Ep. 272 - How The Left Normalizes Abuse
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we're going to talk about the left's increasingly disturbing and grotesque efforts to normalize pedophilia. Also, a Democratic presidential candidate reaches the most extreme levels of pandering imaginable, and a feminist presents what I think is the only honest argument for abortion you will ever hear.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we're going to talk about the left's increasingly disturbing
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and grotesque efforts to normalize pedophilia. We are headed to a very dark place in this culture,
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and I think we need to discuss it. Also, a Democratic presidential candidate reaches
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the most extreme levels of pandering imaginable, and a feminist presents what I think is the only
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honest argument for abortion that you will ever hear. So we'll talk about that today as well on
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Matt Walsh Show. All right, I'm back. Back with a surgically repaired Achilles, so I'm good as
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new. Well, not really good as new. I've got a six to eight-month recovery process, which is kind of
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depressing because that's a long time, but I'm on the road to recovery, which is nice. One note about
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the surgery, though, because the great thing, maybe the number one benefit of having kids
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is that they keep you humble. I think that's, and here's a wonderful example of that from after I
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got back from the surgery. So I got home on Wednesday. It was an outpatient thing. So I got
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home from the operation. I'm hobbling inside, feeling not very good, you know, because I still
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have the effects of the anesthesia, and I'm feeling nauseous from that, and it hurts, you know, because I
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just got surgery. And so I got to get upstairs to my bed, which is where I'm going to end up spending
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the next like 48 hours. And the only way that I can get up to the bed in that condition is to crawl.
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So I'm crawling up the steps to get to my room, and my six-year-old daughter comes in,
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and she sees me crawling up the steps, and she starts laughing hysterically at this sight of her
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dad crawling up the steps. And she's going, oh my gosh, look at daddy, he's crawling. And then
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she calls to her brothers in the next room, say, hey, come here, look at this, daddy, he's crawling.
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He's like a dog. Yeah, like a dog. Come look, look, look at this. And then they're both just standing
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there as I'm crawling up the steps, you know, in pain, grimacing, and they're just laughing.
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This is the funniest thing they'd ever seen in their life. And so anyway, I'm going to put them in
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sensitivity training for that because you just, it is not PC to laugh at a cripple as he crawls up the
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steps. I mean, I get it, but still, actually, what I, actually, I explained to them that
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if you want to laugh at the misfortunes of others, you need to do it like an adult. And that means
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waiting until they leave the room, and then you laugh at them. So that's just, it's an important
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Okay. Well, let's, let's start with this. You know, Twitter announced last week that they're
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going to have a, a zero tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation, which, which is,
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which is, which is good, uh, if they actually followed that, um, their own, their own policy,
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which they don't because on, on almost the exact same day that they announced this, or they,
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they reasserted this policy of vice posted a video, which I'll play for in a minute,
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play for you in a minute. But this video both portrays and glorifies child sexual, sexual
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exploitation. And yet it has been allowed to remain on Twitter's platform. Even though I know a bunch
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of people reported it, I reported it, uh, but no response from, from, uh, from Twitter and it still
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remains. The vice video, as you'll see in a second here is a kind of fun and whimsical look
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at the quote community of young boys who dress in women's clothing and dance for the perverted
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entertainment of adults. Um, it is disturbing. I'll warn you, but I think it's important that
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you see what we're talking about. So here's, here's some of that video.
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Be fierce. Be yourself. And if anybody bullies you, stand up for yourself. Fight back. Make
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What's happening? Guess who's way taller than you again? Well, guess who's way taller than
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you. Drag Kids is a new documentary directed by Megan Wenberg that follows four drag obsessed
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Oh, I want to show you this, uh, the transparent dress. Cause it's so cute. It may or may not fit
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I'm going to a drag brunch to meet with the young performers and ask them about the community
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that they've found with their fellow drag kids.
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You just fall in love with each of them for so many different reasons. Cause they're all
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incredible. The fact that these kids are brave enough to do something that is so different,
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hopefully will give other people courage to try.
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So vice proudly announces that these children are the next generation of drag Queens, but
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they're not really a part of the next generation there. They are the current generation. They're
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the current crop. I guess you might say of a new type of quote drag performer. Um, I should
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say, well, I say new, but really just new in the West in Western civilization. This is new.
