Ep. 669 - Next Stop On The Slippery Slopeļ¼ A Child With Three Dads
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A baby with three dads is born in California, and it s supposed to be a major milestone in human history. But I don t feel much like celebrating, and I ll explain why. Plus, 5 headlines you don t want to miss, including Governor Cuomo facing disaster due to his sexual harassment scandal, and the cancel mob is coming for Dr. Seuss.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we're supposed to celebrate because for the first time,
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a child has three legal fathers listed on her birth certificate. But I don't feel much like
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celebrating. I'll explain why if it's not already obvious. Also, five headlines, including Governor
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Cuomo facing political disaster due to his sexual harassment scandal. But how is it that this is a
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scandal that takes him down and not the nursing home scandal that resulted in the deaths of
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thousands of elderly people? And also the cancel mob is coming for Dr. Seuss. We'll talk about that
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in our daily cancellation. We'll discuss the left's latest linguistic innovation, which is women,
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but with an X instead of an E. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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The New York Post announces the big news, a baby with three dads. This is supposed to be a historic
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first, a major milestone in human history. And it certainly would be if there actually existed
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a baby with three actual fathers. Turns out, and this is no surprise to the dwindling minority
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with a rudimentary grasp of basic human biology, that the child merely has a birth certificate with
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the names of three dudes written on it. Here's the post with the details. It says a gay polyamorous
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California thruple made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three
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parents on a birth certificate. Their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper,
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now three, is detailed in Three Dads and a Baby, written by one of her dads, Dr. Ian Jenkins.
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Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Alan Mayfield, don't see their family,
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which now also includes their son, Parker, as unusual. Well, of course, it is by definition
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unusual. It's not possible for a thing to make history and not be unusual. Indeed, unusual is the
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most polite and measured thing that I can say about this particular arrangement.
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But more from the post. It says, Jenkins met Mayfield, a psychiatrist,
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while they were completing, so maybe I should tell you a little something about the psychiatry
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industry. Well, anyway, he met a psychiatrist while they were completing their medical residencies in
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Boston. The two were together for eight years when Hodges, who works at a zoo hospital, came into the
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picture. Although their relationship with Hodges began as a friendship, things quickly turned romantic.
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After five years of throupledom, the trio started seriously discussing parenthood when friends
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offered to donate their leftover embryos to them. Leftover embryos. Isn't it inspiring to hear
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human life referred to this way? Like it's a slab of meatloaf sitting in a Tupperware container in the
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fridge? I got some leftover embryos. Let me go grab them. I think I got a couple in the trunk. I'll go take
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a look. As it turns out, the leftover embryo, i.e. human life, wasn't viable. And the next attempt
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also didn't take. So they took several tries, just tossing out the embryos. No big deal, just human
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life. Finally, a helpful friend gave them some of her eggs, which were then fertilized in a
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laboratory and implanted in the uterus of another friend. Meanwhile, some fancy footwork was performed
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with the help of lawyers and tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees. And then presto chango,
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just like magic, a child with three dads was born. Which is to say, a child with one father,
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a mother she'll never know, who was conceived in a Petri dish, brought to term in a rented uterus,
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and placed in the care of three men who immediately set out to monetize her existence with a
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self-congratulatory memoir, was born. Tomato, tomato, I suppose. If you're feeling not terribly
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excited about our new and improved society where babies can have three dads and no mom,
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that's because you're a normal and sane person. As a normal and sane person, the whole thing
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probably seems to you rather, I don't know, unnatural, disordered. You likely have the
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impression that the interests of the children aren't being taken much into account here. Sure,
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the men feel great about their dad trio, but their emotional needs aren't the primary concern
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of normal and sane people. We're worried about the children, who are being treated more as
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fashion accessories than human beings. To respect their humanity is to acknowledge
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that children need mothers too. It is an absurd and damnable idea that the role of the mother can
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be adequately replaced just by adding more dads into the equation. I'm still not exactly sure what the
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exchange rate is. So you have one dad, that equals a dad, and then you've got two dads,
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that equals a mom. So is it each dad equals one mom? I mean, how does it work exactly? Add four
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more dads and you have two moms, a dad. But if adding dads is the plan, why stop at three?
