The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 677 - Biden Performs Social Experiments On The Military

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, in the most egregious case of big tech censorship yet, Amazon has declared that it will not sell any books which categorize transgenderism as a mental illness, which is to say they're not going to allow science on their website anymore.

00:00:13.580 Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden deciding what sort of July 4th celebration you're allowed to have.

00:00:19.400 Plus, a former conservative actress goes on an apology tour, but the left is, of course, not accepting the apologies, as they never do.

00:00:25.640 And the stimulus bill is passed. Is that any reason to celebrate? We'll talk about that in our daily cancellation.

00:00:30.780 We'll also discuss the renewed controversy over women in the military. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.160 So a few weeks ago, Amazon, without warning or explanation, removed from its website all copies of a book authored by Ryan T. Anderson titled

00:02:08.700 When Harry Became Sally Responding to the Transgender Moment. 0.94

00:02:12.140 Now, Anderson's work, excellent work, offers a scholarly, thoughtful, science-based criticism of gender theory, advocating therapy for those who experience gender confusion rather than drugs and surgery.

00:02:28.600 The book's page on Barnes & Noble on their website, where for the moment it's still available, offers this description.

00:02:34.820 I want to read this to you just so you understand what this book is really all about.

00:02:37.780 The description is, When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment.

00:02:43.620 Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment,

00:02:50.420 a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human cost of getting human nature wrong.

00:02:57.300 This book exposes the contrast between the media's sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria. 0.68

00:03:04.940 It gives a voice to people who tried to transition by changing their bodies and found themselves no better off.

00:03:11.420 Especially troubling are the stories told by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later regretted subjecting themselves to those drastic procedures.

00:03:21.200 So, this is far from a polemical diatribe.

00:03:25.780 In other words, it's not the kind of thing that I would have written.

00:03:28.300 And there is certainly nothing hateful or bigoted about it.

00:03:32.480 Yet, it was apparently blacklisted by the world's largest bookseller, ostensibly for violating Amazon's hate speech policies.

00:03:40.140 But no further explanation was offered until this past Thursday, yesterday, when the company provided more details on its decision to get rid of the book in a letter to Republican senators.

00:03:50.340 With their reasoning laid out in greater detail, we now know that the situation is even worse than it first appeared.

00:03:59.020 Now that they've explained it, it's even worse than you thought.

00:04:02.180 The letter from Amazon's Vice President of Public Policy, Brian Hoosman, says,

00:04:08.060 As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable.

00:04:16.060 Amazon works hard to ensure customers have a great shopping experience and access to the widest and most diverse cross-section of written and spoken word in retail today.

00:04:24.740 That said, we reserve the right not to sell certain content.

00:04:27.860 All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer, as do we.

00:04:30.900 As to your specific question about when Harry became Sally, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ plus identity as a mental illness.

00:04:41.500 Now, Hoosman is telling the truth about Amazon selling books with a variety of viewpoints.

00:04:47.140 Mein Kampf, for example, is still for sale on their site.

00:04:50.680 Hitler's viewpoints are still considered acceptable enough to warrant inclusion in Amazon's catalog, but scientific facts about transgenderism are not.

00:05:00.900 They say that Anderson's book can't be sold because it frames LGBT identities as mental illness.

00:05:06.080 But the problem is that, first of all, Anderson doesn't actually call transgender people mentally ill in his book.

00:05:12.200 Just a little, you know, a little minor detail there.

00:05:15.940 He doesn't really say that. 0.94

00:05:17.300 But second, and most importantly, gender dysphoria is a mental illness. 0.99

00:05:23.360 The American Psychiatric Association's Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM, lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder.

00:05:31.780 It's right there.

00:05:32.700 You can check for yourself.

00:05:34.080 Now, I do hesitate to use the DSM to prove the point here because the APA frequently changes the DSM for political and ideological reasons.

00:05:43.100 They've been doing that for decades.

00:05:45.140 In fact, the category of gender dysphoria is itself a reflection of political changes.

00:05:51.180 This is a, that phrase and that categorization is part of political, sort of political evolution in our approach to this issue.

00:05:59.320 30 years ago, the DSM listed transsexualism as a disorder.

00:06:03.040 That was changed to gender identity disorder, I think in 1994, I believe.

00:06:08.300 And then a couple of years ago, gender identity disorder was changed to gender dysphoria.

00:06:14.680 And the point of the latest change was to label as disordered the distress that a person feels from their perception that their body and their gender don't align.

00:06:23.760 Rather than to label the perception itself as disordered.

00:06:26.940 Okay.

00:06:27.440 So you see the needle they're trying to thread there.

00:06:29.720 But no scientifically coherent justification was given for any of these changes.

00:06:34.540 And that's because, in my view, the changes were made not for scientific, but for ideological reasons.

00:06:40.940 Be that as it may, the real problem that the left, and therefore Amazon, has with Anderson's book isn't that he considers gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, as we now call it, until we have to call it something else again in, you know, five years.

00:06:53.840 It's not that he calls it a mental disorder, but that he doesn't advocate drugs and surgery to treat it.

00:07:01.420 That's the real problem for them.