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This is new, but if you go over in places like Afghanistan, it's, this is, this has been customary
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for a long time, very customary to have, to have young boys and female attire dance for the pleasure
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of grown men. Um, and in Afghanistan, you know, the, the boys will be brought out. They'll dance for
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the, uh, for the, for the grown men. And then the boys oftentimes will be brought somewhere and, uh,
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sexually abused. So it's a very similar sort of thing. We have adopted a similar custom, but we
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have done it under the guise of progressivism, uh, in Afghanistan. It's, you know, it's, it's, it's,
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it's always very interesting to see how you've got these fundamentalist Muslims and this is what they're
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doing. And then you've got progressives in our country. It's interesting to see how often these
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these two ideologies mirror each other. And, uh, this is just one area where they do the left.
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If you haven't noticed has become increasingly obsessed with dressing boys up like girls and
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parading them around, um, literally parading them around in some cases, like when the LA pride parade
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last week, um, they had a seven year old boy strutting in high heels. Strutting is the word that the
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media used when describing, uh, in a celebratory fashion, describing this boy, seven year old boy
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in high heels and a skirt at the front of the LA pride parade. Um, and you know, if you think I'm
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joking about the left's obsession with this, well, here is another video. This one's from Huffington
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post. This one was also posted in the last couple of days, also ended up on Twitter and has remained
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there. Uh, so these are two videos, one from vice and one from Huffington post about, about drag
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kids. Here's the Huffington post one. I was born in pride month in the year 2007. Gay pride means
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self-expression to me. Hi, I'm Desmond is amazing. I'm 10 years old and I'm a drag kid and I live in
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New York City and I'm an LGBTQ activist and advocate.
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I discovered that I wanted to drag when I watched the first episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, um, when I was two. Then I moved on to, like, little dresses. Then I moved on to making outfits.
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I've got my inspirations from designers like Alexander McQueen, Betsy Johnson, Clums de Garçon, Jean-Paul Gaultier, the club kids, their fashion and the makeup, not the bad things, the blitz kids of London.
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And if you wanted to drag, just start off with a little wig and some lip gloss and a little, like, t-shirt and a little skirt and some heels or sneakers, whatever. You can be a drag no matter what.
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So you see that the left really, really, really wants to push this stuff.
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Uh, it's, it's become like a white weekly occurrence or more than that.
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They want little boys to dress like girls. They really want it.
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And, and what you find is that little attempt is made anymore to hide the sexual nature of the drag kid phenomenon.
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Now, if you confront the leftist about this directly, of course, they're going to say, oh, what are you talking about?
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There's nothing sexual about this. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you've got little boys in, in, in dresses dancing for grown men, but that's a, there's nothing.
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You're the one, something wrong with you that you would think of as, as, as sexual.
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So that's how they'll respond if you confront them about it directly.
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But then when you look at what they're actually doing, it has become more and more sexual.
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Uh, you may remember, for instance, the quote, drag kid who posed with a naked man.
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And that picture was posted on Instagram a couple of months ago.
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Now I'm not going to put that picture up for you.
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If you feel like confirming what I'm talking about here, um, I would recommend that you don't just so you don't subject yourself to that.
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But an adult drag queen posed naked with a nine or 10 year old boy who was dressed in, in a women's clothing.
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And then there was the drag kid who danced at a gay bar recently while men tossed money at him.
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Um, this should really put into perspective for those still oblivious enough to think that things like the drag queen story hours popping up at libraries across the country are just a bit of harmless fun.
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I'll come across a conservative who, uh, will say, oh, you know, it's, it's not a big deal.
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I mean, if this is how people want to dress, what's the big deal.
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Um, well, this is why it's a big deal because it's part of a, of an agenda.
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I mean, hundreds of libraries have hosted these events where they bring children and cross-dressing men together.
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Um, and there is of course, no practical reason why, if you want to read a book to children, why you would need to dress in women's clothing first, if you're a man.
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Um, and there's no practical reason or coherent reason why a library, if they want to have a story time, which is great for libraries to have story times.
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Um, my, my wife brings our kids to library story times all the time, but they're just story times.
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It's just the librarian is sitting there reading a book to the kids.
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Uh, there's no reason why you need a man dressed up like a woman from a Tim Burton movie, which is how all drag queens dress for some reason.
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There's no reason why you need someone like that reading the story.
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The decision to add that rather grotesque element into the equation is purposeful.
