The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1673 - POLITICO Releases An Egregious Hit Piece And Many Republicans Are Falling For It

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00:00:30.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Politico publishes a hit piece against a few young Republicans who made edgy jokes in a group chat.

00:00:35.980 Meanwhile, leftists openly celebrate political violence and the murder of children.

00:00:39.560 They want us to take their hand-wringing over a random group chat seriously. We shouldn't.

00:00:43.680 Also, leftists protest ice in the nude. Why do they always feel the need to take their clothes off?

00:00:47.820 There's actually an answer to that question, and we'll talk about it.

00:00:50.480 And CNN worries that the male gaze, quote-unquote, has made a comeback.

00:00:54.720 What does that even mean? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:43.160 In just the past few months, conservatives have seen tens of thousands of Democrats openly celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk,

00:02:50.400 just as they celebrated the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and just as they celebrated the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

00:02:56.600 We've seen Antifa mobs surrounding ICE vehicles and assaulting officers, only for Democrats to order the local police to stand down.

00:03:03.260 We've seen Democrats vandalize dozens of cars because of Elon Musk, only to suffer no criminal consequences whatsoever in states like Minnesota.

00:03:10.600 We've seen Democrat politicians react to transgender mass shootings at Christian churches by defending the so-called trans community, 0.87

00:03:17.480 rather than the Christians who are being slaughtered.

00:03:19.580 We've also seen the entire Democrat Party rally around their nominee for Attorney General of Virginia, Jay Jones,

00:03:24.100 after he openly fantasized about the murder of children, specifically the children of his political opponents.

00:03:30.160 To this day, not a single prominent Democrat has called on Jay Jones to drop out of the race.

00:03:35.780 Not a single one.

00:03:37.840 In fact, the Democrat candidate for governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger,

00:03:42.440 grinned like a sociopath when she was asked about Jay Jones during a recent debate.

00:03:47.300 There are two conclusions that we can draw from all this. 0.98

00:03:51.160 First, Democrats are the party of political violence.

00:03:54.960 They commit political violence all the time. 0.67

00:03:56.900 They celebrate it.

00:03:58.200 We know that.

00:03:59.780 And secondly, Democrats stick together.

00:04:03.060 When Democrats are caught on camera attacking federal officers or talking about killing children in text messages,

00:04:11.140 the leadership of the Democrat Party doesn't issue any kind of condemnation.

00:04:15.320 They don't call for anyone to lose their job.

00:04:17.520 Instead, if they decide to say anything at all, Democrats will blame their victims.

00:04:23.660 After all, their victims are fascists and Nazis.

00:04:26.760 They deserve what they get in the eyes of the left.

00:04:30.180 In a political environment like this, if you can even call it a political environment,

00:04:34.900 the only way for an opposing party to survive is to understand the situation that we're in

00:04:43.880 and the rules that the left is playing by.

00:04:47.860 Now, that's not to say that we should endorse political violence or celebrate violence.

00:04:53.040 Obviously, we don't do that under any circumstance.

00:04:55.940 But at the same time, we need to adopt a kind of wartime footing.

00:05:01.040 Okay?

00:05:01.520 Because this is a culture war.

00:05:04.100 However, we have to avoid unnecessary infighting.

00:05:08.560 Now, we can't place a premium on decorum or civility right now.

00:05:15.360 We don't have the luxury for that.

00:05:17.860 We have to start acting like a movement that is going to be slaughtered in the literal sense

00:05:23.600 if we don't recognize the nature of our enemy and unite in an effort to defeat them.

00:05:29.260 Because that's exactly the position that we're in.

00:05:33.380 What we saw yesterday reveals that a lot of powerful conservatives,

00:05:36.720 even after everything we've seen this year, are still somehow blind to this reality.

00:05:42.380 In response to a hit piece published in the Virginia-based newsletter known as Politico,

00:05:46.180 several conservatives lost their jobs or were condemned by various GOP organizations,

00:05:50.900 including the Young Republicans, which bills itself as the oldest youth-focused political organization

00:05:55.280 in the United States.

00:05:56.260 They're supposedly key to the Republican Party's outreach to young people,

00:05:59.780 which is obviously a critically important objective.

00:06:02.660 And they just completely caved right away.

00:06:07.040 Now, I'm not going to quote extensively from the Politico hit piece or use any of the conservatives'

00:06:13.500 names that are mentioned in it.

00:06:14.620 Instead, I'll show you the precise moment that everybody on the right,

00:06:19.940 from the party's leaders on down, should have just stopped taking this article seriously.

00:06:26.260 And here it is.

00:06:27.940 It's the headline.

00:06:29.400 Okay?

00:06:29.720 And the headline reads this.

00:06:30.820 Quote,

00:06:31.740 I love Hitler. 0.99

00:06:33.340 Leaked messages expose young Republicans' racist chat.

00:06:37.920 Well, this is the point where, you know, you can close the browser window.

00:06:43.000 End of discussion.

00:06:45.240 When these people say there's a racist chat, they have nothing.

00:06:50.200 There's nothing for us to take seriously.

00:06:51.660 They define all conservative speech, every bit of it, as racist.

00:06:56.700 And that means that the accusation coming from the left has no meaning.

00:07:01.240 They have lost the right to be taken seriously when they use that term.

00:07:08.280 That's the stance we should take.

00:07:10.360 If you're on the left, you have lost the right to ever be taken seriously when you call something racist.

00:07:15.660 That word coming from you is gibberish.

00:07:21.580 Does that mean racism doesn't exist?

00:07:23.360 Does that mean that there is no possible objective definition of the term?

00:07:26.880 No.

00:07:27.400 You have lost the right to be taken seriously.

00:07:30.100 After decades of the left calling anything conservatives say racist,

00:07:38.020 the very least we should be doing as conservatives is the moment they open their mouths and say,

00:07:43.060 well, that was racist, we tune out.

00:07:45.320 Oh, but don't you want to hear the racist?

00:07:46.740 No, I don't care.

00:07:47.660 Don't care.

00:07:48.580 You have lost the right to be taken.

00:07:50.160 You haven't lost the right to say it.

00:07:51.400 You can say it.

00:07:52.300 You have lost the right to be taken seriously when you say it.

00:07:55.360 Throwing that word around like confetti for 30 years tends to have that effect.

00:08:04.660 So that's what the response from the right should have been.

00:08:07.080 That's what the response from conservatives should have been.

00:08:09.240 Oh, you found something you think is racist?

00:08:10.860 I don't care.

00:08:12.680 I don't care because you're the one saying it.

00:08:14.720 I don't care.

00:08:16.000 Don't care.

00:08:18.520 You know, if they're not talking about especially a named political figure

00:08:21.920 and if they're just going after nameless young Republicans,

00:08:25.360 then that's all the more reason why you could just ignore this and save yourself the time.

00:08:31.240 And indeed, if you continue reading for some reason,

00:08:34.380 you'll discover that this article is worse than useless.

00:08:38.200 It's about a bunch of college students and recent college graduates 0.98

00:08:42.500 in a private group chat making edgy comments and dumb jokes.

00:08:49.020 There's a grand total of one guy who's mentioned in this article 0.78

00:08:52.400 who works in the Trump administration.

00:08:53.580 And he didn't make a single comment that Politico quoted.

00:08:57.960 So they're faulting him for, I don't know, reading some random kid say,

00:09:02.380 I love Hitler. 0.99

00:09:03.020 Actually, they're not even doing that because they don't even know that he read any of these messages.

00:09:08.040 I mean, any of us who have experience with being in group chats,

00:09:10.900 you could have a group chat that's going for years and you never even look at it. 0.59

00:09:14.120 The idea that you're even aware of every single thing that's in the group chat is ridiculous.

00:09:23.300 Here's the claim that Politico makes in the article, quote,

00:09:25.900 At least one person in the Telegram chat works in the Trump administration.

00:09:29.780 He serves as a senior advisor in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration.

00:09:34.420 He did not have much to say in the chat, but he didn't offer any pushback against the offensive rhetoric in it either.

00:09:39.360 He declined to comment.

00:09:40.480 He didn't send any messages in the group chat saying, say, fellas, this is inappropriate.

00:09:49.400 Hey, fellas, let's, hey, come on, guys.

00:09:52.300 He didn't do that.

00:09:53.440 And so he's guilty.

00:09:56.500 This is the purest possible form of guilt by association.

00:09:58.940 If you're a member of a massive group chat, then according to Politico,

00:10:02.220 you're responsible for everything they say across tens of thousands of pages of messages over a period of seven months.

00:10:08.140 You need to know every single thing that was said.

00:10:11.200 And if there's anything in it that was inappropriate,

00:10:14.380 you need to speak up right there in the group chat and denounce it.

00:10:20.160 And of course, within seconds, this became a Democrat Party talking point.

00:10:23.400 Here's Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, quote,

00:10:25.840 This is some vile stuff, and these aren't teenagers.

00:10:29.120 Many are Republican staffers.

00:10:30.300 At least one works for Trump.

00:10:32.500 Yes, the guy who works for Trump, who didn't say anything quoted in the article,

00:10:35.860 is now being smeared as a racist who loves Hitler.

00:10:38.140 That's how this works.

00:10:40.040 And by the way, buried around 50 paragraphs down in Politico's article, you'll find this line, quote,

00:10:44.040 Many of the slurs, epithets, and violent language used in the chat often appear to be intended as jokes.

00:10:50.580 Yes, jokes.

00:10:52.140 Which is, by the way, remember Jay Jones was not joking.

00:10:56.940 And he was clear that he wasn't joking.

00:10:59.420 He was very serious. 0.99

00:11:00.680 He wants his political opponents to die. 1.00

00:11:02.340 He actually wants them to die, to be shot. 1.00

00:11:04.300 He'd be happy to do it himself. 0.99

00:11:05.760 And he was very clear that he is not joking.

00:11:08.140 Now, here's one example of these jokes, these actual jokes, as reported by Politico.

00:11:16.720 Someone in the Michigan Young Republican says that he had some back and forth with a vice chair in Michigan

00:11:21.660 who told him that the current chair of the organization isn't working out.

00:11:24.700 But on the bright side, he says,

00:11:25.860 My delegates will vote for the most right-wing person.

00:11:28.040 So they're excited about replacing the chair with someone who's very right-wing.

00:11:31.080 And then somebody replies,

00:11:32.540 Great.

00:11:33.100 I love Hitler. 0.99

00:11:33.980 And in response, somebody replies with a laughing emoji.

