The Matt Walsh Show - October 29, 2020


Ep. 591 - The Democrat Party Is The Most Anti-Child, Anti-Family Political Party In History


Episode Stats

Length

34 minutes

Words per Minute

169.70056

Word Count

5,811

Sentence Count

411

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

A 13-year-old boy who calls himself "Gender Creative" has decided that, "Gender is over," and now enjoys the distinction of being the youngest grand marshal in the history of gay pride parades. Meanwhile, California is attempting to tell their residents how many family members they can have over for Thanksgiving, where on their property they can meet with them, and how long they can stay together.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, I'll explain why no competent, responsible parent, especially
00:00:04.940 of young children, can vote Democrat. I just don't see how it's possible. Also, five headlines
00:00:08.820 including California's attempts to tell their residents how many family members they can have
00:00:13.920 over for Thanksgiving, where on their property they can meet with them, and how long they can
00:00:18.960 stay together. All of that the California government thinks it can tell its residents,
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00:01:47.420 Pink News recently published a video of a young boy named CJ who calls himself gender creative
00:01:54.240 has decided that, quote, gender is over, and now enjoys the distinction of being the youngest
00:02:00.520 grand marshal in the history of gay pride parades. Here's some of that video. Watch.
00:02:05.640 Are we ready? Yeah! Ready! We're ready for pride!
00:02:09.920 Hi, I'm CJ Duran. I'm 13 years old, and I'm gender creative. My gender identity is male,
00:02:15.680 and my gender expression is female. I'm not. I've been gender creative my whole life,
00:02:19.680 but this is just who I am. To me, gender is over. We don't really need it. Like, it's kind
00:02:25.260 of unnecessary. I'm in middle school now, but in my old school elementary school, I changed
00:02:29.240 it so PE wasn't separated between boys and girls, and I changed the dress code for 26 schools,
00:02:33.860 so it wasn't separated between boys' clothes and girls' clothes. I am currently the youngest
00:02:38.940 grand marshal in pride history. I was grand marshal for OC pride. It was really magical.
00:02:44.020 It felt really powerful and like a dream, and it's really cool to be kind of like a leader.
00:02:49.600 It's very important for young kids to see that there's kids like them, so it's really awesome
00:02:55.000 that I was able to be the grand marshal and they can see me and know that they're not alone.
00:02:59.240 It's no surprise that young CJ has parents who, quote, support him, and by support,
00:03:05.380 we mean that his parents have worked very hard to inculcate the confusion, the lack of identity
00:03:10.500 from which the child currently suffers. A few years ago, his dad marched with him in a pride parade.
00:03:16.520 There's a picture of that. He's carrying a sign that reads,
00:03:20.100 my son wears dresses and makeup. Get over it. It is one of the more demented forms of child abuse
00:03:27.000 to dress your son in girl clothes and then literally march him through the street to show
00:03:31.620 him off like he's some sort of trophy. But this is how these types of parents view their kids,
00:03:38.620 as trophies to show off their own wokeness. But this is a type of child abuse that we are
00:03:42.500 supposed to accept, more than accept, celebrate, applaud, even emulate. And it's a form of child
00:03:47.200 abuse categorically supported and encouraged by one of the major political parties in this country.
00:03:52.940 What used to be the agenda of the fringe, radical, far-left LGBT movement has now become a mainstream
00:04:01.760 feature of the Democrat Party platform. One of its most visible standard bearers, Congresswoman
00:04:07.020 Alexandria Queza-Cortez, recently promoted a charity that helps children, quote, transition into a new
00:04:13.100 gender. She also expressed her approval of this video, which shows a drag queen performing for a
00:04:19.420 two-year-old. You can see it right here. And look at the father there, if you can call him that a
00:04:23.880 father. I don't think you really can. But he brought his two-year-old son to a drag queen brunch.
00:04:29.060 This is the Democrat Party. This is what the Democrat Party is. There might not be any video
00:04:33.060 that better encapsulates what the Democrat Party is, a drag queen dancing for a two-year-old.
00:04:38.760 And this goes all the way to the top. Joe Biden at a town hall two weeks ago endorsed the idea that
00:04:42.600 an eight-year-old male might really be a girl trapped in a boy's body. Every elected Democrat
00:04:48.180 believes this now or pretends to believe it and intends to use the school system and the media
00:04:52.580 and Hollywood and whatever other tools that they have at their disposal to brainwash you and especially
00:04:57.200 your child into the same belief. This is just one area, one extremely significant area, where the
00:05:02.300 Democrat Party has positioned itself as a threat to children and families. It would be reason enough,
00:05:08.420 this alone, for any competent and loving parent to never vote Democrat. But as the infomercial
00:05:14.880 salesman says, there's more, much more. This is, after all, the most anti-child, anti-family political
00:05:21.600 party in American history. The defund the police movement is an integral part of their campaign to
00:05:27.820 make families less safe, less stable. There's a reason why you mostly see a lot of young, childless,
00:05:34.480 very stupid people marching through the streets with defund the police banners and signs. No parent
00:05:40.500 wants to live in a community without police. No family man, when he's considering relocating his
00:05:46.060 family, tries to find a community where the police have fewer resources, less funding, are less likely
00:05:51.880 to respond to emergencies. Parents want police to be a phone call away, not social workers.