00:07:03.960 Anderson's view, which is the most humane, compassionate, and scientifically valid view on this subject by far, is that those who perceive themselves to be in the wrong body should be helped.

00:07:17.520 Okay, yes, we should help them.

00:07:18.660 Their feelings are real.

00:07:22.520 Nobody's denying that.

00:07:23.440 At least I'm not denying that.

00:07:24.400 Ryan T. Anderson's not denying that.

00:07:26.780 What they say that they feel, they really do feel that way.

00:07:29.500 And it is causing them distress.

00:07:31.940 Profound distress.

00:07:33.560 And they should be helped through therapy and counseling to accept themselves for who they are.

00:07:39.000 They should be helped to love their own bodies, rather than changing their bodies to resemble something or someone else.

00:07:44.880 Now, in probably the most disturbing example of Orwellian rhetorical manipulation that we've seen yet, the left has taken to calling this position conversion therapy.

00:07:58.040 Okay, they call that conversion therapy now.

00:08:00.580 That is, therapy to help a person accept themselves for who they are is conversion, we're told now.

00:08:09.160 Whereas, giving a boy hormone pills and then eventually performing surgery on his genitals to make them resemble the genitalia of a different sex is not conversion, but affirmation, they say.

00:08:20.960 So, again, just to review the Orwellian rules here, if you believe that a person who's gender confused should be given therapy to accept themselves for who they are, you are advocating conversion therapy. 0.55

00:08:33.580 But if you believe in giving someone drugs and hormones, giving a boy drugs and hormones so that he grows breasts and then performing surgery on his genitals, you are advocating affirmation. 0.70

00:08:45.040 According to Amazon, this view, which validates and deepens confusion, the view that we should, quote, affirm gender by performing surgery, deepens confusion rather than alleviate it.

00:09:01.360 According to Amazon, that's not only the right view, but it's the only view that should be allowed to be expressed and disseminated.

00:09:08.060 So, understand the consequences here, because they are dire.

00:09:14.320 Amazon is, far and away, the largest bookseller in the world.

00:09:18.820 If they declare a certain viewpoint forbidden, that means it'll eventually be erased from publication completely.

00:09:26.920 And Amazon obviously knows that.

00:09:29.760 Publishers aren't going to publish books that Amazon's not going to sell.

00:09:32.480 Well, the objective is, and the effect will be, to simply prevent people from being exposed to the other side, that is, the scientifically and morally defensible side of the gender argument.

00:09:46.240 Now, an interesting question is, why are they doing this with the gender topic and not others?

00:09:51.160 I mean, why are all other conservative books, even on controversial topics, allowed to remain?

00:09:55.080 You can go to Amazon right now, you can buy conservative books on gun rights and immigration and taxes and even abortion.

00:10:02.820 I mean, all that stuff is there, still there.

00:10:05.580 Why are they taking this book down on this topic?

00:10:10.420 Well, the first answer is, don't count your chickens.

00:10:13.240 This is just the beginning.

00:10:15.280 The second, though, is that the left recognizes how fundamental this issue is.

00:10:21.200 How much they gain by winning it.

00:10:23.560 And also, they recognize, at some level, how totally and utterly indefensible their position on the topic is.

00:10:34.360 They cannot engage with Anderson's viewpoint.

00:10:39.180 They simply cannot defend the idea that children with gender confusion should be drugged and mutilated.

00:10:46.320 They can't defend it.

00:10:48.520 They know they can't.

00:10:49.960 They can only defend it in a vacuum where no other viewpoints are expressed.

00:10:55.200 And even there, they can barely defend it.

00:10:59.740 And so that's what this is about.

00:11:01.900 That's what they're doing right now.

00:11:04.680 All of this is about creating the vacuum where only their views are heard.

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00:12:22.500 This is pretty exciting.

00:12:23.600 I get to do my first, I think it was my first, Matt Walsh show retraction and clarification.

00:12:31.180 So this is when you know you've really grown up and become a full-grown man when you get to do this.

00:12:36.600 So yesterday on the show, I said that Alabama was passing that abortion ban, and it's actually not Alabama.

00:12:44.140 It's Arkansas.

00:12:45.440 So I knew it was one of those A states down south.

00:12:47.720 It was one of those two.

00:12:49.500 But that was a mistake, and I just want to say I take no responsibility for this mistake whatsoever.

00:12:57.140 And if, you know, if it caused you any distress, I mean, really, you owe me an apology.

00:13:02.200 Get off my case about it.

00:13:03.860 I take no—it's not my fault.

00:13:05.640 I was only going based on what I read.

00:13:07.760 Now, granted, I was reading the notes that I wrote for myself, but even so, no responsibility.

00:13:16.020 But there's the clarification.

00:13:17.880 I covered that base at least.

00:13:19.740 Okay, number one, from the Daily Wire, it says,

00:13:21.220 President Joe Biden officially signed the American Rescue Plan into law on Thursday afternoon,

00:13:26.440 making the official enactment of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and his first major legislative initiative one day ahead of schedule.

00:13:34.620 The bill—you like how we just say the word trillion now, like it's nothing?

00:13:38.500 We're so used to saying, oh, yeah, we spend $1.9 trillion.

00:13:42.420 Trillion here, trillion there.