00:11:39.280 Pretty good indication, by the way, when you see the laughing emoji that it's a joke.

00:11:44.980 But this is what Politico put in the headline of the article.

00:11:49.540 They made it seem like there was some serious discussion among young Republicans about how great Hitler is.

00:11:55.280 But then when you read the context, they're obviously joking, using an extreme example for effect.

00:12:03.400 You know, it's saying, oh, yeah, I'm really right-wing.

00:12:08.380 You know, I love Hitler. 0.98

00:12:09.380 It's like that.

00:12:10.220 It's clearly a sarcastic joke, very much in the vein of the kinds of sarcastic jokes that right-wingers make all the time.

00:12:16.700 You know, it's a bit like somebody going to use a port-a-potty or something and coming back out and announcing to his friends that, you know, he really dropped an atom bomb in there.

00:12:24.640 No one who hears that is going to think, well, my God, this guy endorses the use of atom bombs within the borders of the United States.

00:12:31.000 This is violent rhetoric.

00:12:33.800 But if you take the remark out of context and blast it in a headline in Politico, then you're probably going to convince a lot of people that this person is a domestic terrorist who's planting dirty bombs in public toilets.

00:12:43.080 That's why, in general, it's a bad idea to take private jokes between small numbers of people, many of whom are not public figures at all, and not relevant publicly at all, and then publish them in a news article.

00:12:57.140 Now, as you read on in the Politico hit piece, which really there's no reason to, you get paragraphs like this.

00:13:05.440 Quote, the private rhetoric isn't happening in a vacuum.

00:13:08.620 It comes amid a widespread coarsening of the broader political discourse and has incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become increasingly common in public debate.

00:13:16.420 Last month, Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video that showed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero besides Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,

00:13:24.680 whose fabricated remarks were about trading free health care for immigrant votes, a false long-running GOP trope.

00:13:30.440 The sombrero meme has been widely used to mock Democrats as the government shutdown wears on.

00:13:37.420 Okay, so that's the official position of Politico.

00:13:42.740 And if you're a conservative who has taken this article at face value and spread it around and amplified it and issued your denunciations,

00:13:51.480 this is what you're going along with.

00:13:53.780 This is what you're amplifying.

00:13:56.900 You're amplifying the whole thing.

00:13:58.820 Congratulations.

00:14:00.440 Politico, they're upset about the sombrero meme, which objectively was hilarious.

00:14:09.260 They say it's false that Democrats are offering handouts to attract votes from foreigners, even though it's clearly true. 1.00

00:14:15.460 In fact, it's their entire platform.

00:14:18.080 So this is the news outlet that we're supposed to take seriously.

00:14:22.140 And incredibly, some Republicans are taking it seriously.

00:14:25.100 According to the article, quote,

00:14:27.120 Since Politico began making inquiries, one member of the group chat is no longer employed at their job and another's job offer was rescinded.

00:14:33.920 Prominent New York Republicans, including Representative Elise Stefanik and State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ort, have denounced the chat.

00:14:39.940 So as Ed Cox, the chair of the New York State GOP, along with the North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans, the Republican Party of Arizona, the Missouri GOP, the Kansas GOP, and many, many others.

00:14:51.660 All of them lining up to say, I denounce this.

00:14:57.200 I denounce it too.

00:14:58.440 Hey, I also denounce it.

00:14:59.700 Who are you denouncing it for, by the way?

00:15:04.120 Who is that for?

00:15:07.580 Who are you doing it for?

00:15:10.420 You're doing it for the left.

00:15:12.060 You're doing it for the mainstream media.

00:15:14.340 You're doing it for their approval.

00:15:15.580 It's the only reason you're doing it.

00:15:19.340 If you have an actual problem, I don't know why it's so hard for people to grasp.

00:15:24.740 If you have an actual problem with something that someone says, someone on the right says, and you're offended by it or you think it's problematic or whatever, you can reach out to them in private.

00:15:41.640 Not everything has to be in public.

00:15:43.560 You don't need to stand.

00:15:45.640 You don't need to jump on the dog pile with the left.

00:15:48.320 You don't need to stand in front of the left performatively and saying, I would like everyone to know that I also think this is bad.

00:15:58.940 Oh, good for you.

00:15:59.800 Do you want a cookie?

00:16:00.480 What do you want?

00:16:01.980 Do you want a ribbon?

00:16:03.440 Are they going to give you a little pat on the head?

00:16:05.100 Well, good, good, good boy.

00:16:06.700 Good boy.

00:16:08.300 Is that what you're looking for?

00:16:09.300 All these Republican organizations have condemned the young Republicans mentioned in the Politico hit piece and many others.

00:16:19.160 Additionally, the board of directors of the National Young Republicans Group put out this statement.

00:16:23.420 It says, quote,

00:16:24.400 We're appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the political article published today.

00:16:29.000 Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement represents.

00:16:34.660 Those involved must immediately resign from all positions within their state and local young Republican organizations.

00:16:39.800 We must hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, respect, and professionalism.

00:16:43.140 That's from the board of directors.

00:16:46.000 All involved?

00:16:47.340 Really?

00:16:47.820 So what do you mean all?

00:16:48.440 So everybody in the group chat?

00:16:49.900 All of them?

00:16:50.440 Should lose their jobs?

00:16:52.240 Should be done?

00:16:54.400 This is how quick we are?

00:16:57.440 Anyone who's even, like, in the chat, you're ready to just throw them all to the wolves?

00:17:06.180 Now, this response is indistinguishable from the statements released by various Democrats in response to this story.

00:17:13.480 None of whom have condemned Jay Jones for wishing death on the children of conservative parents.

00:17:19.200 None of them have.

00:17:20.020 Chuck Schumer posted this statement, for example, in response to the political hippies, quote, 0.97

00:17:26.900 sickening, revolting, vile. 0.98

00:17:29.940 This makes you want to throw up. 1.00

00:17:31.740 This is the kind of garbage that the worst kinds of people say when they think nobody is watching. 0.99

00:17:36.000 And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally? 0.99

00:17:40.340 I'm waiting to hear it.

00:17:41.600 I mean, you almost have to stand in awe and admire the sheer gull of a statement like this.

00:17:50.500 He's stating in no uncertain terms that Democrats can wish death on their political opponents,

00:17:55.640 but conservative college students can't make offensive jokes in a private group chat.

00:18:00.860 That's when he's sickened. 1.00

00:18:04.240 Okay, this scumbag, this son of a b***h had nothing to say when you got the future attorney general of the state of Virginia 1.00

00:18:13.020 is saying that his political opponents should be shot in the head and killed along with their children. 1.00

00:18:18.680 Was Chuck Schumer sickened? 1.00

00:18:20.340 Was he sickened by that?

00:18:21.740 Did he want to throw up?

00:18:22.640 No.

00:18:23.660 When you had thousands of leftists, thousands of them for weeks celebrating the fact

00:18:31.000 that one of the most prominent conservatives in the country was shot in the throat and killed on camera

00:18:36.280 and wishing for the same fate to befall other conservatives,

00:18:40.820 was Chuck Schumer sickened?

00:18:42.420 Was he sickened by that?

00:18:43.600 Did he want to throw up?

00:18:44.680 Did his tummy hurt?

00:18:47.440 No.

00:18:48.820 Nothing to say about it.

00:18:50.220 Nothing at all.

00:18:50.840 And yet some random jokes in a private group chat that nobody even saw,

00:18:55.820 except for the people in it,

00:18:57.080 between people who are not even relevant,

00:19:00.920 making comments, most of which are clearly jokes,

00:19:05.160 that all of a sudden is,

00:19:07.260 well, this is,

00:19:08.080 oh, I can't,

00:19:08.640 I'm tossing and turning at night.

00:19:10.700 I'm having nightmares.

00:19:13.480 Now, if you're on the right,

00:19:15.440 you do not join in to this performative nonsense 1.00

00:19:19.020 because, okay, these scumbags, 1.00

00:19:22.920 these dishonest scumbags with no honor and no integrity, 1.00

00:19:27.000 you don't join with them. 1.00

00:19:30.620 You don't stand next to them and say,

00:19:32.920 yes, I agree.

00:19:34.240 I agree with you on this.

00:19:36.440 I'm not like them.

00:19:37.680 You don't do that.

00:19:42.920 But this is the position of the entire Democrat Party.

00:19:46.200 And until that changes,

00:19:47.640 I don't want to hear a single word from any Republican

00:19:50.380 about how horrible these telegram messages supposedly were.

00:19:54.660 You know, it's not even worth saying,

00:19:56.720 well, you know, it's inappropriate,

00:19:58.420 it's really bad,

00:19:59.180 but boys will be boys.

00:20:00.660 Don't even say that.

00:20:03.620 Don't even qualify it, okay?

00:20:05.440 Don't even qualify it by saying,

00:20:07.420 well, I certainly am opposed to it.

00:20:09.260 I think it's bad, 0.96

00:20:10.160 but the Democrats are worse.

00:20:14.460 That's giving these people far too much credit.

00:20:17.200 Democrats have so degraded our civic discourse

00:20:19.220 and our civic life

00:20:20.120 to the point that Republican events

00:20:21.440 now have to be held indoors

00:20:23.160 with metal detectors at every campus

00:20:25.220 because there's a legitimate risk

00:20:26.760 of a Democrat sniper on the roof.

00:20:28.660 These people are the reason

00:20:37.140 I have to have 24-hour security at my house

00:20:39.400 to protect my children.

00:20:44.620 And you think these people

00:20:45.620 are actually concerned about jokes

00:20:47.380 in a group chat?

00:20:52.200 I have to condemn jokes in a group chat

00:20:54.580 for their sake?

00:20:55.380 Like, we're pretending

00:20:58.220 that that has any relevance at all?

00:20:59.980 That it even matters

00:21:01.020 in the slightest bit

00:21:02.380 in the face of everything

00:21:04.280 that we're seeing?

00:21:07.560 No, they aren't actually concerned

00:21:08.800 about any of these jokes

00:21:09.620 in the group chat.

00:21:11.000 No one actually cares.

00:21:14.020 They simply want to use

00:21:15.080 every available method

00:21:15.940 to destroy us.

00:21:17.560 And they're especially interested

00:21:18.680 in destroying youth outreach organizations.

00:21:20.440 That's why they killed Charlie Kirk,

00:21:22.300 celebrated his assassination.

00:21:24.620 They understood the threat

00:21:25.420 posed by Turning Point,

00:21:26.340 and they understand the threat

00:21:27.220 posed by this young Republicans

00:21:28.820 group as well.