00:05:57.700 The defund the police movement is anti-family, and so it's no surprise to find it promoted by Black
00:06:02.460 Lives Matter, a group that has announced its intentions to destabilize the nuclear family.
00:06:07.880 In the realm of education, the attacks on school choice, the war on homeschooling,
00:06:12.940 all of this comes from the Democrat Party. It wants your child in his local public school,
00:06:19.160 nowhere else, or maybe not in it right now, but in his room in Zoom meetings with his public school
00:06:24.280 teachers. Wherever he is, the point is that you ought to have fewer education options and less of a say
00:06:30.680 over what your child is taught. That's the Democrat Party's perspective. The left is suspicious of
00:06:36.340 families, jealous of the influence parents have over their children, and intends quite explicitly
00:06:41.020 to interfere with, undermine, and finally subvert that influence. From the perspective of a Democrat,
00:06:46.940 your child belongs first and foremost to the state, and all of the most essential work of child raising
00:06:53.860 should be done by the state. It's the state's job to mold and shape your child and instill the
00:06:59.720 quote, correct values into his mind. Now, some Democrats will say this outright, others will be
00:07:05.620 more circumspect, but this is how almost all of them feel. If you're a parent of a boy, the assault is
00:07:12.180 even worse. The Democrat Party believes that young boys, especially white, young white boys, must be
00:07:17.360 deprogrammed of their toxic masculinity, reshaped into something more acceptable for our enlightened
00:07:24.560 society. In some cases, as we've seen, they seek to literally turn boys into girls, and they do believe
00:07:31.200 that such a thing is possible in a literal sense. But for all boys, the goal is to demasculinize,
00:07:39.060 to feminize. And as I list the assaults on the family and children, of course, we haven't even
00:07:47.560 mentioned the fact that the Democrat Party supports the murder of children at the earliest stages of
00:07:53.880 life. They reject the idea that children at their youngest ages can make any legitimate moral claims
00:07:58.920 for themselves or have any right to exist whatsoever. Democrats celebrate the slaughter of 60 million
00:08:03.240 children, and increasingly we hear Democrats, such as the governor of Virginia, advocating the murder of
00:08:08.520 born infants as well as unborn infants. As I said, the modern Democrat Party is the most anti-family,
00:08:15.400 anti-child political party that has ever existed in this country. I don't see how any parent who is
00:08:22.040 competent and informed and responsible could possibly vote to put these people in power. But those
00:08:28.560 qualifiers, unfortunately, competent, informed, responsible, excludes a large number of parents,
00:08:34.420 which explains the Democrat Party's political success, and why it remains a clear and present
00:08:41.920 danger to all families and all children in this country. Let's get to our five headlines.
00:08:54.560 Okay, number one here from the Daily Wire. Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have
00:08:59.860 reportedly launched an investigation into a vehicle that was discovered containing explosives and
00:09:04.160 suspicious items, which comes as the city is rocked by left-wing anti-police riots and widespread
00:09:09.620 looting. ABC6 reported Action News has learned that police recover propane tanks, torches, and possible
00:09:16.760 dynamite sticks from this van. The bomb squad is on the scene at this hour. City officials say at least
00:09:22.140 200 businesses, many of them already struggling in the midst of the pandemic, were the targets of massive
00:09:26.740 looting across the city over the last couple of nights to assist police. An undetermined number of
00:09:31.280 Pennsylvania National Guard troops will soon be arriving in the city. Well, we haven't seen them
00:09:36.800 yet. Or at least we hadn't seen it. Through the first two nights of rioting, we didn't see any National
00:09:42.740 Guard. And very few police, actually, out there, too. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney slammed those who
00:09:48.360 were looting and rioting, saying that the destruction of property will not be allowed. Well, it's already been
00:09:53.820 allowed. We just got through. 200 businesses have been targeted. Well, we're not going to allow you
00:09:58.300 people to do what you've already done and continue to do. We won't allow it. He said the looting
00:10:04.800 that has taken place is distressing. And it's clear that many of these folks are taking advantage
00:10:11.220 of the situation, harming our businesses and communities, and doing a great disservice to those
00:10:15.200 who want to protest the death of Walter Wallace Jr. Well, nobody's protesting the death of Walter Wallace
00:10:20.680 Jr. No one is concerned about that. That's got nothing to do with anything that's happening.