00:13:43.680 We have no concept of how enormous these numbers are.

00:13:52.100 Literally incomprehensible, these numbers.

00:13:54.080 You can't comprehend how big.

00:13:56.340 A trillion dollars?

00:13:59.120 We spend it like it's nothing.

00:14:01.720 The bill, Biden's first major legislative initiative, provides hundreds of billions of dollars for states and local governments,

00:14:06.600 sends individuals $1,400 relief checks to the majority of Americans and extends a $300 boost to unemployment benefits until early September.

00:14:15.560 The plan also provides $28.6 billion for restaurants, $50 billion for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing,

00:14:24.120 and $15 billion for vaccine distribution among—the things I've listed there, we haven't even made it to a trillion yet, not even close to that.

00:14:32.800 So there's a lot more.

00:14:34.660 And there's a lot of pork, a lot of pet projects from the left that are being added into this.

00:14:43.220 And that's the thing that most conservatives are complaining about is all the pork and all the other things that have nothing to do with COVID-19 that are added to this bill.

00:14:51.560 And yes, let's complain about that.

00:14:54.600 That's something worthy of our complaints, even if they don't amount to anything.

00:14:58.620 But my real issue is with the stimulus itself.

00:15:02.800 Why are we giving—why are we spending billions and billions more to once again send out checks to people,

00:15:13.820 many of whom didn't lose their job and are suffering no particular financial hardship from the pandemic?

00:15:21.440 Now, yes, don't get me wrong.

00:15:23.840 There are lots of people, millions of people who did lose their job and are suffering extraordinary financial hardship.

00:15:30.040 Should we help those people?

00:15:31.660 Absolutely.

00:15:32.520 The government took their jobs away.

00:15:33.980 The government owes them money.

00:15:36.320 Okay, that's a real entitlement in the sense that they are entitled to the help because the government did this.

00:15:40.880 Let's help those people. 0.85

00:15:41.900 I have no issue with that.

00:15:43.040 But there are millions of people we're sending checks to for no reason.

00:15:48.460 They're doing fine.

00:15:50.960 Yeah, it's been a tough year for all of us, but you didn't lose your job.

00:15:55.940 If you didn't lose your job and you suffered no particular financial hardship, why should you get money?

00:16:02.260 Why should you get paid because there was a pandemic?

00:16:04.040 But that's what we're doing.

00:16:07.680 They set the, you know, they determine this based on income level.

00:16:13.340 Everybody under a certain income level gets money.

00:16:17.240 We are governed by absolute children. 1.00

00:16:19.660 What a ridiculous, stupid way of handling this. 1.00

00:16:25.420 It's like someone says, hey, there's a pandemic. 1.00

00:16:27.540 What should we do?

00:16:29.020 Give people money.

00:16:30.420 Well, what people?

00:16:31.480 Doesn't matter.

00:16:32.080 Just give them money.

00:16:33.000 No, it does matter.

00:16:34.820 It matters a lot who you give it to.

00:16:39.180 Yeah.

00:16:39.540 Would it be difficult to actually find and single out the people who need it, who lost their jobs?

00:16:46.940 Yeah, it'd be hard to do.

00:16:48.700 But do the hard thing.

00:16:50.520 I'd rather you do the hard and difficult thing and then we spend the money in a way that's meaningful

00:16:55.160 instead of spending billions of dollars for no reason at all. 0.99

00:16:58.720 You might as well throw it on a burn pile and set it on fire. 0.96

00:17:03.000 All these people on social media now, and I get it, right? 0.99

00:17:07.420 Like they're celebrating.

00:17:08.480 Oh, I got my check coming.

00:17:10.100 I'm going to go buy some video games.

00:17:12.080 Okay.

00:17:12.900 You know, I'm not saying, look, if you get the check, I'm not saying you should send it back

00:17:16.980 or whatever.

00:17:17.260 Because if you send it back, the government's just going to waste it on something else.

00:17:19.520 So, sure.

00:17:21.000 Go ahead.

00:17:21.420 They send it to you.

00:17:22.340 Might as well spend it.

00:17:23.140 And I'm not suggesting you should yourself go out and burn it to make some sort of statement.

00:17:30.460 The money's already been spent.

00:17:31.740 So, what else are you going to do?

00:17:32.720 So, I get it.

00:17:33.680 I don't begrudge people for being, you know, for using the money.

00:17:37.840 But still. 0.99

00:17:40.760 Really, really dumb plan. 1.00

00:17:42.580 Really dumb. 1.00

00:17:43.120 Okay. 1.00

00:17:45.840 Number two.

00:17:47.020 Stacey Dash, who's an actress, former Fox News contributor.

00:17:51.880 I guess now former conservative.

00:17:54.820 And she's on a bit of an apology tour, trying to make her way back into the left's good graces. 0.95

00:18:00.520 She did an interview with, I think it was Daily Mail TV, talking about, you know, her experience

00:18:06.640 as a conservative.

00:18:08.100 And we'll play that, and then we'll talk about the left's reaction to this.

00:18:11.580 But let's play the interview first.

00:18:12.660 Here she is.

00:18:13.540 I've lived my life being angry.

