Ep. 489 - Media Matters Has A Hissy Fit Because I Said Boys Are Male
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Media Matters attacks the Daily Wire because we called males "male" on the show. Also, the NFL is considering what I think may be one of the most insane affirmative action schemes in professional sports, and why I'm wrong about that.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Media Matters attacks the Daily Wire because we committed the sin
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of calling males male. So we'll go through that today. They're very upset about it,
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and as they are every single time we say anything about anything. So we'll talk about that. Also,
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five headlines, including the media's increasingly desperate attempt, but also hilarious,
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increasingly desperate, increasingly hilarious attempts to make Stacey Abrams into some sort of
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superstar. And it's really gotten pretty absurd. So we'll talk about that. And in our daily
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cancellation, I cancel the NFL for considering what I think may be one of the most insane
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affirmative action schemes ever devised, certainly in professional sports. Also, we'll have a why
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I don't know if you can tell, but I did get my hair cut over the weekend. So for the first time in two
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the whole time, and there's hair flying all over. They're probably getting hair in the mask. That can't
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be sanitary. So, but then again, they're back at work. So I'm sure that's a, that's a good thing as
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well. Okay. Um, what we're going to start with are good friends over at Media Matters, who are,
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of course, huge fans of this show, uh, and of the Daily Wire in general. They published another lengthy
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expose about us on Friday. Now this is to be distinguished from the regular, almost daily,
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or really, I think literally daily little posts they do about, uh, whatever offensive thing that one
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of us might've happened to say that day. So those sorts of things that you expect. Um, but then
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every once in a while, they go more in depth in trying to really reveal our bigotry and show what,
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what nasty, horrible people we are. So they tried that again on Friday with this article,
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uh, that the headline Daily Wire hosts demean trans high school athletes at center of Alliance
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defending case. Now the author, um, Alex Patterson introduces the article this way, this way on
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Twitter. It says the Daily Wire's anti-trans pundits, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Michael
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Knowles repeatedly misgendered and demeaned two teenage athletes, grown men commenting about
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teenagers' genitals. Disgusting. Yes. Disgusting. Disgusting. It's so disgusting that we would dare
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mention that males are males. What a horrible and disgusting and inappropriate thing. Absolutely
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inappropriate. Shocking. Scandalizing. Because, because that's what Alex means here, right?
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We commented on teenagers' genitals in the sense that we said males are males. So in that way,
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you know, the doctor, when, when, when the doctor tells you it's a boy, he's commenting on the baby's
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genitals. Quite literally, he is looking at the genitals and announcing the sex. So when the doctor
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tells you that, would you, you pervert, what are you doing commenting on my baby's genitals?
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Well, Alex, by the way, what does that tell you? You know, the people in the medical profession,
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when they want to determine the sex of a, of a baby, they look at the genitals. What does that tell
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you? Think about that for a second. Use your brain, not to comment on your internal organs,
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especially one that I'm not sure you actually possess. Okay, let's check out the article. This
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is, this is a pretty fun. We'll take a look at it. And actually, if you could, producer,
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please play a little bit of sad violin music while I read this, because it will help set the tone,
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I think, and get us all in the mood of, of this article. Okay, it says, across several pieces of
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online content and podcasts, the Daily Wires, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles
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attacked and misgendered two trans teenagers at the center of a lawsuit from extreme anti-LGBTQ group
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Alliance Defending Freedom that seeks to prevent them from competing in girls' sports.