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Why not four dads? Four dads, five dads, six dads, seven? It's beginning to sound like a creepy
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children's book that I'm sure somebody will eventually write. This is not a rhetorical question.
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It's something we really need to think about because the floodgates are officially open and
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have been for some time. Once society moves away from the nuclear family, not just in practice,
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but in a categorical denial that it is the ideal family structure at all, then there's no remaining
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boundary, no limiting principle. This is where the so-called slippery slope argument comes in,
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and it's why those who warn about slippery slopes are usually proven correct, even as the left laughs and
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guffaws at the whole notion that perhaps sometimes one thing might lead to another.
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I mean, they call something a slippery slope argument as if simply labeling it slippery slope
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is enough to debunk it. It's not. Yes, oftentimes slopes are slippery. Oftentimes one thing leads to
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another. The point with the slippery slope is that when you tear down a boundary without any idea as to
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where to rebuild it, or you get rid of a word's definition without even a suggestion as to what
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its new definition ought to be, then you have obviously that it would seem by design sent this
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new boundary-less undefinable thing tumbling into insanity and incoherence. You haven't actually
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moved the boundary or changed the definition of the thing, but simply destroyed it. As I've observed
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many times, this is the process playing out right now with respect to gender. We're told that the word
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woman no longer means adult human female, which is what it meant since the dawn of time. So what does
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it mean? If it's not that, then what is it? Those who seek to erase the word's traditional definition
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have, it turns out, no plans for giving it a new one. They don't seek to promote a new or expanded
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concept of womanhood, but to annihilate the very concept itself. It is not really a slope, but a freefall
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plunge into obliteration. Each new stage in our moral and logical descent is predictable and
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inevitable. If our biological identity has no meaning and can be changed on a whim, then the same will be
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done with age and race and every other aspect of our identity. It's not a question of if. It will
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happen. It is already beginning to happen, because there's no reason why it wouldn't happen.
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Now that the precedent has been set and the logical and moral barriers preventing it from happening have
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been removed. And so with marriage and family, it's the same. We have seen three men call themselves
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dead. Soon that's not going to be the strangest or most disturbing combination. Give it enough time
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and even the self-professed conservatives will be defending the three dad concept as valid and equal,
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while maybe offering polite pushback to the newer, you know, four dads and three sex robots family
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units. I wish I was exaggerating, but this is the path that we put ourselves on when we moved away
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from the mother, father, nuclear family structure. That was, we had it right the first time. That was
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right. Everything after that is wrong. And once you give up on that, there is no end. The truth is
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that every child needs and deserves both a mother and a father. We have to preserve that or preserve
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nothing. There is no middle option. There is no compromise with moral insanity. You either fight it
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with all you have on every field of battle, never giving it a single inch or you surrender and let
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it have its way with the culture. And we have obviously in this culture made our choice and we
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online at charitymobile.com. You know, I have to tell you, and this relates to what we're going to
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talk about in the daily cancellation and a little bit to what we just talked about in the opening
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monologue. But I am, maybe it's on my mind. I have, it's, I'm kind of crisis of conscience a little
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bit and it's lent. It's a time for atonement and confession. So I have to confess to a little bit of
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hypocrisy myself. I was playing Scrabble with my wife a few days ago. And in the early going of
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the game, she was, she was beating me and she never beats me in Scrabble. I take immense pride
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in my Scrabble prowess. And in fact, it all, in all, in my prowess in all board games, it's all I
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have. It's the only thing I'm good at is board games. And so I, I, I cling to those. And finally,
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we get towards the end of the game and it's getting, the score is pretty close. And, uh,
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you know, we're at the, we're at the stage of the game. There's not a lot of room left on the board.
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And, you know, you're putting down words like cat and stuff like that, just because you're trying to
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get the titles up. And I put down the word Xer, Z-E-R, which is a trans inclusionary, you know,
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gender neutral fake pronoun thing. And, uh, but Z 10 points, I put it on a triple letter score,
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ended up with 32 points. I won the game on that basis, even though I know it's a made up word.
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Um, and I, I did have a moment where I was like this, um, I am abandoning everything I believe
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just to win this Scrabble game. But when it comes to board games, I basically have no morals.