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And the purpose is to get children, boys, especially accustomed to the idea of cross-dressing.
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So the, the sexual exploiters of children want to ensure that there's going to be a constantly refreshed supply of, um, well, they call them Baka boys in Afghanistan, but we call them drag queens.
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Uh, the left wants to make sure that there's a constantly refreshed supply of drag quids, kids.
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So follow the trajectory and it's not hard to see where we go next, right?
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10 years ago, there was no such thing as drag kids or drag queens.
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Um, or there was, or drag queen story hours, at least you had, you had drag shows, you had drag queens, but, uh, the idea of bringing them into a library.
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Uh, and in fact, 10 years ago, if you had looked into your crystal ball and predicted that we would end up in this spot, leftists would have laughed at you and called you a paranoid lunatic.
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They would have said, what are you talking about?
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Yeah, we're going to have drag queens coming to libraries to read stories to kids.
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We're not going to, come on, you're, you're being ridiculous.
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Yet leftists will still insist that even though grown men in dresses like to hang out with little children at libraries and adults like to go to gay bars to watch boys dance around in skirts and high heels, they'll still say that there's nothing sexual about it.
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If you ask them directly, but 10 years from now, if you follow the trajectory, 10 years from now, or maybe sooner, um, I think what's going to happen is they're going to admit that it is sexual.
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But they'll insist that there's nothing wrong with a young boy and a grown man getting together so long as it's consensual.
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You don't need to be Nostradamus to, to see the next step.
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This is not some sort of prophecy that I'm offering here.
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This is just observing where we are, where we were 10 years ago.
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I mean, we're, we're on a train, look at the track and you can see where it's going.
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There's no mystery about where a train is headed because it's on a track and it's the same for our culture right now.
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That is why leftism is an active threat to our children.
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And this is why we cannot compromise with it or seek common ground, you know, or try to understand where it's coming from.
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What kind of common ground can a sane and moral person find with the sorts of people who think it's acceptable to have a 10-year-old boy perform at a gay bar?
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I mean, me as a normal person, I just, I cannot fathom what area of agreement I could possibly find with a person like that.
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We could not be further apart in, in, in, in every conceivable way.
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And what's more is I don't want to find common ground with them.
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I don't want to get along with them, with these people who are doing this to kids.
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I don't want to hold hands with them and, you know, skip merrily into a better tomorrow.
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Because this is an evil ideology through and through, and it has to be destroyed, defeated.
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We defeat it or else we just sit back and watch as our children are destroyed by it.
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I think it's a choice now between, uh, leftism and our children.
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Um, let's, uh, live in the mood a little bit and talk about Democrats humiliating themselves.
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That's kind of a, it's always a fun, you know, it's a fun way to, to pass the time.
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So, uh, first there's this alleged presidential candidate, Eric Swalwell, who is, uh, polling
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He gave a speech over the weekend and, um, and I almost feel bad for him for laughing
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at him for this, but it's, uh, especially as someone who does public speaking myself,
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I feel like there's some bad karma laughing at someone in a situation like this, but I
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So, um, Eric Swalwell, he went hard for the applause line and he didn't land it.
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So the problem is that he, first of all, it was a bad line.
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I mean, what do you, how are, I don't even know what that line means.
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Uh, and, and, and especially at a, if you're a politician and you're, you're talking to
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the kind of audience that would show up to hear a politician speak, well, then it should
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You know, I mean, almost anything could be an applause line.
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So, so to, to, to fumble it like that is pretty impressive.
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And the problem is when you go for the applause line and it, and you don't get the applause,
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So I think when Swalwell is a little bit more seasoned, uh, he'll know that, you know, you
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go for the applause, you wait, like just half a beat, like half a second.
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And if you don't hear that applause starting, you just keep going so that maybe nobody will
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Uh, meanwhile, Kirsten Gillibrand was at, I think a, a gay bars, I think a gay bar in Iowa.
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I'm not sure if that's been, uh, beaten into your, into your head with a hammer quite enough
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So Gillibrand was at a gay bar for pride month.
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She actually shouted gay rights at the end there.
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She, she, she literally at a gay, she went to a gay bar and shouted gay rights.
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I mean, this is beyond, this is uber pandering.
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This is, this is like the, the platonic ideal of pandering.
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This is someone came up with the word pandering centuries ago.