00:18:16.620 You know, I'm, which was what I was on Fox News.

00:18:20.740 You know, I was the angry, conservative black woman.

00:18:24.360 And at that time in my life, it was who I was.

00:18:32.900 And I realized in 2016 that anger is unsustainable.

00:18:38.680 And it will destroy you.

00:18:42.780 And, you know, what people don't know is that I made a lot of mistakes.

00:18:48.420 And because of that anger.

00:18:52.800 Being a supporter of Trump, you know, has put me in some kind of box that I do not belong in.

00:19:01.300 I don't hate anyone.

00:19:03.060 I don't, you know, I don't know where that comes from.

00:19:08.320 And, well, he's not the president.

00:19:10.740 So I'm going to give the president that we have right now a chance.

00:19:17.940 So nothing that she's saying there is terribly unreasonable.

00:19:21.920 And, I mean, I don't know really anything about her.

00:19:25.100 If she feels like she was too angry or she had been consumed by anger or something like that, then, then, you know, she wants to make that change.

00:19:34.380 More power to you.

00:19:35.340 But the thing is, if you're trying to get back into mainstream good graces, looking for forgiveness from the left.

00:19:44.320 I mean, how many times do we go over this on the show?

00:19:45.920 It's not going to happen.

00:19:47.220 The only way, the way that I found out about this is that her name was trending on Twitter. 0.99

00:19:52.140 I clicked on the name and before I could even find the interview or what it was referring to, it was just a whole bunch of people, thousands of people saying basically to Stacey, Stacey Dash, kiss our ass. 0.98

00:20:08.240 Like, your apology is not accepted. 0.98

00:20:11.340 It's not going to be accepted.

00:20:12.640 We don't accept you back.

00:20:13.680 Like, you, even if you've changed your mind, you at one point expressed views that we disagree with and you expressed them publicly and that is an unforgivable sin from our perspective on the left.

00:20:26.900 And that's simply the way it goes.

00:20:30.340 It is something to keep in mind.

00:20:33.040 If you're going to go out in public and express any kind of anti-leftist views, I think it's a great thing to do.

00:20:41.200 I do it every single day.

00:20:42.060 But just know, there's no going back from it.

00:20:46.940 It'll never, it doesn't matter.

00:20:49.280 Once you do it, it's the unforgivable sin.

00:20:52.620 And so that crowd, you're never going to be friends with them.

00:20:58.140 They're never going to accept you.

00:21:00.180 And that's fine.

00:21:01.320 That's fine with me.

00:21:03.720 But you got to know, you got to know what you get yourself into.

00:21:05.740 All right.

00:21:07.840 Number three from the Daily Wire.

00:21:10.340 It says, Victor Obiels, a translator from Spain, was commissioned to provide a translation of Amanda Gorman's viral The Hill We Climb poem.

00:21:20.720 After completing the project, however, this is from the Daily Wire.

00:21:25.040 I don't know if I said that.

00:21:26.160 After completing the project, however, he said that the publisher had rejected the translation, saying that they wanted a translator who was a woman, young, activist, and preferably black.

00:21:34.880 According to BBC News, Victor, whose previous work includes translations of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, was asked to translate Gorman's poem.

00:21:44.340 What a step down.

00:21:45.500 He goes from translating Shakespeare to Amanda Gorman.

00:21:49.740 But he's not, he's translated Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, but he's not worthy.

00:21:54.580 He's not worthy of the great Amanda Gorman.

00:21:57.100 He was asked to translate Gorman's poem in a form by Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey several weeks ago.

00:22:06.140 But the editor of the Barcelona publisher Universe told Spain's FA News Agency on Wednesday that after the translation was complete,

00:22:14.000 the company received a request from a U.S. group Viking Books for the work, work to be carried out by a female activist with African-American origins. 0.82

00:22:21.660 Now, if this sounds a little bit familiar to you, this is actually the second controversy surrounding a translation of Amanda Gorman's work.

00:22:30.480 This comes soon after Dutch translator, with a name that I'm not even going to try to pronounce,

00:22:36.080 who is outspoken on issues including gender equality and mental health and identities, identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they, them,

00:22:43.080 stepped down after he was going to translate some of Amanda Gorman's stuff.

00:22:50.860 But this was declared also completely wrong.

00:22:55.620 In fact, this was declared incomprehensible.

00:22:58.400 Critics were saying it's incomprehensible that they would choose a non-black, non-activist to translate her work.

00:23:08.280 I have to say, I kind of understand where they're coming from.

00:23:11.380 This is why, you know, I threw out recently my copy of Crime and Punishment.

00:23:17.140 I threw it in the trash in disgust.

00:23:19.580 Because I don't want any Dostoevsky book that isn't translated by a Russian epileptic ex-con from the 19th century.

00:23:26.540 You know, I need someone who understands his lived experiences.

00:23:32.580 And you can't find, you know, if, there's no reason, give me one good reason.

00:23:37.620 Give me one good reason why you can't find, right now, a Russian epileptic ex-con from the 19th century to translate his work.

00:23:42.900 No good excuse.

00:23:43.660 Of course, really, the main question, though, is, aside from the utter absurdity of all this, the main question is, why are we translating her drivel in the first place?