00:10:28.000 Nor should anyone be protesting it because he was charging at police with a knife. And so there's no
00:10:33.220 injustice here. There's no moral outrage. It's a sad thing. Anytime someone dies, it's not a moral
00:10:38.240 outrage, though. Nothing illegal or unlawful or unjust took place. And then he continues from there.
00:10:45.880 So he calls it distressing. Great. Coming down really hard on them. This is very distressing.
00:10:53.540 I'm very distressed by this. You know, reading this, it reminds you, actually, in some ways,
00:11:01.000 how amazing it really is that the rioting has not, for the most part, escalated so far
00:11:05.480 into larger scale terrorist attacks like bombings. Now, this is all terrorism, in my view. Black Lives
00:11:13.180 Matter, domestic terrorist organization. I think they would fit that categorization to a tee. But
00:11:20.260 this is politically motivated violence. And the leaders of Black Lives Matter, the people out in
00:11:27.160 the streets, they're pretty explicit about that if you listen to them. But in terms of large scale
00:11:32.360 attacks like bombings, we haven't seen that yet. Not yet. Though it seems like from this, it's trending
00:11:40.420 this way. And I can tell you that if more Democrats are put in power, people who coddle these domestic
00:11:47.440 terrorists, encourage them, give them room to destroy, in the immortal words of the former
00:11:52.700 mayor of Baltimore, we're going to see that escalation. Because bad guys, they'll do whatever
00:11:58.160 you allow them to do. You sit back and let them loot, they'll loot. Give them even more liberty to
00:12:04.760 commit crimes and more violent crimes. They'll do that too. Number two, here's a story from a few
00:12:09.940 days ago that I haven't had a chance to talk about until now. But I can't, but I have to talk about
00:12:13.940 it. I can't just let this one be. Article in Newsweek, it says, ahead of Thanksgiving next month,
00:12:20.000 California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health released new safety
00:12:25.620 guidelines for all private gatherings amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The new rules come with
00:12:31.940 restrictions that aim to help reduce the risk of spreading infection. And here's what the statement
00:12:39.920 says from the CDPH, the California Department of Public Health. Gatherings are defined as social
00:12:45.080 situations that bring people together from different households at the same time in a single space or
00:12:49.700 place. Well, that's good. Thank you for defining gatherings for us. All gatherings must include no more
00:12:55.740 than three households, including hosts and guests, and must be held outdoors, lasting for two hours or
00:13:02.020 less. The longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases. Gatherings that occur outdoors are
00:13:08.820 significantly safer than indoor gatherings. All gatherings must be held outside. Attendees may go
00:13:13.520 inside to use restrooms. Very merciful. I thank you for that. I mean, they could be telling us to go just
00:13:18.820 pee in our, you know, if you're visiting your in-laws or something. They could tell you to go pee in the
00:13:25.920 bushes. But no, they're allowing you to go inside. So thank you so much to our benevolent rulers. I am
00:13:32.000 so grateful. So you may be going to use the restroom. The new rules state that those at the gathering may
00:13:41.180 remove their face coverings briefly to eat or drink as long as they stay at least six feet away from
00:13:46.620 everyone outside their own household and put their face covering back on as soon as they are done with
00:13:51.120 the activity. It also mentions that now that, of course, no singing or shouting or any other form of
00:13:57.440 loud communication will be allowed. So Democrats in California, talk about talk about the war on
00:14:03.860 family. I could have included this. I was saving it for here. They are telling you how many of your own
00:14:10.640 family members you can have at your home, where on your property you're allowed to meet with them,
00:14:17.980 how long you may be with them, what you may do together while you are with them, and also that
00:14:26.060 you have to wear a mask. You can lift it up to take a drink, but make sure you're six feet away. So
00:14:31.500 every time you want to take a drink, you have to run away from everybody, lift up your mask,
00:14:35.220 take the drink, and then go back. This is almost unbelievable. I have to tell you, when I first
00:14:46.660 saw this online, I'm not even saying this to be funny. I really thought it might be a parody. I
00:14:51.700 thought, because someone had screenshotted some of the stuff, like some of the passages from this
00:14:59.040 article, and I think that's how I first saw it on Twitter, and I really thought it was from Babylon B.
00:15:06.120 But no, this is very real. And of course, it goes without saying, should go without saying,
00:15:14.440 they have absolutely no authority to do this at all. They have no authority and no power,
00:15:20.160 no legitimate power to tell you how many family members you can have at your own house.