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I will do anything to win it only in the realm of board games. Um, but I did win the game. And,
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uh, that's, you know, that, that's maybe the one good thing about all the leftist
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in manipulation of language is it, it is great for Scrabble because they're adding a lot of Z's
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and a lot of X's in, and those are high scoring tiles right there. So that's maybe the one good
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thing. All right. Number one, this is from the New York post. It says New York governor,
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Andrew Cuomo on Monday was accused of making unwanted advances towards a woman and planting
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an unsolicited kiss on her cheek at a 2019 wedding. Anna Rutch, uh, 33 recalled to the New York
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Times that he said, he said, can I kiss you? I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.
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The allegation comes after two former state staffers accused Cuomo 63 of sexual harassment
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on the job, including one who claimed the governor kissed her without warning at his Manhattan office,
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which she has denied. Unlike the other two women, Rutch has never been employed by the governor
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or the state. According to the Times, former member of the Obama administration of 2020, uh,
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Biden campaign, Rutch and Cuomo met at a crowded New York city wedding reception in December,
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2019, uh, within moments of being introduced, Rutch claims the governor put his hands on the
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small of her lower back, which was exposed in an open back dress. Um, and she said, quote,
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I promptly removed his hand with my hand, which I would have thought was a clear enough indicator
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that I was not wanting him to touch me. The governor apparently didn't get the hint.
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He allegedly noted that Rutch seemed aggressive and then placed his hand on her cheeks and asked
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her if he could kiss her. Um, she said she turned away, didn't have words in that moment.
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There's actually a picture, I think of this moment where he's got his hands on her cheek and is
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talking to her and she looks extremely uncomfortable. And there's been a lot of claims like this now,
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you know, and this is everyone's turning against him. I mean, the media, um, everyone's turning against
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him on this and this will probably take him down. I think it's probably going to have to resign if they,
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if they, if they, if they keep up the pressure, because obviously for Andrew Cuomo, it doesn't matter.
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Their conservatives can complain about him all they want. As we've discovered, it's not going
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to make a damn bit of difference. He's the governor of New York after all. But when the left turns on
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you as a governor of New York, well, then you've got, you've got nowhere to turn. Uh, so that's
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what's happening here. Media is turning on him. Other elected Democrats, de Blasio throwing them under
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the bus, which they hate each other. So no surprise there, but I, you know, I hear this and
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I just can't, I can't quite get over the fact that this is, I'm not surprised. Okay. But even so,
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this is what takes him down. This, not the fact that he killed thousands of old people,
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he, he, he, he, through his actions, um, thousands of old people died. Thousands of elderly people
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died because of him. And he wins an Emmy and a book deal because of it. Um, or maybe not because
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of it, but certainly in spite of it, we have known about the nursing home scandal for months now.
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And even after that came to light, the Emmy book deal, everything, he was celebrated, left, loved
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him. Media loved him. So that's no big deal. So we say to the media, Oh, you know, this guy,
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he killed 10,000 elderly people. Yeah. Oh, but he also touched a woman's cheek. Well, off with his head.
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You want to talk about priorities. I mean, my God, there could be nothing that better illustrates
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our backwards priorities in this country than this story. It, it does, it does have vibes of like
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Al Capone getting taken down for tax evasion after everything that he did. It's like, it's like a
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little bit of that. And so that's, that's also why people on the right, I think are jumping on this
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sexual harassment bandwagon. Um, because they realize that this pales in comparison to the
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nursing home scandal, not even in the same ballpark, not in the same city, not in the same
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universe. Right. They realize that, but they figure, well, if this is what we can take them
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down with and let's, let's do it. I can't quite jump on that band bandwagon because I can't stomach
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it. I can't stomach pretending that this, who cares about this when, when we have this other
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thing over here. If I'm going to spend any time criticizing Andrew Cuomo in my private life or on
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this show, how could I carve out time to talk about him saying to a woman, can I kiss you when
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he killed thousands of elderly people? That's the scandal. 100%. It's not even like it's mostly that
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and a little bit of this. No, it's all that. The comments he made to women were, it sounds like
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some of them were inappropriate. Okay. He made some inappropriate comments. Great. I understand. Uh,
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he shouldn't have made those comments. He shouldn't have said them. Okay. Let's go back to talking about
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all the dead elderly people. Let's talk about the dead people. These women that he made inappropriate
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comments too. They're, they're, they're alive. You know, they're, they're thriving. There are a lot
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of people who are not alive and not thriving today because of his actions. It is just, it cannot be
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defended. What we're seeing happen right now. Um, that this is, what's going to take him down and
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this is, and I'm not defending him. You know, I'm not, I don't, I'm not, I'm not looking to white
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night for Andrew Cuomo here. My only point is if we're screaming about what a scumbag he is,
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yes, he is a scumbag, but it's because of the nursing home scandal.