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Since May 11th, the reliably anti-trans outlet and pundits have posted four podcast segments that
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received over 215,000 views on YouTube and two articles that earned a combined 158,000 interactions
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on Facebook. The pundits repeatedly misgendered the teen athletes and fear-mongered about trans-inclusive
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sports, with Knowles claiming that recognizing transgender people is part of an agenda to end
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objective reality. Shameful. What a bigot. Knowles is. After National Review first reported on the
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story on May 11th, Daily Wire published two articles, one written by Walsh and the other by Amanda
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Prestia Giacomo that repeatedly misgendered the athletes, referring to them as male or biologically
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male. During the May 11th episode of Walsh's Daily Wire podcast, The Matt Walsh Show, he called trans
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girls, quote, boys with XY chromosomes and penises. My God. Shocking. And claimed that, quote, people are like
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Mr. Potato Head dolls now. You just take the different parts, swap them out. Doesn't matter. It makes no
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difference. I did say that. He also claimed that the athletes are not females. Quote, not by science,
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not by common sense, and not by human decency. The following day, Walsh doubled down on his remarks
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and called trans athletes, quote, penis-wielding XYs. That's terrible. Terrible.
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And claimed, quote, they're not girls and they're certainly not female. Shapiro, the outlet's
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founder, also misgendered the athletes during the May 11th edition of The Ben Shapiro Show,
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referring to them as biological males throughout the segment. On May 13th, Knowles fear-mongered about
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trans-inclusive sports on his Daily Wire podcast, claiming that, quote, if the left can force you to
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believe that men are women and women are men, then there is no objective reality. Knowles also said
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that accepting transgender people's gender identity is how, quote, science is abused and appropriated
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and monopolized and perverted and transformed to invert objective reality. The Daily Wire regularly
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spreads hateful, anti-trans content that earns significant engagement online.
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Okay, there it is. Wow. Yeah. Of course, every sane person listening to this right now is thinking,
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wait, okay, but where's the offensive part? Where's the controversial part? I didn't hear it. I'm
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confused. But that's it right there. That's all that stuff there where we say a bunch of things that
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every single rational human on planet Earth agrees with. That's it. That's the part that
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they're upset about. Now, a few observations here. First of all, notice again how the artificial and
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arbitrary and invented distinction between sex and gender has finally been abandoned by the left.
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It's important to notice what they've done. And it's long since been abandoned.
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But this is just more evidence of that. Because the article says, we repeatedly misgendered the
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athletes, referring to them as male or biologically male. Well, wait a second. I thought male was sex
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and man was gender. That's what you guys told us for years. They're two different things.
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That's what we were told. And now you're saying that calling a male male is misgendering?
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How could it be misgender if it refers to sex? And sex and gender are two different things,
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according to you. So you're saying that sex and gender are two words for the same thing now. Well,
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of course they are. They're two words for the same thing. They always have been. Well,
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not always. Originally, of course, gender was a linguistic term, a grammatical term. Words had
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gender, not humans. So we didn't need to refer to humans having gender because humans have sex. We
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don't need a second word for it. We've already got that covered. But words, on the other hand,
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don't have a sex because they're not biological entities. And that's why we have gender to refer to
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masculine or feminine words. But what the left did is they said, okay, we're going to take this
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grammatical concept and we're going to apply it to people. And these are two different things.
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Well, apparently not. Now they've gone back on that. They're not just saying that gender is fluid.
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They're saying that sex, that biological sex is fluid. So this is the ultimate bait and switch.
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Leftists, they tried to normalize this idea of gender fluidity, this idea that gender is a separate
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thing and it can change or switch back and forth. And then right when people started to buy into it,
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which nobody ever should have in the first place, they, without announcing it, switched sex back for
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gender. So they, they, they, they tried to get us used to the idea of, you know, gender is this
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different thing. You know, you could be biological male, but your gender could be woman and it's a
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fluid thing. And you know, they tried to get us used to that. And right when some people started
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getting used to it, they switched it around and they said that, oh no, no, actually that's, yeah,
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he's, he's, he's a, he's not a male at all. He's a female. They went from trans women are women to
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trans women are female, which is a clever move. Dishonest, despicable, false, um, incoherent,
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you know, all that stuff too, but also clever strategically. Uh, number two, second point here.
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this. Um, you notice how there's no argument presented here, right? And there never is.
