The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1671 - It’s Time To Crush The Leftist Insurrection Once And For All

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00:00:30.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Trump administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act.

00:00:34.440 I'll explain why they should do exactly that.

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00:02:20.600 Ever since Donald Trump took office, federal judges have undertaken a concerted effort

00:02:25.140 to suspend the power of the executive branch, unlike anything else that's ever happened in this country.

00:02:29.840 The words judicial coup do not even begin to describe what's been going on.

00:02:34.780 In every case, whether they're blocking the Trump administration from deleting trans propaganda

00:02:38.240 on federal websites or from terminating federal employees or from deploying the National Guard

00:02:42.860 or a million other examples, these individual unelected federal judges

00:02:46.560 have determined that the president of the United States

00:02:49.260 had somehow overstepped his authority under the Constitution.

00:02:52.400 And this is obviously an unsustainable situation.

00:02:55.540 If judges are going to overturn every single significant decision the president makes,

00:03:00.540 then the judges have effectively become president.

00:03:04.720 Eventually, something has to give.

00:03:06.960 And that's why a lot of commentators, myself included,

00:03:08.940 have called on the White House to simply ignore these rulings.

00:03:12.020 Other than impeaching and removing judges, which is impossible given that Democrats have

00:03:16.620 too many votes in the Senate, ignoring courts that go rogue seems like the only real option.

00:03:22.680 Andrew Jackson did it before, and Donald Trump, who happens to be a big fan of Andrew Jackson,

00:03:27.300 can do it again.

00:03:28.600 But there is actually one additional approach that the Trump administration could take

00:03:32.400 before we decide to simply do away with the court system altogether.

00:03:35.620 And based on recent reports, it looks like the White House is seriously considering this

00:03:40.500 particular route.

00:03:41.780 I'm talking about invoking the Insurrection Act, the federal law that permits the president

00:03:46.260 to federalize the National Guard and deploy U.S. troops for law enforcement purposes in U.S. cities.

00:03:53.940 And when the Insurrection Act is discussed in the press, of course, it's described as

00:03:57.460 the mother of all power grabs.

00:03:59.660 Democrats pretend that it hasn't been invoked more than two dozen times in this country's history,

00:04:04.580 most recently to suppress the L.A. riots.

00:04:07.500 They don't want to talk about the fact that several presidents, including some of their

00:04:09.840 heroes like JFK and FDR, all invoked the law, mainly to enforce racial integration.

00:04:15.780 On the other side of the political spectrum, Republicans point out correctly that the Insurrection

00:04:19.640 Act is necessary to put down lawlessness in cities like Portland and Chicago.

00:04:25.240 Lawlessness that's reached almost comical levels of absurdity, as police supervisors have

00:04:30.640 made it clear that their officers should not assist federal agents who are being actively

00:04:34.800 attacked.

00:04:36.620 So here's audio, if you haven't heard yet, from the Chicago police scanner.

00:04:40.640 This is just one example.

00:04:42.800 Dispatchers told officers not to assist federal agents who are being surrounded by a violent

00:04:48.940 mob.

00:04:49.280 Listen.

00:04:50.580 All right.

00:04:50.940 And 999 just to confirm, 39th place in Kesey, they were saying that they were being surrounded

00:04:57.100 by that large crowd, and they were requesting the police were not sending, waving off all

00:05:03.280 the cars heading to 39th place in Kesey.

00:05:05.980 Again, those are the orders will be given.

00:05:09.080 Okay.

00:05:09.760 And again, for all the units that we called to go over that way, 39th place in Kesey, if

00:05:15.460 you could just hold off, 9-11, 9-13, 9-23, 9-24, 9-33, 9-34, just disregard that, 39th place

00:05:27.320 in Kesey.

00:05:28.380 They were requesting the police, we're not sending.

00:05:32.920 That's the decision that's been made by local law enforcement in Chicago, or more accurately,

00:05:37.340 by the Democrats who run the city.

00:05:40.040 It's an admission, which they also put in writing, by the way, that local police are

00:05:44.460 unable or unwilling to maintain law and order.

00:05:47.900 That is, and always has been, a valid justification for invoking the Insurrection Act and sending 0.99

00:05:52.700 in the U.S. military.

00:05:54.200 I don't need to recount all the scenes of violence and anarchy, because you've probably seen

00:05:58.380 hours of it at this point.

00:06:00.180 We're all familiar with it.

00:06:01.560 ICE officers are being shot at.

00:06:03.220 They're being ambushed on the streets, run off the road, boxed in, pelted with objects,

00:06:08.900 on and on and on.

00:06:10.600 Rioters are blocking federal vehicles in the roadways.

00:06:13.260 Mobs are parading through the streets, preventing people from going where they need to be. 1.00

00:06:18.000 The mayor of Chicago, meanwhile, is establishing ICE-free zones in a clear effort to interfere

00:06:22.140 with federal law enforcement.

00:06:23.920 Watch.

00:06:24.220 Today, we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning in this out-of-control administration.

00:06:30.800 The order establishes ICE-free zones.

00:06:35.320 That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as

00:06:42.880 staging grounds for these raids.

00:06:45.680 Now, the red line has always been state and local governments can decide not to actively

00:06:52.360 assist federal officials, but they can't decide to actively interfere with federal officials

00:06:57.360 either.

00:06:58.500 That's how federalism works.

00:06:59.780 It's how our whole constitutional system works.

00:07:02.080 But the city of Chicago and many other cities have decided to break this covenant, and they

00:07:07.860 aren't hiding their intentions.

00:07:08.920 They're announcing it.

00:07:10.220 As a result, no reasonable person can deny what's happening or that the Insurrection Act

00:07:14.580 is not only a valid response, but probably the only available remedy to stop the mayhem,

00:07:21.700 as many conservatives have said.

00:07:23.420 But there is one other major benefit of invoking the Insurrection Act, which a lot of people

00:07:28.740 aren't talking about.

00:07:30.060 It would finally force federal judges to openly declare their rebellion against the executive

00:07:34.760 branch.

00:07:35.720 The Chicago Police Department has just explicitly declared its own rebellion, as you just heard.

00:07:40.800 And if a single federal judge tries to stand in the way of Donald Trump's invocation of the

00:07:46.100 Insurrection Act, then the judiciary would be doing the exact same thing. 0.96

00:07:49.060 The judges couldn't hide behind legalese or strained interpretations of the law in order

00:07:53.720 to justify their fraudulent decisions.

00:07:55.560 If they attempt to overturn Donald Trump's use of the Insurrection Act, the only way they

00:07:59.140 can do it is by admitting that they're waging open warfare on a duly elected branch of the

00:08:04.900 government.

00:08:05.880 And here's why.

00:08:06.440 The Insurrection Act, by design, leaves no room for judges or lawmakers to intervene.

00:08:13.280 The law is based on the president's constitutional authority to act as commander-in-chief of the

00:08:17.100 military, as well as his responsibility to ensure domestic security.

00:08:21.480 Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states,

00:08:23.280 quote,

00:08:23.820 The Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws

00:08:28.140 of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.

00:08:32.480 And with the Insurrection Act, Congress awarded the president the unilateral authority,

00:08:36.180 to decide when an insurrection exists and how to deal with it.