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Now, um, Chris Cuomo is his, uh, younger adoring brother was forced to sort of acknowledge some of
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this on his show yesterday in a way, but in, in his acknowledgement, he kind of, uh, condemned
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himself and let's listen to it now and see what he says. Before we start tonight, uh, let me say
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something that I'm sure is very obvious to you who watched my show and thank you for that. You're
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straight with me. I'll be straight with you. Obviously I'm aware of what's going on with my
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brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course, CNN has to cover
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it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. I have always cared very deeply
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about these issues and profoundly. So I just wanted to tell you that there's a lot of news going on that
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matters also. So let's get after that. Okay. When he says these issues covering it,
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these issues are important. He's talking about the inappropriate comments to women. He's talking
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about touching a woman's cheek or a lower back. That's what he's talking about. Not killing thousands
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of elderly people. That's he's talking about the comments. That's the issue that matters with Andrew
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Cuomo. Now, of course the claim that it's a conflict of interest, so he can't cover it is absurd
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because he, if it's a conflict of interest to talk about a negative story pertaining to a family
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member, then isn't it also a conflict of interest to talk about the supposedly positive stories? Talk
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about how, what a, what a great job he's doing as governor, like as Andrew, as Chris Cuomo did for
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months when he brought them on for their little buddy cop, you know, slapstick duo routine, comedy
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routine complete with, uh, with props and everything. If, if the one is a conflict of
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interest, then this is also a conflict of interest. It would seem to me. All right. Number two. So there
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was a story that a school district in Virginia was banning Dr. Seuss on charges that Dr. Seuss was
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racist, but CNN has the article running cover for this cancellation attempt, um, as best they can.
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Let me pull it up here. It says a school district in Virginia recently made headlines for allegedly
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banning books, uh, books by Dr. Seuss, but Lewdown County public schools, uh, located in Ashburn said
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it is not banning books by the famous children's author is just discouraging a connection between
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read across America, which was created to get kids excited about reading and Dr. Seuss's birthday
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both fall on March 2nd and have often been historically connected to each other. According to the
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district, um, it said in a statement, research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones
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in many books written slash illustrated by Dr. Seuss. Um, and examples of racial undertones in the
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books include anti-Japanese American political cartoons and cartoons depicting African Americans
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for sale captioned with offensive language. This according to the LCPS, uh, given this research
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and LCPS's focus on equity and culturally responsive instruction, LCPS provided this guidance to schools
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during the past couple of years to not connect read across America day exclusively with Dr. Seuss's
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books. So that's the, um, that's the claim, at least as it pertains to the school systems and read
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across America that, well, they're not, they're not canceling the books. They're just de-emphasizing
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them, which read as canceling them, but it goes beyond the school systems. So here's the latest,
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um, from mediaite. This is what they report. The official organization that controls the legacy of
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Dr. Seuss has announced it will see sales of six of the author's children's books over racist and
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insensitive depictions. In a statement time for the late author's birthday, uh, Dr. Seuss Enterprises
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told the Associated Press that the books, here are the books. And to think that I saw it on May,
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on Mulberry street, if I ran the zoo, McElligott's pool on beyond zebra scrambled egg, super, and the cat's
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quizzer will no longer be published due to hurtful depictions in the books. So we've got the school
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system, but then also Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the people that control Dr. Seuss's legacy, control
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his, uh, control everything. They're throwing them under the bus too. They're, they're, they're taking
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part in the metaphorical book burning. That's how bad it's gotten. You know, I see all of this now
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that Dr. Seuss and of course, Dr. Seuss is canceled. Listen, some of us have been, have been warning you
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about this for, for years now. Um, it, every they're coming for everybody, everybody. If you
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were a prominent person, an author, historical figure, a politician, anything, and it's someone
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who existed. Well, I, I used to say it was like, if it was, if you, if you existed 40 years ago or
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earlier, you're going to be canceled, but now we could probably move that up and say, if you existed
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20 years ago or earlier, 10 years ago, everyone's going to get it. Of course, they're going to come
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for Dr. Seuss. And yeah, if you go back in history, you go back to people, author, it doesn't matter.