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And that word has been floating around out there in the ether for waiting for its most
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Here it is in the form of a democratic presidential candidate wearing a rainbow love is brave t-shirt
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at a gay bar during pride month, shouting gay rights.
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I mean, um, the only thing more pandering than that would be, I mean, I can't even think
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I, I, I, I honestly, I can't think of anything that is, that's it.
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This is a level of pandering that all other pandering has been reaching for, but could never,
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I mean, it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's impressive now, um, going down the list here,
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Joe Biden, uh, Joe Biden also humiliated himself last week, but I think humiliated himself in
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Um, Biden is taking a dive in the polls after reversing his position on the Hyde amendment.
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Now you probably heard about that last week, but just to recap, Biden has for decades,
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And when I say for decades, I mean, Biden's been in politics for, you know, about 600
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So that's a long time, you know, um, for pretty much his entire career, he has supported the
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Hyde amendment, which bans the taxpayer funding of abortion.
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But now after decades of supporting it at the age of 76, he has had an epiphany.
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You know, the clouds opened up and, uh, and he realized after all this time that, oh, you
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know, actually, yeah, we, we should force the taxpayers to fund abortion.
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And, um, reports that I've read have indicated that Alyssa Milano is the person who helped to
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He, he was talked out of a position that he's held for like 40 years because the girl from
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a show from that show, from the CW talked him out of it.
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Now that's, this is evidence either that Joe Biden is losing his mind or that he is a gutless
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Um, just a couple of things though, about the, the Hyde amendment and the controversy surrounding
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it, number one about the Hyde amendment itself, um, it, it bears keeping in mind that the Hyde
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amendment bans the direct funding of abortion with tax money, which is good.
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I mean, it's good to ban it, of course, but we should also remember that we do already
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indirectly fund abortion to the tune of $500 million a year.
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We give $500 million a year to Planned Parenthood, which is an organization that performs 330,000
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Um, now that money does not go directly to abortions, but money is fungible, which means
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that if we give them $500 million a year to do other stuff, then they can take the money
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that would have gone to that, you know, their existing money that would have gone to that
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other stuff has now been freed up so that it can go to abortion.
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So we have in effect funded abortions by giving, um, $500 million a year to, to, uh,
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It's kind of like, you know, if you know that I'm a heroin addict, um, and I ask you to borrow
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20 bucks and then I take your 20 and I put it in my wallet with another 20 that I already had.
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Well, you have in essence for all intents and purposes, you have funded the heroin purchase
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by freeing up my existing money, um, you know, uh, for that purpose.
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So you see, in other words, if I got 20 in the wallet and I put another 20 in there, it
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doesn't really make a difference which 20 I use to do which thing.
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The fact is now I've got 40 bucks, which I can split between the heroin and lunch, right?
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So that's, um, that's the way that goes with, uh, with Planned Parenthood.
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So we shouldn't feel, you know, this false sense of security from the Hyde Amendment where
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Um, number two, is it surprising that Biden caved on this issue?
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Because as I've said many times, abortion is the central issue for the left.
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It is the foundational issue, you know, to be pro-abortion is to say, I am God, uh, what
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That's what, that's what the, um, pro-abortion movement is based on.
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And that's what the left is, is based on, is founded in.
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And you certainly cannot be a Democrat on the national stage without professing that
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doctrine, that doctrine of relativism and narcissism.
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Just like you can't be a Christian without professing the doctrine of Christ divinity.
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And in both cases, that profession has to be absolute and, um, unquestioned and without
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hesitation and without reservation or qualification.
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Now, theoretically, you can profess the pro-abortion doctrine without believing that it should be
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free, without believing that the taxpayer should fund it necessarily.
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But if you fail to support free abortions, um, that's going to make leftists suspicious.
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They're going to say, okay, now, wait a minute.
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Do you really worship at the altar of baby murder or not?
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Because you say you do, yet you, you don't want to fund them and you don't want them to
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Um, and then, you know, leftists are going to say, well, it's, it, it, why, why should we
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Why should we support you when we've got this person over here who is far more invested
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So this is quite literally the deal with the devil that any modern Democrat must be prepared
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Um, and if there is a Democrat right now, who's running for president, who's on the national
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stage, um, that means that they have made that deal or they are prepared to make it.
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Uh, now this, I think will clarify things a little bit to understand why the left supports
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Um, it's helpful to know what their arguments are.
