The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 220 - Elementary School Indoctrinating Kindergartners Into Radical Left Wing Gender Theory

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wells Show, an elementary school in Virginia has been caught trying to indoctrinate kindergartners into left-wing gender theory.

00:00:08.620 We'll talk about why this is child abuse and also why the left's theories on gender are contradictory, insane, superstitious, and completely incoherent.

00:00:18.080 Also, what is it about the Internet that makes people depressed?

00:00:22.840 I'll try to break that down a little bit.

00:00:24.580 And finally, Elizabeth Warren says, abolish the Electoral College.

00:00:28.500 Does she have a point?

00:00:30.000 We'll talk about all that today on The Matt Wells Show.

00:00:37.500 So some old tweets from Cory Booker have been, as they say, unearthed.

00:00:44.080 A woman named Anna Fitzpatrick on Twitter found them.

00:00:47.860 And apparently Cory Booker has been recycling the same joke for like 10 years in a row.

00:00:56.440 But this is a great joke, guys.

00:00:59.100 This is killer material.

00:01:02.020 Cory Booker is one of the, I didn't realize this, he's one of the comedy icons of our time.

00:01:08.960 So let me just, here are the jokes.

00:01:11.920 In 2009, he tweeted, sleep and I broke up a few nights ago.

00:01:16.640 I'm dating coffee now.

00:01:18.260 She's hot. 1.00

00:01:18.940 That's good.

00:01:20.900 That is good stuff.

00:01:24.020 Then again in 2009, he tweeted, had another fight with sleep last night.

00:01:29.000 I left her and I'm hanging out with my smoldering love, Coffee Now.

00:01:32.260 And tonight, she's smoking hot. 1.00

00:01:36.360 Then 2010, he tweeted, sleep and I broke up again tonight.

00:01:40.520 I'm finding comfort with my new special friend, Coffee.

00:01:44.040 She's hot. 1.00

00:01:47.080 Oh man, this is good stuff.

00:01:49.500 Then in 2010, he tweeted, mean old sleep left me for another dude.

00:01:54.500 I'm with Coffee Now.

00:01:55.860 She's got a stimulating attitude. 0.99

00:01:58.440 Well, that was a rhyme too.

00:01:59.660 Did you get that?

00:02:00.500 Then in 2011, sleep and I are fighting again.

00:02:03.260 So I'm hanging out with my old love, Coffee.

00:02:05.440 She's so hot. 0.97

00:02:06.520 2012, sleep and I have irreconcilable differences.

00:02:12.760 We separated.

00:02:13.600 I'm dating my tall, hot, sweet new friend, Coffee.

00:02:18.460 Coffee's dating ticket.

00:02:20.920 2012, again, had a fight with sleep.

00:02:23.720 She's so uncooperative.

00:02:25.060 I'm hanging with Coffee Now.

00:02:26.540 She's so sweet and very hot.

00:02:29.000 So hot.

00:02:30.260 Like, it's getting as hot as in temperature-wise, but also, you know, it's attractive.

00:02:35.040 You know, like the way that...

00:02:36.120 2012, yet again, sleep and I broke up tonight.

00:02:39.240 I'm now dating Coffee.

00:02:40.940 She's hot. 1.00

00:02:44.140 2013, sleep and I broke up again.

00:02:46.500 I'm back with Coffee.

00:02:47.720 She is...

00:02:48.460 She's hot. 1.00

00:02:49.600 She said the Coffee's hot.

00:02:50.800 Did you get...

00:02:51.580 2015, sleep and I broke up.

00:02:54.420 I'm dating Coffee Now.

00:02:55.600 She is hot. 1.00

00:02:57.060 Again, it's the hottest Coffee.

00:02:59.660 2017, I broke up with sleep last night and I'm dating Coffee this morning.

00:03:03.860 I appreciate her warmth and stimulating company.

00:03:07.860 Stimulating.

00:03:08.780 Is it double me?

00:03:10.380 Oh, man.

00:03:11.100 That is classic, classic stuff.

00:03:15.720 I think Cory Booker might have a condition, actually.

00:03:18.180 I'm kind of worried about him.

00:03:19.140 Someone should probably check on him.

00:03:20.860 All right.

00:03:21.140 Before we go on, there's a lot to talk about today.

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00:04:45.840 All right, here's something terrible, I hate to say, but I'm going to read now an article

00:04:56.440 from a little bit of an article from the Daily Wire and says, at the very end of February,

00:05:02.780 in an elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, had kindergartners sit on the floor to hear

00:05:08.900 a transgender spokesperson for the human rights campaign, read them a book in which the claim

00:05:15.060 is made that a boy can have a girl brain, but a boy body or a boy brain and a girl body.

00:05:20.860 The school district later claimed that, quote, parents were notified by a letter ahead of

00:05:25.280 time and were allowed to opt out as if they chose.

00:05:28.280 But that claim was reportedly false.

00:05:30.360 As Casey Chalk, himself the father of three small children, notes for The Federalist, a

00:05:36.320 copy of the February 22nd letter provided to the Family Foundation of Virginia under the

00:05:40.340 Virginia Freedom of Information Act shows absolutely no offer for parents to pull their

00:05:45.220 kids out of the activity.

00:05:46.500 Moreover, although the letter notes that a book written by a transgender person would

00:05:50.280 be read to the class, it does not explicitly say that kindergartners will be told they may

00:05:57.160 have a girl brain, but a boy body or a boy brain and a girl body, as the book claims.

00:06:02.600 Nor does it say that the kids would be read to by a cross-dressing man who calls himself 1.00

00:06:08.060 Sarah.