00:23:56.120 You're translating it into other languages?

00:23:58.280 This stuff, again, is not even poetry.

00:24:04.400 And it's bad enough when you listen to it.

00:24:07.500 Because with slam poetry, it's all about the performance.

00:24:10.600 That's all it is.

00:24:12.640 It has to be performed in such a way as to seem profound and meaningful.

00:24:17.360 When you read it on the page, you see it for how empty and shallow it really is.

00:24:21.900 So, for example, here is, I think this is the poem that all the controversy is over, The Hill We Climb.

00:24:27.820 Was that the, um, first of all, wasn't The Hill We Climb a Miley Cyrus song from, like, 10 years ago?

00:24:33.740 Or is that something else?

00:24:36.120 But I think this was the inaugural.

00:24:37.740 So, the inaugural poem, which I think is The Hill We Climb, I could be wrong about that.

00:24:40.800 But I went and looked up the text of the poem that she gave at the inauguration.

00:24:46.720 And let me, I'll just read.

00:24:47.900 I'll read to you the lyrics or whatever we would call the text of that poem.

00:24:51.900 Part of it, anyway.

00:24:54.160 She said,

00:24:54.800 When day comes, we ask ourselves,

00:24:57.200 Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

00:25:00.720 The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.

00:25:03.880 We've braved the belly of the beast.

00:25:06.180 We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.

00:25:09.060 And the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.

00:25:14.740 And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.

00:25:18.480 Somehow we do it.

00:25:20.500 Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished.

00:25:27.120 Now, I feel like I didn't do my point justice here because I performed that in such a powerful way.

00:25:32.760 So I may have, I may have undermined my own point.

00:25:36.740 You may have just gotten wrapped up in my performance.

00:25:38.780 I think I did a better job than she did.

00:25:41.520 But I really wanted to hear you, wanted you to hear the, the words.

00:25:45.780 Listen to all the cliches.

00:25:47.580 One cliche after another.

00:25:51.560 The belly of the beast.

00:25:54.260 What are you doing putting that into your poem?

00:25:57.840 This is like, if you are a sixth grader writing poetry for a writing class.

00:26:05.520 Their teacher, this would be a C plus at best.

00:26:08.160 And they'd be circling lines like that and saying, no, no, no, don't put this, don't put a cliched phrase in your poem.

00:26:15.120 The belly of the beast.

00:26:18.260 The, the dawn, the dawn will be here soon.

00:26:23.860 Nothing but one, a parade of cliches.

00:26:26.480 And this is now, this is the height of our poetic accomplishment as a nation now.

00:26:34.580 She is our greatest.

00:26:35.820 What does that tell you?

00:26:37.280 Amanda Gorman is our greatest poet.

00:26:41.140 She's the great poet of this generation.

00:26:43.080 That.

00:26:45.720 Okay, moving on.

00:26:47.180 Number four, Joe Biden gave a speech last night.

00:26:50.520 Didn't watch the speech.

00:26:51.900 Don't care that much.

00:26:53.360 But there's one clip I wanted to play for you.

00:26:55.420 And here it is.

00:26:56.580 Let's listen.

00:26:57.640 I need you.

00:26:58.940 I need every American to do their part.

00:27:02.480 And that's not hyperbole.

00:27:03.840 I need you.

00:27:05.340 I need you to get vaccinated when it's your turn and when you can find an opportunity.

00:27:10.100 And to help your family, your friends, your neighbors get vaccinated as well.

00:27:15.420 Because here's the point.

00:27:17.960 If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together,

00:27:23.420 by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood

00:27:32.320 and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day.

00:27:35.760 That doesn't mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together.

00:27:44.680 After this long, hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special.

00:27:50.720 Where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus.

00:28:01.740 But to get there, we can't let our guard down.

00:28:06.340 This fight is far from order from over.

00:28:08.880 As I told the woman in Pennsylvania, I'll tell you the truth.

00:28:11.620 A July 4th with your loved ones is the goal.

00:28:18.240 First of all, Joe, calm down, back off.

00:28:22.760 I need you.

00:28:24.520 I need you, baby.

00:28:25.620 I need you.

00:28:27.920 He thought he was talking to like a secretary for a second.

00:28:30.340 Just don't, Joe.

00:28:32.820 Ease up a little bit.

00:28:33.780 Second, every time you hear this guy speak and you watch it especially, you really get the impression,

00:28:40.620 even if what he is saying is basically coherent, as it was there, oftentimes it isn't, but even if it is,

00:28:47.360 you really get the impression that he doesn't know what he's saying.

00:28:50.760 There's this, I'm not, I don't say this as a joke.

00:28:53.360 There is this really disturbing, vacant look in his eyes where you can tell he doesn't, he's not with it.

00:29:00.740 He's not there.

00:29:01.280 And then third, we might, he might give us permission on July 4th, 2021, to gather with small groups of family and friends.

00:29:16.740 He might give us permission to do that.

00:29:18.680 If he decides, in his graciousness, his magnanomy, if he decides that he's going to allow it, maybe he will.

00:29:26.340 Of course, I assume still masked, we'll have to wear the masks.