00:21:30.620 Democrats have realized

00:21:31.400 they have a real problem

00:21:32.180 with support among young people.

00:21:33.740 They've managed to destroy

00:21:34.700 one of their most reliable demographics

00:21:36.240 through their sheer insanity.

00:21:38.100 And rather than address that problem

00:21:39.640 by changing their policies,

00:21:41.180 they've decided to start

00:21:42.040 dismantling youth-focused

00:21:43.400 conservative groups

00:21:44.160 with acts of terrorism

00:21:45.420 if necessary.

00:21:46.600 That's how the left intends

00:21:47.600 on taking back the youth vote

00:21:50.620 by force.

00:21:54.300 And in response,

00:21:55.840 we should be defending

00:21:57.980 young people

00:21:59.960 from malicious,

00:22:02.180 dishonest attacks

00:22:03.020 like this.

00:22:05.780 Or at the very least,

00:22:07.360 refusing to take part in it.

00:22:10.460 Now, J.D. Vance,

00:22:11.560 to his credit,

00:22:12.280 saw this hit piece

00:22:13.060 for what it was.

00:22:13.880 He immediately put out

00:22:14.720 this response,

00:22:15.420 pointing out the Democrats

00:22:16.200 have embraced J. Jones.

00:22:17.500 Quote,

00:22:17.960 this is far worse

00:22:18.680 than anything said

00:22:19.260 in a college group chat,

00:22:20.400 and the guy who said it

00:22:21.480 could become the AG of Virginia.

00:22:22.820 I refuse to join

00:22:23.340 the pro-clutching

00:22:23.980 when powerful people

00:22:24.820 call for political violence.

00:22:26.040 Close quote.

00:22:28.400 Which is a great statement.

00:22:30.200 And you notice what he got?

00:22:31.020 He's not playing the game

00:22:32.140 in that statement.

00:22:33.920 He's not doing the denunciation

00:22:35.240 and then saying,

00:22:36.420 yeah, but you know, 0.98

00:22:36.980 Democrats are worse. 0.95

00:22:38.840 What he's saying is,

00:22:39.720 no, I'm not playing the game.

00:22:40.600 I'm not going to play the game.

00:22:42.080 Not going to do it.

00:22:45.420 I'm not going to abide

00:22:46.440 by rules

00:22:47.120 that you people set,

00:22:48.500 but don't abide by yourselves.

00:22:49.680 I'm not going to do it.

00:22:52.580 The Young Republicans

00:22:53.340 of Texas put out

00:22:54.040 a similar statement

00:22:54.780 hitting J. Jones,

00:22:56.340 and that's the only

00:22:57.700 appropriate response

00:22:58.440 when Democrats

00:22:58.940 attempt to use

00:22:59.520 our morality against us.

00:23:04.360 Don't apologize.

00:23:05.260 Don't fire anyone.

00:23:06.260 Don't give them

00:23:06.640 what they want.

00:23:07.260 You don't have to be happy

00:23:10.020 about the group chat.

00:23:14.520 You don't have to go through

00:23:15.680 one by one

00:23:16.340 at each piece

00:23:17.040 and defend each part of it.

00:23:20.840 You don't have to do that

00:23:21.560 and you should do it.

00:23:24.840 But realistically,

00:23:25.780 if you want to defend

00:23:26.460 against the leftist onslaught,

00:23:28.260 against our lives

00:23:28.940 and our freedoms,

00:23:29.760 it's, you know,

00:23:30.860 what you cannot do

00:23:32.780 is join in this attack.

00:23:35.060 And I'm not saying

00:23:35.640 that two wrongs

00:23:36.400 make a right.

00:23:39.360 I'm saying that

00:23:40.060 we can either stick together

00:23:41.120 or we can lose everything.

00:23:42.460 That's the choice

00:23:43.260 the leftists have created for us.

00:23:45.040 They're waging

00:23:45.440 a highly asymmetric war

00:23:47.280 at the moment.

00:23:48.080 And in every case,

00:23:48.960 they're defending

00:23:50.020 the most vile

00:23:50.860 and overt corruption imaginable.

00:23:52.480 They're defending violence.

00:23:54.260 And when you're up

00:23:54.720 against an opponent like that,

00:23:55.900 you simply cannot abide

00:23:57.280 by whatever

00:23:59.940 rules of polite

00:24:03.400 political discourse

00:24:04.480 you think are still in effect.

00:24:06.100 They're not.

00:24:08.580 Political discourse

00:24:09.300 is already broken down.

00:24:11.120 We're at the point

00:24:11.820 where every day or so

00:24:12.560 we learn of a new effort

00:24:13.420 by Democrats

00:24:13.920 to cover for one another.

00:24:15.280 In fact, 0.85

00:24:15.660 before this ridiculous 0.58

00:24:16.380 political story broke yesterday, 0.66

00:24:17.580 my first thought

00:24:18.140 was to do an opening monologue

00:24:19.260 on Letitia James,

00:24:20.680 the Democrats' 0.54

00:24:21.460 flagrantly corrupt

00:24:22.220 attorney general in New York.

00:24:23.720 Here's how the New York Times

00:24:24.560 is covering the fact

00:24:25.680 that she's just been indicted

00:24:27.180 for falsely claiming

00:24:28.140 that she was using

00:24:28.720 a house in Virginia

00:24:29.400 as her second home.

00:24:30.620 This is the Times headline.

00:24:31.940 Quote,

00:24:32.080 In the eye of a political storm,

00:24:33.680 a tiny yellow house

00:24:34.740 in Norfolk, Virginia,

00:24:36.260 Attorney General Letitia James

00:24:38.120 of New York

00:24:38.780 purchased the $137,000 home

00:24:41.140 for a grandniece

00:24:42.240 who needed tranquility.

00:24:43.720 Prosecutors say

00:24:44.300 it's an impermissible

00:24:45.060 investment property.

00:24:47.300 An impermissible

00:24:48.340 investment property.

00:24:50.300 So they're portraying

00:24:51.400 Letitia James

00:24:52.020 as a saintly figure

00:24:52.980 who purchased a home

00:24:53.860 for a relative

00:24:54.440 who needed tranquility.

00:24:56.080 Meanwhile,

00:24:56.400 here's how the New York Post

00:24:57.120 is covering the same story.

00:24:58.900 Quote,

00:24:59.120 New York's top law enforcer

00:25:01.060 is housing a cop-hating

00:25:02.460 fugitive relative

00:25:04.340 with a lengthy felony rap sheet

00:25:05.920 who was twice arrested

00:25:06.840 for assaulting police officers

00:25:08.060 at one of her Virginia homes,

00:25:09.440 according to court documents.

00:25:10.700 State Attorney General

00:25:11.400 Letitia James' grandniece,

00:25:12.740 Nakia Thompson, 36,

00:25:13.800 is currently wanted

00:25:14.380 for absconding

00:25:15.200 from North Carolina

00:25:15.780 after failing to complete

00:25:16.980 the terms of her parole

00:25:17.920 following the 2011 arrest

00:25:19.260 in Winston-Salem.

00:25:20.620 Thompson has also been

00:25:21.420 repeatedly arrested

00:25:22.140 and cited in Virginia

00:25:23.020 since moving there

00:25:24.040 with charges including

00:25:25.000 possession of burglary tools,

00:25:26.820 contributing to the delinquency

00:25:27.660 of a minor and grand larceny.

00:25:30.940 Oh, well,

00:25:31.400 that changes things a little bit.

00:25:33.240 If you read the New York Times,

00:25:34.440 you'll come away

00:25:34.900 with the impression

00:25:35.440 that Letitia James

00:25:36.300 is being prosecuted

00:25:37.120 because she's too thoughtful.

00:25:39.120 She's just too nice 1.00

00:25:40.120 to her grandniece,

00:25:41.000 so the Trump administration

00:25:41.760 wants to throw her in jail.

00:25:44.040 And then you learn that

00:25:44.700 in reality,

00:25:45.300 she's harboring

00:25:45.800 a wanted criminal.

00:25:48.240 This is how the left operates,

00:25:49.380 even when they commit crimes,

00:25:50.380 even when they house criminals,

00:25:51.500 even when they call

00:25:52.340 for the murder

00:25:52.800 of their political opponents,

00:25:54.560 they circle the wagons.

00:25:56.100 They put out stories

00:25:57.100 that flagrantly lie

00:25:58.100 about what's happening.

00:25:59.900 And they don't even

00:26:00.620 contemplate the possibility

00:26:01.600 even for a second

00:26:02.520 of admitting fault.

00:26:04.600 They understand

00:26:05.340 that Letitia James

00:26:06.380 tried to bankrupt

00:26:07.340 their primary political opponent,

00:26:08.720 Donald Trump,

00:26:09.200 and that's all that matters to them.

00:26:11.420 It's all that matters

00:26:12.180 to New Yorkers as well.

00:26:13.100 Take a look at the reception

00:26:14.100 for Letitia James

00:26:15.100 at a Zoran Mamdani rally.

00:26:17.180 Look at this.

00:26:17.540 I love you.

00:26:35.340 I love you.

00:26:38.600 I appreciate you,

00:26:40.120 and I've got your back.

00:26:41.060 Think about this scene

00:26:49.280 for a second.

00:26:50.240 This woman ran on a platform 1.00

00:26:51.620 of taking down Donald Trump

00:26:52.740 by any means necessary.

00:26:54.040 It was obviously

00:26:54.660 a corrupt promise

00:26:56.820 for a candidate

00:26:57.360 for attorney general

00:26:58.700 to make,

00:26:59.500 but it resonated

00:27:00.200 with New Yorkers

00:27:01.000 who wanted to see

00:27:01.560 Donald Trump bankrupted

00:27:02.640 and imprisoned.

00:27:03.540 And then ultimately,

00:27:04.280 as we all know,

00:27:04.900 Letitia James failed.

00:27:05.800 Trump won the presidency

00:27:06.620 and he won the civil case.

00:27:08.680 She failed to deliver 0.96

00:27:09.420 on her one campaign promise,

00:27:10.720 which was to abuse

00:27:11.360 the power of her office

00:27:12.240 for partisan reasons.

00:27:13.480 And yet,

00:27:14.360 despite her failure,

00:27:16.200 the communists

00:27:16.820 at this rally

00:27:17.320 still worship her.

00:27:20.140 On the left,

00:27:21.560 you know,

00:27:21.820 that's the level

00:27:22.600 of party loyalty

00:27:23.440 that they have.