00:06:10.160 The Washington Post reported that in February, then in the February 28th class at Ashlawn

00:06:15.260 Elementary School, which was taught by openly homosexual teacher, Jane Foster, the transgender

00:06:20.080 advocate, Sarah McBride, read the children, the storybook, I Am Jazz.

00:06:25.740 Now, okay, first of all, this is child abuse, plain and simple, pure indoctrination, pure

00:06:35.920 brainwashing.

00:06:36.880 That's what that looks like.

00:06:39.300 What does it look like for children to be brainwashed?

00:06:43.000 Well, here it is.

00:06:44.180 It's a bunch of children sitting around on the carpet, listening to a cross-dressing man 1.00

00:06:49.320 reading a book about transgenderism.

00:06:52.400 I mean, really, this whole scenario, which you hear it and you're horrified by it, but

00:06:58.000 you're also not shocked, right?

00:06:59.560 But this scenario, it sounds like something that a conservative would have made up satirically 0.55

00:07:06.540 like 10 years ago, where you've got an openly gay kindergarten teacher inviting a transgender

00:07:11.680 cross-dresser to a kindergarten classroom to read the kids a story about boys having girl 0.95

00:07:16.800 brains.

00:07:17.220 I mean, it's just, it's the kind of thing, like I said, 10 years ago, if you had made

00:07:21.700 some sort of slippery slope argument 10 years ago and said, you know what, where we're headed

00:07:25.080 now, soon enough, there's going to be transgender cross-dressers in kindergarten classrooms reading 1.00

00:07:32.820 stories about transgenderism to kids. 0.99

00:07:34.840 If you had said that, everyone would have laughed at you and said, you're crazy, that's, you know, 0.99

00:07:39.300 calm down, you're being paranoid. 0.94

00:07:40.600 But that's where we are now.

00:07:43.440 And so I'm going to pause here for a moment and just analyze that particular point about

00:07:54.300 girls having boy brains.

00:07:57.800 This isn't really the most important point.

00:07:59.780 The most important point is simply that the school district and these two men and everyone

00:08:04.360 else involved are guilty of abusing these children.

00:08:08.700 They are all agents of ideology.

00:08:11.220 They are not educators.

00:08:12.620 They are not fit to educate.

00:08:15.260 But let's also examine what they told these kids.

00:08:20.520 In fact, if you're curious at all about the content of this book that was read to these

00:08:25.720 kids, a book that you can find in the children's section of many libraries and a book that, well,

00:08:31.700 this is certainly not the first time that kids have been read this book in an elementary

00:08:35.500 school.

00:08:36.920 So if you're interested to know what's in it, I found on YouTube, Jazz Jennings himself

00:08:42.860 reading his children's book where he explains how he discovered that he's a girl.

00:08:47.720 So let me play just a minute or so of this so that we're all on the same page.

00:08:52.900 No pun intended.

00:08:53.620 Here it is.

00:08:55.240 Hello, this is Jazz Jennings and I am going to do a reading of my book, I Am Jazz.

00:09:01.700 I Am Jazz.

00:09:04.420 For as long as I can remember, my favorite color has been pink.

00:09:08.320 My second favorite color is silver and my third favorite color is green.

00:09:16.320 Here are some of my other favorite things.

00:09:19.140 Dancing, singing, backflips, drawing, soccer, swimming, makeup, and pretending I'm a pop

00:09:25.060 star.

00:09:25.340 Most of all, I love mermaids.

00:09:28.760 Sometimes I even wear a mermaid tail in the pool.

00:09:35.540 My best friends are Samantha and Casey.

00:09:38.260 We always have fun together.

00:09:40.140 We like high heels and princess gowns or cartwheels and trampolines.

00:09:44.300 But I'm not exactly like Samantha and Casey.

00:09:50.760 I have a girl brain, but a boy body. 0.81

00:09:53.860 This is called transgender. 0.99

00:09:55.820 I was born this way.

00:10:01.820 When I was very little and my mom would say,

00:10:04.400 you're such a good boy, I would say, no mama, good girl. 1.00

00:10:08.760 At first my family was confused.

00:10:11.220 They'd always thought of me as a boy.

00:10:15.200 As I got a little older, I hardly ever played with trucks or tools or superheroes.

00:10:20.640 Only princesses and mermaid costumes.

00:10:23.340 My brothers told me this was girl stuff.

00:10:25.600 I kept right on playing.

00:10:26.940 Okay, so a number of significant problems here, starting with the fact that this book and the

00:10:34.380 transgender theory generally only reinforces all of the gender stereotypes that the left has been

00:10:40.200 trying to demolish for decades.

00:10:42.280 So the boy didn't like to play with trucks.

00:10:46.500 He liked the color pink.

00:10:48.140 He liked dolls.

00:10:49.800 And that means he's a girl? 0.90

00:10:51.240 You see, I thought that colors and toys and all that stuff had nothing to do with gender whatsoever.

00:10:56.980 That was the big deal with, remember, Target, they were going to stop segregating their toys by

00:11:02.000 gender and stop saying, well, these are the girl toys, these are the boy toys.

00:11:05.460 And we were told that that's a very important thing because there are no girl toys and there

00:11:09.360 are no boy toys.

00:11:10.260 So if that's the case, then the fact that your boy likes to play with dolls doesn't mean anything.

00:11:15.420 It is not significant at all.

00:11:17.620 How could that be an indication that your son is really a girl if those toys don't mean 0.56

00:11:25.480 anything and if you can't, you know, delineate between girl and boy toys?

