

00:27:00.320 And if you do that, I pledge to you, we will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations.

00:27:07.180 This is not just a strategy shift.

00:27:10.500 This is an attitude shift.

00:27:13.400 We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal,

00:27:19.920 where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang,

00:27:22.740 where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to anyone other than the law-abiding citizens and families of Memphis.

00:27:30.180 The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.

00:27:38.900 This is Memphis.

00:27:40.260 This is the United States of America.

00:27:42.060 And all that is done.

00:27:44.240 It's over.

00:27:45.120 It's finished.

00:27:49.160 Now, first of all, I have to say that I'm very grateful that Stephen Miller is part of this administration.

00:27:56.580 I mean, that was excellent.

00:27:59.020 He's great.

00:28:00.180 Totally authentic from everything that I've heard about him.

00:28:03.460 I've never met him or spoken to him.

00:28:06.100 But from everything I've heard off the record from people, he's absolutely authentic and genuine.

00:28:11.140 So the guy you saw in that speech is the guy you meet in person.

00:28:13.940 Same guy.

00:28:15.200 And that, as you know, is certainly not always the case in politics, to put it mildly.

00:28:20.760 But he said something there that's really important.

00:28:22.500 And it's something I've ranted about a million times.

00:28:24.460 In fact, we just talked about it this week, I think.

00:28:25.900 He said that there should not be any square inch of any block in any city in America where citizens feel unsafe.

00:28:35.180 And that's exactly right.

00:28:36.740 And, you know, that's not some kind of utopian, childish nonsense.

00:28:40.100 That's not, it's not the equivalent of saying there shouldn't be anyone in the world who ever goes hungry.

00:28:48.620 That's utopian.

00:28:50.260 You know, I mean, of course, it's true on one level.

00:28:52.380 We would like it if nobody ever went hungry and we should help the poor.

00:28:56.020 But we're just not ever going to have a world where no one ever goes.

00:29:01.700 It's like to act as though we could actually achieve that is utopian.

00:29:07.840 This is not.

00:29:09.940 You know, there doesn't have to be any part of your city or your neighborhood that's taken over by crime and violence.

00:29:16.360 It's very, very possible to have a city where every part of it, every block is safe and livable.

00:29:22.920 It's possible to have a city where you feel safe walking down the street alone at night.

00:29:28.840 Anywhere in the city.

00:29:29.620 Now, there's always going to be the possibility of a crime.

00:29:32.620 There's always going to be the possibility of a bad person doing a bad thing.

00:29:35.140 You can't eradicate crime completely, obviously.

00:29:37.360 But you can contain and minimize it enough that your whole community is safe and civilized.

00:29:42.640 It's very possible to do.

00:29:43.840 How do I know it's possible to do?

00:29:45.080 Well, because there are plenty of communities in America that have achieved that.

00:29:48.500 And there are communities and cities across the world that have achieved that.

00:29:52.680 And all you have to do is look at, well, what did they do to achieve that?

00:29:58.960 You know, it's just a matter of being willing.

00:30:01.920 You have to be willing to do what it takes.

00:30:03.760 And what it takes is relentlessly and ruthlessly punishing criminals.

00:30:09.200 That's all.

00:30:09.940 Rounding up the criminals and punishing them severely.

00:30:16.040 That's really all it takes, actually.

00:30:19.000 It really is as simple as that.

00:30:21.660 And it could be done everywhere.

00:30:24.060 And it's not because they don't want to.

00:30:25.720 And the other thing about this, I also want to say, as this campaign continues by the Trump administration to clean up these cities, it's really good politics by the Trump administration.

00:30:39.000 I mean, more importantly, it's the right thing to do.

00:30:40.940 He's protecting American citizens, restoring American cities.

00:30:43.940 It's the right thing to do.

00:30:44.820 But and you know how I feel about that.

00:30:48.320 We talk about it every day.

00:30:49.780 But also on a purely political level, it's a brilliant move.

00:30:53.560 It's also it is also brilliant politics because you're putting Democrats in the position of being against safer cities.

00:31:00.220 They are against safer communities.