00:27:24.560 Even when you fail,

00:27:26.180 if you're a member

00:27:27.100 of the party

00:27:27.580 in good standing,

00:27:28.440 they have your back.

00:27:31.260 And as Letitia James said,

00:27:32.820 she has their back too. 0.72

00:27:34.940 Now,

00:27:35.180 there aren't many

00:27:35.760 tenants of,

00:27:36.760 tenants of,

00:27:37.460 of leftism

00:27:38.320 that the right

00:27:39.420 should adopt.

00:27:40.720 In fact,

00:27:41.220 there are no tenants,

00:27:42.100 there are no tenants

00:27:42.820 of leftism

00:27:43.540 the right should adopt.

00:27:47.840 But,

00:27:48.380 there is a strategy

00:27:50.180 or two,

00:27:52.020 and

00:27:53.080 this is one of them.

00:27:55.080 Now,

00:27:55.320 we shouldn't be

00:27:55.740 blindly loyal

00:27:57.060 to political figures.

00:27:59.060 We shouldn't

00:28:00.020 outright defend

00:28:01.140 immoral conduct.

00:28:02.220 We shouldn't

00:28:02.640 cover for criminal behavior

00:28:04.200 like the left does.

00:28:06.460 But,

00:28:07.460 but a basic level,

00:28:08.920 okay,

00:28:09.140 I'm talking about

00:28:09.540 a basic level

00:28:10.580 of unity,

00:28:12.240 of having each other's

00:28:14.500 backs,

00:28:15.840 is necessary.

00:28:18.180 A unified movement

00:28:19.420 will always defeat

00:28:20.560 a fractured one.

00:28:22.140 It's just that simple.

00:28:23.760 And there's no way

00:28:24.520 around it.

00:28:26.680 And if we're going

00:28:27.360 to become fractured

00:28:28.060 over some jokes

00:28:28.920 in a group chat,

00:28:30.020 and over the next thing

00:28:31.080 that the left

00:28:31.540 throws at us,

00:28:32.840 if we're going

00:28:34.820 to take our eye

00:28:35.340 off the ball

00:28:35.820 every time they

00:28:36.360 come along

00:28:36.900 with another hit piece

00:28:37.740 while our enemies

00:28:39.640 openly commit crimes

00:28:40.800 and celebrate murder,

00:28:41.660 then we simply,

00:28:42.900 we're not going

00:28:43.840 to make it.

00:28:46.600 The messages

00:28:47.300 in that group chat

00:28:48.260 were not a story.

00:28:50.140 Even the left

00:28:51.080 doesn't really think

00:28:51.800 that those messages

00:28:52.380 were a story.

00:28:53.820 If you're on the right

00:28:54.840 and you come

00:28:55.340 to any other conclusion,

00:28:56.560 then,

00:28:56.800 then you're a liability.

00:28:58.000 And from a leadership

00:29:01.420 perspective,

00:29:02.260 you need to step aside

00:29:03.220 so that someone,

00:29:04.960 even someone who might

00:29:05.720 make the occasional

00:29:06.420 off-color joke,

00:29:07.640 is able to actually lead

00:29:10.220 and help us defeat

00:29:11.180 our common enemy.

00:29:13.540 One month after

00:29:14.420 Charlie Kirk's death,

00:29:15.280 there is no shortage

00:29:16.280 of conservatives

00:29:17.000 who want to meet

00:29:17.700 that challenge.

00:29:18.460 And regardless

00:29:18.940 of what they think

00:29:19.720 about us over

00:29:20.180 at Politico's headquarters

00:29:21.100 in Arlington, Virginia,

00:29:22.600 we should let them do it.

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00:32:19.920 All right,

00:32:20.280 you know,

00:32:20.500 it's funny

00:32:20.940 because I posted

00:32:21.760 about this

00:32:22.220 Politico thing

00:32:22.960 on X and

00:32:24.920 of course a

00:32:25.400 bunch of

00:32:25.700 liberals responded,

00:32:27.160 some conservatives

00:32:27.840 too,

00:32:28.340 and said that

00:32:29.300 well,

00:32:31.240 I'm just being

00:32:31.720 defensive of

00:32:33.600 the group chat

00:32:34.500 because I'm

00:32:35.140 worried about my

00:32:35.800 own group chats

00:32:36.520 coming out.

00:32:38.040 And that,

00:32:38.780 what's her name,

00:32:39.320 the,

00:32:40.560 who's the

00:32:41.100 overweight Mexican 0.95

00:32:41.960 chick, 0.84

00:32:42.700 Olivia or

00:32:44.180 something,

00:32:44.940 she posted that

00:32:45.980 in response to

00:32:46.920 me and others

00:32:47.760 have said the

00:32:49.100 same that,

00:32:49.620 oh,

00:32:49.760 Republicans are

00:32:50.400 worried about.

00:32:51.580 But here's the

00:32:52.000 thing,

00:32:52.380 jokes on them,

00:32:53.880 I hate group

00:32:54.860 chats,

00:32:55.660 okay,

00:32:55.920 I never

00:32:56.600 participate in

00:32:57.780 group chats.

00:32:58.960 I get added to

00:33:00.100 group chats

00:33:00.540 constantly,

00:33:01.280 I either leave

00:33:01.960 them or just

00:33:02.760 say nothing.

00:33:04.160 And not because

00:33:04.640 I object morally

00:33:05.560 to whatever,

00:33:06.860 but just because

00:33:07.620 what is a group,

00:33:09.360 a group chat

00:33:09.840 is a constant,

00:33:11.380 never-ending

00:33:12.620 string,

00:33:13.460 string of

00:33:14.080 small talk

00:33:14.880 and,

00:33:15.980 that just

00:33:17.300 is being

00:33:17.840 directly into

00:33:18.660 your phone

00:33:19.120 at all hours

00:33:19.720 of the day.

00:33:21.960 There's very

00:33:22.700 rarely any kind

00:33:23.520 of real

00:33:23.940 substantive

00:33:24.420 conversation

00:33:25.260 going on.

00:33:27.480 Of course,

00:33:28.180 that's not

00:33:28.540 what it's

00:33:28.800 for.

00:33:29.180 It's just

00:33:29.500 for,

00:33:29.960 it's like

00:33:30.200 your small

00:33:32.280 talk line.

00:33:35.140 So,

00:33:35.840 if I am

00:33:37.380 in a group

00:33:37.700 chat,

00:33:37.940 I'm the guy

00:33:38.460 who says

00:33:39.040 nothing in

00:33:39.540 the group

00:33:39.780 chat and

00:33:40.420 you wonder

00:33:40.820 if I'm

00:33:41.200 dead or

00:33:41.800 changed my

00:33:42.960 number.

00:33:43.260 And then

00:33:45.520 sometimes,

00:33:45.940 this happened

00:33:46.200 recently,

00:33:46.720 a conversation

00:33:47.380 will start

00:33:47.960 in the group

00:33:48.500 chat about

00:33:49.160 why I'm

00:33:49.960 not participating

00:33:50.720 in the group

00:33:51.300 chat.

00:33:52.580 And there'll

00:33:53.200 be people

00:33:53.460 speculating,

00:33:54.040 did he change

00:33:54.420 his number?

00:33:55.640 And I still,

00:33:56.580 I still just

00:33:57.200 say nothing.

00:33:58.040 I observe.

00:33:58.940 I'm like

00:34:01.240 Batman standing

00:34:02.440 on the edge

00:34:03.140 of the building

00:34:03.700 at night,

00:34:04.920 looking down

00:34:05.500 over Gotham,

00:34:07.240 cape blowing

00:34:07.800 in the wind.

00:34:08.900 That's me

00:34:09.460 in the group

00:34:09.760 chat.

00:34:10.040 My favorite

00:34:10.720 group chat

00:34:11.880 move is

00:34:13.200 to say

00:34:13.540 nothing at

00:34:14.020 all for

00:34:14.620 years.

00:34:16.360 Like,

00:34:16.940 years.

00:34:17.480 And then

00:34:17.800 six and a

00:34:18.540 half years

00:34:18.860 later,

00:34:20.060 send one

00:34:20.800 meme with

00:34:22.020 no additional

00:34:22.560 comment,

00:34:23.260 no context,

00:34:24.080 and then

00:34:24.300 disappear into

00:34:24.880 the night

00:34:25.220 for another

00:34:25.640 six years.

00:34:26.620 I'm like a

00:34:28.000 cicada in

00:34:28.900 the group

00:34:29.180 chat.

00:34:29.740 Every 17

00:34:30.360 years,

00:34:30.760 I emerge.

00:34:34.460 I treat

00:34:35.160 group chats

00:34:35.840 like Daniel

00:34:36.740 Day-Lewis

00:34:37.300 treats films.

00:34:38.980 You know,

00:34:39.140 once a decade,

00:34:41.020 you'll get

00:34:41.700 something.

00:34:43.780 Which means

00:34:44.520 that if

00:34:44.800 Politico

00:34:45.140 released seven

00:34:45.860 months of

00:34:46.380 my group

00:34:46.800 chats,

00:34:47.480 it would

00:34:47.660 just be

00:34:48.340 nothing.

00:34:48.860 It would

00:34:49.460 be me

00:34:49.840 not saying

00:34:50.420 anything.

00:34:51.660 So you

00:34:52.000 need a much

00:34:52.540 longer.

00:34:53.020 You need

00:34:53.380 to get,

00:34:53.860 it's like

00:34:54.120 you'd have

00:34:54.340 to get

00:34:54.580 like 20

00:34:54.980 years.

00:34:56.320 It's a

00:34:56.900 fine two

00:34:57.440 or three.

00:34:58.460 Messages

00:34:58.940 from me

00:34:59.400 somewhere

00:34:59.940 are buried

00:35:00.440 in there.

00:35:00.980 So it'll

00:35:01.360 be a

00:35:01.580 challenge.

00:35:02.780 It'll be

00:35:03.040 a challenge.

00:35:05.020 New York

00:35:05.540 Post says

00:35:05.920 this,

00:35:06.260 a pair 0.63

00:35:06.560 of crazed 0.81

00:35:07.040 climate

00:35:07.340 activists

00:35:07.740 were busted

00:35:08.340 Sunday

00:35:08.700 after hurling

00:35:09.260 red paint

00:35:09.840 at a mural

00:35:10.320 of Christopher

00:35:10.800 Columbus

00:35:11.160 in a bizarre

00:35:11.740 caught-on-camera

00:35:12.480 art attack

00:35:13.040 at a Spanish

00:35:13.480 museum.