00:11:31.560 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:11:32.640 You're obviously contradicting yourself.

00:11:33.940 Um, so if we are living in this new enlightened age, um, where we can't even speak of toys

00:11:47.340 that boys generally like to play with and toys the girls generally like to play with, then

00:11:51.800 if that's the case, why can't jazz just be a boy who likes dolls?

00:11:57.580 Whatever happened to that category?

00:11:59.580 I thought we were told that there can be boys who like to play with dolls.

00:12:03.300 Well, well, okay, fine.

00:12:05.120 But now you're telling us that, well, not really because if a boy likes playing with

00:12:09.020 dolls, then he's really a girl.

00:12:11.860 Um, second point is a child at two or three years old or however old jazz was, um, saying

00:12:20.180 I'm a girl.

00:12:21.720 Well, that means nothing at all because a three-year-old child has no idea what a girl is.

00:12:27.940 Okay, so, so, uh, the next time you hear a three-year-old boy say, I'm a girl, here's

00:12:36.280 a good follow-up question.

00:12:38.160 Ask him, oh, what's a girl? 0.79

00:12:41.360 And what you're going to discover is he has no idea.

00:12:44.420 He doesn't know what a girl is.

00:12:46.180 He doesn't know what a boy is because he's three.

00:12:50.380 Um, you know, three-year-old children will also very frequently claim to be dinosaurs,

00:12:58.380 ninjas, princesses, fairies, pirates, superheroes, and so on.

00:13:03.280 They have no idea who they are or what they are or what's going on in the world.

00:13:08.120 They are living in a fantasy world, which is perfectly healthy and, and good and normal

00:13:13.260 for kids that age.

00:13:15.020 Um, but to actually take their pronouncements seriously, when a three-year-old says, uh,

00:13:21.820 I'm a girl or, or, you know, I'm a, I'm a dinosaur to actually say, well, what did

00:13:27.060 you hear that?

00:13:27.500 He says he's a dinosaur.

00:13:28.680 He says he's a stegosaurus.

00:13:29.860 You know, we, we, you know, we, we better go take him to the, uh, to the Smithsonian

00:13:34.580 and check. 0.90

00:13:35.580 I mean, what kind of maniac parent does that? 0.92

00:13:39.520 Do you really not understand the concept of a three-year-old? 0.93

00:13:43.300 You're with your three-year-old every day.

00:13:45.640 Have you not noticed that he has no idea what anything is or what's going on?

00:13:53.040 Um, the third point though, is what is a girl brain? 0.99

00:13:56.960 Um, so jazz tells us, well, I, you know, I had a, I had a girl brain and a boy body.

00:14:02.920 Well, again, I thought that the left has been telling us for decades that there is no such

00:14:09.540 thing as a girl brain. 1.00

00:14:11.560 In any other context, if you were to speak of girl brains versus boy brains, uh, you would 0.58

00:14:20.600 be castigated for that.

00:14:22.980 Um, you would be reprimanded harshly by the left for saying girl brain. 0.92

00:14:31.020 So there, so what does that mean?

00:14:34.820 You can only have a girl brain if it's in a boy body, but you can't have girl brains and girl 1.00

00:14:41.600 bodies.

00:14:42.000 Um, and also it isn't the brain part of your body last I checked.

00:14:51.520 It is.

00:14:52.380 So what kind of weird dualism is this where you have your, your, your body and then your

00:14:58.440 brain is some sort of separate organism.

00:15:02.380 You can't speak of, well, here's my body.

00:15:05.180 Here's my brain.

00:15:05.960 That's like saying, well, I've got my body and then I've got my left toe.

00:15:10.320 You know, my, it makes no sense.

00:15:13.100 It's part of your body.

00:15:15.100 Your brain is an organ in your body, like your pancreas or your spleen or your small intestine.

00:15:23.460 Um, if my brain can magically somehow be a girl, then what about my other organs?

00:15:28.900 Can I have a, a boy body, but a girl liver and a gender questioning, uh, you know, colon? 0.68

00:15:38.760 I mean, how does this work?

00:15:41.980 Well, that makes absolutely no sense, does it?

00:15:44.060 I mean, it wouldn't make any sense at all for me to say that my lungs are girls, but

00:15:48.620 the rest of my body is a boy.

00:15:51.420 Exactly.

00:15:51.880 It wouldn't make sense.

00:15:52.580 And it doesn't make sense to say with the brain either.

00:15:55.440 Remember that song?

00:15:56.540 Uh, there was that song that you sang as a kid about bones all being connected, right?

00:16:00.680 The toe bones connected to the foot bone, foot bones connected to the ankle bone, so

00:16:04.160 on and so on.

00:16:05.180 Uh, the point here is that your body is all connected.

00:16:08.180 It's all one thing.

00:16:10.060 There are parts of your body, but that's the point.

00:16:13.140 It's parts of your body.

00:16:15.980 It's, they're not completely separate, distinct things.

00:16:19.040 They're all, they are all part of one whole.

00:16:21.220 It's a synthesis.

00:16:22.360 It's a harmony.

00:16:23.380 Um, your brain is connected to everything else in your body.

00:16:27.520 It's part of your body.

00:16:28.800 It's part of the whole.

00:16:30.180 It can't have its own identity in contrast to the rest of you.

00:16:34.340 That makes no sense.

00:16:36.540 Uh, this anti-science, superstitious gibberish, that's what this is.

00:16:43.500 It is, it is superstition and it's being taught in our schools to our kids.