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Anyone who lived 60 years ago, 70, 80, 90 years ago. Yes. They're going to have views
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that are not acceptable by our modern standards. And if they were prominent people, they'll probably
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have expressed those views in some form. That's the case for everyone. There was not a person who
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lived 80 years ago who did not have at least one viewpoint that people in modern society,
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especially on the left would recoil in heart if they heard. Not, not, not a single person
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who lived even 80 years ago. You want to go back, you want to talk about 200 years ago or 300 years
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ago, forget about it. So now they're coming for Dr. Seuss. And I do take this somewhat personally.
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This is a cancellation that hits me, you know, a little bit more than some of the others,
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because I've, I've, as a kid, I was a huge Dr. Seuss fan. I partially taught myself to read
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using Dr. Seuss books. I was in, I was in the Dr. Seuss book club. I had all the books and everything,
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um, with the, the cat in the hat book enders. And then I had, I had the whole, I had the whole
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Dr. Seuss catalog up on the, up on our bookshelf in our house. And I would read, I loved Dr. Seuss as
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a kid. My kids love Dr. Seuss. They're still going to love Dr. Seuss.
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They're coming for him too. Now I, and you know, I have always said, if we are going to cancel Dr.
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Seuss, um, it shouldn't be for racism. It should be, if anything, it should be for elder abuse with
00:24:11.240
the book hop on pop, because that is a really influential to kids. And I've read that to my
00:24:16.140
kids. And now because they've been brainwashed by that book, they think that anytime they see dad
00:24:21.880
laying on a couch, it doesn't matter. Uh, they can just run and jump right on me,
00:24:27.560
elbow, right to the gut. And I think it has a lot to do with that book. So if we're going to
00:24:32.740
cancel him, it should be for that. All right. Number three, former CIA director, John Brennan
00:24:36.700
has gone full critical race theory. Now, not a surprising development either, but here he is
00:24:41.400
on MSNBC. Let's listen. We started with Kate, Katie Benner's great new reporting about the
00:24:46.860
investigation to police officer. It renders, you know, at best hypocritical at worst cynical and
00:24:52.520
false. Any notion that the Republicans care about the lives and the safety of law enforcement.
00:24:57.560
Well, I must say to Claire's point, I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a white male
00:25:02.700
these days in light of what I see of my other white male saying, but it just shows that with
00:25:08.880
the, with very few exceptions, like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few
00:25:14.740
Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity. And so they'll continue to gaslight
00:25:21.140
the country the way that Donald Trump did. And the fact that this has such security and safety
00:25:26.820
implications for the American public and for the members of Congress, again, as Claire said,
00:25:32.420
it is just a disgusting display of craven politics that really should have no place in the United
00:25:38.440
States in 2021. Yeah. He's embarrassed to be a white male. Well, I got to tell you, John,
00:25:43.960
feelings mutual. We, we, we feel the same, same way about you. We feel ashamed of you. You ridiculous
00:25:50.220
goober. What does it, what does it tell you that these are the kinds of people we had running our
00:25:55.040
law enforcement agencies, the CIA, you know, these kinds of people, these empty suits, these big fat
00:26:03.520
nothings. You're embarrassed to be a white male. What, what does that mean? You, you would never hear
00:26:13.300
anyone of any other race ever say anything like that. You'd never hear it.