00:35:14.320 The two

00:35:14.560 vandals,

00:35:15.080 members of

00:35:15.520 the radical

00:35:15.840 group

00:35:16.180 Futuro

00:35:16.980 Vegetal,

00:35:18.320 were caught

00:35:18.720 on shocking

00:35:19.500 video throwing

00:35:20.140 red paint

00:35:20.840 at first

00:35:21.860 tribute to

00:35:22.280 Christopher

00:35:22.500 Columbus,

00:35:23.000 a massive

00:35:23.420 mural of

00:35:23.940 the Italian-born

00:35:24.460 explorer

00:35:24.840 painted in

00:35:25.640 1892.

00:35:26.260 So we

00:35:28.380 have the,

00:35:28.980 well here's

00:35:29.260 the footage

00:35:29.560 of that,

00:35:29.860 let's watch

00:35:30.120 that.

00:35:30.360 Yeah,

00:35:42.560 there you

00:35:42.760 go.

00:35:43.200 So,

00:35:43.460 and apparently

00:35:46.040 as I understand

00:35:46.580 it,

00:35:46.780 they actually

00:35:47.100 did real

00:35:47.680 damage to

00:35:48.280 this painting.

00:35:50.940 Now,

00:35:51.500 in many cases

00:35:51.960 when you see

00:35:52.400 these vandals

00:35:54.520 doing this,

00:35:55.740 they're not,

00:35:56.580 despite their

00:35:57.400 best efforts,

00:35:58.160 they're not

00:35:58.380 actually harming

00:35:59.080 the painting.

00:36:00.360 Because the

00:36:01.140 painting is

00:36:01.540 protected.

00:36:02.620 And as far

00:36:03.260 as I understand

00:36:03.740 it,

00:36:03.980 they did

00:36:04.500 actually harm

00:36:04.920 the painting.

00:36:06.060 And you know,

00:36:06.460 so I see this

00:36:07.420 and the problem

00:36:07.980 I run into

00:36:08.500 is that I

00:36:09.380 realize,

00:36:10.300 I understand

00:36:11.980 that I'm

00:36:12.580 constantly calling

00:36:13.600 for people to 0.85

00:36:15.200 be executed 0.78

00:36:16.080 for random 0.99

00:36:16.840 offenses.

00:36:18.160 So,

00:36:18.800 after a while,

00:36:20.260 legally,

00:36:21.160 like legally,

00:36:21.840 put on trial 0.93

00:36:22.520 and executed

00:36:23.020 for,

00:36:23.840 and justifiably.

00:36:25.080 But I do

00:36:25.600 realize that

00:36:26.180 that's,

00:36:27.200 that it becomes

00:36:28.040 something of a

00:36:28.580 theme and so

00:36:29.100 it loses its

00:36:29.840 impact when

00:36:30.440 I say it.

00:36:32.480 But even so,

00:36:33.540 I say with

00:36:34.020 sincerity that

00:36:34.960 the penalty

00:36:37.500 for vandalizing

00:36:38.660 a priceless

00:36:39.240 work of art

00:36:39.980 should be

00:36:41.360 the amputation 0.96

00:36:43.720 of both hands

00:36:44.500 and then your

00:36:47.260 head.

00:36:48.700 But at least

00:36:49.340 the hands,

00:36:49.840 at least the

00:36:50.340 hands.

00:36:52.080 Why don't we

00:36:52.780 do that?

00:36:54.320 Why don't we,

00:36:54.820 why don't we,

00:36:55.560 again,

00:36:55.960 legal penalty,

00:36:56.760 I'm not calling

00:36:58.240 for any

00:36:58.520 vigilante

00:36:59.020 violence,

00:36:59.960 I'm saying

00:37:00.280 the legal

00:37:00.700 penalty,

00:37:01.080 you should

00:37:01.180 be arrested,

00:37:02.820 tried,

00:37:03.220 convicted,

00:37:04.040 and then

00:37:05.480 this is the

00:37:07.000 penalty,

00:37:08.200 the legal

00:37:08.540 penalty.

00:37:09.680 Why don't

00:37:10.160 we do that?

00:37:10.540 What is the

00:37:10.900 argument against

00:37:11.420 it?

00:37:13.200 In all

00:37:13.720 seriousness,

00:37:14.080 I'd like

00:37:14.340 someone to

00:37:14.620 explain it.

00:37:17.100 You know,

00:37:17.540 it's a fair

00:37:17.920 punishment.

00:37:19.280 We don't have

00:37:19.900 to put you

00:37:20.220 in prison,

00:37:20.640 so we're not

00:37:21.200 filling up

00:37:21.640 jail cells

00:37:22.220 with these

00:37:22.520 people and

00:37:23.000 taking on

00:37:23.380 that tax

00:37:23.880 burden,

00:37:24.180 if you're

00:37:24.420 worried about

00:37:24.800 that.

00:37:25.040 We can

00:37:26.300 leave more

00:37:27.240 of the

00:37:27.460 jail cells

00:37:27.900 open for

00:37:28.420 the

00:37:28.640 quote-unquote

00:37:29.380 violent 0.69

00:37:29.800 criminals.

00:37:31.340 I mean,

00:37:31.520 you could

00:37:31.880 argue this

00:37:32.260 was an

00:37:32.480 act of

00:37:32.740 violence,

00:37:34.400 but,

00:37:35.380 you know,

00:37:36.740 it's obviously

00:37:37.080 a huge

00:37:37.440 disincentive

00:37:38.060 for everyone

00:37:38.460 else who's

00:37:38.860 thinking about

00:37:39.300 doing this.

00:37:39.680 You really

00:37:39.960 only have to

00:37:40.360 do it once.

00:37:40.820 That's the

00:37:41.080 thing.

00:37:41.240 You'd have

00:37:41.440 to do it

00:37:41.700 one time.

00:37:42.660 Enact this

00:37:43.140 punishment

00:37:43.500 one time,

00:37:44.800 one time,

00:37:46.500 two hands,

00:37:47.800 and that's

00:37:48.220 it,

00:37:48.460 and you're

00:37:48.780 done.

00:37:49.640 It'll

00:37:50.120 literally

00:37:50.400 never

00:37:50.840 happen

00:37:51.200 again.

00:37:51.540 I mean,

00:37:55.080 I'd be

00:37:55.320 willing to

00:37:55.600 consider,

00:37:56.180 you know,

00:37:56.520 I'm

00:37:56.920 merciful,

00:37:57.620 so I

00:37:58.200 would

00:37:58.340 consider

00:37:58.720 you lose

00:37:59.320 one hand

00:37:59.880 and then

00:38:00.200 you lose

00:38:00.540 maybe three

00:38:01.080 fingers on

00:38:01.920 the other

00:38:02.180 hand,

00:38:02.700 so I'll

00:38:02.940 leave you 0.52

00:38:03.180 like pinchers,

00:38:04.640 so you have

00:38:05.480 this,

00:38:06.800 so you can

00:38:07.140 scratch your

00:38:07.540 nose or

00:38:08.020 give thumbs

00:38:09.040 up,

00:38:09.340 you know,

00:38:09.740 so I would

00:38:10.580 do that.

00:38:12.520 That's how

00:38:13.040 merciful I am.

00:38:14.780 Am I not

00:38:15.280 merciful?

00:38:15.620 Now you

00:38:17.700 could make a

00:38:18.200 very reasonable

00:38:18.700 argument for

00:38:19.440 the death

00:38:19.800 penalty in

00:38:20.560 these cases.

00:38:22.060 I do think

00:38:22.860 you could make

00:38:23.220 that argument.

00:38:24.120 I probably

00:38:24.660 have made

00:38:25.040 that argument

00:38:25.420 before,

00:38:25.880 I don't

00:38:26.060 remember,

00:38:26.740 but if I

00:38:27.280 haven't,

00:38:27.800 the argument

00:38:28.160 goes like

00:38:28.580 this,

00:38:28.860 destroying a

00:38:29.460 work of

00:38:29.800 art,

00:38:30.260 a painting,

00:38:30.960 a statue,

00:38:32.120 is an

00:38:33.780 attack on

00:38:34.840 all of

00:38:35.540 humanity.

00:38:36.100 It's a

00:38:36.300 crime against

00:38:36.820 8.1

00:38:37.660 billion people.

00:38:39.400 I think

00:38:39.640 it's a

00:38:39.900 literal crime

00:38:40.580 against

00:38:40.860 humanity.

00:38:42.640 Now,

00:38:43.280 the art

00:38:43.920 itself is

00:38:44.560 not owned

00:38:45.320 by everyone,

00:38:46.260 right?

00:38:46.420 I'm not

00:38:46.620 saying that.

00:38:47.000 I'm not a

00:38:47.500 communist,

00:38:47.960 for God's

00:38:48.320 sake.

00:38:49.820 But,

00:38:50.340 nonetheless,

00:38:51.800 when you

00:38:52.040 deface or

00:38:52.580 destroy

00:38:52.940 timeless

00:38:53.460 art,

00:38:53.940 you are

00:38:54.220 robbing

00:38:54.660 billions of

00:38:55.380 people of

00:38:55.860 the opportunity

00:38:56.480 or the

00:38:56.760 potential

00:38:57.060 opportunity

00:38:57.520 to experience

00:38:58.380 the art.

00:38:59.320 And even

00:38:59.740 worse than

00:39:00.160 that,

00:39:00.360 it's a

00:39:00.600 crime against

00:39:01.160 our ancestors.

00:39:02.060 You're

00:39:02.160 essentially

00:39:02.520 defiling the

00:39:03.300 graves of

00:39:04.560 all of our

00:39:05.100 ancestors who

00:39:05.820 produced this

00:39:06.400 great art and

00:39:07.340 preserved it

00:39:07.960 through the

00:39:08.260 centuries for

00:39:08.920 us.

00:39:09.580 I mean,

00:39:10.120 not only was

00:39:11.740 this produced,

00:39:12.240 but all of

00:39:13.800 the effort to

00:39:14.540 preserve this

00:39:15.520 through the

00:39:16.400 generations,

00:39:16.960 and then you're

00:39:18.420 coming along

00:39:19.020 because you're

00:39:19.440 upset about

00:39:19.920 something and

00:39:21.260 destroying it.

00:39:22.580 I think it's a

00:39:23.320 crime that

00:39:23.660 demonstrates a

00:39:24.260 level of

00:39:24.620 narcissism,

00:39:25.240 a level of

00:39:25.680 callous

00:39:26.080 indifference and

00:39:26.980 cruelty that

00:39:27.660 I think puts

00:39:29.120 you on the

00:39:29.380 same moral

00:39:29.900 plane as a

00:39:30.620 murderer.