00:16:48.400 Meanwhile, um, on a similar topic, also this week, reading now from the Houston Chronicle,

00:16:59.420 um, Houston public library officials apologized this past Friday for failing to conduct a background

00:17:07.180 check on a registered sex offender who read books to children at an event hosted by drag 0.77

00:17:12.760 queens. 0.86

00:17:13.140 Once again, that is a sentence that 10 years ago, uh, if you had predicted something like 0.99

00:17:21.220 this, everyone would have said, you're crazy.

00:17:24.480 Albert Garza, a 32 year old registered sex offender participated in the program under the 0.82

00:17:29.100 name Tatiana Mala Nina.

00:17:31.980 Um, library officials acknowledged in a statement Friday that Garza has a criminal background that

00:17:37.800 should have prevented him from participating in the drag queen story time program in which

00:17:41.520 drag queens read books at the library, um, department of public safety records show Garza was convicted 0.60

00:17:47.520 of aggravated sexual assault of an eight-year-old child in 2009 for which he received five years

00:17:53.200 of probation and community supervision.

00:17:56.980 All right.

00:17:59.260 First of all, he sexually assaulted an eight-year-old child and he got probation and supervision.

00:18:08.340 He never went to prison at all.

00:18:10.320 Are you kidding me?

00:18:11.520 Well, someone who sexually assaults an eight-year-old child, we shouldn't have to worry about that

00:18:19.300 person showing up at the library.

00:18:20.900 Do you know why?

00:18:21.340 Because they should be in prison forever.

00:18:24.020 As in, that's something where if you do it, you should never be allowed out of your cage

00:18:30.320 ever again.

00:18:32.520 Um, that, that should be one of those one strike and you're out kind of situations.

00:18:38.600 But in this, in this country, it's, you might not be out at all.

00:18:45.380 You might not have to spend any time out of society, out of, uh, out of circulation as

00:18:49.880 it were.

00:18:52.060 Secondly, to those of us who are not delusional, you know, it's not terribly surprising to find

00:19:00.280 out that a guy who enjoys dressing up like a woman and, uh, prancing about in front of children

00:19:07.340 might be a sex offender.

00:19:08.600 To those of us who, who have, you know, who actually have brains in our heads, whether

00:19:13.520 it's a girl or a boy brain, if we have brains at all, we realize that, you know, that that's

00:19:17.660 sort of to be expected because it's a weird, to put it mildly, it is a weird and concerning

00:19:25.640 thing to find out that a grown man enjoys dressing as a woman. 0.88

00:19:30.380 Number one, and, uh, in particular, dressing as a woman and then going to a library in front

00:19:35.340 of children.

00:19:36.180 If you find within yourself the desire as a man to dress up like a woman and, uh, go present 0.97

00:19:42.580 yourself to children, that is deeply, deeply concerning and you need to get help.

00:19:46.820 You need to go, and I'm not trying to be funny.

00:19:49.120 You need to go and find a counselor, find a therapist and get help because that is unhealthy

00:19:54.540 and it's, and it's, uh, an indication of some serious things going wrong.

00:20:00.420 So this is not surprising.

00:20:02.360 Um, but it shouldn't even, it shouldn't even come up because if you're a library and you

00:20:13.100 want to have an event where a bunch of children come and they, and they listen to a story, well,

00:20:17.900 that's great.

00:20:18.580 Libraries have been doing that for, for decades.

00:20:20.960 You know, that's what libraries should be doing.

00:20:22.840 I remember when I was a kid, we would go to the library sometime and there would be story

00:20:25.860 time, right?

00:20:27.020 Okay.

00:20:27.580 Then just have the librarian come out and sit there and read a story.

00:20:33.100 Why do you need a man dressed as a woman reading the book? 1.00

00:20:37.320 Why is that part of it?

00:20:38.800 Why does that need to be introduced?

00:20:43.340 Um, absolute insanity.

00:20:48.400 All right, moving on, uh, switching gears here a little bit.

00:20:51.600 There was a study, which was released last week and published in the journal of abnormal

00:20:56.460 psychology.

00:20:57.120 Actually, I guess this is kind of related speaking of abnormal psychology.

00:21:00.720 Um, but this study says that as we know, there's been a dramatic rise in depression and suicidal

00:21:08.260 thoughts in young adults over the recent, over recent years.

00:21:11.480 And this study says that social media may be partially to blame for that.

00:21:15.460 And that isn't much of a revelation either.

00:21:17.480 I think, uh, it's undeniable really that, that psychologically it's unhealthy to raise a

00:21:22.680 generation of kids who are conditioned to live vicariously through their phones because

00:21:27.100 life is a very big, very dynamic, complex, beautiful, painful, complicated thing.

00:21:33.480 And you just can't fit it inside a phone.

00:21:35.480 And that's why you can't live every day on your phone because life is just so is, is,

00:21:40.760 is beyond that.

00:21:41.960 It's bigger than that.

00:21:42.960 Um, but I got to thinking about why exactly the internet depresses us so much aside from

00:21:50.880 the obvious about how, you know, everyone is so negative to each other and the lack of

00:21:55.360 sunlight, all that kind of stuff.

00:21:56.860 But what is it really?

00:21:58.680 What's, what's at the core of the problem?

00:22:01.240 Um, I think it's this, I think that we as human beings are, are desperate to make an

00:22:10.080 impact, right?

00:22:11.300 To leave an impression, to be noticed, uh, to be cared about, uh, to be loved.

00:22:18.380 And so we invent this, this thing called the internet and we think, okay, well, here it

00:22:24.160 is now.