00:08:40.840 You could pull up the law and read it for yourself.

00:08:42.580 Here's the relevant portion.

00:08:44.160 Quote,

00:08:44.520 Whenever the president considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages,

00:08:48.680 or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impracticable to enforce

00:08:52.920 the laws of the United States in any state by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,

00:08:57.000 he may call into federal service such of the militia of any state and use such of the armed

00:09:01.800 forces as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

00:09:06.180 That's it.

00:09:08.020 I mean, that's the law of the land.

00:09:09.720 It's the law.

00:09:11.380 This is not fascism.

00:09:12.560 This is the law passed by Congress.

00:09:15.920 There are no qualifiers.

00:09:17.180 There's no provision that the president's declaration of insurrection has to be reasonable in the

00:09:21.400 eyes of Congress or a judge or anybody else.

00:09:24.060 There's no provision that puts a time limit on the president's authority.

00:09:28.860 There's not even a definition of the word insurrection.

00:09:31.160 It's just up to the president.

00:09:33.640 Now, if you're a blue-haired professor at, say, Berkeley, you might hyperventilate about

00:09:39.400 this.

00:09:40.600 Surely you might say there have to be checks and balances somewhere, but actually, no.

00:09:44.780 So, when it comes to this, there don't have to be checks and balances.

00:09:48.800 At some point, when you're dealing with a problem like this, one branch of government

00:09:54.660 has to be the final authority.

00:09:58.040 And there's no way to avoid that.

00:09:59.520 It's as inevitable as the laws of physics.

00:10:01.760 And the founders understood that.

00:10:03.060 Yes, they created an intricate system of government in which the three branches of government serve

00:10:08.020 as checks on each other.

00:10:09.940 That's the ideal situation.

00:10:11.420 That's how things are supposed to work.

00:10:13.260 But the founders also understood that if things break down and one branch of government decides

00:10:18.240 to check another branch into oblivion in an attempt to destroy the entire country and 0.88

00:10:22.760 our democratic system of government and to override the other two branches, then there

00:10:28.740 has to be a fail-safe.

00:10:29.700 There has to be a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency type of safeguard.

00:10:34.460 And the Insurrection Act, which, again, is based very closely on the constitutional text,

00:10:39.440 is that safeguard.

00:10:41.140 The Insurrection Act says if things get really, really bad, then the elected president of the

00:10:45.920 United States, who has more of a democratic mandate than any court or any lawmaker, can use

00:10:53.780 the military to restore order.

00:10:55.160 To be clear, undoubtedly, left-wing judges would try to issue injunctions anyway, not denying

00:11:01.880 that.

00:11:02.300 But the point is that, like the Chicago Police Department, they'd have to be very, very

00:11:06.500 transparent about what they were doing.

00:11:09.180 The Insurrection Act doesn't give them any room to weasel out of it.

00:11:12.800 They'd have to state, essentially, that they don't care about the Constitution or laws passed

00:11:16.200 by Congress, that they're declaring open warfare against the executive branch, that they are

00:11:21.680 asserting their authority over, over the executive branch.

00:11:26.100 And additionally, many of these judges, and all of the left along with them, are on the

00:11:30.900 record already stating, of course, as we've heard countless times, that January 6th was

00:11:37.600 an insurrection.

00:11:39.300 Several courts, including the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado, attempted to kick

00:11:42.940 Trump off the ballot in the last election on the theory that he had committed an insurrection.

00:11:48.220 So they've already gone out of their way to declare, in no uncertain terms, that a group

00:11:51.560 of old ladies, you know, wandering around the Capitol for a few hours, constitutes an insurrection. 1.00

00:11:56.820 Their standard is that if a few windows are broken and someone sits on Nancy Pelosi's desk

00:12:01.100 and steals her lectern, then an insurrection has taken place.

00:12:04.020 And if that's the standard, then there's no conceivable way, morally or logically, to

00:12:08.920 argue that cities like Portland and Chicago and Los Angeles aren't in a state of open

00:12:12.940 insurrection against the United States.

00:12:14.620 If a mob loitering inside the Capitol for a few hours counts as an insurrection, then

00:12:18.880 coordinated and violent attacks on law enforcement, endorsed by state and local officials, certainly

00:12:24.920 qualify.

00:12:26.280 They have boxed themselves into this corner.

00:12:28.300 There's no way around it.

00:12:29.120 And that's why the arguments from the left are growing increasingly frantic and incoherent.

00:12:34.980 On social media at the moment, various left-wing figures are doing their best to stoke outrage

00:12:39.440 because they suspect a declaration of insurrection is coming.

00:12:43.060 Here's Robert Reich, for example, who claims to be some kind of professor at Watch.

00:12:47.440 Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him.

00:12:51.180 If you take a look at what's been going on in Portland, it's been going on for a long

00:12:54.420 time, and that's insurrection.

00:12:56.020 I mean, that's pure insurrection.

00:12:57.100 I know all of this is frightening, and I don't want to unduly alarm you, but you need

00:13:00.900 to be aware of this imminent danger.

00:13:03.040 It's unfolding very, very rapidly.

00:13:04.620 He's following a four-point plan that you need to know about.

00:13:08.160 Step one is to deploy ICE into so-called blue cities owned by Democrats.

00:13:13.200 These masked and armed ICE agents are wreaking havoc on American cities and violating due process.

00:13:18.620 They're arresting people outside immigration courtrooms.

00:13:21.540 They're raiding homes in the middle of the night and detaining children and adults, including

00:13:26.000 American citizens.

00:13:27.460 Trump wants to stoke actual violence, which would make it easier for him to unleash the

00:13:31.520 final step in his plan, which is step four, invoke the Insurrection Act.

00:13:36.560 The Insurrection Act empowers a president to federalize the National Guard and use the U.S.

00:13:41.520 military to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or armed rebellion against the government.

00:13:46.800 Everything done by Trump has been a preamble to invoking this act and being able to unleash

00:13:51.900 troops against his perceived political enemies who oppose his regime in advance of the 2026

00:13:58.080 midterms.

00:13:59.140 It would be the ultimate step in Trump's authoritarian power grab.

00:14:02.940 This is what their argument is going to be.

00:14:05.260 They're going to claim that Trump wants to round up his political opponents and anyone

00:14:09.400 else he doesn't like.

00:14:10.280 And of course, that's precisely what Joe Biden's administration actually did.

00:14:13.520 They jailed every Trump aide and ultimately Trump himself in order to prevent a Democratic

00:14:18.840 election from taking place.

00:14:20.000 And Joe Biden didn't need the Insurrection Act to do any of that.

00:14:22.160 He just did it.

00:14:23.700 What people like Robert Reich won't do, even though it would solve the whole problem, is

00:14:28.640 admit what they're really interested in.

00:14:31.820 In the first Trump administration, the argument from the left was that he put kids in cages

00:14:35.880 and separated families or whatever.

00:14:38.000 That argument never made any sense.

00:14:40.440 Families are separated all the time when the parents commit crimes.

00:14:43.520 But it's what they went with.

00:14:45.320 And this time around, their argument is even more tenuous.

00:14:47.500 They're saying that ICE agents are the modern day Gestapo because they're rounding up illegal

00:14:52.020 aliens while wearing masks and making lawful arrests in public spaces.