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And we've talked a lot about what the, what the pro-abortion arguments are.
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So such as they are, or what the argument, uh, I guess I should say what the argument
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singular is, because you know, the arguments, the arguments they present, the things they
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say, the talking points that they put out there to justify abortion.
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Um, they're just smoke screens to cover the real motivation, the real argument.
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And that's, you know, the real motivation, the real argument.
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Was just helpfully expressed recently by a feminist by the name of Sophie Lewis, who
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is the author of a book called Full Surrogacy Now, Feminism Against Family.
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It's a very revealing, um, but kind of redundant title.
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And, uh, she had, uh, she also had some revealing things to say about abortion in an interview.
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Uh, I guess she was talking about the book and this is what she had to say.
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We're facing a really terrifying attack on abortion in the U S where I live in Northern
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In the past, the strategies that, um, our side has tended to use have included a kind
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We tend to say, um, that abortion is indeed very bad, but, or we say, um, luckily it's not
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We have very little to lose at the moment when it comes to abortion, and I'm interested
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And I wonder if we could think about defending abortion as a right to stop doing gestational
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Abortion is, in my opinion, um, and I recognize how controversial this is, um, a form of killing.
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It is, uh, a form of, um, killing that, uh, we need to be able to defend.
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Um, I am not interested in where a human life starts to, um, exist.
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Um, I see the forms of making and unmaking each other as sort of continuous processes.
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Um, the other end of the spectrum is the process of learning.
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Learning how to die well and hold each other and let each other go at the end of our lives
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Um, but looking at the biology of this kind of hemichorial placentation helps me think about,
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um, the violence that innocently a fetus meets out, um, vis-a-vis a gestator.
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Um, and that violence is, is an unacceptable violence for someone who doesn't want to do
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Um, the violence that that gestator meets out to essentially go on strike or exit that,
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Um, it's good that she says this, I mean, because it's honest.
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And this is the one honest, coherent pro-abortion argument.
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It, it, it's the one pro-abortion argument that makes sense.
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Um, but it doesn't, it makes sense for a certain perspective.
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You know, if you're coming from the, from, from a, from an entirely selfish perspective
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where, you know, you, you don't care about morality, um, you don't care about other people
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and you're just living for yourself from that perspective, then yeah, that makes sense.
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She says, and, and, you know, she, she admits, she, she says abortion is killing.
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And she says that she thinks pro-abortion people shouldn't dispute any of that.
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And, uh, and she says, yeah, but a woman should still be able to commit this act of violence
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against the innocent because they shouldn't have to be pregnant if they don't want to be.
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And I think another, even more simple way of putting that is, um, I should be able to get
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an abortion because I want to, that really is the argument putting everything else aside,
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personhood, uh, the humanity of the unborn, you know, rape and incest exceptions, and just
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putting all that to the side, the fundamental argument that this woman is presenting is
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That's, that's, that's really what it comes down to.
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Um, and it is, as I say, the, the only coherent pro-abortion argument,
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um, because it avoids making any scientifically, um, disprovable claims.
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Most pro-abortion arguments you hear can be scientifically disproven in five seconds.
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Like we can prove scientifically that an unborn, that, that a quote unquote fetus is a human
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Um, just pick up any biology textbook and you can demonstrate that fact, but here it's sidesteps
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And for someone to say, well, I should be able to do it because I want to, um, that's, that's
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Now you're getting into morality and philosophy and, and all of that.
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Um, so I, I, for one, am, am glad that this woman put this out there.
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Um, I'm happy when pro-abortion people make this argument because it is honest and it lays
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It shows you what, what really lies at the bottom of it, which is just absolute uncompromising
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selfishness and what I would encourage, you know, any, any pro-abortion person who watches
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that video or here's that footage and just kind of recoils from it and says, oh, well,
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You know, it's good that you're recoiling, but you should stop for a minute and think, you
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know, what, what she's presented there is a coherent, although horrible argument.
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Do you, can you think of a, of a, of a coherent argument for abortion that is not horrible?
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Because as I said, all the personhood stuff, the humanity stuff, that, that all that's
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So if you're a pro-abortion person, you know, and, and you hear that and you recoil, maybe
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that should tell you something about your position.
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Maybe you should ask yourself whether or not you actually want to be aligned with people
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This is from Emily says, dear future Supreme Overlord.