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This is just emotion. I mean, my kids would be better at presenting a rational argument
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than this. So this, this is what I'll say to Alex and media matters and all leftists with respect to
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this issue and, and, and every issue really. Um, here's what I'll say. How about this?
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Get it out of your system. Okay. You can yell, scream, cry, call me a bigot. Sure. Yes. I'm a bigot.
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I'm a, I'm a hateful, terrible, evil, mean, awful. I'm, I'm Hitler. I am literally, I'm worse than Hitler.
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Okay. Yeah. I'll just, let's grant you that for the sake of argument. Let's just, so we can move
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on. I will grant you that you don't need to scream it anymore. Yes. All of that is true. We've established
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it. Get it out of your system, out of the way. Okay. Hopefully you feel better. Hopefully we've,
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we've, we've gotten past that part of the discussion. We've laid that framework.
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Can we please now move on to the part of the discussion where you actually tried to explain
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why I'm wrong? No, stop. Don't, don't start calling me a transphobe. Don't go in, don't go into the
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phobes and the, and the is and the isms. We've already done that. We're past that now. Okay. Yes. I'm a
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phobe. I'm an is, I'm an ism. Lay them all on me. I really don't care. We've already covered those bases
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though. So those bases are covered. Let's, let's, let's move past it. You don't need to publish
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another article saying Matt Walsh is a transphobe. We know that everybody knows that fine. I don't
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care. Okay. What I'm asking you to do, Alex at Media Matters or anyone else over there or any leftist
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anywhere, what I'm asking you to do, follow along, please. Okay. Just, just, just bear with me.
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I'm asking you to present an argument which explains why and how I'm wrong and you're right.
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Okay. And it should be really easy to do because I'm Hitler. You know, I'm, I'm a bigot. I'm Hitler.
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I'm, I'm all these things. I mean, to, to beat me in an argument should be super easy. So just do it.
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That's all. And, and I'm going to let you present it however you want, but, but I would suggest
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that if you disagree with my take on the definition of the word male, okay. Or female. No,
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stop. I, I, I know you want to start screaming bigot again. I know you do. You have like Tourette's
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and you can't help it, but you don't need to because we've already done that. If you disagree
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with my definition of the word female or male, then what you need to do really is, is give me the
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right definition. Okay. That's all. Give me the right definition. Give me the right definition.
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That's all you got to do. And I'll tell you what, I'll make this interesting too. We'll put some skin
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in the game. All right. This is a deal that I'll make with media matters right now on this show.
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If anyone over there can give me a coherent objective and valid definition of the word
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female, I will apologize. I will admit I'm wrong. I will admit I'm a bigot. I've already done that,
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but I'll apologize and admit I'm wrong. And I will come onto this show tomorrow with a rainbow flag
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draped around me and I will pledge allegiance to the LGBT squad. Okay. That's what I do. I promise
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you I will. If you can simply provide a coherent, objective, and valid definition of the word female.
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The reason I stipulate coherent, objective, and valid is that because that's what a definition has to be
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right in order to be a definition. But also you see, you can't do something like, well, the definition
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is a female is a person who identifies as female. You can't do that. That's not going to work. Okay.
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Because that by definition is neither coherent, objective, nor valid. Because you're using the
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word you're defining in the definition for one. And two, it's a definition that tells me absolutely
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nothing about the thing you're defining. Okay. So if you say X is a person who identifies as X,
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that tells me nothing about X. I know absolutely nothing about X based on that.
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And definitions are supposed to tell me something. In fact, they're supposed to tell me the definition.
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So I should come away knowing what the thing is because you've defined it.
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So you're going to have to do better than that. Right? Now, just to make this even easier,
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I'll tell you what my definition is. Okay. I'll go first. We'll trade definitions.
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Here's my definition of female. And this, in fact, is the dictionary's definition too. So I feel pretty
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safe. Webster agrees with me on this. And in fact, actually every single biology textbook that's ever
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been written ever agrees with me. And every anatomy textbook that's ever been written ever agrees
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with me. Okay. So this is our definition. I'm just going to put it out there for you.