00:15:26.260 I mean, the California Department of Public Health, what the hell authority do you have to
00:15:32.120 make these decisions for me and what I can do in my own home?
00:15:39.260 Number three, if you needed more reasons to not support the Girl Scouts, aside from the fact that
00:15:44.880 their cookies taste like graham crackers that have been sitting in your grandmother's pantry since
00:15:49.040 1987, aside from that, here's another one. The Girl Scouts tweeted this yesterday, a note of
00:15:54.000 congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett for becoming the fifth woman appointed to the Supreme Court. Now,
00:15:58.700 that's not the reason to not support them. That's fine. Okay? That's a, you know, very nonpartisan.
00:16:03.800 It's a tweet saying congratulations. There's a picture of all five women that have been
00:16:08.600 appointed to the Supreme Court, and that's it. Nonpolitical, nonpartisan, fine.
00:16:14.100 But leftists, of course, were upset about this, because any positive acknowledgement of Amy Coney Barrett,
00:16:19.720 or any other conservative, is verboten, is anathema, heretical. You can't do it. They can't
00:16:25.740 stomach it. They can't allow it. So they ganged up and bullied the Girl Scouts into deleting and
00:16:30.840 essentially apologizing for this post and saying that, you know, it was a mistake to put it up because
00:16:36.220 they didn't want to be political. They weren't trying to be political. They're a non-political
00:16:39.380 organization. But then, shocker of shockers here, Girl Scouts have tweeted in the past congratulating
00:16:45.780 liberal female Supreme Court justices, like Sonia Sotomayor, and those tweets are still up.
00:16:52.220 So those apparently are not political. It becomes political all of a sudden when you're congratulating
00:16:57.240 a conservative. Right. So what are the Girl Scouts teaching girls here? What's the lesson?
00:17:02.760 They're teaching girls to cave to peer pressure, back down to the mob, apologize for doing things
00:17:09.360 that aren't wrong just because it made someone's tummy hurt and they complained about it, and conform
00:17:14.940 to the crowd. That's what they're being taught. Basically, all of the exactly wrong sorts of
00:17:21.060 lessons. That's what you get from the Girl Scouts. Number four, I'm going to show you something.
00:17:25.620 Speaking of things that seem like a joke at first, I'm going to show you this. This is 100% real.
00:17:30.300 I assure you. But with no setup, here it is without context. Watch.
00:17:35.100 As of today, there have been 38,160 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon, with 390 new cases being
00:17:44.460 reported today. Sadly, we are also reporting three deaths today, bringing the statewide total
00:17:51.460 for COVID-19-related deaths to 608.
00:17:54.740 Now, for those listening to the podcast, the audio probably didn't sound too bad. You're probably
00:18:04.720 listening to that and thinking, okay, what's the problem? It sounded like maybe some kind of health
00:18:08.720 official announcing COVID daily death numbers, which is what it was. That's a senior official
00:18:14.500 with the Oregon Health Authority making this announcement about COVID. Problem, and what you
00:18:20.400 can't see if you're only listening is that the woman is actually wearing clown makeup. She is
00:18:26.660 dressed like a clown to tell us who died from COVID. This was apparently supposed to be some
00:18:33.880 sort of Halloween thing, okay? But that's not an excuse. I mean, just because it's going to be
00:18:39.760 Halloween soon, that doesn't mean you could just wear a costume anytime you want, regardless of the
00:18:46.840 circumstance. How would you feel if you were going in for heart surgery, and your heart surgeon, right
00:18:51.400 before you went under from the anesthesia, you see your heart surgeon coming in dressed like Freddy
00:18:57.380 Krueger to celebrate the occasion? What? It's Halloween? Relax. Or what if you went to identify a
00:19:05.740 relative's remains at the coroner's office, and the woman there is dressed like a sexy vampire?
00:19:11.680 It's just, it's not appropriate for the occasion. And I would say, costumes really are never
00:19:18.600 appropriate for adults. It never really works, but especially not in a professional context. Though, I
00:19:23.040 also have to say, the fact that Oregon has literal clowns running their pandemic response
00:19:29.120 does not surprise me at all. Okay, number five, here's another addition to everyone's favorite genre
00:19:36.660 of TikTok videos. That would be the genre of women having mental breakdowns on camera over news events.
00:19:44.020 A lot of these, usually this is done in the car, which I think actually explains a lot, by the way,
00:19:48.300 about women drivers, that this is where they do their, their, this is, this is where they have their
00:19:53.680 emotional collapses. That doesn't surprise me a lot either. But here's something a little bit
00:19:59.100 different. This is a mental breakdown in the bathtub. This is a few days old, but it's still good
00:20:03.400 stuff. Still worth playing. Here it is. Check it out. Don't mind me. I'm in the bath, but
00:20:09.600 while I'm in here, I got a notification that Amy Coney Barrett was officially confirmed to the Supreme Court.