00:31:03.000 They are opposed to making your neighborhood, your community safer.

00:31:06.640 For your children and your family.

00:31:10.860 Now, obviously, we already knew that Democrats were opposed to all these things, but now you're forcing them to kind of stake out that position explicitly and defend it.

00:31:20.260 And as you go into these cities and make them measurably safer, you're forcing Democrats to try to explain why that's a bad thing.

00:31:28.840 Everyone feels safer in Washington, D.C. now, and Democrats now have to explain why.

00:31:36.520 Well, actually, that's bad.

00:31:37.660 Did you know it's bad that you're safer now?

00:31:40.620 You know, it's bad that you're not getting carjacked.

00:31:42.720 Here's why.

00:31:45.940 So it's great politics.

00:31:47.340 OK, moving on, Don Lemon.

00:31:50.860 We got to talk about.

00:31:52.520 Well, we don't have to talk about Don Lemon, but we're going to.

00:31:54.760 Don Lemon, of course, was fired by from CNN a couple of years ago, as you remember.

00:31:59.240 He's since tried to reinvent himself as a podcaster.

00:32:02.140 And it's always interesting to see these traditional cable news people and network news people when they try to pull off this transition.

00:32:11.420 And most of them are not able to pull it off.

00:32:14.100 It doesn't go well.

00:32:15.760 Megyn Kelly is one of the few exceptions. 0.90

00:32:18.460 She was obviously a huge star on Fox.

00:32:21.100 And then she went for that stint on, what was it, NBC and didn't didn't go very well because of NBC and how they treated her.

00:32:31.340 And but then she starts her own thing, becomes a podcaster.

00:32:34.380 And she's bigger than ever.

00:32:35.680 You know, now she's like she's everywhere.

00:32:37.500 She's she's a bigger star than she ever was.

00:32:39.560 A huge success.

00:32:40.760 One of the rare cases of that happening, someone coming from that world, going over to this world and and succeeding.

00:32:49.680 Don Lemon is having a different experience.

00:32:52.280 He's been at this podcasting thing for over a year now, maybe two years.

00:32:56.260 I don't know.

00:32:57.320 It's not going well.

00:32:59.040 And just to show you, here's what his channel looks like.

00:33:01.480 So these are the most recent seven or eight videos from this week.

00:33:05.420 He's averaging, I don't know, generously, let's call that 15 to 20,000 views per episode or per video.

00:33:15.020 He also has an audio only version, just like we do.

00:33:19.260 And I'm not sure what his exact.

00:33:20.360 I went and I was just I was curious.

00:33:22.340 I went to the Spotify charts to check it out, see where he's ranked.

00:33:25.640 And if you look at the news category for podcasts on Spotify, they list the top 50 in just that category.

00:33:35.820 And he's he's unlisted.

00:33:37.520 He's he didn't make the list at all.

00:33:38.960 So he's not even in the top 50.

00:33:40.280 He's not ranked. 0.99

00:33:41.860 And so it's it's pretty pathetic. 0.98

00:33:46.340 But. 0.94

00:33:48.280 Oh, and also drawing your attention back to the screenshot of the of his channel.

00:33:53.980 Look what he calls his episodes.

00:33:55.920 He either labels them a hot take.

00:34:00.000 Because that's what you do when you have a hot take. 0.92

00:34:01.940 You label it a hot take in the title.

00:34:05.540 Hey, kids, here's my hot take.

00:34:06.900 How do you do, fellow kids?

00:34:09.140 Want to hear my hot take?

00:34:11.660 He either calls it that or he calls it a lemon drop.

00:34:16.180 Which.

00:34:17.520 Come on, Don.

00:34:18.580 That.

00:34:19.700 Now, I get it.

00:34:20.340 It's a pun involving your name.

00:34:22.500 It's sitting right there for the taking.

00:34:25.120 Maybe someone suggested it to you and you just couldn't resist.

00:34:28.820 Maybe somebody said, oh, you know what?

00:34:30.360 When you do like a short video, you could call it a lemon drop.

00:34:34.060 And maybe you just couldn't resist because it's.