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A female, a female human, let's be even more specific because that's what we're talking about here.
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A female human is a person who bears two X chromosomes, has a vagina, and barring infirmity
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or old age can bear offspring and produce eggs. That's my definition of a female person.
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And according to that definition, those trans track athletes are not female. They're just,
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they're just not. Okay. That's all not saying anything else about them. I'm just saying they're
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not female. And, but the other people competing in, in, you know, in the girls sports or the girls
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track teams and the girls that are filing laws, they are female. Okay. They are fit. They fit into the
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definition that I have presented and the definition that every dictionary and every biology textbook and
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every anatomy textbook anywhere, everywhere says. Um, so they fit into that definition.
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These other, these trans individuals do not. And so that's why they shouldn't be in the same week.
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So your turn, give me your definition and we'll take it. Maybe you're, here's the thing. I see you,
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when it comes to this issue, you guys, you've never made any kind of argument ever. You never present
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any argument. So all of the arguments are being made by people on my side. Who knows? Maybe we're
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wrong. I mean, we could, I don't think we are. I mean, I'm, I'm pretty damn confident we're not
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wrong, but, uh, maybe you have some kind of like brilliant argument that you can put forward that we
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just don't know about. And it may, it may just blow my mind and make me rethink everything I think I know
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about the world. Maybe you do. So just, if you do put it out there, but if you don't put it out there,
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then I think I'm fair in assuming you have no arguments whatsoever. And all you have is emotions
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and tears and whining and crying, which is why your position can be disregarded because it's irrelevant.
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All right. So let's move on to, uh, headlines here. Number one, Washington post magazine ran a,
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uh, lengthy story on Stacey Abrams over the weekend. And the title of that, of that story is
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the power of Stacey Abrams. And this is not a joke. Here's the picture that's attached to that article.
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That is Stacey Abrams wearing a cape. They actually put her in a cape. So this,
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and the image, it looks like if, if Batman died and his secretary had to take over the superhero
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duties, that's what this looks like. And here's an actual quote. Let me pull this up. Here's an
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actual quote from the article. It says pandemonium and pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left
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of the stage. Like a runway supermodel stops on a dime, poses, tilts her head slightly and smiles.
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Camera flashes explode. She next pivots and walks slowly to the center of the stage,
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freezes there and repeats the pose. Again, the flashes explode. Abrams is summoning her inner actress
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and she is both enjoying the moment and getting through it to get to the conversation.
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She then pivots and walks to the far right of the stage. Same. Okay. That's, that's, that's the
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article. Supermodel Stacey Abrams. Now this is not the first time the media has tried to manufacture
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a political superstar. They obviously, they do it all the time. The most famous example would be Barack
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Obama. Um, and that was a pretty successful example. Okay. They, they made him president for
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eight years. A less successful example would be Beto O'Rourke. They, they tried their hardest with
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him to make him into a superstar. They had to give that up. But the difference here is that Obama and
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even O'Rourke, at least to some extent had some semblance of political talent and charisma. And so
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there was something there, even with, um, you know, Obama, pretty good order, uh, O'Rourke, not as good,
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but at least he has the whole punk rock thing that he did in his, in the nineties. And so he's got that
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going on and he's got the furry thing. So that's kind of interesting. So there, there's, there's,
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there's a little something there that you could try to build into this, uh, political sensation if
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you want to, but Stacey Abrams, are you serious? There's, there's just nothing there. She's, she's an
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extremely standard, extremely unimpressive, normal, average politician. In fact, failed politician.
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She's just your average failed politician. Very little charisma or talent. Um, nothing special as
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a public speaker. This is like if the right tried to, uh, you know, make Jeb Bush into a rock star.