00:20:27.200 I didn't think I would be this affected by it, but I'm scared. I'm scared for me, other women,
00:20:40.880 people who need help. Everyone except white men. So, um, please vote next week. Let's try to do something.
00:20:53.560 You know, I see videos like this and there's this hopeful part of me that says this has to be parody.
00:20:58.320 It has to be a joke. And maybe it is. I don't know. There's obviously planning and fourth forethought
00:21:03.040 and, and editing even that goes into this. Why would someone do this except as a joke?
00:21:10.180 You're crying in a bathtub. That's humiliating. This is a humiliating, embarrassing moment in your
00:21:15.840 life. Why would you intentionally document it and spread it online for others to see? If I ever
00:21:21.800 cried in a bathtub, if I ever took a bath at all, I would be embarrassed. But, uh, if I was crying in
00:21:28.980 a bathtub, um, I think the last thing I would ever want to do is tell everybody about it. It would be
00:21:36.560 a shameful moment that I would keep locked inside myself for my entire life, never to be spoken of
00:21:42.380 to anyone ever. So why are you putting your own embarrassing, eminently mockable moments online?
00:21:50.820 This is what people do on Tik TOK. It's sort of like a form of, of self cyber bullying. They're
00:21:55.760 cyber bullying themselves by putting this stuff out there. It's like if you peed your pants and then
00:22:02.700 immediately pulled out your phone and did a live stream. Hey guys. Uh, so just want to let you know,
00:22:07.260 I just peed my pants. Um, yeah, a lot of pee just all over the pants. Just pretty embarrassing.
00:22:12.320 Thought I should let you know. Okay. See you later. Bye. I don't, I don't understand the point. I don't
00:22:15.940 see why you would do that. Um, and, but we ask who would do this except to be funny? Well,
00:22:20.140 the answer is narcissists, narcissists who think that every moment of their lives needs to be out
00:22:25.920 there and observed by everyone who think that everything they do and everything they think
00:22:30.800 and say and feel is profound and important and worthy of attention, uh, who think that every moment
00:22:37.080 of their lives, every event is, is, is nothing more than an opportunity to gain more attention
00:22:42.860 for themselves. Those are the kinds of people who do this just total narcissists. And there are a lot
00:22:49.620 of those out there. And so there are a lot of these types of videos. Number six, uh, we'll do a bonus
00:22:54.000 number six here. Finally, bonus content. I want to show you a video made by some friends of ours.
00:22:58.320 Uh, I think this kind of shows you what we're up against. Check it out.
00:23:12.860 What are you looking for, man? This ain't a typical request. Look, bro, I can get whatever you need. Guns, drugs, women. You a gambling man? You like that hard stuff? You need somebody to go away? Look, you got cash? I'll make things happen.
00:23:37.000 Baby parts.
00:23:44.240 What'd you say? You heard me. Unborn human baby parts.
00:23:50.600 Sicko. I thought you can get anything. What'll it look like to you? Planned Parenthood?
00:23:55.820 You know, it's a joke, but it's, it's not at the same time. This is what Planned Parenthood does and
00:24:07.300 was caught doing. And yet half a billion dollars, half a billion dollars every year from the taxpayer.
00:24:15.760 And it does almost still shock me, almost, that these people were caught on tape.
00:24:25.140 And the tapes are still there. You can see them on YouTube.
00:24:27.660 Selling human body parts.
00:24:29.740 The body parts of babies on tape, laughing about it.
00:24:33.080 We saw these videos. Not deceptively edited, by the way.
00:24:36.160 That's a myth. That's a lie.
00:24:37.900 Planned Parenthood did their own forensic analysis of those tapes
00:24:41.260 that were done by Dave DeLydon and the Center for Medical Progress.
00:24:44.360 And they themselves admitted that they were not substantially edited
00:24:47.500 in any way that's manipulative or deceptive.
00:24:49.840 They admitted that in their own report. Go look that up, too.
00:24:53.480 And so this is all on tape. And yet, nobody talks about it anymore.
00:24:56.600 Like, it never happened.
00:24:58.440 And still, the half a billion dollars
00:25:00.240 keeps funneling every year
00:25:02.600 from your pockets
00:25:04.300 into theirs.
00:25:06.680 With no sign of stopping.
00:25:08.120 If it didn't stop with a Democrat,
00:25:09.700 or rather, a Republican Congress
00:25:11.640 and a Republican President,
00:25:12.960 it's not ever going to stop.
00:25:15.120 Okay, let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:25:17.320 Today, for our daily cancellation,
00:25:18.600 I fear I may have trouble
00:25:20.360 containing my emotions
00:25:21.680 as we discuss this topic.