00:39:33.020 Which is why

00:39:33.700 you could make

00:39:34.160 the argument that

00:39:34.740 people who spill

00:39:35.360 paint on a

00:39:35.880 piece of art,

00:39:36.580 you know,

00:39:37.140 especially an

00:39:38.540 old,

00:39:39.980 timeless,

00:39:40.520 a classic,

00:39:41.140 a master

00:39:41.580 work,

00:39:42.600 deserve to

00:39:43.300 be tried,

00:39:43.900 convicted,

00:39:44.560 and given

00:39:45.240 capital punishment.

00:39:46.200 I mean,

00:39:46.320 you could make

00:39:46.660 that argument.

00:39:47.620 I think it's a

00:39:48.200 reasonable

00:39:48.440 argument.

00:39:50.460 Speaking of

00:39:51.040 crimes against

00:39:51.440 humanity,

00:39:51.980 leftists in

00:39:52.460 Portland decided

00:39:53.040 to protest

00:39:53.820 ICE in the

00:39:55.200 nude over the

00:39:55.700 weekend.

00:39:56.720 So this was a

00:39:57.740 nude bike ride

00:39:58.640 which turned

00:40:00.160 into a nude 0.82

00:40:01.060 die-in or 0.99

00:40:02.240 something.

00:40:02.700 So they rode on

00:40:03.620 their bikes in

00:40:04.280 the nude and

00:40:05.720 then pretended to

00:40:06.480 be dead. 0.94

00:40:08.920 And so here 0.97

00:40:09.620 are what we

00:40:10.580 have, the

00:40:10.780 images, we

00:40:11.180 have the

00:40:11.340 video, we

00:40:11.680 have the

00:40:11.780 images.

00:40:15.100 Well, you

00:40:15.940 see some of

00:40:16.340 these images

00:40:16.680 here.

00:40:17.020 These are the

00:40:17.460 images that

00:40:18.320 my editors

00:40:19.800 deserve hazard

00:40:20.660 pay for

00:40:21.280 having to

00:40:21.740 deal with.

00:40:23.880 So I wasn't

00:40:24.860 sure how they

00:40:25.260 deal with it.

00:40:25.660 Would they

00:40:26.000 just blur the

00:40:26.680 whole thing?

00:40:27.760 Or would they

00:40:28.160 go through

00:40:28.580 individually and

00:40:29.360 blur each 0.99

00:40:30.020 grotesque 0.87

00:40:31.700 naked body? 0.91

00:40:32.300 It looks like

00:40:32.600 they went

00:40:32.840 through individually

00:40:33.440 and blurred

00:40:33.840 all the bodies.

00:40:34.780 So that's...

00:40:36.340 Sorry you had

00:40:38.480 to do that.

00:40:39.060 But anyway,

00:40:39.760 so there it

00:40:40.480 is.

00:40:40.720 Of course,

00:40:46.060 you look at

00:40:46.400 that and

00:40:47.140 it's like,

00:40:47.940 can you

00:40:48.460 imagine the

00:40:48.940 stench in

00:40:49.440 that crowd?

00:40:50.820 It's like a

00:40:51.520 porta-potty

00:40:52.100 baking in the

00:40:52.720 sun.

00:40:54.560 Like a badly

00:40:55.780 maintained petting

00:40:56.780 zoo.

00:40:57.200 It probably

00:40:57.540 smells like a

00:41:00.260 refrigerator packed

00:41:02.020 with meat where

00:41:03.540 the power's been

00:41:04.160 out for 95

00:41:05.220 days.

00:41:05.700 just awful is

00:41:08.180 what I'm

00:41:08.340 saying.

00:41:09.500 And I was

00:41:09.820 also thinking

00:41:10.180 about this.

00:41:10.580 If I had to

00:41:11.680 describe or

00:41:12.460 explain the

00:41:14.360 left-right

00:41:14.860 divide with

00:41:16.460 one fact,

00:41:17.800 it would be

00:41:19.540 this.

00:41:20.360 That if you

00:41:21.120 see a

00:41:21.780 protester,

00:41:22.440 and I know

00:41:22.740 this is not

00:41:23.240 revelatory,

00:41:24.380 but if you

00:41:25.100 see a

00:41:25.360 protester

00:41:25.860 waving an

00:41:26.660 American flag,

00:41:27.920 he's conservative.

00:41:29.700 Right?

00:41:30.220 He's on the

00:41:30.880 right.

00:41:31.020 And it

00:41:32.520 wasn't always

00:41:33.040 that way,

00:41:33.440 but it is

00:41:33.760 that way now.

00:41:34.620 You don't

00:41:35.080 know what

00:41:35.380 they're protesting,

00:41:36.040 you have no

00:41:36.240 idea what

00:41:36.500 they're upset

00:41:36.780 about.

00:41:37.200 If he's

00:41:37.720 waving an

00:41:38.040 American flag,

00:41:38.520 it's conservative.

00:41:39.200 So you know

00:41:39.540 that right

00:41:39.860 away.

00:41:40.780 If you see

00:41:41.340 a protester

00:41:42.520 take off

00:41:43.000 his clothes,

00:41:44.520 he's a

00:41:44.860 liberal.

00:41:46.240 Like 100%

00:41:47.040 of the time.

00:41:49.200 100%.

00:41:49.480 If you see

00:41:50.460 a naked

00:41:50.860 person in

00:41:51.320 public doing

00:41:51.880 anything at

00:41:53.120 all,

00:41:53.380 really,

00:41:53.860 but especially

00:41:54.780 engaging in

00:41:55.420 any kind of

00:41:56.040 political

00:41:56.360 demonstration,

00:41:57.260 you automatically

00:41:57.960 know that you

00:41:58.820 don't have to

00:41:59.160 know what they're

00:42:00.640 talking about.

00:42:01.080 You don't know

00:42:01.260 what they're

00:42:01.440 upset about.

00:42:01.960 You know

00:42:02.320 that they're

00:42:02.560 liberal.

00:42:03.220 And the

00:42:03.540 entire history

00:42:04.280 of naked

00:42:04.880 political

00:42:05.400 protests,

00:42:06.040 100% of

00:42:07.080 them,

00:42:07.560 without exception,

00:42:09.100 have been on

00:42:09.560 the left.

00:42:10.840 You know,

00:42:11.060 I've attended

00:42:11.680 a lot of

00:42:12.940 right-wing

00:42:13.700 political

00:42:14.040 protests and

00:42:14.700 demonstrations

00:42:15.160 in my day.

00:42:15.860 I've never

00:42:16.280 seen a

00:42:16.880 single naked

00:42:17.400 person at

00:42:18.780 any of

00:42:19.080 them.

00:42:20.920 Thank God.

00:42:23.040 And that's

00:42:23.640 kind of an

00:42:24.000 interesting fact.

00:42:24.840 We take it

00:42:25.400 for granted.

00:42:27.400 But why is

00:42:28.240 it?

00:42:28.460 I think it's

00:42:28.760 worth thinking

00:42:29.260 about.

00:42:29.520 I mean,

00:42:30.960 you don't

00:42:31.140 want to

00:42:31.380 think about

00:42:31.740 it.

00:42:32.860 You don't

00:42:33.300 want to

00:42:33.460 imagine it,

00:42:34.160 but it

00:42:34.560 is.

00:42:35.960 Like, why

00:42:36.460 does it

00:42:36.680 work that

00:42:37.000 way?

00:42:38.560 Why do

00:42:39.060 people keep

00:42:39.440 taking your

00:42:39.820 clothes off?

00:42:40.360 I mean,

00:42:43.260 we could

00:42:44.220 debate who

00:42:44.740 is responsible

00:42:45.400 for most

00:42:46.240 of the

00:42:46.900 political

00:42:47.160 violence.

00:42:47.980 It's not

00:42:48.240 really a

00:42:48.580 debate.

00:42:48.900 The answer

00:42:49.200 is the

00:42:49.460 left by

00:42:49.860 far,

00:42:50.220 obviously.

00:42:50.920 But there's

00:42:51.360 no debate

00:42:51.800 to be had

00:42:52.300 about who

00:42:52.640 is responsible

00:42:53.160 for the

00:42:53.600 most indecent

00:42:54.300 exposure.

00:42:55.920 Who is the

00:42:56.340 most likely

00:42:56.940 to flash 0.97

00:42:57.640 their genitals 1.00

00:42:58.220 in public 0.94

00:42:59.000 in an effort

00:43:00.600 to make a

00:43:01.040 political point?

00:43:01.980 The answer

00:43:02.580 is always

00:43:03.380 the left,

00:43:04.980 100% of the

00:43:05.820 time.

00:43:06.660 Literally

00:43:06.940 never the right.

00:43:07.580 And, again,

00:43:09.220 I think that

00:43:09.580 that's a

00:43:11.000 disturbing fact.

00:43:11.620 It's also an

00:43:11.920 interesting fact

00:43:12.700 to ask,

00:43:15.060 like, why?

00:43:16.320 Why are you

00:43:17.220 doing this?

00:43:18.080 Why do you

00:43:18.540 keep doing

00:43:18.960 this?

00:43:21.080 And there's a

00:43:21.780 simple reason

00:43:22.240 for it,

00:43:22.620 which is that

00:43:23.100 for the

00:43:23.520 left,

00:43:23.920 everything

00:43:24.340 comes back 0.90

00:43:24.960 to sex, 0.98

00:43:25.520 always.

00:43:27.660 Everything's

00:43:28.020 about sex.

00:43:30.360 You know,

00:43:30.800 for the left,

00:43:31.260 the thing that

00:43:31.640 drives them,

00:43:32.300 the thing that

00:43:32.600 animates them,

00:43:33.300 the thing that

00:43:33.660 lies at the

00:43:34.260 center of their

00:43:34.740 whole political

00:43:35.180 project is just 0.97

00:43:36.300 sex. 0.98

00:43:37.020 That's what

00:43:37.240 it always

00:43:37.460 comes down

00:43:37.780 to.

00:43:38.940 Even an

00:43:39.440 issue that

00:43:39.820 seems totally

00:43:40.460 unrelated,

00:43:41.380 totally non-sexual,

00:43:44.220 ultimately still

00:43:44.960 comes back to

00:43:45.480 sex. 0.99

00:43:45.920 Immigration.