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So I'm not sure if you've ever, if you've already discussed this or not, but I'm wondering about
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your thoughts on the MGTOW movement, M-G-T-O-W.
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Um, and men who dislike women as a reaction to feminism.
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I don't personally have a problem with men doing their own thing without women.
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However, I do have a problem with men who've had bad experiences with women who preach to
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other more impressionable men and boys telling them that all Western women are insane and
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I view those people as little more than a male centric counterpart to radical feminists.
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While I'm willing to concede that, uh, probably most Western women are either insane or tainted
00:35:55.100
by insanity in some way as a Western woman who is a devout Catholic and not an insane feminist,
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uh, and who intends to marry one day, I find it unhelpful and unfair that women such as myself
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get lumped in with the crazies by these men, as they don't seem to think that sane women
00:36:13.180
Also, when you ascend to your rightful place as ruler of the solar system, would a gift of
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a decorative pillow make you more or less likely to grant me a quick death?
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Well, I think you already know the answer to that last question.
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And, uh, so I don't think I need to spend any time on that.
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As for the, uh, the MGTOW movement, I don't know if that's actually what they call themselves,
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I think it makes the same mistakes that feminism makes.
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Um, feminism, especially the feminism of the last 100 years or so, uh, well, okay.
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Feminism of the last, maybe that's going a little too far.
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A feminism of the last 50 years or so has been almost completely anti-family and anti-man,
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uh, with really no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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Feminism of the last 50 years, pretty much ever since feminism really invested itself
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And when abortion became kind of the central, the centerpiece of feminism.
00:37:25.020
Now you go back a hundred years and you'll find that feminists, uh, did have some legitimate
00:37:31.060
gripes, uh, certainly, you know, advocating for the vote for women.
00:37:38.620
Um, feminism a hundred years ago had some, had other legitimate points to make, but even
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then I think, and this is a mistake that, that I, that conservatives will make where
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they say that, yeah, you know, feminism used to be a good thing, but it became perverted
00:37:55.780
Um, I think that feminism, if you, if you really research it and you read into it and
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you read what the kind of original feminists actually had to say, you'll find that feminism
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has always been anti-family and anti-man and also anti-Christian, by the way.
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It just so happened that a hundred years ago or, you know, 110 years ago, they had,
00:38:22.200
it was anti-family and anti-man, but they act, but they were fighting for some good things
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Um, now they're not fighting for anything good.
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Um, I think it's, it's the same thing with the men's rights people, the, you know, men go
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their own way, the male feminists, whatever you want to call them.
00:38:44.660
Um, they are anti-family because they're anti-marriage and you can't have a stable, healthy family without
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So they're anti-family and, uh, and they're anti-woman to answer the anti-man position of
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Um, now they do have some legitimate points, namely their criticisms of feminism are oftentimes
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The only problem is, as you point out, they're exhibiting the exact same pitfalls just from
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So they aren't really an answer to feminists because they are feminists.
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Basically they are just bizarro world feminists.
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I think a real answer to feminism is a movement that is pro-family, pro-marriage, um, and not
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anti-either gender, a movement that recognizes the complimentary nature of the sexes and seeks
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to build up men and build up women and, um, and encourage happy and healthy marriages and
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I mean, that's how you, you combat feminism in my view, not by, um, just being, you know,
00:39:55.640
Um, and of course it's just, it's just not true that all Western women are crazy, uh,
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feminists any more than it's true that all men are, you know, uh, are sexually harassing jerks
00:40:16.380
I mean, both of those stereotypes are completely false and ridiculous.
00:40:19.920
And all you have to do is just go out there and meet people and you'll discover that, you
00:40:24.600
know, if a feminist would just go out and actually meet men, uh, and get to know them,
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they would see that the, the, the, the way they paint men is incorrect.
00:40:38.020
I mean, I know plenty of women, my wife included, who are not only not feminists, but are more
00:40:49.520
This is from, uh, Dave says, Matt, I can relate to what you're going through.
00:40:56.520
I admire the fact that you've been able to joke about it so much.
00:40:58.740
Honestly, I've been extremely depressed about it.
00:41:07.300
My question for you is what are you doing to pass the time?
00:41:13.760
Yes, it was the most, it was the most physically painful thing I ever felt when it
00:41:17.520
happened and it hurt pretty bad after the surgery, but the pain is nothing compared to the boredom
00:41:24.440
Uh, Dave, I feel like we should start a support group, maybe a support group for GIMPs, GIMPs
00:41:31.600
Although I guess I'm not very anonymous, so it doesn't really, it doesn't really work.