00:26:20.720
Never hear it. But with, with, with, but if you want to be on MSNBC and you're a white male,
00:26:27.120
well, then that's the sort of token, um, atonement you're supposed to, uh, supposed to, supposed to
00:26:33.360
offer, supposed to display to show how ashamed you are. I mean, eventually that's going to be a
00:26:41.860
prerequisite for employment at a place like MSNBC. If you're a white male, even getting the door,
00:26:48.720
you have to apologize for being one. And I always think what these guys, John Brennan is however old,
00:26:56.120
old he is. He's an old guy. Um, and here he is sounding like a, uh, you know, a 19 year old girl
00:27:05.640
in a gender studies class bought into critical race theory. I'm embarrassed to be a white male
00:27:12.040
at his age. You're supposed to get firmer and more stubborn in your old age, but you've got these,
00:27:21.940
these Democrats at their old age, they're buying into all this stuff because they are again,
00:27:29.420
nothings. They have nothing going on inside. Empty shells. All right. Number four, this is another
00:27:35.460
one. Um, kind of a, uh, related to our priorities. So this is the, who is this? The New York post says
00:27:43.860
Lady Gaga's dog Walker, who was shot while out for a stroll with the stars, French bulldogs in Los
00:27:50.100
Angeles, penned an emotional social media post on Monday morning, describing the ambush and thanking
00:27:55.160
the star for her support. Ryan Fisher, uh, 39 years old. He wrote this, he wrote on Instagram.
00:28:00.580
It was a lengthy thing. He started talking about, uh, when he was walking the Lady Gaga's dogs and the
00:28:07.100
gunman cut came, shot him and he's laying, it's a horrible story. He's laying in a pool of his own
00:28:12.480
blood and he was, he was in the hospital. He's recovering now. He was on a breathing tube. I think
00:28:17.320
he's off of the breathing tube now. Um, but this story, you know, I first saw this story about Lady
00:28:24.480
Gaga's dogs getting kidnapped last week. And I thought, who, who cares? And what does it tell you
00:28:33.060
that? It took like five days for anyone to even ask, what about the human being who got shot?
00:28:39.320
Can we hear an update on this guy? All the headlines and everything, everyone that was so
00:28:44.840
concerned, it was all about the dogs getting, who cares? Yeah, I'm concerned about the person.
00:28:51.560
Turns out the person is going to be okay. It looks like, thank God.
00:28:57.140
This is one of those, it just shows me how little I understand, I guess the American public at this
00:29:01.480
point, because if, if I, if someone had come to me with the scoop on that story, if I had, let's say
00:29:07.760
a source in law enforcement in Beverly Hills or wherever this was, uh, and, and they came to me
00:29:13.680
and they said, Hey, listen, we got, uh, Lady Gaga's dogs are just, we're just kidnapped. We're just dog
00:29:18.400
napped. Big story. Um, you know, you, you could break the story. I would have said, no, I'm not going
00:29:23.140
to, I would have just tossed that one in the trash bin. I would have tossed that tip in the trash bin.
00:29:27.480
I would have figured that nobody would care. What to say? What? Her dogs were kidnapped. So
00:29:32.080
am I going to, that's not breaking news. I would have lost that. You know, that could have been
00:29:38.880
something that made my journalistic career. If I had got that story, um, people cared a lot.
00:29:45.060
Even on Drudge Report, this was the big story. Sirens blaring. Lady Gaga's dogs were kidnapped.
00:29:51.760
Who? Of all the things. If I were to make a list, what day did that happen? Last Thursday?
00:30:00.780
If I were to make a list of, of every news item from last Thursday and rank it by importance,
00:30:06.740
Lady Gaga's dogs getting canceled would literally be the very last item on that list.
00:30:11.580
All right. Um, but the dogs were recovered by the way, if you're concerned about that. So the dogs
00:30:18.400
are okay. Person was shot. Um, and that's that story. All right. Number five, the Daily Mail has
00:30:25.280
this says work is due to start on the world's first space hotel in low earth orbit in 2025. And it will
00:30:31.720
come equipped with restaurants, a cinema spa and rooms for 400 people developed by the orbital assembly
00:30:37.840
corporation. The Voyager station could be operational as early as 2027 with the infrastructure built in
00:30:43.540
orbit around the earth. That seems a little bit optimistic to me, but they're hoping to have,
00:30:49.160
they're hoping to have a, a space hotel fully operational in the next seven years.
00:30:55.700
My only question is how much would it cost to have a pizza delivered to your room?
00:31:00.920
Sorry. I just read this story just for that joke. The whole story was leading up to that bad joke.
00:31:04.760
And I apologize for that, but that's all I have to say about that. That's it.