00:14:55.640 They say ICE is arresting American citizens, even though there isn't a single case of ICE

00:14:59.600 deporting an actual American citizen anywhere.

00:15:01.980 It has not happened.

00:15:03.560 There is a case of an illegal alien taking her children with her as she was deported, which

00:15:07.900 is obviously a completely different scenario.

00:15:09.440 But they've yet to have a real case of an actual American citizen being rounded up by ICE.

00:15:16.520 What's really going on here, although no one on the left would wants to say it, is that

00:15:20.900 the Democrat Party demands open borders.

00:15:23.800 They do not want any federal immigration enforcement of any kind.

00:15:27.760 That is their platform.

00:15:28.740 But they never say it out loud explicitly because they understand how unconvincing and unpopular

00:15:33.900 that is.

00:15:34.600 So leftist judges hide behind various legalese while Democrat activists make outlandish claims

00:15:39.840 with no basis in fact.

00:15:42.180 That's what they're forced to do.

00:15:44.000 That's what's been happening for the last 10 months.

00:15:46.260 And as a result, we have arrived at the absolute limit of checks and balances in our system of

00:15:50.620 government.

00:15:50.920 And if courts and local governments want to keep pushing things, they'll rapidly find

00:15:56.200 out that under our Constitution, they will lose any one-on-one battle with the executive

00:16:01.220 branch.

00:16:02.520 That's how our Constitution was structured.

00:16:05.080 That's how the Insurrection Act was structured.

00:16:08.080 And in an ideal situation, of course, this fail-safe wouldn't be necessary.

00:16:11.620 We shouldn't have to rely on a final line of defense like this.

00:16:14.080 But at the moment, we do.

00:16:16.180 Democrats are daring the administration to invoke the constitutional response to their lawlessness

00:16:20.140 and depravity.

00:16:21.780 And in response, the administration has no other choice but to follow the guidance of

00:16:26.700 the founders and send in the military to quell an insurrection that has rapidly spiraled

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00:19:10.680 Praise for President Donald Trump has started to roll in after Hamas and Israel announced

00:19:13.620 that they have agreed to the first phase of the peace plan to end the war in Gaza,

00:19:16.920 potentially create a path to a Palestinian state.

00:19:19.180 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first to credit Trump for the

00:19:22.180 plan's framework that Hamas and Israel negotiators had just reached an agreement on.

00:19:26.780 Netanyahu posted,

00:19:29.320 Through steadfast resolve, powerful military action, the great efforts of our great friend

00:19:32.000 and ally President Trump, we have reached this critical point.

00:19:35.220 I thank President Trump for his leadership, his partnership, and his unwavering commitment.

00:19:38.280 Former Hamas hostages and the families of the hostages still trapped in Gaza hailed the

00:19:41.740 agreement, which, if carried out, would see the release of the remaining 20 hostages

00:19:45.160 still alive in Gaza by Monday.

00:19:47.020 Okay, so we'll see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks.

00:19:49.420 But right now, I mean, this is a monumental achievement by Donald Trump.

00:19:52.540 Now, he has billed himself as the peace president.

00:19:55.600 I think he's lived up to that billing, certainly.

00:19:59.180 He deserves, as many people have, at least on the right, have said, he deserves the Nobel

00:20:04.160 Peace Prize.

00:20:06.140 Certainly deserves it far more than Obama did, who won it for doing absolutely nothing.

00:20:10.220 And this is why, you know, even when I have criticisms of the current administration,

00:20:13.640 and I'll voice those criticisms whenever I have them, but ultimately there's no question

00:20:17.420 that this is the greatest presidency of my lifetime, hands down.

00:20:24.540 I mean, that's not really close.

00:20:27.220 And granted, pretty low bar, but even so, you know, Trump has accomplished some monumental

00:20:35.400 things just in the first nine or ten months of his administration.

00:20:37.720 And really, if all Trump ever did, if his entire term, the only thing he did was shut

00:20:44.180 down the border, which he has, and get a peace deal in the Middle East, if those were

00:20:49.700 his only accomplishments, that would still be, you'd count that as a success.

00:20:54.020 But he's done this in like nine months, and those are not the only two achievements even

00:20:58.160 in that time.

00:20:58.920 So very impressive.

00:21:02.720 And this is also America first, by the way.

00:21:04.880 You know, it's better for our country if the fighting stops, obviously.

00:21:09.420 So I guess we'll just wait now.

00:21:11.920 We'll wait now for that, for that Nobel Peace Prize to materialize.

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00:21:35.080 their sexuality or gender identity, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled that state

00:21:39.020 restrictions on what licensed counselors can say in conversations with adolescents might

00:21:43.480 run afoul of the First Amendment.

00:21:45.700 The justice heard oral arguments in a dispute from Colorado over the state's 2019 law banning

00:21:50.240 so-called conversion therapy for minors or efforts to change an individual's sexual orientation

00:21:54.580 or gender identity during talk therapy treatment.

00:21:56.900 So the media is very concerned because you can tell in the oral arguments which way this

00:22:02.420 is heading.

00:22:04.220 And yeah, conversion therapy bans are done.

00:22:07.000 The Supreme Court will rule against them.

00:22:09.920 And they should.

00:22:10.800 And, you know, we've talked about this.

00:22:12.840 But just to review, first of all, it is obviously a violation of your free speech rights if you

00:22:19.660 are told by the government that you cannot express certain thoughts or ideas during a therapy

00:22:24.440 session with your client, with your patient.

00:22:30.140 It is, if that's not a violation of free speech, then the concept of free speech has no meaning.

00:22:37.100 If the government is giving counselors a list of approved opinions and thoughts that they're

00:22:41.780 allowed to express during a session, then there is no free speech.

00:22:46.180 Free speech is dead.

00:22:46.920 So you can't say, oh, but you do have freedom of speech as long as you stick to what's on

00:22:53.860 the list here.

00:22:56.020 Here are the, here's the, actually it's not even a list.

00:22:59.380 Here's the one thing.

00:23:00.460 When someone comes to you and they're struggling with their quote unquote gender identity, here's 0.95

00:23:05.380 the one thing you're allowed to say to them.

00:23:07.420 Here's the list.

00:23:08.280 There's one thing on it.

00:23:09.780 And as long as you stick to that list with one item, you have freedom.

00:23:16.860 You have the freedom to do exactly what we say.

00:23:19.480 That's basically the argument on the other side.

00:23:21.560 And that argument of course doesn't work and it will be rejected by the Supreme Court.

00:23:25.980 It should be, it will be, it must be.

00:23:29.720 And this is why we really need a workable definition of free speech.

00:23:32.780 I mean, what, what kind of speech is included under the free speech umbrella?

00:23:39.700 We're told that this is a hopelessly complicated question, but it really isn't.

00:23:45.780 I mean, here's the definition or here's what it should be.

00:23:49.640 Free speech is any speech that expresses a point of view.

00:23:54.900 If you are communicating a point of view, an opinion, a belief through speech, then that

00:24:03.680 is free speech.

00:24:04.480 That is speech and it's free speech and you should have the right to do that.

00:24:09.000 Period.

00:24:11.420 And I think defining it that way, in that simple way, really it, it, it rules out the

00:24:19.700 kinds of things that you want to rule out, like a threat.