00:34:36.460 But but you can't do that.

00:34:38.400 OK, like my name is Matt, but you don't see me labeling my episodes.

00:34:43.080 I don't know.

00:34:43.800 Welcome, Matt, or something.

00:34:45.680 You got to have some self-respect is all I'm trying to say. 0.99

00:34:48.060 So all that's really beside the point, though, that just establishes that Don Lemon is a pathetic failure. 0.99

00:34:53.400 I wanted to establish that total failure of a man. 0.97

00:34:55.780 But maybe that explains why he's now lashing out.

00:34:58.660 So here he is in one of his recent barely viewed episodes lashing out at white men. 0.79

00:35:05.180 Listen, they got white men. 0.95

00:35:07.100 What the is wrong with you? 1.00

00:35:11.160 But you're too dumb to even realize that. 1.00

00:35:14.820 Because you're lazy and sitting in front of a computer or a phone and you're just eating it up. 1.00

00:35:21.260 Oh, my God.

00:35:22.120 Just look at what they're doing.

00:35:24.480 All of a sudden, my heritage is going to be over that I won't.

00:35:28.080 I want to live in a country where there are white kids go to white schools and and white people marry each other. 0.97

00:35:35.920 What is wrong with that?

00:35:37.880 I want to grow up in the country that my great grandfather grew up in.

00:35:41.380 That country doesn't exist anymore.

00:35:43.760 Men who look like you, men who vote like you and men who sound like you. 0.98

00:35:48.400 White men, something is broken. 1.00

00:35:55.240 Something is cracked deep inside when so many of you believe the answer to fear, to loss, to change is violence. 0.57

00:36:09.980 Are you listening to me?

00:36:11.640 I hope I'm saying it loud enough for the people in the back.

00:36:14.420 Well, no, Don, we aren't listening.

00:36:16.100 To answer your question, he said, are you listening?

00:36:20.780 Are you listening?

00:36:21.520 Is anyone listening?

00:36:22.660 You can hear his voice echoing through the empty halls.

00:36:26.400 No, nobody's listening, Don.

00:36:27.580 That's your problem. 0.99

00:36:28.660 And your other problem, these are two, these problems are very much related, is that you are a rambling bigot. 1.00

00:36:34.700 You are a dumb, rambling bigot. 1.00

00:36:36.540 Your hatred for white people has driven you insane. 1.00

00:36:38.540 It's made you delusional. 1.00

00:36:39.440 You say that so many white men resort to violence. 1.00

00:36:42.740 And, of course, in reality, black men are an order of magnitude more violent than white men. 1.00

00:36:48.460 So we've been through all the stats many times. 0.99

00:36:50.960 It's not even close.

00:36:51.940 There's no competition.

00:36:53.260 Okay, this is not a close competition at all.

00:36:58.440 Well, if we're doing, if this is like the Olympics of violence, black men win gold, silver, and bronze, okay, in every event, they just do. 1.00

00:37:10.380 And, you know, this is such an obvious rebuttal that you wonder why he's even saying this.

00:37:14.920 Like, he's setting himself up for it. 0.86

00:37:16.500 That you, as a black man, are telling white men that there's something spiritually wrong with them and that they're too violent. 0.98

00:37:22.300 And, meanwhile, black men are like 6% of the population and account for more than half of the murders in the country. 0.99

00:37:28.480 So, I mean, why are you doing this to yourself? 0.96

00:37:32.280 What is the, why would you bring this up?

00:37:34.420 Well, you could see the answer if you go, like, if you go, if you read the responses to my post on X where I gave exactly this obvious rebuttal,

00:37:43.500 I responded to that clip and I was one of like a million people to make this point about how black men are much more violent statistically than white men are. 0.77

00:37:53.280 And you look at the responses and it's one after another, and there's thousands of them from liberals, many of them black liberals, 0.96

00:38:02.860 who truly don't believe that black men are more violent.

00:38:07.720 They just, they don't just disbelieve it. 0.97

00:38:09.520 They, they treat the assertion like it's insane, like as if I just claimed that, you know, the, the sun is made of Skittles or something.