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It, it just, it, it doesn't work. And the attempts are becoming increasingly embarrassing,
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but like I said, also hilarious. Okay. So Mashable, uh, number two has a video out
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showcasing some new protective gear that they're hoping people will wear to protect themselves from
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the coronavirus. And, uh, well, you let me know what you think. Take a look at this.
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Honestly, I would rather be dead. I would rather, I would choose death over wearing that
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for even five minutes of my life. Now tell me if this is kind of mean, but when I saw that video,
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uh, I, I did have the thought that it would be kind of funny if somebody straps that helmet on,
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right. And, uh, and they're feeling super safe and they're feeling impervious to, to, to any and
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all threats that they might've come across. And, uh, they walk outside of their home and just really
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confident step into the street, immediately get hit by a bus. That would be kind of funny.
00:25:48.100
I don't know if that's mean for me to, I, you know, I'd be really terrible for the family,
00:25:51.900
of course, but also a little funny, or maybe I'm just a bad person. I think, or, or it could be
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that it's funny and I'm a bad person. That's, that's very probable as well. Number three,
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Rebecca Brand is, uh, I'm not sure who she is exactly, but she recorded a video over the weekend
00:26:07.700
complaining about people not wearing masks. And, uh, now her name is no longer Rebecca Brand
00:26:13.380
anymore. It's, it's Karen. And not just, this is, this is not just Karen. This is the Karen.
00:26:19.020
This is the ultimate, this is like the, the boss Karen at the end of the game. Um, the quintessential
00:26:24.120
Karen. If anyone wants to know, if anyone's confused about the Karen meme and where that
00:26:28.420
comes from and what is it, Karen? Well, here it is right here.
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Oh my God. Not one person with a mask on. Everybody is here and nobody. Yeah. Oh my God. That's what
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Look at all those people. There's like 20. What the heck? What are we doing to you people?
00:26:45.740
Hi, I'm Rebecca Brand and I'm flipping out because governor Newsom announced that this Friday,
00:26:51.120
we are no longer going to be on total lockdown. We're opening back up. I'm flipping out because
00:26:56.140
people haven't been wearing masks and this is going to be even more loosey goosey than ever before.
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I think it's all going to go downhill from this point on.
00:27:04.980
Loosey goosey. It's, it's Lucy. Listen, all, listen up all you loose gooses, you loose geese.
00:27:11.680
Get your acts together. This is, of course, they're at the beach, you know, and that's why
00:27:18.300
people aren't wearing masks, Karen, because they're at the beach and they're outside in the sun
00:27:24.060
and the chance that they pass coronavirus on to anybody or contracted themselves is almost zero.
00:27:31.840
And so that's why they're not in masks at the beach. And that's why you don't need to be either.
00:27:36.360
And I don't even understand. I don't, how could you, how is it, why would you even go to the,
00:27:41.600
if you're going to wear a mask at the beach, why go in the first place? The whole, it's,
00:27:46.580
first of all, it's hot. I mean, imagine how hot it must be under that mask and you're getting sand in
00:27:52.460
it. And, you know, part of the whole thing of being at the beach is you can breathe in that fresh
00:27:58.740
sea air with the, with the, you know, the scent of the salt water. You get none of that.
00:28:03.060
You just get your own fumes back up your nostrils. What's the point of even going?
00:28:08.980
Well, I know what the point is for Karen there. The point is to, you know, virtue signal and to
00:28:13.080
show off how responsible she is while everybody else is being loosey goosey, as she says.
00:28:18.800
Number four, NASCAR started back up again, I think over a few days ago over the weekend,
00:28:24.260
which is great news, you know? And then you think about, so NASCAR started up,
00:28:29.500
there's, they're playing soccer again in, in some places in the world. And this just makes me
00:28:35.080
really excited for when sports get, get going again. I mean, real sports, you know, we got NASCAR
00:28:41.740
and soccer just makes me think I can't wait till the sports leagues actually start up again.