00:31:07.840
All right. Let's go to a reading the comments. Now this is from Anna. She says,
00:31:12.020
we know that public schools have failed us because apparently the only historic event anyone ever
00:31:15.700
learned was about world war two. Can anyone ever come up with a historic reference from any other
00:31:20.300
time period is exactly what that's the only thing that offends me about the constant Nazi comparisons
00:31:25.740
is just how there are so many other historical events. And oftentimes the thing you're comparing to
00:31:33.080
the Nazis, there is a historical analog. It's just not that. So I agree with you. Uh, Jonathan says,
00:31:41.520
came for Ben, laughed with Klavan, learned a little from Knowles, staying sane with Matt.
00:31:46.940
So you're saying you don't laugh with me or learn from me?
00:31:49.020
You're banned from the show. How dare you? Um, I'm so damn Gucci says, Matt, this may be unrelated,
00:31:57.140
but I want to know what do you think about amateur predator catching groups? I guess child predator
00:32:01.900
catching groups. And if their evidence should be allowed in a court of law? Uh, yeah, I'm in,
00:32:08.500
there's probably no measure being taken against child predators that I would object to.
00:32:14.160
And there are a lot of measures not being taken right now that if they were taken,
00:32:19.380
I also would not object to. So, um, um, I'm, I'm fine with it. Whatever, whatever can be done
00:32:24.360
to bring these scumbags down is cool with me. Uh, Johan Broham says, I think that Matt Walsh would
00:32:30.520
be a fantastic press secretary, Matt Walsh, press secretary, 2024. I would be terrible at that job.
00:32:35.500
I would be, I would be worse than Jen Psaki. Um, which maybe that's what you mean by great is that you
00:32:42.880
would enjoy watching me. You would enjoy watching the, uh, crap show up on, up on your screen every
00:32:50.380
day. So if that's what you mean, then I guess you're right. Vincent Andrews says, Matt, you're
00:32:54.120
not going to read this comment. Are you? No, I'm not. Um, and stabby troll, a lot of great usernames
00:33:00.880
today. Stabby troll says, stop, please stop telling people that the leftists call everything Nazi
00:33:05.500
without explaining every single time that they call others Nazis to hide the fact that they are Nazis.
00:33:10.400
It just makes people who don't know the insurgency tactics feel bad and believe them.
00:33:15.260
This is exactly, there's a nice bookend here, a nice symmetry first comment to the last because
00:33:20.640
you stabby troll are demonstrating what was observed, uh, astutely by the person in the first comment
00:33:25.840
that no, the leftists are not Nazis. There's many things you can say about them. Many bad things,
00:33:31.980
many criticisms you can offer. I spend all day, every day offering those criticisms,
00:33:35.240
uh, but they're not Nazis. No, they have very little, there's very little comparison that could
00:33:42.280
be made. I mean, a few things, both leftists and Nazis were both environmentalists, for example,
00:33:48.600
big into animal rights, um, if nobody else's rights, but no, there's, there's no, there's no
00:33:53.580
real comparison. Um, so we, and it's, it's not about, you know, being offended. It's just,
00:33:59.500
if you're looking for historical analogies, find one that makes sense because the, the only thing
00:34:06.800
you mean by that, when you say they're the Nazis, what you mean is Nazis are bad and leftists are
00:34:13.820
bad. And so they're the same, but that's not right. Even if you want to go back to what there's,
00:34:22.080
there's a better comparisons to be made between leftists and like the Soviets. If you want to go
00:34:28.580
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So we begin today with the streaming platform Twitch. As I understand it, Twitch is a place where
00:36:47.780
people play video games and other people watch those people playing video games. I find this
00:36:53.040
concept utterly mystifying. I mean, this is what I'm up against. You understand it was, it was hard
00:36:56.460
enough for me to wrap my head around why anyone plays video games to begin with. Now I, now I have
00:37:00.280
to try to understand why people not only play them, but watch other people play them. I mean,
00:37:05.680
what's next? Will you listen to a podcast where someone describes themselves playing a video game in
00:37:10.040
real time? Unless that's already a thing. Is that already a thing? Please tell me that's not already a
00:37:16.160
thing, but we can, we can return to that issue another time. I guess the reason Twitch is appearing
00:37:20.800
in the daily cancellation for this episode is a tweet they sent out yesterday in honor of women's
00:37:25.280
history month. This is just to emphasize women's history month. If you didn't know that coming up
00:37:30.940
in a week, March 8th is also international women's day. And that falls in the middle of international
00:37:36.320
women's week. So it will be women's day during women's week during women's month. And I'm still
00:37:42.220
concerned that we may not be appreciating women enough. I think we need maybe a women's hour.