00:25:24.620 This is the kind of thing
00:25:25.540 I might cry in a bathtub over
00:25:27.100 because I have to cancel beard shamers.
00:25:30.500 Somehow, in the year 2020,
00:25:32.200 beard shaming still exists.
00:25:34.300 Anti-beard bigotry is real.
00:25:36.380 It's serious.
00:25:36.820 It's perhaps the greatest human rights crisis
00:25:39.920 of our time, you could argue.
00:25:41.880 Jack Dorsey, the supreme leader of Twitter,
00:25:43.760 was questioned by a Senate committee yesterday,
00:25:46.380 along with Mark Zuckerberg,
00:25:47.860 other tech CEOs,
00:25:49.260 over their censorship of content
00:25:50.620 on their platforms.
00:25:51.840 Now, I was planning to talk about
00:25:53.220 the hearing itself,
00:25:54.340 maybe do a cancellation of Jack Dorsey,
00:25:57.140 though that does seem unnecessary
00:25:58.580 after Ted Cruz had his way with him.
00:26:01.260 Let's listen to a little bit of that.
00:26:02.640 Today, I want to focus my questioning
00:26:06.100 on Mr. Dorsey and on Twitter.
00:26:09.500 Because of the three players before us,
00:26:11.480 I think Twitter's conduct
00:26:12.600 has by far been the most egregious.
00:26:17.300 Mr. Dorsey,
00:26:19.420 does Twitter have the ability
00:26:21.500 to influence elections?
00:26:23.980 No.
00:26:24.660 You don't believe Twitter
00:26:28.520 has any ability
00:26:29.380 to influence elections?
00:26:31.240 No.
00:26:31.620 We are one part of a spectrum
00:26:34.060 of communication channels
00:26:35.180 that people have.
00:26:36.260 So you're testified
00:26:37.260 to this committee right now
00:26:38.700 that Twitter,
00:26:39.960 when it silences people,
00:26:41.140 when it censors people,
00:26:42.080 when it blocks political speech,
00:26:43.560 that has no impact on elections?
00:26:46.200 People have choice
00:26:47.840 of other communication channels
00:26:49.320 with which...
00:26:49.760 Not if they don't hear information.
00:26:51.560 If you don't think you have the power
00:26:53.780 to influence elections,
00:26:55.100 why do you block anything?
00:26:58.240 Well, we have policies
00:26:59.380 that are focused
00:27:00.740 on making sure
00:27:01.540 that more voices
00:27:02.260 on the platform are possible.
00:27:04.000 We see a lot of abuse
00:27:04.920 and harassment,
00:27:05.660 which ends up silencing people
00:27:07.060 and having them leave
00:27:08.020 from the platform.
00:27:09.200 All right, Mr. Dorsey,
00:27:10.080 I find your opening questions,
00:27:11.840 your opening answers
00:27:12.840 absurd on their face.
00:27:14.700 Yeah, so Ted Cruz
00:27:15.520 kind of nails him
00:27:16.680 to the wall there,
00:27:17.360 which is nice to see.
00:27:19.000 None of this has anything
00:27:19.980 to do, by the way,
00:27:20.920 with the cancellation, really.
00:27:22.320 But I think it's interesting.
00:27:25.180 And so let's listen to...
00:27:26.600 So you heard that.
00:27:27.320 Let's listen to the next line
00:27:28.420 of questioning anyway,
00:27:29.700 and then we'll get
00:27:30.240 to the daily cancellation.
00:27:31.860 Why did Twitter
00:27:32.740 make the decision
00:27:33.620 to censor the New York Post?
00:27:36.360 We had a hack materials policy.
00:27:40.040 When was that policy adopted?
00:27:42.540 In 2018, I believe.
00:27:44.620 In 2018.
00:27:45.400 Go ahead.
00:27:45.640 What was the policy?
00:27:46.880 So the policy is around
00:27:48.840 limiting the spread
00:27:50.600 of materials that are hacked.
00:27:54.040 We didn't want Twitter
00:27:55.420 to be a distributor
00:27:56.380 for hacked materials.
00:27:58.120 We found that the New York Post,
00:28:00.900 because it showed
00:28:03.000 the direct materials,
00:28:04.860 screenshots of the direct materials,
00:28:07.040 and it was unclear
00:28:08.060 how those were attained,
00:28:10.040 that it felt under this policy.
00:28:13.200 Now...
00:28:13.500 So in your view,
00:28:14.600 if it's unclear
00:28:15.520 the source of a document,
00:28:17.660 and in this instance,
00:28:18.380 the New York Post
00:28:19.180 documented what it said
00:28:21.140 the source was,
00:28:22.020 which it said
00:28:22.540 it was a laptop
00:28:23.840 owned by Hunter Biden
00:28:25.040 that had been turned
00:28:25.620 into a repair store.