00:38:18.320 They treat it, they laugh it off.

00:38:19.900 They scoff, they scoff at it.

00:38:21.340 It's, um, it, it's, to them, it's absurd.

00:38:24.660 It's an absurd thing to suggest.

00:38:28.020 And they aren't pretending.

00:38:30.620 I don't think they are.

00:38:31.520 For these people, they truly don't understand this basic statistical reality.

00:38:35.200 They live in a fantasy world.

00:38:37.360 They live in a world, in the world they live in, they honestly believe, they really honestly believe that the majority of violence in the country, 0.98

00:38:45.000 the vast majority of it comes from white men. 0.94

00:38:47.360 That's what they think. 0.96

00:38:48.120 That's the world they're living in.

00:38:49.100 And it's, it's, it could not be further from the truth, but, um, but they're living in this fantasy world.

00:38:55.200 And so Don Lemon is talking to people who are in this fantasy world.

00:38:58.420 He's not talking to you or me, he's, he, people who live in reality, he's talking to people who are in this fantasy world.

00:39:04.960 And that becomes really obvious when you look at the responses.

00:39:07.760 All right.

00:39:08.240 Finally, Michelle Obama, um, speaking of podcasts that nobody listens to, she's, she's back on her podcast, uh, once again, complaining about her husband.

00:39:16.720 So here is, uh, Jesse Waters so that we don't have to wade through it.

00:39:21.740 Uh, Jesse Waters played some of the highlights or lowlights on his show last night.

00:39:25.900 So, uh, here it is.

00:39:26.800 Watch this.

00:39:27.060 Did you catch Michelle's latest podcast?

00:39:29.700 It's bad.

00:39:30.600 There's a therapist.

00:39:31.980 Her big bro made the cut, but Barack, he's MIA.

00:39:35.420 Turns out things aren't as they seem.

00:39:38.440 A lot of young people could look at that and go, I want a marriage like Michelle and Barack.

00:39:42.720 Right.

00:39:43.260 And it's like, well, let me, you know, let me talk about what marriage is, you know, cause it's, even when it looks good, even when it's great, it's hard.

00:39:53.260 Um, and so I, I think it's important because, you know,

00:39:57.060 it's very easy to quit on a marriage.

00:40:00.220 Michelle didn't hold back. 0.99

00:40:01.320 Besides canceling Barack's pickup games, she hates what he does with his mouth.

00:40:06.760 The chewing. 0.99

00:40:08.860 The way you're chewing makes me want to smack you upside the head. 0.98

00:40:13.180 The girls and I are very irritated with the way Barack chews. 0.99

00:40:16.640 Oh my God.

00:40:17.380 Well, that's, chewing is the essence.

00:40:19.760 Like you hear the otherness of a person, right?

00:40:22.680 You hear they have a body.

00:40:24.680 They have saliva.

00:40:26.800 They're, they're like you, ah, it's like another person.

00:40:30.200 But why does it annoy us?

00:40:31.520 Barack can't even eat in peace.

00:40:33.260 Even when Barry keeps his mouth shut, Michelle's still complaining. 1.00

00:40:37.660 Now that we're empty nesters, it's like, well, what are we going to talk about?

00:40:41.560 So we're together all day.

00:40:43.580 And we, we do this thing where it's like, I'll see him.

00:40:46.700 And it's like, what you've been doing?

00:40:47.900 It's like, oh, don't tell me until dinner.

00:40:49.920 Because we're, we got to have something to talk about at dinner.

00:40:54.160 So if all throughout the course of the day, I'm getting caught up on his stuff, then it's

00:40:59.700 like, we're sitting, staring at each other.

00:41:03.000 You should always have something to talk about.

00:41:05.740 You know, I got to say, I never thought I could ever feel sorry for Barack Obama.

00:41:10.340 I never thought I was capable of experiencing that emotion towards Barack Obama.

00:41:17.460 But I do kind of feel sorry for him whenever I see these clips, when I see these clips of

00:41:23.300 Michelle Obama, I do sort of feel sorry.