00:22:24.580 Now I can enter into this world, into this cyber space, and I can interact with millions

00:22:30.160 of other people and I can really be noticed.

00:22:32.860 And, oh, look at, look at all these likes I'm getting and these shares and these retweets

00:22:37.080 and comments and everything.

00:22:38.520 But what we find inevitably is that we are in the end, uh, basically dancing in a void.

00:22:46.140 It doesn't matter what we say here on the internet.

00:22:49.380 Nobody will remember.

00:22:50.760 Nobody cares.

00:22:52.120 We are just noise.

00:22:53.720 It's all a bunch of noise and we're simply contributing to it.

00:22:57.780 Um, it's all content.

00:23:00.980 Even if we post a great hot take on Facebook and it gets like 52 likes and we think, wow,

00:23:08.260 52 people, 52 likes.

00:23:10.120 That's incredible.

00:23:10.740 Well, those people were just scrolling through their feed and you were one of probably about

00:23:18.000 350 pieces of content that they stumbled across and they've already forgotten about all of

00:23:24.360 it.

00:23:25.080 They liked your stuff, which they skimmed just as a gesture of acknowledgement.

00:23:29.960 It was just their way of saying, yep, I encountered this, but it left no impression on them.

00:23:35.420 It made no difference.

00:23:36.840 And 30 seconds later, they forgot what you said.

00:23:39.940 So this is the fact that disturbs us that we spend so much time on the internet.

00:23:44.500 We invest so much of ourselves into this world of the internet, but we are leaving no mark there, no impression.

00:23:57.420 And if we cease to exist, if we disappeared, if we died, nobody on the internet would notice or care or realize that we were gone.

00:24:06.280 Our Facebook friends might pause for a second and go, hey, whatever happened to so-and-so?

00:24:12.200 But, and if we actually do, if we actually did die and they found out, they might leave a little thing that says RIP on our

00:24:18.620 Facebook page or, you know, something like that.

00:24:21.680 But then they'll just go back to scrolling Instagram and they'll forget all about it.

00:24:27.200 Now, I don't exclude myself from this, by the way.

00:24:29.640 I have a larger than average platform on the internet because I do this for a living.

00:24:34.260 I do think that writing, not social media posts specifically, but actual writing, actual long form, real writing can definitely move people and have an impact and be remembered and matter in the grand scheme.

00:24:49.580 But it's hard to write things that matter, especially these days, especially on the internet.

00:24:54.620 And most of what I write, I fully realize.

00:24:58.900 Most of what I write on the internet, most of what anyone writes on the internet.

00:25:02.280 That won't matter or be remembered.

00:25:07.240 I mean, I wrote a viral article about,

00:25:10.220 two weeks ago, I wrote an article about Michael Jackson, about the Michael Jackson documentary.

00:25:14.700 And it got like 600,000 views or something like that, which is a lot.

00:25:19.380 600,000, 600,000 people read this.

00:25:23.200 Or about, maybe 500,000 people read.

00:25:24.820 And that's a lot of people, especially for an editorial.

00:25:29.620 Does anyone remember it now?

00:25:32.740 If you read that article, do you remember what it said?

00:25:35.140 I don't remember what it said, and I wrote it.

00:25:37.860 I wrote, I think, I wrote, in my opinion, if I do say so myself, a pretty good satirical article this past Friday about the student loan forgiveness idea.

00:25:47.180 And that one did well, too.

00:25:49.460 It got something like 300,000 views.

00:25:52.540 And this was just a few days ago.

00:25:55.380 But does anyone remember that?

00:25:57.800 Does it make a difference?

00:25:59.700 What if I went back in time four days, and I stopped myself from writing that piece?

00:26:04.820 Would the world look any different now?

00:26:08.400 Would anyone's life be even slightly different?

00:26:10.980 What would the butterfly effect be if that article was never introduced into reality?

00:26:18.520 Well, there would be no effect.

00:26:21.020 So if I can stockpile 700,000-some Facebook followers and 200,000-some Twitter followers and hundreds of thousands of readers and all this stuff,

00:26:30.420 if I can do that, and still almost everything I say and share online, including what I'm saying right now, is forgotten instantly,

00:26:40.100 then how much more must the whole process be defeating for some 17-year-old kid who's trying to secure an identity for himself here on the Internet,

00:26:50.120 in this place where nobody knows him, nobody cares, nobody loves him on the Internet,

00:26:54.560 where we're all just consumers of and sometimes creators of content and nothing more.

00:27:01.960 So, yeah, depressing, I would say so.

00:27:04.340 It's tragic when you consider how much time we spend here on the Internet not mattering.

00:27:10.720 Now, if you're on the Internet for a couple of minutes a day and it's really nothing to you, then none of this matters.

00:27:15.780 But when this is your life and you spend hours a day on the Internet trying to be noticed, it becomes very depressing.

00:27:26.300 But here's the good news.

00:27:27.680 There are people in your life, people, actual real people, real-life people in your actual life,

00:27:40.160 who you can impact in profound ways, in ways that are deeper and longer-lasting than anything you can achieve on the Internet.

00:27:50.060 You know, I know that I'm the most important person in my wife's life.

00:27:56.940 I'm the most important person on Earth to my wife, and vice versa.

00:28:01.800 No other person on Earth has the same kind of impact on her that I do.

00:28:06.360 I know that I am right now, along with my wife, the most important person in my children's lives.

00:28:11.260 If I died, they would be devastated.