00:29:29.020 Well, I can tell you, Joe, that I was with a large group of unmasked people for July 4th last year.

00:29:38.400 And by the way, nobody, we all survived.

00:29:40.300 We all made it through.

00:29:42.020 And I'll be doing that again this year, no matter what you say.

00:29:45.560 Because your ideas of what I can and can't do, your opinions of what I can and cannot do, are immaterial to me, are irrelevant.

00:29:57.460 I don't care.

00:29:58.120 And I would hope that we're all at that point now.

00:30:03.940 Okay, a couple other things on a Friday.

00:30:06.480 I want to get through all of these.

00:30:07.940 Yeah, I wanted to play this too.

00:30:08.760 I've had this for a couple of days.

00:30:10.120 Real quick clip from the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who for some reason has decided to launch a campaign against alternative social media platforms.

00:30:23.500 Not the big ones, not Twitter or Facebook, but the alternative ones, where some people on the right, some conservatives are going.

00:30:30.420 He's attacking those platforms, and here he is announcing that plan.

00:30:34.740 Let's watch.

00:30:35.780 Anti-Semitic platforms like GAV have no place in Texas and certainly do not represent Texas values.

00:30:43.120 What does represent Texas values is legislation like this by Representative King and Representative Coleman that fights anti-Semitism in Texas.

00:30:54.720 What are you guys doing down there in Texas?

00:30:56.280 You get a lot right, but what are you doing with this guy?

00:30:59.060 How is this the guy you chose?

00:31:01.740 I mean, he goes from supporting the lockdowns and the masking for a year, and then he lifts it, and he expects everyone to applaud him and thank him.

00:31:10.140 Oh, thank you, dear leader.

00:31:11.080 Thank you for removing these chains that you put on us to begin with.

00:31:16.600 And now he's going after Gab?

00:31:19.200 That's the Republican governor of Texas is launching a campaign against Gab in an alternative social media site where some conservatives are going.

00:31:29.240 That's what you're focused on?

00:31:30.660 Not big tech censorship, not Amazon, you know, taking down scientific information because it doesn't work with their political agenda.

00:31:42.460 What about Pornhub?

00:31:45.220 Victimizing children and women. 0.89

00:31:47.140 What about them?

00:31:47.700 I mean, there are a lot of places.

00:31:50.280 If you're looking to go on a crusade against websites, there are a lot of good ones you could choose.

00:31:58.280 Gab?

00:32:01.680 Yes, you guys, like I said, who am I to judge?

00:32:05.880 But not the best decision with this guy down there in Texas.

00:32:10.800 Number five, finally, the New York Post reports scientists have begun to lay plans for repopulation, starting with a sperm bank on the moon.

00:32:18.340 In what they're calling a modern global insurance policy, mechanical engineers have proposed that humans establish a repository of reproductive cells, sperm and ova, from 6.7 million of Earth's species, including humans.

00:32:33.820 The proposed bank or arc would be beneath the moon's surface.

00:32:37.480 As our planet faces natural disasters, drought, asteroids, and potential for nuclear war, scientists say that humans must set their sights on space travel to preserve life as we know it.

00:32:46.680 And the author of the study, Jekin Thenga, says Earth is naturally a volatile environment, which is why they want to put...

00:32:56.380 Earth is a volatile environment, which is why we want to put it on the moon.

00:33:02.520 On the moon, there's no environment, there's no atmosphere.

00:33:06.260 Wild swings in temperature.

00:33:08.220 Like, it goes from, like, 250 degrees to negative 250 degrees, depending on where it's positioned in relation to the sun.

00:33:16.680 I don't know.

00:33:18.620 It doesn't seem like the most practical plan in the world, but I could be wrong.

00:33:22.200 And the main problem, though, is that you're just asking, right?

00:33:26.080 You're just asking for aliens to take these things and do experiments. 0.90

00:33:32.540 You're opening the invitation.

00:33:34.920 You're putting this stuff up on the moon?

00:33:38.560 Is this, like, bait or something to lure the aliens in?

00:33:41.340 If that was the plan, then maybe I could support it.

00:33:45.240 You are all but guaranteeing...

00:33:46.960 Think about this.

00:33:47.460 You are guaranteeing that a future generation of humans are going to be raised in matrix pods on planet Zepticon or whatever, all because of this.

00:33:58.400 Reckless.

00:33:59.860 Reckless.

00:34:00.260 Reckless.

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00:35:07.240 All right, let's move on to reading the YouTube comments.

00:35:09.560 This is from John Mark Fleming.

00:35:10.980 He says, listening to Matt's show is like getting to Friday.

00:35:14.740 It's all business with Ben, analysis with Knowles.

00:35:18.660 But listening to the Matt Walsh show is like sitting down to a cold one with your disgruntled and gloomy yet charming dad.

00:35:24.920 I think I'll take that as a compliment.

00:35:31.580 But you're still banned, of course.

00:35:34.440 Bill Al Benesar says, Matt's beard reminds me of a physics teacher I once had who would turn his heat on just to annoy his neighbors upstairs because all the heat went upstairs.

00:35:43.920 Matt would 100% do that.

00:35:45.420 I would absolutely do that.

00:35:46.520 That's great.