00:41:26.320 I mean, can you imagine, can you imagine you were the president of the United States of

00:41:31.380 America, you achieved something that only 44 other Americans, I think it's 44 other,

00:41:37.360 right?

00:41:37.520 Because if you, when you, the non, uh, consecutive terms and so it's whatever, 45 total.

00:41:43.840 So, so you achieve something that 44 other Americans have ever achieved.

00:41:48.260 Okay.

00:41:48.420 You, you had the same job that George Washington had.

00:41:52.680 You're one of the most famous people in the entire world.

00:41:56.200 You're one of the most influential Americans of all time.

00:42:00.520 Now in Barack's case, of course, your influence is terrible and toxic and poisonous. 0.99

00:42:05.220 And you were a disaster. 0.92

00:42:08.680 Um, I think Barack Obama's presidency will go down as, as the most disastrous presidency

00:42:13.300 in American history.

00:42:15.240 Um, but put that aside.

00:42:17.120 Okay.

00:42:17.360 We'll be like, put that aside.

00:42:18.180 Cause that's not, that's not how Michelle Obama would see it. 1.00

00:42:22.260 The point is simply that you were the president and now in retirement, here's your wife.

00:42:28.960 Here's the person who identifies as your wife, whining about you and nagging you in a podcast

00:42:39.100 every day, telling the world that you chew too loud.

00:42:46.000 Okay.

00:42:46.600 You were the president and you've, and, and here's your wife.

00:42:50.780 He chews too loud.

00:42:53.060 One of the most important men in American, important in a bad way.

00:42:55.940 Again, I don't have to clarify important in a bad way, but, but put that aside.

00:42:58.960 Let's decide one of the most important men in American history.

00:43:01.880 And here's your wife sitting at, sitting around a table, gossiping about you. 1.00

00:43:06.400 I don't like it when he chews loud, you know, being married to him, isn't so great.

00:43:10.740 Just so you know, my God, what a nightmare.

00:43:15.640 What hell on earth that must be.

00:43:18.740 Marriage is hard.

00:43:19.680 She says, and cause that was the main reason I wanted to address it.

00:43:23.960 Cause she said this thing, marriage is hard.

00:43:26.740 And in fairness, a lot of people say that she's not the only one.

00:43:28.960 I want to say that.

00:43:31.080 That's the great wisdom, the great insight that you hear all the time from people these

00:43:35.180 days.

00:43:36.820 And I got to tell you, and it's very discouraging, I think to a lot of, to, to a lot of young

00:43:41.040 people that aren't married.

00:43:42.020 And they hear this and I hear married people, people like Michelle Obama talk about marriage,

00:43:46.940 complaining about their spouse.

00:43:51.460 Talking about, Oh, it's so hard.

00:43:53.220 Oh, it's a hard.

00:43:54.560 Oh, what, what, what, what toil and drudgery is marriage?

00:43:58.220 Oh yeah, it's worth it, but it's so hard every day.

00:44:00.920 Every day is just a, it's like pulling teeth every day.

00:44:05.240 Well, I got to tell you almost 15 years in six kids.

00:44:09.080 I don't agree with that.

00:44:11.740 Okay.

00:44:12.780 Let me, I don't think marriage is hard.

00:44:15.840 Okay.

00:44:16.240 It's actually not hard.

00:44:18.460 Actually, marriage is pretty easy.

00:44:21.300 Okay.

00:44:21.720 And again, I'm not, and I'm, it's not, it's not like I'm, I'm a year into it.

00:44:24.800 It's not like I got married six months ago and you could say, Oh, wait, you're in the

00:44:28.220 honeymoon phase.

00:44:29.000 Wait till you, you know what?

00:44:30.760 Not only is it not hard now, 15 years in it's actually easy.

00:44:33.840 It actually got easier.

00:44:36.000 It's I looking back at it now, I would say that the hardest part, as much as we hear about

00:44:41.440 this honeymoon phase thing, actually the hardest part is like the first year, the part that's

00:44:47.040 supposed to be, I guess, the way people talk about it is like bliss, nothing but bliss.

00:44:51.360 It's the honeymoon phase.