00:28:13.260 A hole would be ripped open in their hearts, and it would never, ever be completely filled for as long as they live.

00:28:18.700 But that's how important I am to them, how much they love me and need me and I them.

00:28:25.300 So this is it right here.

00:28:27.200 These are the people, along with the rest of my family and a few close friends.

00:28:31.280 I mean, these are the people who I am important to, the people who will remember, right?

00:28:38.300 It's just such a shame.

00:28:39.640 It's such a terrible shame that we spend so much time trying to be noticed by people who couldn't care less about us.

00:28:48.700 And who wouldn't be affected one way or another if we lived or died.

00:28:53.320 While at the same time neglecting the people whose very existence is partially shaped by our own existence.

00:29:00.980 The people who we are intertwined with by blood and friendship and love and sacrifice.

00:29:06.260 They get the short shrift.

00:29:07.580 So that we can be on the internet.

00:29:12.800 As I was thinking about this issue, I happened to stumble across another survey that just makes my point perfectly.

00:29:20.960 This was a survey released this week, I think, that finds that young people today are very stressed out.

00:29:27.840 Millennials are very stressed. 0.66

00:29:28.860 They're stressed about everything.

00:29:29.760 And one of the major stresses for millennials is, number one, cracked phone screens.

00:29:36.000 And number two, getting zero likes on a post on social media is a big time stress.

00:29:42.120 In fact, 20% of respondents to this survey said that low engagement on social media is more stressful to them than getting into a heated argument with their spouse.

00:29:53.380 And this is exactly what I'm talking about, right?

00:29:57.720 That lack of recognition from people who don't know us, don't love us, don't care about us, creates for many of us a greater void and becomes a more pressing concern than even discord and alienation from the people we love.

00:30:18.080 Those who are closest to us.

00:30:19.660 And it shouldn't be that way.

00:30:22.160 It just shouldn't.

00:30:23.720 So I think that the answer to a lot of this and the answer to a lot of the depression and all of this, the despair and misery that a lot of people feel is just, it's really a matter of we've gotten our priorities just all out of whack.

00:30:44.340 And we're looking for something in a place where it cannot be found.

00:30:51.760 That is, we're looking for impact and acknowledgement and love and all that stuff in this world where it's just, it's not on offer there.

00:31:05.180 There are things you can get on the internet.

00:31:07.620 There are even good things.

00:31:08.380 You can get information.

00:31:09.820 You can even get some correct information every once in a while.

00:31:12.820 So there are things you can find, even entertainment, you know, even harmless entertainment sometimes.

00:31:16.560 But those deeper, you know, human yearnings cannot be satisfied by the internet, but they can be satisfied, largely anyway, by our real life, the people that are around us.

00:31:29.760 And so we have to look there for it.

00:31:31.800 All right.

00:31:34.160 Let's see.

00:31:34.760 What else?

00:31:36.760 Quickly wanted to mention this.

00:31:38.860 Elizabeth Warren has come out in favor of abolishing the Electoral College. 1.00

00:31:48.260 And I just wanted to mention this because here's the thing about that.

00:31:51.140 First of all, it will never happen.

00:31:53.560 Abolishing the Electoral College is never going to happen ever.

00:31:55.940 So it's just an applause line, basically.

00:31:57.920 It's not a serious proposal.

00:32:00.400 But taking the idea seriously for just a moment, for the sake of argument, I think we have to admit that it's not a crazy idea.

00:32:08.000 It's not in itself a crazy idea.

00:32:10.060 There is something to be said for it.

00:32:12.120 The Electoral College definitely presents some challenges, and we can't deny that.

00:32:17.760 It's not a perfect system by any means.

00:32:20.060 Because of the Electoral College, our presidential elections revolve around a handful of states.

00:32:27.180 You know, you've got a few states that decide everything, where all the presidential candidates go, and the whole election comes down to those states.

00:32:34.920 And if you're in any of the other states, your vote is basically meaningless, especially if you are, like the situation that I've been in for most of my life, I have been a conservative in a deep blue state.

00:32:48.660 I've been a conservative in a state that will never, ever go red, which means that my vote in every presidential election since the day I turned 18 has been completely meaningless because of the Electoral College.

00:33:05.080 Now, if you had a national popular vote type of system, then theoretically my vote is worth one vote, and everyone's vote is worth one vote.

00:33:15.160 And so if you have 120 million people voting or something like that, then I am one out of those 120 million.

00:33:22.220 But with the Electoral College system, well, all of the electoral votes in my state are just going to go to the Democrats.

00:33:31.160 So the vote that I sent, it's just, I just threw it down a pit.

00:33:35.760 It doesn't, it may have some symbolic meaning.

00:33:39.100 I can say, well, I, you know, I did my part.

00:33:41.180 Okay, but see, after a while, people get tired of voting symbolically, and you really want to actually vote and have your vote mean something, not just mean something morally, but actually mean something.

00:33:54.000 And with the Electoral College system, in many states, depending on your politics, it just, the simple fact is it doesn't mean anything.

00:34:01.760 There really is, in the states that I've lived in, there's really been no reason for me to vote for president.

00:34:05.620 I know everyone says, well, you got to vote, you got to vote.

00:34:07.260 Well, why?

00:34:07.760 It doesn't matter.

00:34:08.180 It doesn't matter.

00:34:09.340 You know, in my state, even if everyone who agreed with me went to the polls, it still would not matter.

00:34:16.520 But, so that's the issue.

00:34:18.520 And that is why a lot of people want to get rid of the Electoral College, because they're just tired of that.

00:34:23.940 They're tired of their vote not meaning anything.