00:28:46.640
Number five, incredible report here in the daily wire. It says Democrat controlled New York has
00:28:50.860
reportedly admitted to knowingly undercounting the number of deaths suffered in nursing homes from
00:28:55.900
the coronavirus after the facilities were devastated by Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo's policy that
00:29:00.660
forced them to take patients who were infected with the virus. The Daily Caller News Foundation
00:29:08.000
reports, the department made a subtle change to its disclosure, disclosure, disclosures. I can't read.
00:29:16.720
To its disclosures beginning around May 3rd, according to its web archives,
00:29:20.080
the New York state department of health told the Daily Caller News Foundation, its disclosure now
00:29:26.760
only reports coronavirus deaths for long-term care patients that died while physically present at
00:29:33.500
their facility. In other words, New York's nursing home and adult care facility coronavirus death
00:29:38.260
tracker omits any individuals who contracted coronavirus while living at a long-term care
00:29:43.280
facility, but died in a hospital. So that's the way. Now I've commented on this before. You look across
00:29:49.240
the country and you see that nursing home deaths make up 40, 50, 60, 70, sometimes 80% or more
00:29:58.020
of the total deaths in that state. And then you look at New York and it's kind of strange because
00:30:05.200
there it's officially, it's like 20% or less. Even though they had the most deaths total by far of
00:30:14.280
any state and we know that they had this crazy policy of deliberately, forcibly introducing the
00:30:22.020
infection into nursing homes. Yet it's only what, 15, 20% of the deaths are nursing? That makes no
00:30:27.520
sense. And so I've been saying for weeks, there's something going on here and I think that number is
00:30:31.940
going to go up and here it is, reportedly. That they're saying, okay, it doesn't count as a nursing
00:30:37.940
home death if they died in the nursing home. So if somebody gets sick and is on their deathbed and
00:30:42.680
they're brought to a hospital for care and they die there, well, we're not going to call that a
00:30:47.360
nursing home fatality. When in reality, of course it is. So this is, and why are they doing that?
00:30:54.780
Well, because they're going to protect Andrew Cuomo because they realize that this is a massive,
00:30:59.320
massive scandal and easily one of the deadliest political scandals in American history.
00:31:05.260
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we're going to be canceling the NFL. And this for me is a very solemn occasion because I'm a huge
00:32:43.360
football fan. I'm a huge NFL fan. I love everything about the NFL except for the NFL itself. That is the
00:32:49.320
organization, the bureaucracy. I hate that part, but everything else I like. So now I'm
00:32:55.040
canceling the organization and the bureaucratic part of it. The reason is this. Reading a report
00:33:02.640
now from NFL.com. It says, during his state of the league address three months ago at a Super Bowl
00:33:09.980
in Miami, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged a need to increase the opportunities for minorities
00:33:15.800
to become head coaches and general managers. He says, clearly we're not doing enough. We have to do
00:33:20.260
more, blah, blah, blah. And okay, get ready for this. Here's the idea. They came up with an idea
00:33:28.580
they proposed to incentivize teams to hire minority coaches and front office personnel like GMs and so
00:33:35.840
on. So, quote, the idea is to incentivize the hiring of minorities as head coaches or primary football
00:33:42.920
executives by rewarding teams with improved draft slots. And then it goes into details. It says,
00:33:50.520
if a team hires a minority head coach, that team in the draft preceding the coach's second season
00:33:56.120
would move up six spots where it's slotted to pick in the third round. A team would jump 10 spots under
00:34:02.440
the same scenario for hiring a person of color as its primary football executive. If a team were to fill
00:34:08.980
both positions with diverse candidates, diverse candidates in the same year, the club could jump
00:34:14.380
16 spots, six for the coach, 10 for the GM, and potentially move from the top of the third round
00:34:19.920
to the middle of the second. Okay. So that's the idea, basically. And it goes into more detail,
00:34:30.180
but that's, you get the general gist. So it would seem that affirmative action in the NFL,
00:34:35.600
much like its players, is on steroids. Because this is remarkable. This is the kind of thing that
00:34:42.900
I might have made up as a joke and proposed it in an article or something satirically.