00:44:52.660 I would say the hardest part is the first year, which makes sense because you're, you're getting

00:44:56.120 adjusted to it and you've never, you know, especially if you did it the right way and you

00:45:00.340 waited to live with the person until you were married to them, then you've never, you know,

00:45:04.820 you've never lived with someone before, uh, you know, maybe you had a roommate or something,

00:45:09.760 but you've never, so this is, this is new and you're, and you're getting adjusted to that.

00:45:12.480 And so it kind of makes sense.

00:45:13.340 And you're, you're also younger, right?

00:45:15.180 Uh, and, um, so it makes sense that that it gets easier, like it's, it, and, and now it's,

00:45:23.600 it's marriage is easy.

00:45:26.120 It really is.

00:45:28.240 Um, and it's fun.

00:45:31.460 It's like, it's now you could say life is hard.

00:45:35.400 Okay.

00:45:35.640 Living is hard and there's challenges that come with it.

00:45:38.360 And so if you mean that marriage is hard in that kind of like broad sense, in the sense

00:45:42.080 that just like life, life is hard, uh, or can be then fine.

00:45:45.620 But marriage itself is for the most part, easy and, and fun.

00:45:51.100 And, uh, and it should be, I mean, you've got someone that you love and,

00:45:55.980 and hopefully like, and you're around them all the time and you can hang out and you can go out

00:46:01.760 and do like, you know, it's, you've got, that's, that's a good thing.

00:46:05.880 And when you compare it to the alternative,

00:46:07.860 I mean, there's no contest.

00:46:12.280 There are really only two things that can make marriage hard.

00:46:18.080 Really only two.

00:46:18.840 And one is if you're married to a narcissist or two, if your spouse is married to a narcissist,

00:46:29.620 meaning that you're the narcissist or, or three, you know, is the combination of the two,

00:46:34.580 which is the hardest of all, if you're both narcissists.

00:46:36.680 And by the way, most of the time it's option three, most of the time when you meet someone

00:46:42.540 who's married to a narcissist, they're also a narcissist because narcissists tend to, you 1.00

00:46:46.740 know, they, they, they tend to find each other in that way.

00:46:48.760 Not always, not always, but most of the time.

00:46:50.740 Now, if, if it is option three and you're both narcissists, any, any marriage where it's option

00:46:56.420 three, both of them will think that it's option one.

00:47:00.520 They, they both think that, oh my gosh, I'm married to a narcissist because they don't realize

00:47:05.060 that they are two.

00:47:06.660 And that only makes it harder because of the, they don't even understand what situation they're in.

00:47:10.360 So all that to say, marriage fundamentally is not hard.

00:47:16.800 Doesn't have to be hard.

00:47:17.740 Shouldn't be hard.

00:47:18.420 It's not to say you don't encounter challenges.

00:47:20.340 It's not to say you don't have things you have to work through.

00:47:22.320 Of course, all that's the case, but generally speaking, like it's not, you should not be,

00:47:26.420 and you don't have to wake up every day where this is some great challenge.

00:47:29.360 Like most of the time it's great.

00:47:31.500 It's like pretty easy.

00:47:33.740 You should go by, you should go by, go through most of your days.

00:47:36.420 And like the fact that you're married really doesn't present any challenges.

00:47:40.120 In fact, most of the time it's an asset.

00:47:46.140 So, but with that said, I don't doubt what Michelle Obama is saying because in the case

00:47:53.640 of Michelle and Barack, it's option three. 0.95

00:47:55.200 They are both raging narcissists.

00:47:57.600 So yes, in their case, marriage is hard, but only because they're narcissists and marriage

00:48:03.580 requires you to consider the needs of someone other than yourself.

00:48:07.500 And if you aren't a narcissist, it's usually not any great challenge to consider someone

00:48:12.680 else's needs.

00:48:13.460 Now we all have moments of selfishness.

00:48:15.640 I'm certainly not perfect.

00:48:16.780 Nobody's perfect.

00:48:18.460 But for normal people, considering someone else's needs, it's not, it's, it's not impossible.

00:48:24.600 And, um, and in a marriage, often it's enjoyable.