00:34:26.420 And that is a perfectly legitimate problem to raise, I think.

00:34:33.740 But the issue is that, well, number one, like I said, it's not ever going to happen anyway.

00:34:41.120 Second, Democrats only want to change it because it will benefit them.

00:34:45.740 So it's a bad faith discussion on their part, and they know it.

00:34:50.060 It's not about, they try to frame it as, well, this is, you know, we need a purer form of democracy.

00:34:55.860 We need to give everyone a voice, so on and so forth.

00:34:59.120 Well, they only want to give everybody a voice in that way through some sort of national popular vote system,

00:35:05.340 because they think, probably correctly, that if that were the system, you would never see another Republican president ever again.

00:35:14.140 And that's why they support it.

00:35:15.480 We all know that.

00:35:16.120 So it's a bad faith discussion.

00:35:17.240 But then, on the other side, I think there are a lot of Republicans who oppose it simply because they know that if that was the system,

00:35:26.700 there would never be another Republican president again.

00:35:28.720 They're opposing it for that reason, not because they actually think that there's something, you know, objectively wrong or unfair with that kind of system,

00:35:37.800 but because they think it will.

00:35:38.740 So that's on both sides.

00:35:40.080 That's all it is.

00:35:43.980 And that's the case with so many discussions that we have these days.

00:35:48.240 Where people aren't really worried about the principle of it.

00:35:50.780 They're not worried about what is objectively the fairest, most logical thing.

00:35:56.560 They're just worried about, well, what am I going to get out of this thing?

00:36:00.280 All right.

00:36:00.860 Let's move on.

00:36:01.920 Let's answer a few emails before we wrap up here.

00:36:04.980 MattWallShow at gmail.com.

00:36:06.300 MattWallShow at gmail.com is the email.

00:36:08.160 This is from Wes.

00:36:09.080 He says, thank you for making the argument that voting rights should be tied to being a contributing member of society.

00:36:14.160 I have long believed that the simplest, least discriminatory way to do this would be to restrict voting rights for those who have a net positive tax liability on their last 1040.

00:36:22.900 The most important impact of voting is the manner in which the government collects and spends tax revenue.

00:36:28.040 So it stands to reason that only people who should be who should be who should be represented are the ones actually paying taxes.

00:36:34.780 Love the show.

00:36:36.360 Yeah, I think that there's a lot to be said for that.

00:36:38.420 But again, that is something that will never, ever happen.

00:36:40.920 But it is nice to think about anyway.

00:36:42.480 This is from Hudson, says, Matt, you mentioned that the conservative attack plan on Beto was all wrong.

00:36:48.920 Yes, being in a band has been cool forever.

00:36:51.320 His road trip diaries are easy to laugh at, but free spirits hork that stuff down.

00:36:57.420 Hork that stuff down. 0.97

00:36:58.900 Hork.

00:36:59.440 I like that word.

00:37:01.100 I don't know if you made it up, but maybe I'll use it.

00:37:02.640 Then I read on Daily Wire that he was a hacker under the moniker of psychedelic wizard.

00:37:08.420 Cut it out.

00:37:08.980 That's badass.

00:37:09.900 Don't get me wrong. 0.98

00:37:10.740 I abhor what the guy stands for, and he kind of seems like a doofus. 1.00

00:37:13.560 But come on, a bass playing hacker. 0.97

00:37:16.480 That's badass.

00:37:17.900 I just wrote to say, you're right.

00:37:19.060 Keep up the good work.

00:37:19.660 I'm a big fan.

00:37:20.740 Yeah, I think I mentioned this, that, you know, attacking Beto for being a punk rock bass playing hacker in the 90s.

00:37:29.960 Because I don't think that's going to, that isn't going to hurt his cool points.

00:37:34.360 It certainly won't hurt.

00:37:37.820 This is from Ken.

00:37:39.420 Hey, Matt, I really liked your show.

00:37:40.620 I was impressed on how you addressed the question of gospel authorship.

00:37:43.820 But my retort to these guys who might make a too far-reaching claim about the anonymity of the gospels is, so what?

00:37:51.180 They were written by someone and form a coherent document that serve as an eyewitness account.

00:37:55.520 You can read Jim Wallace's book, Cold Case Christianity.

00:37:58.480 You get this point, if you haven't already.

00:38:00.700 And I would think that the textual criticism that has been done on these confirms that one author wrote each one, not a committee.

00:38:09.940 And we know that during the time the canon was being gathered as scripture, the rules were that no document that was written by someone who wasn't an eyewitness,

00:38:17.360 or did not sit at the feet of an eyewitness, would be part of the canon of scripture.

00:38:21.220 Anyway, good job on the show.

00:38:22.880 Keep it up, and may the Lord be with you.

00:38:24.980 So, yeah, I think you make an excellent point there.

00:38:29.280 You know, I do believe that Matthew and John were written by eyewitnesses.

00:38:34.060 But, as you say, even if, let's say, especially John, because John was written, you know, in the year 90 A.D. or later,

00:38:46.560 so if it was written by the apostle John, then he was certainly a very old man at the time.

00:38:54.520 But let's say it was written by his apprentice or, you know, someone, his successor, who he had passed this information down to.

00:39:00.580 That wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't see that as a terribly significant problem.

00:39:04.740 Finally, from Linda, says, Hi, Matt.

00:39:08.820 I know I'm way late on this, but I was just registering, I guess, listening, and that's supposed to say, listening to the podcast you did about Pascal's wager.

00:39:19.940 You were pretty critical of the argument.