00:43:46.540 Like, what are

00:43:46.780 they upset?

00:43:47.120 Well, I think

00:43:47.440 this is an

00:43:48.260 ICE protest.

00:43:51.300 So what does

00:43:51.820 being naked

00:43:52.280 have to do

00:43:52.680 with it?

00:43:53.060 Why do you

00:43:53.700 need to show

00:43:54.340 people your

00:43:54.720 naked body to 0.66

00:43:55.440 make a point

00:43:55.840 about ICE?

00:43:58.420 What does it

00:43:58.920 have to do

00:43:59.180 with anything

00:43:59.680 at all?

00:44:01.920 And you

00:44:02.320 would think

00:44:02.640 that, well,

00:44:02.900 these things

00:44:03.220 are not

00:44:03.480 connected.

00:44:03.880 I mean,

00:44:04.040 so the

00:44:04.980 left,

00:44:05.300 they have

00:44:05.460 this

00:44:06.640 they can't

00:44:07.380 think beyond

00:44:08.020 their own

00:44:09.520 genitals. 0.98

00:44:10.080 They cannot

00:44:10.540 think beyond

00:44:11.280 their own

00:44:11.880 sexual desires,

00:44:13.000 their own

00:44:13.340 often perverse

00:44:14.000 sexual desires.

00:44:14.900 Everything

00:44:15.160 comes back to

00:44:15.780 that all

00:44:16.140 the time.

00:44:16.700 They can't

00:44:17.560 get past

00:44:18.520 it.

00:44:22.200 And you

00:44:22.680 would think

00:44:22.960 with immigration,

00:44:24.360 you know,

00:44:25.980 how is that

00:44:26.500 connected?

00:44:26.880 well, it's

00:44:29.220 not exactly

00:44:29.660 clear in

00:44:30.240 their minds.

00:44:31.100 Like, if

00:44:31.340 you were

00:44:31.600 to ask

00:44:32.100 any of

00:44:32.560 those

00:44:32.760 people,

00:44:33.680 if you

00:44:34.180 were to

00:44:34.360 go up

00:44:34.680 to them,

00:44:35.000 if you

00:44:35.180 were to

00:44:35.400 brave that

00:44:36.200 storm and 0.58

00:44:37.800 go up to

00:44:38.220 one of those 0.96

00:44:38.500 naked people

00:44:38.980 on the road

00:44:39.940 and say,

00:44:40.440 why?

00:44:42.040 What are you

00:44:42.480 doing?

00:44:44.440 And they

00:44:44.840 would say,

00:44:45.120 oh, I'm

00:44:45.340 protesting ICE.

00:44:46.200 And you

00:44:46.460 say, well,

00:44:46.840 why?

00:44:47.180 But why?

00:44:47.900 Why do you

00:44:48.200 have to do

00:44:48.900 it naked?

00:44:51.860 They wouldn't

00:44:52.460 be able to

00:44:53.360 explain it.

00:44:53.720 I don't think

00:44:53.980 they'd be able

00:44:54.280 to explain why

00:44:55.100 they need to

00:44:55.540 flash their 0.99

00:44:55.980 genitals in 1.00

00:44:56.480 order to

00:44:56.680 make a

00:44:56.900 point about

00:44:57.220 immigration

00:44:57.700 policy.

00:44:58.240 They wouldn't

00:44:58.420 be able to

00:44:58.720 explain it.

00:44:59.620 But if they

00:44:59.900 were to

00:45:00.120 try to

00:45:00.560 make, if

00:45:01.420 we were to

00:45:02.120 try to

00:45:02.360 make some

00:45:02.660 kind of

00:45:02.940 sense of

00:45:03.320 it, the

00:45:04.760 answer is

00:45:05.440 that they

00:45:07.280 desire to

00:45:08.100 erase our

00:45:08.700 borders and

00:45:09.740 undermine our

00:45:10.680 sovereignty because

00:45:12.780 they want to

00:45:13.740 destroy our

00:45:14.420 national identity.

00:45:16.000 They want to

00:45:16.780 destroy traditional

00:45:17.800 American culture.

00:45:19.560 And why do

00:45:20.400 they want to

00:45:20.760 destroy that?

00:45:21.340 Well, because

00:45:21.620 they believe that

00:45:22.400 it's patriarchal

00:45:23.380 and oppressive

00:45:24.020 and they want

00:45:25.980 to get rid of

00:45:26.540 this patriarchal

00:45:27.320 oppression so

00:45:27.960 that they can

00:45:28.300 run around

00:45:28.600 naked and 1.00

00:45:28.960 have sex with 1.00

00:45:29.540 anyone they 1.00

00:45:29.980 want.

00:45:32.580 So you see,

00:45:33.260 it only takes

00:45:33.840 like three,

00:45:34.680 it's like three

00:45:35.440 or four turns

00:45:36.280 it takes to

00:45:37.520 get from

00:45:38.040 immigration policy

00:45:39.280 to sex.

00:45:41.120 And usually

00:45:42.420 it doesn't even

00:45:42.880 take that many.

00:45:43.820 Usually it's

00:45:44.420 like one to

00:45:45.040 one.

00:45:47.340 Connecting the

00:45:47.860 dots is usually

00:45:48.640 one dot here,

00:45:49.400 one dot there,

00:45:50.000 and boom,

00:45:50.860 you're right back 0.88

00:45:51.380 at sex.

00:45:51.760 That's usually

00:45:52.140 the way it goes

00:45:52.740 with the left,

00:45:53.440 but with

00:45:53.880 something like

00:45:54.240 immigration,

00:45:54.740 it takes a

00:45:55.140 couple more,

00:45:55.900 you know,

00:45:56.140 it's a couple

00:45:56.500 more turns,

00:45:57.260 it goes there

00:45:57.900 and there

00:45:58.280 and there,

00:45:58.740 and oh,

00:45:58.980 okay,

00:45:59.160 yeah.

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00:46:02.740 all these people

00:46:03.120 care about.

00:46:04.820 It's really

00:46:05.540 the only thing

00:46:06.160 they think about,

00:46:07.220 the only thing

00:46:07.740 they care about.

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00:48:01.900 For our daily cancellation today,

00:48:03.300 we have an article

00:48:03.860 in CNN

00:48:04.760 written by a woman 0.59

00:48:05.820 named Madeline Holcomb

00:48:07.240 with this rather hilarious title,

00:48:09.400 After Years of Progress on Gender, 0.89

00:48:11.160 the Male Gaze is Back. 0.60

00:48:14.660 Now, the article itself

00:48:16.700 is very long.

00:48:17.840 It appears to have been written

00:48:18.660 with the help of AI.

00:48:20.340 I can't prove that.

00:48:21.560 I don't know for certain

00:48:22.440 that it's the case,

00:48:23.280 but as someone who suffered

00:48:24.540 through the experience

00:48:25.320 of reading the entire thing

00:48:26.400 for some reason,

00:48:27.000 I can say that

00:48:27.620 it seems like the writer

00:48:29.200 fed a few prompts

00:48:30.580 into ChatGPT

00:48:31.380 and told it to spit out

00:48:32.260 a 3,000-word feminist essay.

00:48:34.840 And if that's not what she did,

00:48:36.140 she may as well 1.00

00:48:36.980 have done that.

00:48:37.720 And there's really no reason

00:48:39.200 to waste your time

00:48:39.900 actually writing

00:48:40.540 a soulless, banal,

00:48:41.820 needlessly wordy essay

00:48:43.380 that just repeats

00:48:44.640 the same tired talking point

00:48:46.160 over and over and over again.

00:48:47.740 ChatGPT can handle that just fine.

00:48:50.500 I'm very against AI

00:48:51.440 taking over

00:48:52.120 and doing everything,

00:48:52.940 but if you're looking

00:48:54.720 to make a pointless,

00:48:55.920 soulless essay,

00:48:56.600 then you might as well

00:48:57.400 just have AI do it.

00:48:59.860 Anyway, here's how

00:49:00.720 Madeline GPT

00:49:02.480 begins the article.

00:49:04.040 This summer,

00:49:04.940 I got cultural whiplash 0.90

00:49:06.200 as a child of the 90s

00:49:07.580 and early 2000s.

00:49:08.500 I grew up with my mother's

00:49:09.660 and grandmother's

00:49:10.440 generation's fight

00:49:11.300 for legal and workplace equality,

00:49:13.480 helping shed social misogyny.

00:49:15.380 In the past decade in particular,

00:49:16.640 I saw the evidence of progress

00:49:18.020 in my media diet.

00:49:19.660 The movies, shows, books,

00:49:21.160 and advertisements I consumed

00:49:22.440 were increasingly giving women 0.96

00:49:23.780 a seat at the table.

00:49:25.340 Heroin chic fell away,

00:49:26.800 body positivity

00:49:27.560 entered the fashion world.

00:49:29.000 Stories about a woman 0.99

00:49:29.720 stealing her man 1.00

00:49:30.560 were traded for celebrations

00:49:31.640 of the girl's girl

00:49:32.680 who resisted the competition

00:49:33.720 for men's attention.

00:49:35.180 My husband and I

00:49:35.840 got married earlier this year.

00:49:36.900 Our vision of what our life

00:49:37.920 could be included

00:49:38.860 wide-ranging possibilities

00:49:40.160 influenced in part

00:49:40.980 by the movies and shows

00:49:41.900 we grew up with.

00:49:42.820 We saw, read, and listened

00:49:43.940 to stories of involved fathers,

00:49:45.480 successful mothers,

00:49:46.280 and well-matched partners

00:49:47.440 who supported one another.

00:49:49.080 It seemed like women 1.00

00:49:49.780 were taking a deeper breath

00:49:51.220 without such heavy

00:49:52.440 cultural restrictions.

00:49:54.640 Well, you see what I mean.

00:49:56.500 I'm not going to harp

00:49:57.240 on the point,

00:49:57.940 but I just refuse to believe

00:49:59.340 that an actual human person

00:50:00.680 wrote this paragraph.

00:50:01.620 It's the perfect combination

00:50:03.600 of cliche and meaningless.

00:50:06.440 It was either generated

00:50:08.120 by an algorithm

00:50:08.860 or by a person

00:50:09.920 whose brain has been hijacked

00:50:11.320 by algorithms,

00:50:12.280 and the results are the same.

00:50:14.300 In any case,

00:50:14.820 Madeline claims that

00:50:15.560 when she got married,

00:50:16.460 she and her husband

00:50:17.040 were excited by the

00:50:18.140 wide-ranging possibilities

00:50:19.660 in their lives

00:50:20.480 because they were influenced

00:50:21.620 by the movies and shows

00:50:22.700 they watched.