00:24:21.660 Okay.

00:24:22.020 If I say I'm going to kill you, that's not really a point of view. 0.90

00:24:26.280 That's not a, uh, an opinion exactly. 0.97

00:24:28.620 That's a threat.

00:24:29.160 It's, it's not, I'm not giving my opinion.

00:24:30.960 I'm telling you what I'm going to do. 1.00

00:24:34.520 An opinion, the opinion version of that would be if I said, I hope you die. 0.99

00:24:40.120 Now you shouldn't say that. 0.97

00:24:41.220 It's a bad thing to say, but that's an opinion.

00:24:43.360 I mean, that's a perspective.

00:24:44.320 You're allowed to say that.

00:24:45.880 People say that to me all the time.

00:24:48.200 I'm quite familiar with those, with that kind of expression. 0.84

00:24:50.540 I hope you die is, uh, is, is that's an, yeah, that, that should be, that qualifies 0.99

00:24:56.180 as free speech saying I'm going to kill you is not free speech. 0.99

00:25:00.980 That's, that is just you stating what you're going to do, telling someone else, Hey, go 0.99

00:25:04.960 kill that guy again, not speech. 0.69

00:25:07.200 I think, I think the distinction is easy to see. 0.97

00:25:08.960 Um, and, uh, yeah, this also rules out defamatory speech.

00:25:18.340 If speech is just expressing a point of expressing opinion, expressing a belief, then defamation

00:25:24.420 that also rules out defamation.

00:25:25.800 Like defamation is not free speech, but what is the, what is a defamatory speech?

00:25:29.680 Defamatory speech is when you're saying something that's not true about someone and you know

00:25:33.400 that it's not true, that's, that is defamation, but that's not you expressing a point of view.

00:25:39.700 The whole point is like, you know, that's not true.

00:25:41.540 It's actually not your point of view.

00:25:42.680 You're lying because you're trying to defame the person and that's not included.

00:25:46.200 Everything else, everything that expresses a point of view and opinion or a belief should

00:25:50.560 be allowed.

00:25:51.440 And, um, this would also rule out pornography.

00:25:55.740 Pornography is not the expression of a point of view.

00:25:57.900 You're not giving your opinion or expressing a belief when you do pornography.

00:26:03.340 So that would be out, but you see how this really clarifies things.

00:26:06.320 And as long as you're expressing, communicating a point of view, then, uh, it, you should be

00:26:09.900 covered under free speech.

00:26:10.840 And it really is not hard.

00:26:12.380 It really isn't.

00:26:13.660 So what about so-called conversion therapy?

00:26:15.860 Well, that clearly is the expression of a point of view.

00:26:19.160 When a client sits down and says, I think I'm a woman.

00:26:21.880 And you as the counselor say, no, you're a man.

00:26:25.220 That is the expression of your point of view.

00:26:27.460 It would say, and it's the correct point of view, by the way, when they counsel you

00:26:32.160 to, to overcome same sex attraction, again, they're expressing a point of view, expressing

00:26:35.920 a belief.

00:26:36.900 Uh, I, you know, we act like this is so difficult to understand, but it really isn't.

00:26:43.200 Although in this case, the most salient, the most important point, isn't that a so-called

00:26:47.320 conversion therapy is free speech, though it is free speech.

00:26:51.380 It's that so-called conversion therapy is also true speech.

00:26:54.120 You know, they're outlawing, forbidding therapists from saying something that is true.

00:26:59.180 So if a male sits down and says, I'm a woman, for you to, as the therapist, to say, no, you're

00:27:05.060 a man and let's help you to accept that fact.

00:27:08.840 Not only are you expressing a point of view, but it's the correct point of view, which is

00:27:14.140 the most important thing.

00:27:15.000 And, um, and on top of all that, of course, banning conversion therapy makes no sense because,

00:27:22.200 because all therapy is conversion therapy.

00:27:25.140 The whole point of therapy is to convert the patient, convert the client from one mode of

00:27:31.080 thought to another mode of thought.

00:27:33.140 You know, one way of thinking to another way of thinking.

00:27:36.000 The point is supposed to be specifically to convert them from a disordered way of thinking.

00:27:40.560 This is the way it's supposed to be to a properly ordered way of thinking from, from dysfunction

00:27:46.120 to function, from confusion to understanding, from, uh, despair to, uh, contentment from unhappiness

00:27:53.900 to happiness.

00:27:54.480 That's the point of therapy to convert in that way.

00:28:00.100 The therapist is trying to help change the way the person thinks about themselves and the

00:28:04.940 world.

00:28:05.160 And if that doesn't need to be changed, then they shouldn't be in therapy.

00:28:11.100 If therapy has any use whatsoever, then that would be the use.

00:28:16.220 When you have someone who has a dysfunctional way of thinking and you are helping them to

00:28:20.760 come up with a functional way of thinking.

00:28:23.700 Someone has a, has a, a, a mistaken view of themselves or of reality, and you're helping

00:28:30.540 them to have a, have a correct understanding.

00:28:35.600 So to ban conversion therapy is to ban therapists from doing literally the only thing they should

00:28:40.600 be doing.

00:28:42.220 It would be like banning, you know, podiatrists from, uh, touching someone's foot.

00:28:47.540 It's like, well, what else am I, what else am I supposed to do then?

00:28:51.620 This is the only reason why this job exists.

00:28:54.360 And, uh, that's also why, of course, affirmative care is such an absolute joke, such a farce. 0.79

00:28:59.940 Um, affirmation is the last thing you need in therapy.

00:29:04.640 And, uh, uh, you know, it, it, it, it is the desire to have your, your dysfunction affirmed

00:29:12.740 is one of the things that the therapist is supposed to be helping you to overcome.

00:29:16.880 Um, uh, yesterday we played the video of Katie Porter, um, former, former Congresswoman, current

00:29:25.100 candidate for governor of California.

00:29:27.180 We played the video of her melting down in the face of a total softball interview.

00:29:31.280 Well, when it rains, it pours for poor Katie. 0.98

00:29:33.920 And now there's another video that's come out.

00:29:35.640 This is from, this is from a couple of years ago.

00:29:37.840 This is back when she was in Congress and she was doing some kind of interview, some kind

00:29:41.480 of zoom call.

00:29:42.260 I don't know.

00:29:42.560 And she chews out one of her aides for wandering into the shot and does this on camera. 1.00

00:29:49.380 And now a couple of years later, two, three years later, this video has made its way to

00:29:53.800 the public.

00:29:54.480 Here it is.

00:29:55.180 You're ready for stat number two.

00:29:57.380 I am.

00:29:58.400 All right.

00:29:59.660 Six hundred and thirty two dollars.

00:30:03.780 Six hundred and thirty two, which is how much you save in fuel and maintenance costs when

00:30:09.700 you replace your traditional car with an EV, with an electric vehicle.

00:30:14.180 So I drive, I lease a Chevy Bolt.

00:30:16.640 It is the best car that I have ever owned.

00:30:19.580 I just plug it into the garage three hole prong plug and I never have to go to the gas

00:30:25.220 station.

00:30:26.740 That's awesome.

00:30:27.700 And six hundred thirty two dollars is real money.