00:34:49.420
This is Babylon Bee stuff right here. It really is. They want to actually bribe teams with draft
00:34:55.480
position if they hire a minority coach. And just so you know, if you don't follow football,
00:35:00.180
draft position, especially in the second and third round, is extremely valuable. So we're not
00:35:05.280
talking about seventh round flyers here. We're talking about, they want to rig the second round
00:35:09.960
of the NFL draft by giving picks to teams if they hire, quote, diverse candidates. And by diverse
00:35:17.000
candidates, of course, they mean black. Okay. They don't actually, they don't want diverse candidates.
00:35:22.140
That's not the point. There is one particular race that they're looking for. They don't want to put
00:35:28.120
it like that because it would sound insane and degrading and just absolutely weird. But that is
00:35:34.780
the point. So what are the problems here? Well, for one thing, it's completely contrary to the spirit
00:35:42.880
of athletic competition. Giving teams competitive advantages on the basis of, you know, this is to
00:35:50.740
destroy the whole point of sports. Sports are a meritocracy. That's what's so great about them.
00:35:57.460
That's why people like them. That's why they are usually a respite. They are an oasis from all the
00:36:06.240
craziness with the social engineering and the culture. You can go to sports and you just see
00:36:11.060
the best, may the best man win. That's it. Or may the best team win. Not may the most racially woke team
00:36:20.000
win. Once you start introducing that into it, it destroys the whole point of the endeavor in the
00:36:25.680
first place. And for another thing, this is demeaning and infantilizing to the people that
00:36:30.940
it's supposed to help. Because what you're doing here is you're creating suspicion, reasonable
00:36:37.680
suspicion, that any black coach or black GM who's hired from here on out was only hired because of
00:36:44.680
the reward that the team would get for hiring them. Which inevitably, that will be the case
00:36:49.420
for some of the black coaches and black GMs that are hired if this plan goes through.
00:36:54.840
But then there are going to be others that would have been hired anyway, just based on their merits,
00:36:59.380
based on their qualifications and their skill. But they also are going to be forever tainted by the
00:37:05.700
suspicion of racial favoritism. So it doesn't help them. And then of course, on the other hand,
00:37:12.240
this guarantees that some candidates, white candidates, will be passed up despite being
00:37:21.060
the most worthy and most qualified, based solely on their race. So it guarantees that based on their
00:37:27.000
race, there are going to be some candidates who are overlooked. It guarantees racial discrimination
00:37:32.840
in order to solve racial discrimination. So we're getting rid of potential theoretical racial
00:37:42.360
discrimination by replacing it with guaranteed racial discrimination. Great plan. Just wonderful plan.
00:37:51.560
And the last thing, if we're going down this route, why don't we incentivize teams to put
00:37:59.080
white cornerbacks on their rosters? There are zero white cornerbacks in the NFL right now,
00:38:06.920
as far as I know. Certainly there are none that start. So there are zero starting white corners in
00:38:14.160
the NFL. Not very many white running backs, a few. Not very many white wide receivers, a few.
00:38:21.140
Not very many white free safeties or linebackers or, well, not very many white players in general,
00:38:26.760
except at the quarterback, kicker, and offensive line positions. Those are the only places
00:38:30.960
where you typically are going to find white people. So why don't we give incentives for that?
00:38:37.860
Oh, right. Because this is not really about racial diversity at all. This is about racial dogmatism,
00:38:43.120
left-wing racial dogmatism to be specific. And that's what the NFL is considering.
00:38:47.720
Um, it's, you know, it hasn't passed, but if it does, it's just, it, it, I'm pretty cynical. And so
00:38:56.200
it's hard to surprise me, but, uh, this, this really does. And, uh, I think we have a couple emails
00:39:03.980
here, but I think we'll save those for tomorrow because there could be longer conversations.
00:39:07.120
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