00:48:28.040 Like you like doing things for your spouse.

00:48:29.700 You like to see them happy.

00:48:30.640 You like to make them feel appreciated.

00:48:33.440 Um, that's the way that it should be.

00:48:35.740 That's the way that it can be.

00:48:36.740 Um, again, again, unless you're a narcissist.

00:48:39.460 So, so when you, when you hear someone saying this, oh, so hard, it's so hard.

00:48:44.240 Um, maybe they are, maybe they made the unfortunate mistake of marrying narcissists, but, but most

00:48:51.480 likely this is what you're listening to as a narcissist speaking.

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00:49:43.360 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:49:51.220 For our Daily Cancellation today, I'm afraid that I must cancel Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

00:49:56.100 Now, I've always liked Pete Hegseth.

00:49:58.440 I defended him while he was being smeared during the confirmation process.

00:50:01.340 I've praised him for the work he's done in his role leading the Defense Department.

00:50:05.480 I'm not going to rescind any of that praise today, but I am going to call him out for being

00:50:10.760 egregiously wrong about one, I think, very important issue.

00:50:15.480 There was a moment during the meeting with top military brass at Quantico that we talked

00:50:19.480 about this week that this moment I haven't talked about.

00:50:22.880 And I haven't talked about it because I needed time to collect my thoughts.

00:50:26.720 I had to think about it, pray about it.

00:50:28.700 It was the moment where Hegseth launched into a sudden, unprovoked, broadside attack against

00:50:37.180 members of my community, the bearded community.

00:50:41.580 Listen.

00:50:41.900 Long hair, superficial individual expression.

00:50:46.500 We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.

00:50:50.820 Because it's like the broken windows theory of policing.

00:50:53.780 It's like when you let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes.

00:50:57.160 So you have to address the small stuff.

00:50:59.760 This is on duty, in the field, and in the rear.

00:51:02.380 If you want a beard, you can join special forces.

00:51:05.540 If not, then shave.

00:51:06.800 We don't have a military full of Nordic pagans, but unfortunately, we have had leaders who 0.92

00:51:13.960 either refuse to call BS and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like they were not allowed

00:51:19.560 to enforce standards.

00:51:21.920 Both are unacceptable.

00:51:24.700 And that's why today at My Direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over.

00:51:29.780 No more beardos.

00:51:31.940 The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.

00:51:35.340 So Hegseth doesn't just declare beards verboten in the military.

00:51:39.760 He smears the beard.

00:51:41.800 He besmirches its good name.

00:51:43.560 He even uses the B-slur, calling bearded men beardos.

00:51:47.180 A term that has been used to oppress and persecute the bearded community for centuries.

00:51:52.920 Don't look that up.

00:51:54.120 I'm just telling you, but it's true.

00:51:56.280 And he implies that beards are pagan.

00:51:59.200 You know, talks about Norse pagans.

00:52:00.940 That's true, of course, that the Vikings had beards.

00:52:03.140 But you know who else had a beard?

00:52:04.720 Jesus?

00:52:06.560 Every other notable man in the Bible?

00:52:10.580 Presumably they had beards.

00:52:12.040 And throughout much of Christian history.

00:52:15.900 Also, while we're on the subject, why exactly wouldn't we want our military to be a little

00:52:21.480 bit more like the Vikings?

00:52:23.360 Why is that?

00:52:23.880 They were fierce warriors.

00:52:24.940 What's wrong with that?

00:52:26.140 Answer me this, Mr. Secretary.

00:52:27.300 Which is more likely to instill fear in the hearts of our enemies?

00:52:30.400 An army of bearded Vikings coming after them? 0.99

00:52:33.120 Or an army of hairless, baby-faced Office Depot managers?

00:52:37.760 Now, I agree with you that there should be strict grooming standards.

00:52:41.640 But if anything, the grooming standards should require a beard, not forbid it. 0.88

00:52:46.300 He calls beards ridiculous. 0.93

00:52:47.500 I would say that not having a beard is ridiculous. 0.95

00:52:51.160 Every man in the military should be mandated to grow a beard. 0.80

00:52:55.380 There's something spiritually wrong, deeply, with a man who can't grow a beard.