00:39:22.220 I understand your point of view, but don't think, but don't you think that the wager can be helpful just in getting people to at least stop and consider Christianity?

00:39:29.580 It won't take them all the way, but it will get them on the right road.

00:39:33.480 Yeah, Linda, I am critical of the argument, and no, I don't really think, I understand your point, but I don't think it's useful, even in the way that you described.

00:39:41.740 Pascal's wager, of course, being the argument that first put forward by Blaise Pascal, that you may as well believe in God, because if you're right, you go to heaven.

00:39:51.880 If you're wrong, you don't lose anything.

00:39:53.440 But if you don't believe in God, and you're wrong, then you could lose eternity, and if you're right, then you don't really gain anything.

00:40:02.620 Anyway, so then it's sort of like, you might as well believe, and that's the argument.

00:40:06.960 I really dislike the argument, as I said before, because, for one thing, belief just doesn't work that way.

00:40:15.300 Belief is not an act of will.

00:40:18.220 It's not something that you simply decide to do.

00:40:21.580 You can't sit here and say, I'm going to believe X, Y, Z.

00:40:26.820 You can't do that.

00:40:28.520 You believe something if you think that the thing is true.

00:40:33.580 That's what it means to believe it.

00:40:34.740 If you don't think the thing is true, then you don't believe it.

00:40:37.440 Even if you pretend that you do, you don't actually really believe it.

00:40:41.260 That's simply what belief means.

00:40:42.700 So, for instance, my kids think that there are leprechauns living in our backyard, and they may think that because I told them.

00:40:54.060 I don't remember exactly, but they think that there are leprechauns living in the backyard, and I would love to believe that.

00:41:01.540 In fact, I really wish there were leprechauns in the backyard, but if there can't actually be leprechauns, then I would love to believe that there are leprechauns in the backyard.

00:41:08.980 Because my kids, I'm talking about my twins are five years old, they live in such a fanciful world where there are leprechauns and fairies and unicorns and everything.

00:41:19.620 I would love to believe that also because it's such an exciting world to live in, but I don't believe it.

00:41:29.300 And I can't just say to myself, well, you know, it would be really nice to believe that because it would make my life a lot more exciting.

00:41:37.900 So, you know what? I believe it.

00:41:40.080 It doesn't work that way.

00:41:41.320 So, with God, not that I'm comparing God to leprechauns, but, you know, you either think that God exists or you don't.

00:41:51.440 If you say God exists because you want to go to heaven, but you don't really think he does exist, then who are you fooling?

00:41:58.480 You're not fooling God.

00:41:59.920 You're probably not even fooling yourself.

00:42:01.560 You may be fooling other people, but is that, really, is that it?

00:42:04.800 Is that how you get to heaven, by lying to everybody and being intellectually dishonest?

00:42:10.940 That's my other problem with Paschal's Wagers.

00:42:12.660 It seems to be encouraging intellectual dishonesty.

00:42:15.340 It's saying, even if you don't really believe this, just pretend you do.

00:42:19.060 Well, that is intellectual dishonesty.

00:42:22.900 And I don't think that that's the point here.

00:42:26.280 I don't think that's what God wants of us.

00:42:29.480 But the other problem with the wager, which I didn't mention before, and I'm glad you brought this up because I was thinking about it.

00:42:34.280 But it's a false binary, is the other problem.

00:42:42.560 What I mean is that even if someone did buy that argument and was somehow swayed by it,

00:42:49.060 well, there's no reason why it would lead them directly to Christianity.

00:42:56.260 Now, yeah, Blaise Pascal was a Christian.

00:42:59.620 He's the one who formulated the argument.

00:43:01.520 Everyone I've ever heard use the argument is a Christian.

00:43:04.060 So it seems like the idea is this is an argument that will lead you towards Christianity.

00:43:11.620 But what if somebody buys the argument and then they decide to believe that Allah is God?

00:43:19.840 Or they decide to believe in Brahma, the Hindu God?

00:43:23.020 Or they believe in some ancient Aztec God?

00:43:25.840 But Pascal's wager, even if successful, only gets you to theism.

00:43:31.120 It doesn't get you to Christianity.

00:43:33.380 That's the problem.

00:43:34.420 Because in Islam, they would also say that if you are not a Muslim, and if you don't believe in this God, Allah, you could be in trouble when the time comes.

00:43:50.900 So Pascal's wager could apply just as much to Allah. 0.89

00:43:57.960 So that's why.

00:43:58.900 It turns out, if we want people to accept Christianity as being true, then we need to give them reasons to think that Christianity is itself true. 0.67

00:44:12.480 And if we can do that, if we can successfully present reasons to believe that Christianity is true, if we can do that, then we don't need Pascal's wager.

00:44:24.080 But if we can't do that, then Pascal's wager is also useless.

00:44:28.480 So it seems like it's useless either way.

00:44:31.180 And that's why I don't like it.

00:44:35.740 All right.

00:44:36.080 We'll leave it there.

00:44:36.800 Thanks, everybody, for watching.

00:44:37.760 Thanks for listening.

00:44:38.760 God's good.

00:44:39.300 You know, World War II was tough, but today's millennials think they are more stressed out than anyone ever because of breaking glass on their cell phones and zero likes on social media.

00:45:03.440 One millennial thinks he knows why.

00:45:05.440 It's because of capitalism.

00:45:07.320 We'll talk about that on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:45:09.640 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 19, 2019

Ep. 220 - Elementary School Indoctrinating Kindergartners Into Radical Left Wing Gender Theory

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