00:30:29.860 And I know here at UCI, we have a national fuel center research center, and they're also

00:30:35.880 doing work on how to make electric vehicles affordable, including for low and moderate

00:30:41.200 income people, working moms, single moms like me, people who really could benefit from an

00:30:46.000 extra six hundred and thirty two dollars in their pocket.

00:30:48.260 And it's also not just the individual savings, but it's also the total savings for our economy.

00:30:54.020 So I'm on the oversight committee, you might know, and that is where we did a study recently

00:30:59.640 this fall in September.

00:31:01.700 And what it showed is if we don't electrify our transportation sector, that we're going

00:31:08.080 to lose more than half a million Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other

00:31:13.640 problems.

00:31:14.560 And the state could lose.

00:31:17.220 Out of my shot.

00:31:19.240 I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.

00:31:21.520 It's not that it's electric vehicles, it's that if we don't need the commitments, I

00:31:25.800 need to prepare us climate for it.

00:31:27.900 OK, it does.

00:31:28.880 OK, you also were in my shot before that.

00:31:32.400 Stay out of my shot.

00:31:35.120 OK, I'm going to start again with electric vehicle saving us money.

00:31:39.000 Perfect.

00:31:39.800 OK.

00:31:40.960 Now, in fairness, I will say.

00:31:44.120 She was in the shot, so, you know, you can't wander into the shot like that.

00:31:49.500 But her reaction was obviously unhinged and disrespectful. 0.63

00:31:53.100 And again, I go back to two things.

00:31:54.800 First of all, just how sheltered and coddled Katie Porter has been as a Democrat female 0.59

00:31:59.600 congresswoman that, you know, and that not only explains why she treats people that way, 1.00

00:32:08.000 but also why she felt comfortable lashing out like that on camera.

00:32:13.180 I mean, she was sitting there on camera cussing out her staff, obviously not live. 0.91

00:32:18.180 Whatever they were doing, it was not a live shot.

00:32:20.320 So she had total confidence that she could do that.

00:32:23.640 And the video would just never come out.

00:32:26.860 And if it was leaked to the media, that the media would just bury it for her. 0.52

00:32:30.940 And and that's what they and that's the level of confidence she had.

00:32:34.140 And you know what?

00:32:34.780 If she had stayed in Congress.

00:32:37.360 I think what happened is she ran for Senate and law, so she decided not to run for reelection

00:32:41.160 and as a representative, she ran for Senate and she lost.

00:32:44.020 If she hadn't done that, if she just stayed where she was, then that video never would

00:32:49.440 have seen the light of day.

00:32:50.840 And she also wouldn't be catching any flack from the left for the interview that we played

00:32:54.520 yesterday.

00:32:55.740 And that's because, you know, she would have been useful to the left in her position. 0.97

00:33:01.480 And so they would run cover for her.

00:33:03.100 But now she's running for governor and she's running against other Democrats. 1.00

00:33:06.120 And that makes her an inconvenience.

00:33:09.680 And so the moment they decide that you're not useful anymore, same thing happened to

00:33:13.640 Andrew Cuomo.

00:33:15.900 He was the left.

00:33:17.240 I mean, it's weird to think of.

00:33:19.460 There's a lot of things from the last five years that are weird to think about now, especially

00:33:22.200 from 2020.

00:33:22.900 But back in 2020, he was the he was not only was he in the good graces of the left, but

00:33:28.520 he was their hero.

00:33:29.380 I mean, he was they wanted they wanted they actually wanted to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:33:32.360 They were he was a he was their their their favorite.

00:33:36.600 And.

00:33:38.900 But as time went on, he became less useful to them, and so they decided to throw him

00:33:43.500 to the wolves and same things kind of happening with Katie Porter should have just stayed where 0.58

00:33:48.240 she was.

00:33:48.640 But the problem is that these people, of course, have egos the size of Jupiter.

00:33:54.600 They all think they should be president.

00:33:56.760 You know, Katie Porter wants to run for president. 1.00

00:33:59.120 We can assume this is all part of her plan, become governor and then try to run for president. 1.00

00:34:04.640 What she doesn't realize, Kamala didn't realize this, you know, a lot of these people don't 0.94

00:34:11.480 realize it, is that if you're a miserable, charmless. 0.99

00:34:15.460 Like, viscerally repugnant. 1.00

00:34:20.040 Unpleasant person. 0.77

00:34:22.840 There's just a limit to how far you can climb in politics.

00:34:25.560 It's not doesn't it doesn't it's not going to kill your political dreams entirely.

00:34:29.380 You can still have a long career in politics.

00:34:32.360 You can get into Congress.

00:34:34.320 Definitely. 0.81

00:34:35.800 You know, Congress is is a congregation of some of the most repulsive and tiresome people 0.65

00:34:40.060 who have ever lived on the planet. 0.98

00:34:42.740 I mean, you could be a really awful and like the kind of person that nobody likes or could

00:34:49.160 ever like. 1.00

00:34:51.100 You could be the biggest loser on the planet. 1.00

00:34:52.940 Still get into Congress. 1.00

00:34:53.800 You don't need to have any political skills.

00:34:55.240 You don't need to have any interpersonal skills, any social skills to make it into Congress.

00:34:59.020 You don't need to be smart.

00:35:00.400 You don't need to be skilled at all.

00:35:03.560 I mean, look, you know, Jasmine Crockett. 0.99

00:35:06.140 So then you get all these like dull, tiresome bastards who make it into Congress. 0.99

00:35:11.640 And then they come to believe that they're the second coming of JFK or something. 0.99

00:35:15.280 So they try to keep climbing.

00:35:17.080 And the problem is that generally speaking, to get any higher, to become governor, certainly

00:35:22.520 to become president, you know, that's where you have to actually have something like you've

00:35:28.720 got to be mildly attractive.

00:35:30.980 You have to be a mildly attractive person in some way.

00:35:34.080 You have to be somewhat appealing, at least.

00:35:37.020 And that's where it all falls apart.

00:35:40.420 Also, by the way, I wanted to mention on this Katie Porter thing that as this video has been

00:35:46.020 going around of Katie Porter, the video from yesterday where she's chewing, where she storms

00:35:51.520 out of an interview, there are also these AI videos that are also making the rounds.

00:35:59.840 And it's a joke.

00:36:01.140 Like people are posting it as a joke saying, oh, well, you haven't seen the full version

00:36:05.380 of that video.

00:36:07.280 And then the AI video is Katie Porter like lunging at the reporter and strangling her or something, 0.90

00:36:12.300 you know, or slapping her. 0.99

00:36:13.720 And it's clearly AI.

00:36:14.840 But, you know, it's kind of funny for what it is.

00:36:19.140 It's funny because it's obviously AI and the people that are posting it are not claiming

00:36:23.940 otherwise.

00:36:24.380 They're not actually trying to fool you into thinking that she assaulted the reporter.

00:36:27.720 It's just a joke.

00:36:29.940 But look, not to hop on this, up on this soapbox again, being on a soapbox is the whole point

00:36:38.340 of the show, I suppose.

00:36:38.940 But I look at those videos and I think, well, that's funny, but it is not going to be funny

00:36:48.740 soon.

00:36:50.160 We're getting to a point where this is not going to be funny anymore because you look

00:36:53.800 at those videos, they're still pretty clearly fake.

00:36:59.340 They look a lot more real now than they did two years ago.