00:35:46.920 So Mary Joseph says, just popped in to leave a like.

00:35:50.280 Catch you later.

00:35:52.180 Well, I do appreciate that.

00:35:54.120 And again, if you're watching this on YouTube, make sure to smash that like button, friends, and hit subscribe to the notification bell.

00:36:01.360 If you're listening on iTunes, make sure to subscribe.

00:36:03.460 I'm going to keep pestering you about this.

00:36:04.980 Until I have 40 million YouTube subscribers, you will hear me continue to say this.

00:36:09.880 So I do appreciate that, Mary.

00:36:11.740 But at the same time, you said you popped in to leave a like and didn't watch the show.

00:36:14.540 So I guess I'm not good enough for you.

00:36:16.840 So you're not good enough for me.

00:36:17.700 You're banned.

00:36:18.940 Taylor Stewart says, unfortunately, Matt, I know so many people waiting around for Fauci to tell them when they can live again.

00:36:24.580 Sad.

00:36:24.900 Yeah, I guess I don't.

00:36:28.640 This has been the weird thing for me.

00:36:30.600 We all have our own bubbles, right?

00:36:32.140 And this has been the weird thing for me through the pandemic is that I don't personally know a lot of people like that.

00:36:37.620 People in my family, people I work with, most of my friends, you know, aren't like that.

00:36:45.040 You know, we've all been basically living our normal lives this entire time.

00:36:50.780 But I certainly know that those people are out there.

00:36:52.600 And I hear from folks all the time, their family members are in the really paranoid camp.

00:36:58.980 And so that's got to be tough to deal with.

00:37:01.060 Will Stewart says, question for Friday's show, is Matt wearing skinny jeans again today?

00:37:05.140 I wasn't wearing skinny jeans in the first place.

00:37:06.860 Those were not skinny jeans.

00:37:09.500 420 Snack Time says, are you still wearing your jeggings?

00:37:12.080 They were not jeggings and they were not skinny jeans.

00:37:14.240 They were regular jeans.

00:37:17.180 Josh Hidalgo says, Matt SJW equals Matt Skinny Jeans Walsh.

00:37:22.600 Math Man says, just wear your skinny jeans at 500,000 subscribers.

00:37:28.100 They're not, I don't have skinny.

00:37:28.940 I can't wear them because I don't have them.

00:37:30.560 I have regular jeans.

00:37:31.700 You know, okay.

00:37:32.280 I go to the store.

00:37:33.140 I go to the pants department and I pick up some jeans.

00:37:36.660 That's all I do.

00:37:40.320 The judgment and the shaming is out of control.

00:37:44.580 You're all banned, of course.

00:37:45.600 I truly do believe that we can make the world a better place just by reading books.

00:37:50.440 And I, even though it's written down here for me to say, I really do believe it.

00:37:54.120 I actually think that that's the case rather than, rather than, you know, social media,

00:37:58.220 watching TV, watching Netflix.

00:37:59.440 If we, if we all spend more time reading books, we'd be more interesting and more intelligent

00:38:05.000 people. 1.00

00:38:06.060 And there's a crisis of stupidity in this culture. 1.00

00:38:08.000 That's one of the ways that you solve it. 1.00

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00:39:37.580 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:39:43.320 Now, while the leaders of other countries are focused on, you know, making their militaries

00:39:49.380 into more effective and deadlier fighting machines, which thrive at the central task of

00:39:53.360 killing the enemy, the folks in charge of our military have an entirely different set

00:39:57.600 of priorities, it would seem.

00:39:59.100 For them, America's greatest adversary isn't China or any other world power, but intolerance.

00:40:05.000 And the best way to defeat intolerance is through the promotion of diversity and inclusion.

00:40:12.760 Now, once you understand that these are the new priorities of a military that has long

00:40:16.580 been a petri dish for leftist social experimentation, the events of this past week become slightly

00:40:21.320 more comprehensible.

00:40:23.440 Without this background understanding, it might seem shocking and bewildering that a search

00:40:28.100 for the phrase military leaders in Google's news tab delivers not articles about those leaders

00:40:34.500 developing devastating new battlefield technology or doing anything else to make the U.S.

00:40:38.460 safer and more secure.

00:40:40.160 But dozens of headlines like this one from the Military Times.

00:40:44.020 It says, senior leaders dunk on Tucker Carlson's misogynistic comments about maternity flight

00:40:49.020 suits.

00:40:50.400 NBC News, Tucker Carlson slammed by military leaders for mocking pregnant service members.

00:40:56.240 Yahoo News, Pentagon takes unprecedented shot at Tucker Carlson for dissing military diversity.

00:41:02.440 This is what the Pentagon is focused on.

00:41:06.580 The crisis that's attracted the attention of these fearless warriors is, as the headline

00:41:11.340 suggests, a politically incorrect opinion expressed by a cable news host.

00:41:16.900 On his show a few days ago, Tucker Carlson had an appropriately derisive reaction to President

00:41:22.480 Biden's remarks on International Women's Day, where Biden discussed his plans to get more women

00:41:27.040 involved in combat, including pregnant women.

00:41:29.180 And part of his plan, Biden said, is to offer maternity flight suits and to update hairstyle

00:41:34.100 requirements.