00:50:24.300 Without the movies and shows,

00:50:25.820 they wouldn't have known

00:50:26.920 that life has possibilities.

00:50:28.320 They would not have known that

00:50:29.100 if they hadn't been able

00:50:29.840 to watch all those movies

00:50:30.900 and shows.

00:50:33.320 Madeline needed to see

00:50:34.680 women on TV

00:50:36.040 pretending to do

00:50:36.800 different things

00:50:37.400 in order to know

00:50:38.060 that it's possible

00:50:38.740 for women to do 1.00

00:50:39.400 different things.

00:50:40.960 She watched Grey's Anatomy

00:50:42.400 and learned that women 1.00

00:50:43.280 can be doctors.

00:50:45.200 She saw Tomb Raider

00:50:46.900 and learned that women 1.00

00:50:47.680 can be archaeologists.

00:50:49.880 She watched Monster

00:50:52.580 with Charlize Theron

00:50:53.700 and learned that women 1.00

00:50:54.760 can even be successful

00:50:55.860 serial killers

00:50:56.540 if they want to be.

00:50:57.960 Madeline's brain

00:50:58.760 was programmed

00:50:59.660 by pop culture

00:51:00.500 and she's apparently

00:51:01.120 proud of it.

00:51:02.680 But she's confused

00:51:03.900 because after all

00:51:04.820 this girl power propaganda,

00:51:07.700 why do heterosexual men 0.98

00:51:09.000 still exist?

00:51:10.640 How can this be?

00:51:12.560 She continues,

00:51:13.460 then there was a shift.

00:51:15.280 Was it around

00:51:15.900 the 2024 presidential election

00:51:17.500 or since the overturn

00:51:18.360 of Roe v. Wade?

00:51:19.260 Maybe when men's rights activists 0.99

00:51:20.700 pushed back against Me Too.

00:51:22.580 Whatever the catalyst,

00:51:23.460 a change in the political environment

00:51:24.740 seemed to connect

00:51:25.380 with a social change

00:51:26.360 that brought back narrow

00:51:27.700 and at times constrictive

00:51:29.220 ideas of womanhood

00:51:30.580 depicted in media.

00:51:31.380 The recent rise

00:51:32.340 of weight loss medications

00:51:33.480 coincided with social media

00:51:34.780 influencers sharing ways

00:51:36.140 to get smaller

00:51:36.740 and no longer celebrating

00:51:38.080 bodies of all sizes.

00:51:39.340 Advertisements followed suit,

00:51:40.800 making men's desire

00:51:41.820 once again a dominating factor

00:51:43.340 in how stories are told

00:51:44.220 and how women are portrayed. 1.00

00:51:46.220 How had these discarded ideas

00:51:47.760 made their way back

00:51:48.840 into circulation?

00:51:50.040 Didn't we all agree

00:51:50.920 we were through with them?

00:51:51.920 The culprit,

00:51:53.400 I have learned,

00:51:54.080 is the male gaze.

00:51:56.000 It was always there,

00:51:57.620 but now it's stepped back

00:51:58.940 into the spotlight.

00:52:01.060 Now the rest of this

00:52:02.160 interminable diatribe

00:52:03.560 just circles around

00:52:04.520 this idea that the male gaze,

00:52:06.100 which apparently had gone away

00:52:07.400 for a while,

00:52:08.580 is now back.

00:52:10.440 That's bad because,

00:52:11.440 you know,

00:52:11.580 the male gaze is bad.

00:52:12.700 Males are not supposed 1.00

00:52:13.460 to have a gaze.

00:52:14.920 We aren't supposed to

00:52:15.900 look at anything

00:52:17.220 or notice anything

00:52:18.560 or want anything

00:52:20.060 or have any preferences

00:52:21.100 or desires of any kind.

00:52:23.960 Every bad thing that happens,

00:52:25.400 including and especially

00:52:26.140 the bad choices

00:52:27.040 that women make, 1.00

00:52:28.180 are really the fault of men 0.85

00:52:29.840 and their gaze.

00:52:33.980 G-A-Z-E, by the way,

00:52:35.540 just to clarify.

00:52:37.940 She goes on to explain,

00:52:39.820 this year saw viral content

00:52:41.960 around an OnlyFans star's

00:52:43.340 attempt to break

00:52:44.100 the world record

00:52:44.740 for most sexual partners

00:52:45.880 in one day,

00:52:46.560 a lucrative career move

00:52:47.480 made even more viral

00:52:48.660 by her bashing the wives 1.00

00:52:49.960 and girlfriends 0.98

00:52:50.420 of her sexual partners

00:52:51.400 and suggesting that men

00:52:52.300 cheating is the fault

00:52:53.440 of the women

00:52:53.860 who aren't available 0.98

00:52:54.560 enough for sex. 0.96

00:52:56.120 Most typically, 0.97

00:52:56.780 the male gaze

00:52:57.320 is about representing

00:52:57.980 women in media

00:52:58.640 solely to satisfy

00:52:59.500 heterosexual men,

00:53:00.500 said Dr. Linda Tunke-Zeyer,

00:53:02.800 professor of marketing

00:53:03.640 and John F. Smith,

00:53:05.800 junior chair

00:53:06.720 in business administration

00:53:07.840 at the Quinlan School

00:53:09.040 of Business

00:53:09.620 at Loyola University,

00:53:11.040 Chicago.

00:53:11.460 That was the longest title.

00:53:13.220 That was the longest title

00:53:14.820 for the most meaningless

00:53:15.980 position

00:53:16.540 that you could possibly imagine.

00:53:17.980 So, anyway,

00:53:21.000 the point is

00:53:21.400 when a woman decides 0.99

00:53:22.580 to pimp herself out 1.00

00:53:23.580 for money,

00:53:24.960 the fault really lies

00:53:26.120 with men.

00:53:27.300 You know,

00:53:27.460 the OnlyFans star

00:53:28.320 in question

00:53:28.880 cannot be blamed

00:53:30.220 for her own decisions,

00:53:31.660 much less can she be accused

00:53:33.460 of exploiting the men

00:53:34.760 who appear in her videos

00:53:35.800 or consume her content.

00:53:38.420 I mean,

00:53:38.880 you could make that argument

00:53:39.640 if anyone's being exploited there,

00:53:40.800 it's actually going

00:53:41.220 the other way.

00:53:41.680 No, no, no.

00:53:43.860 Somehow she's the one

00:53:44.720 being exploited,

00:53:45.400 even though

00:53:45.780 she is the one

00:53:47.480 with all the power

00:53:49.060 in that relationship

00:53:50.020 and the only one

00:53:51.920 who profits

00:53:52.400 financially from it.

00:53:55.800 Madeline also uses 0.99

00:53:56.840 the example

00:53:57.360 of the infamous

00:53:58.020 American Eagle ad.

00:54:00.040 Infamous for no reason.

00:54:01.100 There was no reason

00:54:01.560 because it was totally

00:54:02.400 inoffensive,

00:54:03.060 but Sidney Sweeney

00:54:04.540 was evidently compelled

00:54:05.600 through the hypnotic force

00:54:06.920 of the male gaze

00:54:07.940 to appear in the ad

00:54:09.140 and objectify herself. 1.00

00:54:11.340 So this is your typical

00:54:12.360 feminist clap trap

00:54:13.340 where women are presented

00:54:14.520 as both empowered

00:54:15.700 and utterly helpless

00:54:16.600 at the exact same time.

00:54:18.020 But I want to focus

00:54:19.240 very briefly

00:54:19.920 just for a moment

00:54:22.340 on the question

00:54:22.980 that the author posed

00:54:24.580 that we read

00:54:25.040 a couple minutes ago.

00:54:26.820 And she wrote again,

00:54:28.000 how had these discarded ideas

00:54:29.760 made their way

00:54:30.640 back into circulation?

00:54:32.960 Didn't we all agree

00:54:34.340 we were through with them?

00:54:37.620 Now the idea, again,

00:54:39.140 is just heterosexuality.

00:54:42.460 That's really it.

00:54:43.360 That's the idea

00:54:44.200 she's talking about.

00:54:45.120 Men are attracted to women.

00:54:47.320 Women are attracted to men.

00:54:49.360 Men do things

00:54:50.840 to attract women.

00:54:52.600 Women do things 1.00

00:54:53.440 to attract men.

00:54:55.100 That's the idea.

00:54:55.940 This basic fact

00:54:57.660 of human existence.

00:55:00.780 And guess what?

00:55:01.700 That basic fact

00:55:02.360 of human existence

00:55:02.920 was never discarded

00:55:04.400 and can never be discarded.

00:55:06.560 It was denied

00:55:08.500 by the ideological movement

00:55:10.440 that Madeline

00:55:10.960 has unthinkingly

00:55:11.880 aligned herself with.

00:55:13.720 But human society itself

00:55:15.260 can never get rid of it.

00:55:19.180 And the most telling part

00:55:20.720 of it is when she said,

00:55:21.500 well, hadn't we all agreed?

00:55:24.200 Oh, really?

00:55:24.700 You think we all agreed?

00:55:28.120 Living in such a bubble,

00:55:29.380 she thinks everyone agreed.

00:55:30.940 Like, we all agree

00:55:31.600 that we're just done

00:55:32.240 with heterosexuality completely.

00:55:33.560 We all agreed

00:55:35.880 to this total rejection

00:55:37.920 of the only thing

00:55:40.820 that keeps human civilization going.

00:55:44.540 Hadn't we all agreed?

00:55:45.840 Hadn't every single person

00:55:47.060 on the planet

00:55:47.640 agreed to this?

00:55:51.180 Well, no.

00:55:51.860 We certainly never agreed

00:55:52.680 that we were all through

00:55:53.840 with this fact of existence.

00:55:56.620 Even if we had agreed,

00:55:57.800 it wouldn't change the fact.

00:56:00.900 There was no agreement.

00:56:02.060 There was instead a demand

00:56:03.800 from Madeline's side.

00:56:06.980 And now she is lamenting

00:56:08.520 that that demand was not met.

00:56:12.020 She is lamenting,

00:56:13.400 essentially, normalcy.

00:56:15.160 And that is what this is

00:56:16.320 really about.

00:56:16.960 And that is why

00:56:17.540 she is today

00:56:18.980 canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 15, 2025

Ep. 1673 - POLITICO Releases An Egregious Hit Piece And Many Republicans Are Falling For It

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