00:37:04.280 And we are rapidly getting to the point.

00:37:06.560 I mean, within the next two years, certainly probably within the next year where these

00:37:11.360 AI videos are not, are, are, are no longer distinguishable, where they are indistinguishable

00:37:16.840 from, from reality.

00:37:19.800 We are, we are very, very quickly getting to, we are almost, I'd say we're about 85% there.

00:37:24.140 I think, you know, just like roughly looking at these, these AI videos, I think they're about

00:37:27.900 85% of the way there.

00:37:30.580 There's about 15% of, of kind of uncanny valley that you still see in these videos.

00:37:35.120 Once you get to 95%, now you've got problems.

00:37:39.660 And then eventually you're at a hundred percent.

00:37:42.680 And what does a hundred percent mean?

00:37:44.960 Well, a hundred percent means that we will be at a point where anyone who doesn't like

00:37:49.980 you can go and put in a prompt and generate a video of you doing or saying something awful,

00:37:58.040 the worst kinds of things you can possibly imagine.

00:38:01.500 And they could just post it on the internet and it will be so, it'll be totally indistinguishable

00:38:07.120 from a real video completely.

00:38:08.580 And so there will be no way for you to prove that it's fake.

00:38:17.420 And even if there is like the best you'll be able to do is, is if someone's really an

00:38:22.680 expert, if you have some kind of program you can run that detects, but by that, by that

00:38:28.480 point, the damage will be done reputationally.

00:38:30.580 And there will always be, you know, once those kinds of videos are circulating and you've

00:38:36.280 got a video of yourself out there like that, even if you say, oh, it was AI, there's always

00:38:45.400 going to be in the back of people's mind.

00:38:46.580 Like they, we're very visual, we're visual creatures.

00:38:48.880 And once that, here's what I'm saying that even if, you know, of course you're going to

00:38:53.940 come out and you're going to say that's AI and there'll be some people who will believe

00:38:56.680 you, but we're so visual that once we're able to create that visual of you doing right,

00:39:04.400 like that someone makes a video of you drowning a cat in a river or whatever, or something

00:39:08.440 even worse than that, when it looks totally real, now you've been in people's minds,

00:39:15.320 once they've see it, seen it, they've seen you do it.

00:39:17.720 And even if they know you didn't really do it, they've still seen you do that.

00:39:22.580 And so this association kind of is locked in, even if you don't want it to be.

00:39:29.300 And, uh, that's where we're heading.

00:39:31.860 Like this is going to happen and we all know it.

00:39:35.200 And what, and what is so crazy to me is that nothing is being done at all to stop this.

00:39:42.460 We have just accepted that this is going to happen.

00:39:45.160 And, um, nothing is being done.

00:39:50.600 Now you could say, well, there's nothing we can do.

00:39:52.100 Look, we haven't tried.

00:39:54.000 We haven't tried to do it.

00:39:55.340 So we're just waltzing into this future where anyone who hates you can generate any video

00:40:01.400 that will be totally indistinguishable.

00:40:02.980 And it will just be out there forever.

00:40:07.780 I mean, do we understand what a nightmare that is?

00:40:14.180 We're not doing anything though.

00:40:15.620 There are no laws that are seriously being proposed.

00:40:18.140 Like no one is doing anything.

00:40:19.300 No one is trying to do anything.

00:40:21.160 At least, we could at least try.

00:40:22.820 We could at least try to put some barriers in place.

00:40:25.720 Something.

00:40:26.260 Anything.

00:40:28.280 Because what's going to happen is three years from now, we're going to, it's going to be

00:40:31.200 chaos.

00:40:31.760 I mean, three years ago, it's going to be the scenario I just described.

00:40:38.260 And people are going to be looking around like, why didn't we try to stop this?

00:40:41.260 We can't stop it now.

00:40:42.680 Why did we do nothing at all to try to do anything to prevent this very, like it's, we

00:40:48.020 all know that it's happening.

00:40:49.120 We can see the train.

00:40:50.280 We can see that we're on the train.

00:40:51.680 We can see the tracks going over the cliff.

00:40:53.740 Maybe we're too close to stop it, but we could at least try.

00:40:59.220 And we're not trying.

00:41:00.340 And that, I mean, it's, it's terrifying.

00:41:02.620 It should terrify everybody.

00:41:03.540 I don't know.

00:41:06.700 You know, and of course, if you're just a normal private person, you're, it won't happen

00:41:15.180 to you first.

00:41:16.820 Like first, it's going to be, it's going to hit the politicians.

00:41:19.680 You know, it's going to be a thing like political campaigns are going to be destroyed

00:41:23.280 by, by these AI videos.

00:41:25.200 That's going to be the first thing.

00:41:26.820 And then it's going to make it the public figures.

00:41:28.380 It's going to start with public figures who are partisan, who have enemies.

00:41:32.640 So, you know, uh, me and, and people in my line of work, uh, it's going to hit us real

00:41:39.020 hard.

00:41:40.740 And, um, and, and, and in that case, we're pretty much screwed because there's a whole

00:41:46.000 group of people, 50% of the country is going to be incentivized to, to believe whatever

00:41:52.980 the video is.

00:41:55.500 And, um, and so that's going to be a bloodbath, but then, you know, pretty quickly, I mean,

00:42:00.740 this is all going to happen very quickly, pretty quickly.

00:42:02.100 It makes it down to just like normal people, um, who, you know, if you have anyone who doesn't

00:42:06.700 like you and a lot of everyone does, you know, um, it, it'll make it there.

00:42:11.540 And, and I'm, uh, and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the most worried about that because at least

00:42:21.480 if you're in my position and that starts happening, you have a megaphone where you can say, oh,

00:42:26.160 this is fake.

00:42:27.680 But what happens when you're just a normal person who works a normal job and someone creates

00:42:33.100 a video like this and just puts it out there?

00:42:36.000 What do you do?

00:42:38.460 How do you address it?

00:42:39.740 You know, you don't have the megaphone.

00:42:42.040 So, uh, I'm very worried about it and, uh, I wish that we were doing something about

00:42:46.780 it, but we are not.

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00:44:03.260 Well, last time I weighed in on the single most important luminary of modern times, which

00:44:07.100 of course is Taylor Swift, it was to discuss the news of her engagement with NFL player

00:44:11.100 Travis Kelsey.

00:44:12.060 More specifically, if I recall correctly, I spent about half of the daily cancellation mocking

00:44:16.100 a CBS reporter who giggled like a schoolgirl as she broke into live coverage to announce 0.98

00:44:20.660 the engagement.

00:44:21.120 Didn't exactly seem like professional behavior by the reporter, and I spent roughly 10 minutes

00:44:25.260 making that point.

00:44:26.660 That was about two months ago, and now, belatedly, I have to do something I almost never do, which

00:44:31.320 is admit that I made a mistake.

00:44:32.660 I must issue an unequivocal apology to that giggling CBS reporter. 1.00

00:44:37.280 Take it all back.

00:44:38.760 I had no way of knowing that, in retrospect, I'd realize that her response was actually the

00:44:42.500 single most dignified way that a self-described Swifty could handle the fact that Taylor Swift

00:44:47.340 was planning on getting married and having kids.