00:52:59.040 This kind of policy would weed those men out.

00:53:02.240 Now, I understand that historically the prohibition on beards was put in place for practical reasons,

00:53:05.780 so that soldiers could get a good seal under their gas masks in World War I and World War II.

00:53:10.760 But that concern is not as relevant today as it was back then.

00:53:16.520 I mean, the vast majority of military members will never have an occasion to put on a gas mask in the field.

00:53:22.400 So what other reason is there to have a ban like this in place?

00:53:25.900 The reason, as Hexeth says, because he doesn't say anything about gas masks,

00:53:29.120 he's talking about discipline, standards.

00:53:33.100 And I believe in discipline and standards.

00:53:34.400 I think it's especially important in the military, obviously, of discipline and standards.

00:53:37.600 But why should the standard be beardlessness?

00:53:40.700 Consider for a moment that most of the greatest military leaders and warriors in history wore beards.

00:53:45.660 Okay, we've already talked about the Vikings, which Hexeth brought up himself as if it helped his case.

00:53:50.160 What about all the great Civil War generals?

00:53:53.300 You know, Grant, Lee, Stonewall Jackson.

00:53:55.860 They all had beards.

00:53:57.740 So did Hernán Cortés and the conquistadors.

00:54:00.980 So did Genghis Khan.

00:54:01.860 So did Attila the Hun. 0.55

00:54:04.400 So did Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings.

00:54:07.120 Now, granted, he's fictional.

00:54:08.160 But what does it tell you that whenever a great warrior is imagined in fiction, he always has a beard?

00:54:12.580 Tolkien, one of the most imaginative men to ever live, could not even conceive of a clean-shaven warrior.

00:54:19.700 Think about that.

00:54:20.300 On the other hand, there was Gollum, a shriveled, scrawny, envious, insane, little, hairless cave dweller. 0.57

00:54:28.380 The perfect representation of the non-bearded man. 0.98

00:54:32.020 Now, unlike Pete Exeth, I do not discriminate against men who make different facial hair choices.

00:54:37.760 I embrace follicle diversity.

00:54:40.320 I don't look down on men who are beardless.

00:54:44.580 I mean, I do literally look down on them because they're short.

00:54:47.440 You know, their growth has been stunted by the lack of testosterone.

00:54:49.640 But I don't judge them for that.

00:54:52.080 I pity them.

00:54:53.160 You know, I pray for them.

00:54:54.540 The way that I pray for all the other, you know, not to be insulting, but all the other deformed freaks out there. 1.00

00:54:59.980 I wouldn't call them any slurs.

00:55:02.220 I wouldn't go around saying that beardless men look like 11-year-old boys trapped in an adult man's body,

00:55:06.380 like some kind of low-T version of Benjamin Button.

00:55:08.560 That's not the sort of thing I would ever say.

00:55:09.940 I wouldn't say that they look like big, weird babies.

00:55:12.120 I'm not going to say that. 0.88

00:55:12.820 I wouldn't say that beardless men look like they're suffering from leprosy.

00:55:15.580 These are things that I wouldn't say.

00:55:16.720 I certainly wouldn't claim that a man without a beard is also a man without a soul.

00:55:21.340 That's a theological question.

00:55:22.640 You know, there's a lot of debate about it.

00:55:24.640 I'm not going to speculate because that would be irresponsible.

00:55:28.240 You know, and also that conversation would go over the heads of beardless men because they, you know, 0.99

00:55:33.380 they typically have lower IQs, according to science.

00:55:35.380 All that to say, I'm taking the high road.

00:55:38.580 I'm not going to get into a fight with a beardless male community.

00:55:43.220 It wouldn't be productive.

00:55:44.340 And, you know, anyway, I would never hit a woman.

00:55:46.360 But if only Pete Hegseth could have been as kind and accepting as I'm being right now.

00:55:53.860 Instead, he chose to expose himself as an anti-beard bigot.

00:55:57.980 And for that reason, despite all the other great things he's doing, he is today canceled.

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