00:37:46.980
A women's hour on women's day during women's week and women's month.
00:37:50.780
This is how we will defeat sexism once and for all. Now Twitch tried to do their part. They tweeted,
00:37:55.920
quote, join us in celebrating and supporting all the women creating their own worlds,
00:38:00.640
building their communities and leading the way on Twitch. Seems pretty standard. The problem is that
00:38:05.960
they spelled women with an X. Wimixin, which is, I guess how that's supposed to be pronounced.
00:38:11.300
And this is supposed to be the gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of women, similar
00:38:16.460
to Latinx, the gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of Latino, and Spaghettiics, which is the
00:38:23.200
gender-neutral trans-inclusionary spelling of SpaghettiOs. And you can go on and on.
00:38:27.080
But Twitch's inclusionary gambit didn't pay off. There was massive backlash to it, not from the
00:38:32.060
right, but from the left. Thousands of leftists complain that Wimixin, though intended to include
00:38:38.140
trans people, actually excludes them. Trans women are women, as the claim goes. If you change the word
00:38:44.160
women to include them, then you're not really including them at all. And of course they're
00:38:48.780
right. It's sort of like if you're a kid and some other kids have a group they call the Best
00:38:52.260
Friends Club, and you ask if you can join it, so they say sure, but then they change the name to
00:38:57.420
the Casual Acquaintances Club. I mean, it's nice that they're trying to bring you into the fold,
00:39:02.120
but the message they send by changing the name is that they aren't really bringing you into the
00:39:05.360
fold at all, at least not the same one that you wanted to be in. So a similar thing is happening
00:39:09.520
here, but of course, that's not the problem with adding X to women. The problem is not that it makes
00:39:15.160
trans people feel singled out. I mean, just adding trans to women already does that. The very word
00:39:21.380
trans already makes clear that trans women are not the same as actual women. If they were,
00:39:26.240
we'd just call them women. The very fact that you have to say the phrase, trans women are women,
00:39:31.360
tells me that they aren't. In any case, none of that is the point. The point and the problem with
00:39:37.700
Wemixen is that it's gibberish. So is Latinx. So are the new pronouns that get shoved into the lexicon
00:39:45.100
every day. This is all gibberish, and that's the problem with it. The left objected to Wemixen
00:39:51.360
while still not objecting to Latinx or any similar innovation, not because it's invented gibberish,
00:39:57.920
but because it is invented gibberish that didn't have the political and ideological effect that
00:40:02.360
they intended. That's a very different sort of criticism. My issue, my criticism with people
00:40:08.100
speaking gibberish is simply that it is gibberish. And gibberish, when we're forced to pretend that it's
00:40:12.940
not gibberish, is an assault on human language. Now, the defense usually offered for this kind of thing
00:40:19.720
is that language evolves, right? People sound different today than they did 50 years ago or
00:40:24.080
100 years ago and so on. Words change meaning over time. New words, new expressions are adopted.
00:40:31.220
It's the evolution of language. And it's true that language does evolve, but Latinx is not a product
00:40:37.660
of evolution. Neither is Wemixen. These are changes that are engineered artificially and for expressly
00:40:45.360
ideological reasons. It is not evolution, but design, though perhaps not very intelligent design.
00:40:51.720
Normally, language evolves so that different people in different eras can better express their meaning
00:40:56.360
and better be understood. But these artificial changes have the opposite effect and intent.
00:41:01.920
They make speech less clear, meaning more obscured. And that's why it should be opposed.
00:41:07.960
Not for the reason that the left opposed this particular change, but for the real reason that it is simply
00:41:14.520
gibberish. But Twitch somehow managed to attract the ire of both left and right. I mean, they managed to be
00:41:21.200
so aggressively stupid and hopelessly woke that even their fellow maniacs recoiled. And if that's not worthy
00:41:26.540
of cancellation, then I don't know what is. And so Twitch is officially canceled. And also because, look,
00:41:35.360
what are you doing sitting around watching other people play video games? Like, read a book. Go for a
00:41:39.820
jog. Okay? Go climb a tree or something. Either way, Twitch is canceled. Okay, we'll leave it there.
00:41:45.980
Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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