00:44:50.160 Everyone else in this illustrious community would ultimately take the news far, far worse.

00:44:55.180 It's not an overstatement to say that, at the moment, there is a full-fledged mutiny

00:44:58.480 among Swifties, now that her new album, called The Life of a Showgirl, has just been released.

00:45:03.620 This album contains a few songs, apparently, about Taylor Swift's personal life, focusing

00:45:07.480 on her engagement, as you might imagine.

00:45:10.220 And the fans, many of them, are not taking it well, and their response actually tells

00:45:14.520 us something important about our culture at the moment.

00:45:16.520 So we'll start with this TikTok, which features a small segment from the most controversial

00:45:21.600 song on the album.

00:45:24.020 And as the song plays for our audio podcast listeners, there's a white woman who scowls 1.00

00:45:29.240 through the whole thing, along with a caption calling the song, racist propaganda.

00:45:35.080 So, here it is.

00:45:36.360 Watch.

00:45:36.560 Now, in case you couldn't make it out, Taylor Swift is singing to her fiancé here, and she

00:45:58.340 says that she wants to have a couple of children and get the whole block looking like you. 1.00

00:46:03.540 This is one of those lines that, unless English isn't your first language,

00:46:06.560 it's a pretty clear meaning.

00:46:08.060 It means that she wants to have a lot of children with Travis Kelsey.

00:46:11.860 And then they'll look like him, because that's the way genetics work.

00:46:15.260 You don't need to be a master wordsmith to decode it.

00:46:17.820 Throughout the vast majority of world history, no one would take any issue whatsoever with

00:46:22.340 a line like that.

00:46:24.200 But Taylor Swift's fans are taking an issue with this line, and it's not hard to see why.

00:46:28.740 The complaints about white supremacy are obviously disingenuous.

00:46:34.220 It's like a car backfiring or an animal that's vomiting involuntarily.

00:46:38.640 They don't know what to say, so they're just throwing words out there.

00:46:42.200 They're really unhappy because, like tens of millions of other women, they've been told

00:46:46.720 from birth that they can find fulfillment without starting a family, simply by pursuing a meaningless

00:46:50.840 corporate job and whatever, doing yoga until they turn 65 or something.

00:46:54.580 And now their icon, their goddess, is telling them in her mid-30s that actually fulfillment

00:47:01.840 does come from starting a family.

00:47:04.660 It's like the ultimate rug pull.

00:47:06.640 And they just have no idea how to process this.

00:47:09.360 Watch.

00:47:10.260 Not to be the friend that's too woke, okay?

00:47:12.440 But on a wish list, when Taylor's like, they all want their dogs that they call their kids,

00:47:17.560 that's fine.

00:47:18.720 But I want a baby.

00:47:19.740 I want a baby with you.

00:47:21.880 Like, why is the shade?

00:47:23.560 Why the shade?

00:47:24.420 Weren't you just, like, the proud cat mom?

00:47:27.680 Like, childless cat mom?

00:47:29.320 Childless cat lady? 0.95

00:47:30.160 I'm so confused.

00:47:31.220 I'm confused.

00:47:32.320 I want the whole neighborhood looking like you.

00:47:35.500 Like, I'm just so confused.

00:47:41.420 Like, in this climate, you want the whole neighborhood looking like Travis?

00:47:46.080 The childless cat ladies are definitely confused. 1.00

00:47:50.940 There's no doubt about that.

00:47:52.400 A guy using the name Wayne on X cataloged a bunch of similar clips like this.

00:47:56.880 Frankly, he deserves hazard pay for rooting through all of this.

00:47:59.580 But he did.

00:48:00.840 And here's another one.

00:48:02.320 I have subjected myself to listening to Taylor Swift's new album.

00:48:04.840 And the song, Wish List?

00:48:06.620 Yeah, that's trad wife propaganda. 1.00

00:48:08.860 That is straight up trad wife propaganda. 1.00

00:48:10.660 Why else would you put a song about wanting a whole block of kids looking like you while 0.98

00:48:16.360 we're going through the...

00:48:17.440 They're apparently thrown by the fact that during the election, Taylor Swift put out a

00:48:21.500 post on social media attacking J.D. Vance, who had mocked childless cat ladies.

00:48:25.500 And Swift stood up for these childless cat ladies and called herself one. 1.00

00:48:29.920 And to make matters worse, as far as we know, Taylor Swift didn't take money from Kamala's

00:48:33.660 campaign to post that.

00:48:34.720 Although every other celebrity who supported Kamala was on the Democrats' payroll.

00:48:38.280 And in this case, it would have been a lot more dignified if she had posted that for,

00:48:41.980 say, you know, a few million dollars.

00:48:43.300 But she just posted, I guess, on her own.

00:48:45.160 But in any event, this is a major theme of these enraged TikToks.

00:48:48.440 They're all really upset that Taylor Swift, who once called herself a childless cat lady,

00:48:52.760 is about to pop out some kids.

00:48:54.940 She's betraying the childless cat lady community. 1.00

00:48:58.300 This is an act of betrayal. 1.00

00:49:00.520 She's a traitor. 1.00

00:49:02.660 Watch. 1.00

00:49:03.900 Taylor Swift is handing the conservative agenda on a silver platter to the masses.

00:49:07.760 And before I go any further, and before you argue with me, you cannot convince me that

00:49:11.940 the master lyricist of our generation, akin to Shakespeare, the Easter egg master of our

00:49:18.680 generation, is not aware of what her entire optics and lyrics and album and everything is

00:49:23.960 giving at this very moment.

00:49:25.000 She went through this entire thing with Trump, right?

00:49:27.840 About how she and her fan base did not like being called childless cat ladies.

00:49:33.140 And now Taylor is calling y'all childless cat ladies because she's about to pop out some 1.00

00:49:39.580 kids.

00:49:41.580 And you know what's coming next?

00:49:44.140 Taylor Swift line of baby products.

00:49:46.280 You too could pop out some kids and live in a racially homogenous neighborhood.

00:49:52.100 I could spend the next 5,000 years going through TikToks like this, where the women are clearly 1.00

00:49:56.700 upset that the rug has been pulled from under them.

00:49:59.940 In a way, this is similar to the fury that trans identifying people have when they realize 1.00

00:50:04.020 that actually they can't change genders. 0.98

00:50:06.200 They've been fed a lie for most of their lives.

00:50:08.420 And then when they realize that they've been deceived, they lash out.

00:50:11.900 But instead of documenting any more TikToks where women lash out, because I think, you know,

00:50:15.860 you probably get the point.

00:50:17.240 Let's move on to this video from an especially deranged psychopath on TikTok.

00:50:20.920 And admittedly, this is a creepy video.

00:50:22.460 Hard to watch.

00:50:24.420 Because, you know, you get some real serial killer vibes here.

00:50:26.760 But if you listen long enough, it gets to something of a point.

00:50:30.640 Watch.

00:50:31.420 Am I the only one who's getting trad Wi-Fi from Taylor Swift's new album?

00:50:35.080 Like in the song Wishlist, she's talking about how everybody wants these material markers

00:50:39.220 of success.

00:50:40.180 But not her, though.

00:50:42.120 She just wants a man. 0.79

00:50:43.860 And she wants to have all of his kids so everyone around her will look like him.