00:28:27.940 So they weren't hiding
00:28:29.200 what they claimed
00:28:29.860 to be the source.
00:28:31.980 Is it your position
00:28:33.420 that Twitter,
00:28:33.960 when you can't tell
00:28:34.560 the source,
00:28:35.100 blocks press stories?
00:28:37.500 No, not at all.
00:28:39.520 Our team made a fast decision.
00:28:42.460 The enforcement action,
00:28:44.100 however,
00:28:44.780 of blocking URLs,
00:28:46.200 both in tweets
00:28:47.120 and in DM,
00:28:49.380 in direct messages,
00:28:50.660 we believe was incorrect,
00:28:52.040 and we changed it.
00:28:53.420 Today,
00:28:54.300 the New York Post
00:28:55.840 is still blocked
00:28:56.640 from tweeting
00:28:57.200 two weeks later.
00:28:59.320 Yes,
00:28:59.800 they have to log
00:29:00.480 into their account,
00:29:01.160 which they can do
00:29:01.840 at this minute,
00:29:03.040 delete the original tweet,
00:29:04.860 which fell under
00:29:05.660 our original enforcement actions,
00:29:07.700 and they can tweet
00:29:08.460 the exact same material
00:29:09.700 and the exact same article,
00:29:11.140 and it would go through...
00:29:12.180 Right,
00:29:12.440 well,
00:29:12.580 that's nonsense,
00:29:13.500 of course.
00:29:14.320 The New York Post
00:29:15.000 was still blocked for days,
00:29:16.700 even though the reason
00:29:17.920 for the block
00:29:18.600 was admitted to be wrong,
00:29:20.400 but rather than just
00:29:21.140 let them back on the platform,
00:29:22.440 Twitter wanted them
00:29:22.980 to delete the tweet,
00:29:24.000 which there was nothing wrong with,
00:29:25.840 and didn't violate any rules,
00:29:26.960 and then post it again.
00:29:29.100 None of this makes any sense.
00:29:30.740 It's also quite beside the point,
00:29:32.880 because I'm not focused
00:29:34.100 on issues like censorship,
00:29:35.780 the First Amendment,
00:29:36.540 monopolies,
00:29:37.220 big tech manipulation
00:29:38.080 of the public discourse,
00:29:39.280 or anything like that.
00:29:41.280 To me,
00:29:41.680 the big issue here
00:29:42.520 is the beard
00:29:43.320 that Jack Dorsey
00:29:45.020 was sporting
00:29:45.580 in that video.
00:29:47.020 It was a long,
00:29:48.300 bold,
00:29:49.580 elaborate,
00:29:50.840 extensive beard,
00:29:52.060 a beard that
00:29:52.720 is not ashamed of itself,
00:29:54.040 not ashamed to announce
00:29:55.060 itself to the world,
00:29:56.340 and though I don't
00:29:56.940 like anything else
00:29:57.820 about Jack Dorsey,
00:29:58.820 I respect that beard,
00:30:00.960 as I respect all beards.
00:30:02.880 The same cannot be said
00:30:04.420 for much of social media,
00:30:05.520 which spent yesterday
00:30:06.460 mocking Dorsey
00:30:07.920 for his beard,
00:30:08.860 saying the most hateful
00:30:10.240 and bigoted
00:30:11.300 and frankly,
00:30:12.200 hurtful things.
00:30:14.000 And yes,
00:30:14.400 it's true
00:30:14.780 that if you wanted to,
00:30:15.720 you could make an argument
00:30:16.800 that Dorsey
00:30:17.440 looks like a homeless wizard,
00:30:19.300 or bin Laden's
00:30:20.720 albino cousin,
00:30:21.800 or an out-of-work pirate,
00:30:23.640 or a down-on-his-luck
00:30:25.020 Old Testament prophet,
00:30:26.600 or the decayed remains
00:30:28.320 of a Civil War general,
00:30:29.540 or Tom Hanks
00:30:30.340 if he'd stayed on the island
00:30:31.220 for another 45 years.
00:30:32.680 You could make
00:30:33.240 all those arguments.
00:30:34.240 You could say all of that
00:30:35.140 if you wanted to,
00:30:35.820 and many people have.
00:30:36.720 I will not say
00:30:37.720 any of that, though,
00:30:38.960 because I do not
00:30:40.220 condone such insults.
00:30:42.020 Because a man
00:30:42.860 has a constitutional right
00:30:44.760 to grow a beard.
00:30:46.300 And any who exercise
00:30:47.560 that right
00:30:48.160 ought to be congratulated
00:30:49.440 for that noble undertaking.