00:41:34.880
Uh, it is tough, uh, but don't let my joking fool you.
00:41:37.940
I, I am also equally as depressed by the fact that all I can do is basically lay around the
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Um, it is pretty torturous, especially in the summer.
00:41:47.840
You know, I just look outside and the birds are chirping and, you know, it's a beautiful
00:41:54.320
It is, uh, it's pretty bad, but you know, we should, we should also remember that it's,
00:41:59.420
There are a lot of people who have permanent disabilities and I'm sure they look at us
00:42:03.220
whining about, you know, a few months of downtime and they just roll their eyes.
00:42:07.560
Um, so, um, as far as what I'm doing to pass the time, well, I personally, I can't sit for
00:42:15.240
I just, I can't do it, um, much less can I sit for weeks and watch TV.
00:42:23.880
So what I decided was I want to take a subject and just learn everything I can about that subject
00:42:33.560
while I'm laying around, you know, just read a bunch of books and, um, because, uh, I don't
00:42:39.640
I mean, if I, if I can't exercise physically, at least I can use my brain.
00:42:43.240
And so, um, as someone who's interested in the civil war, I decided that I'm just going
00:42:50.380
So I've got a stack of civil war books, just working my way through them.
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And, um, you know, because I don't know, it's something to do and, uh, at least I can learn
00:43:00.300
So maybe that would be my suggestion is pick a, pick a topic, any topic really, and, um,
00:43:07.760
get a bunch of books about it and just read about that topic.
00:43:11.040
And then by the time you're, um, you know, you're, you're physically healthy again, you'll
00:43:19.800
So, which, which I think actually, even if you don't have a torn Achilles, um, maybe that's
00:43:24.260
Maybe we could all do that even regardless of our, of our health situation.
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Um, just every once in a while, pick some topic and learn everything you can about it
00:43:37.380
Not because you're going to use the information, not because it's going to help you with your
00:43:41.580
job or whatever, uh, but just to know it just for the sake of knowing.
00:43:46.300
Um, all right, um, this is from Lee says, yo, Matt heard one of your monologues on beards
00:43:58.400
Is there a moral case to be made for beards, um, uh, for beards slash not shaving?
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Is it emasculating or kowtowing to female prejudices to shave?
00:44:12.520
I think C.S. Lewis or Chesterton mentioned this somewhere.
00:44:16.060
On the other hand, is the current relative popularity of beards tied into a subconscious
00:44:20.560
knowledge of the loss of real masculinity and a superficial attempt to retrieve it?
00:44:25.600
Um, well, first of all, C.S. Lewis, I think really his only flaw was that he had no facial
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So I don't think he said that, um, which is really a tragedy that he didn't have facial
00:44:38.160
Uh, yeah, I think you, you certainly could argue that it is immoral to be clean shaven.
00:44:44.520
Um, it's definitely problematic, ethically speaking.
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Um, is it, is it, will you go to hell, you know, for instance, for, for being clean shaven?
00:44:58.220
Um, this is something that theologians can debate.
00:45:11.360
Well, we know based on all the, all the paintings that we see that Jesus had a beard.
00:45:20.040
And so, you know, I mean, Jesus had a beard, yet you as a man shave your beard.
00:45:27.520
So you're saying that, what, you are better than Jesus?
00:45:34.020
I mean, it's just, I, I'll, I'll put it this way.
00:45:37.020
I would not want to approach the pearly gates, um, with, with a, with a baby face.
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I would, that's not a risk that I would want to take.
00:45:57.940
I got a, a good email about euthanasia, which has been back in the news.
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And, um, but that's going to be kind of a long answer.
00:46:06.980
Bree, I got your email and I'll save it for tomorrow.
00:46:26.020
It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show.
00:46:29.160
The New York times, a former newspaper launched a full on attack on conservative voices on
00:46:33.580
YouTube over the weekend, essentially giving cover to YouTube's plan to de-platform anything
00:46:39.860
In other words, conservatives or anyone, the New York times, a former newspaper thinks
00:46:45.420
Well, if we're going to start censoring haters, I say we start with the people who support baby
00:46:49.140
killing and spying on presidential candidates like the New York times, a former newspaper.