00:50:48.580 And what she really wants is a house in suburbia that has a basketball hoop in the driveway for 0.57

00:50:55.060 her kids.

00:50:56.100 She doesn't want to have sex. 1.00

00:50:58.060 She's hypnotized. 0.88

00:50:59.820 She's under his spell.

00:51:02.440 It's not that she wants this.

00:51:04.040 She just can't consent. 0.88

00:51:06.160 And then you have the line, his love was the key that opened my sighs, which reminds me of 0.99

00:51:11.240 a lot of slut-shaming I heard growing up of, oh, you should only have sex with people you 0.99

00:51:15.240 really love. 1.00

00:51:16.280 It shouldn't be about your own sexual pleasure. 0.98

00:51:18.980 And that line is so gross to me because it's his love that opened her thighs. 0.94

00:51:23.400 It's not that she's choosing this. 0.74

00:51:25.080 It's that he loves her and he wants her.

00:51:27.320 So he's going to have her.

00:51:28.740 And it's so interesting to me because Taylor's entire brand is her being a relatable white 0.72

00:51:32.620 girl.

00:51:33.240 But the average white girl isn't relating to Taylor right now.

00:51:36.780 The average white girl is probably living paycheck to paycheck, is struggling to buy 1.00

00:51:40.720 groceries because grocery prices are up and rent prices are up.

00:51:43.900 And they're losing their rights rapidly.

00:51:47.020 And it seems like on this album, Taylor isn't even trying to be relatable anymore.

00:51:51.060 If you listen to hysterical women long enough in general, you'll eventually find out what 1.00

00:51:56.240 they're really upset about.

00:51:57.460 It might take a while for them to get around to it, but usually they do.

00:52:01.380 And this video is new different.

00:52:02.760 She's not upset about slut-shaming or trad wife vibes or how Taylor Swift is hypnotized 0.92

00:52:08.480 or whatever. 0.97

00:52:10.000 That's what she begins by talking about.

00:52:11.720 But at the end of the video, as you just saw, she admits her real problem with Taylor Swift.

00:52:16.120 Her real problem is that from an economic perspective, it doesn't seem possible for many young

00:52:20.840 people to buy a home and start a family.

00:52:22.600 That's the root of the outrage in this case.

00:52:25.260 Misery loves company, as the saying goes.

00:52:27.680 Here's another example from a viral post on social media.

00:52:30.280 Quote, not to be dramatic and I'll be a Swifty to the day I die, but I actually cried tears

00:52:34.360 at this album at how shockingly bad it was.

00:52:37.420 Not one single song I liked.

00:52:39.820 I prefer her heart broken.

00:52:43.420 Well, there you have it.

00:52:44.780 I mean, the first problem is that you thought that her music was good in the first place,

00:52:47.580 so then you're shocked when it's bad.

00:52:48.900 And those of us who've always known that it was bad, we're not shocked by it.

00:52:53.700 We're not going to cry over it.

00:52:56.220 It's just exactly what we expected.

00:52:58.960 But the line there is very telling.

00:53:01.080 I prefer her heart broken.

00:53:04.700 Which, that's a great thing to say.

00:53:06.000 It isn't about someone that you claim to like.

00:53:07.880 You're a Swifty, like you admire this woman. 0.98

00:53:10.140 But you want her to just be heart broken and devastated her whole life. 0.97

00:53:13.460 I love you so much.

00:53:16.560 I want you to be heart broken. 0.99

00:53:17.620 I want you to hate your life. 0.97

00:53:18.740 That's how much I love you.

00:53:21.060 But everyone can see why that is.

00:53:22.400 If you're a young woman who can't find a husband,

00:53:25.540 which is more common now than it's ever been in the history of this country,

00:53:29.220 then you're going to be heart broken.

00:53:33.180 You're probably going to view family as a luxury.

00:53:35.140 You're going to fall into the trap of believing that only billionaires like Taylor Swift

00:53:38.200 can possibly get married and have kids. 0.95

00:53:39.720 And then you're going to become bitter and borderline psychotic.

00:53:44.080 Every single criticism of this new album ultimately boils down to this.

00:53:47.100 It's displaced rage.

00:53:49.500 These women want to start families. 1.00

00:53:52.100 Like, innately, they do want to start a family.

00:53:56.140 At their core, there is that pull because, you know,

00:54:01.700 zillions of years of human biology demand it.

00:54:04.940 The sexual revolution and woke politics cannot change human nature.

00:54:08.600 It's always there.

00:54:09.800 You'll always feel that pull.

00:54:11.680 And they're resolving this tension between what they really want

00:54:16.300 and what they've been told to want by lashing out at Taylor Swift.

00:54:22.260 And by the way, gay liberal men are doing the same thing for what it's worth. 0.88

00:54:25.460 Watch.

00:54:26.320 An album about, like, an idealized form of, like,

00:54:29.340 what is a typical American family, ideally,

00:54:31.840 of, like, living in a suburb, being in a monogamous relationship,

00:54:35.060 getting peace and joy and basically just kind of being a housewife.

00:54:37.640 Those are Republican virtues.

00:54:39.700 I mean, I'm not saying they're bad things,

00:54:41.360 but they are things that Republicans and conservatives and sometimes liberals use.

00:54:44.960 And ignoring that they are used in that way in our political climate is not, like, a gotcha moment.

00:54:50.520 It is a lack of media literacy.

00:54:53.280 So, yeah, Taylor Swift's new album is clearly political, right?

00:54:56.480 Even if it's not intentionally so.

00:54:58.000 And it's political in exactly the politics that likes to hide itself, which is conservatism.

00:55:02.720 Further, doing this album, which is basically like a victory lap that is bad,

00:55:06.740 all people are literally being disappeared by a Gestapo,

00:55:09.460 there is a genocide going on, and rising fascism in America is distasteful. 0.93

00:55:13.520 It is distasteful to release an album and have not commented on any of the bad s*** going on

00:55:20.840 that celebrates how ideal and good your life is.

00:55:23.980 I'm not saying you can't do that, but you have to do so awarely.

00:55:27.040 And failing to do that, yeah, does normalize the state of existence you're in right now.

00:55:31.660 Again, the political diatribe is a smokescreen.

00:55:34.140 It couldn't be any more transparent.

00:55:35.720 Nobody's mad at Taylor Swift because she's not singing songs about illegal aliens 1.00

00:55:38.840 getting rounded up in Home Depot parking lots.

00:55:40.860 People are mad at Taylor Swift because she's laid waste to a founding myth of feminism, 1.00

00:55:44.180 which is that women are happiest when they abandon the family, demonize men, and worship themselves. 0.98

00:55:51.120 Millions of young women are now seeing in their own lives exactly where feminist ideology leads. 1.00

00:55:55.480 They're watching other people find happiness while they produce impotent, deranged TikToks 1.00

00:56:00.360 that launch a thousand wellness checks.

00:56:03.820 This is where feminism was always going to lead. 1.00

00:56:06.760 And now, even though they were warned for many years, millions of women finally understand that.

00:56:11.720 And that is why everyone complaining about Taylor Swift's new album on TikTok,

00:56:15.700 instead of looking for the actual root of their own unhappiness, is today canceled.

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Ep. 1671 - It’s Time To Crush The Leftist Insurrection Once And For All

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