00:30:52.180 You want to make fun
00:30:53.080 of Jack Dorsey
00:30:53.760 for the nose ring?
00:30:54.760 The nose ring
00:30:55.300 he was also wearing?
00:30:56.440 Absolutely, that's fine.
00:30:57.420 Indeed,
00:30:57.820 it is your duty
00:30:58.560 as an American
00:30:59.300 to make fun of men
00:31:00.220 who wear nose rings.
00:31:01.700 But,
00:31:02.540 the beard is off-limits.
00:31:03.980 A man's beard
00:31:04.780 is an outward expression
00:31:06.240 of the masculine light
00:31:08.400 within him.
00:31:09.600 Each follicle
00:31:10.340 as it sprouts forth
00:31:12.080 and reaches for the sunlight
00:31:13.320 deserves to be loved
00:31:14.500 and celebrated
00:31:15.180 for its own sake.
00:31:17.040 If you wish
00:31:17.500 to shame a man
00:31:18.300 for something beard-related,
00:31:20.340 shame him
00:31:20.780 for not having one.
00:31:22.220 Shame him
00:31:22.620 for being a grown man
00:31:23.760 with a schoolboy's chin.
00:31:25.720 Beardless men
00:31:26.540 are absurd,
00:31:27.540 ridiculous.
00:31:28.400 When I see beardless men,
00:31:29.660 I react much like
00:31:30.480 I react to the sight
00:31:31.260 of a three-legged dog.
00:31:32.740 I sort of gawk
00:31:33.640 and stifle laughter,
00:31:34.800 but then,
00:31:35.480 also I feel pity
00:31:36.340 for this poor,
00:31:37.340 wretched,
00:31:37.760 deficient,
00:31:39.240 embarrassing thing.
00:31:40.780 And yet,
00:31:41.200 many beardless men
00:31:41.980 have testified
00:31:42.540 before Senate committees
00:31:43.540 without a word of mockery.
00:31:44.720 Even yesterday,
00:31:45.480 Mark Zuckerberg,
00:31:46.200 with the smooth face
00:31:47.100 of a large infant,
00:31:48.260 testified.
00:31:49.320 And not one person
00:31:50.220 pointed and laughed at him.
00:31:51.820 This is all backwards.
00:31:53.980 As always,
00:31:54.840 my problem is not
00:31:55.760 that we are mocking people,
00:31:56.980 but that we're mocking
00:31:57.620 the wrong people
00:31:58.600 for the wrong reasons.
00:32:00.600 And it is this
00:32:01.440 upside-down
00:32:02.120 and backwards way
00:32:02.840 of thinking
00:32:03.140 that has led,
00:32:04.060 you could argue,
00:32:04.880 to many of the worst tragedies
00:32:06.440 in recent history.
00:32:07.760 I want you to think about this.
00:32:08.800 It has been over a century
00:32:10.780 since we have had
00:32:11.580 a president
00:32:12.140 with facial hair.
00:32:13.880 Even longer
00:32:14.440 since a full beard
00:32:15.640 has been in the White House.
00:32:17.100 In the interim,
00:32:18.840 there have been
00:32:19.240 two world wars,
00:32:20.160 a cold war,
00:32:20.740 a depression,
00:32:21.320 multiple recessions,
00:32:22.220 multiple pandemics,
00:32:23.600 thousands of plane crashes.
00:32:25.500 What is this?
00:32:25.960 A coincidence?
00:32:27.720 We stop electing bearded men
00:32:29.840 and suddenly the world explodes
00:32:31.060 and you don't see a connection?
00:32:33.120 Give me a break.
00:32:34.400 Don't be ridiculous.
00:32:36.180 Our anti-beard bias
00:32:37.800 is literally killing people.
00:32:40.360 How many more have to die?
00:32:41.520 You ask yourself that question.
00:32:43.360 In the meantime,
00:32:44.540 beard shaming is canceled.
00:32:46.620 How dare you?
00:32:47.620 How dare all of you?
00:32:49.220 Jack Dorsey does not
00:32:50.100 deserve this treatment.
00:32:51.500 And the very idea
00:32:52.240 that you would heap abuse
00:32:53.400 on this man
00:32:54.080 who is a billionaire
00:32:55.220 but evidently
00:32:56.000 can't afford a comb,
00:32:57.460 that's unconscionable.
00:32:59.620 Combs can be very expensive
00:33:00.600 these days.
00:33:02.200 Who are you to judge?
00:33:04.460 But he without sin
00:33:05.480 cast the first stone,
00:33:07.860 as Jesus Christ himself said.
00:33:09.720 And guess what Jesus
00:33:12.020 had on his face?
00:33:15.580 I rest my case.
00:33:17.440 And we'll leave it there for today.
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