00:41:35.160 Here's Biden explaining.

00:41:37.480 You know, some of some of its relatively straightforward work where we're making good progress, designing

00:41:46.360 body armor that fits women properly, tailoring combat uniforms for women, creating maternity flight 0.94

00:41:54.340 suits, updating, updating requirements for their hairstyles.

00:42:00.200 And some of it is going to take an, you know, an intensity of purpose and mission to really

00:42:09.840 change the culture and habits that cause women to leave the military.

00:42:14.260 That women are making sure more diverse candidates are considering being considered for career advancing

00:42:22.120 opportunities at every single level.

00:42:25.980 That women aren't penalized in their careers for having children.

00:42:30.360 That women aren't just token members, but integral parts throughout all branches and all divisions.

00:42:37.500 That vacant look once again.

00:42:39.340 But Carlson's point about these plans is simply that they don't seem designed to actually make

00:42:44.120 the military better at what the military is supposed to do, protect the country and kill

00:42:49.540 the enemy.

00:42:51.020 These are changes based not on science and data, but ideology.

00:42:54.780 Here's here's Tucker.

00:42:57.340 So we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. 0.98

00:43:01.400 Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. 1.00

00:43:02.800 It's a mockery of the U.S. military.

00:43:06.580 Well, China's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy.

00:43:11.680 Our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.

00:43:14.220 Whatever feminine means anymore, since men and women no longer exist. 1.00

00:43:18.100 The bottom line is it's out of control and the Pentagon's going along with this.

00:43:22.520 Again, this is a mockery of the U.S. military and its core mission, which is winning wars.

00:43:28.300 He's totally right, of course.

00:43:31.340 And it's likely the fact that he's right, which provoked military leadership to go into

00:43:36.540 DEFCON 1.

00:43:38.120 The command senior enlisted leader of the United States Space Command, Master Gunnery Sergeant

00:43:42.760 Scott H. Stalker, posted a video on Twitter blasting Tucker for causing drama and arguing

00:43:49.760 that the cable host has no military experience.

00:43:52.240 Also, Stalker noted the decision to include more pregnant women in the armed forces was

00:43:56.860 made by medical experts.

00:43:58.940 Here's some of that.

00:44:00.080 Let's listen.

00:44:00.400 Let me tell you where he's wrong.

00:44:03.020 Those decisions were made by medical professionals, by commanders and our civilian leadership that

00:44:08.120 allows for women to have more time with their children to recuperate, to get fit and ready 0.93

00:44:13.860 to take that time that's necessary that our medical professionals know is needed, which

00:44:19.060 actually makes us a more lethal and ready and fit force, ready to fight the wars of today

00:44:24.400 and the wars of tomorrow.

00:44:25.820 The bottom line is that we value women in our armed forces.

00:44:29.880 We value those that have served in the past, and we value those that have served today.

00:44:33.760 We value our families in the military.

00:44:36.980 I want to say God bless everyone that is serving today.

00:44:39.860 God bless the women that are serving today. 0.99

00:44:41.480 God bless the men and women that are serving today.

00:44:43.940 God bless our country, our partners, and our allies.

00:44:46.540 Guys, let's get back to work.

00:44:48.400 Let's remember that those opinions were made by an individual who has never served a day

00:44:52.560 in his life.

00:44:53.580 Let's remember that's all about drama TV.

00:44:56.620 God bless America.

00:44:57.880 Semper Fidelis.

00:44:58.500 Now, the problem with this argument is that it's beside the point.

00:45:03.120 The fact that Tucker's never served in the military does not preclude him from making

00:45:06.740 common sense observations about the military.

00:45:09.240 And by the way, this whole thing about how you can't criticize military policy unless you

00:45:15.080 serve in the military.

00:45:15.740 So what you're saying is you can't criticize the government unless you've worked for it.

00:45:21.900 I'm not sure I'm a fan of that.

00:45:23.340 I'm not sure that that's the most American.

00:45:24.680 In fact, I would say that's about the most anti-American opinion you could possibly express.

00:45:30.360 And the fact that medical experts said it's okay to have pregnant women piloting aircraft 1.00

00:45:34.040 doesn't mean that it's better or even good to have more pregnant women piloting aircraft. 1.00

00:45:40.120 I don't care if they said it's okay.

00:45:42.440 What does it have to do with anything?

00:45:44.140 Who gives a damn about that?

00:45:46.260 The first and primary question that the people running our military, whether civilian or enlisted,

00:45:51.240 should be asking is whether any given change will help to make the military into a more

00:45:56.700 lethal fighting force.

00:45:59.420 That should be the motivation behind every change because that's the fundamental purpose

00:46:03.520 of the military.

00:46:04.980 The problem isn't just that the Biden administration wants to include women in the military. 1.00

00:46:09.260 They've already been included for decades.

00:46:11.300 So we're way past that.

00:46:12.500 It's that he wants to take active steps to recruit more and more women and get more of

00:46:18.140 them involved in combat at every level.

00:46:22.460 And so again, we have to ask, will this make the military better at killing the bad guys?

00:46:29.360 We're not asking, did the medical experts say it's okay?

00:46:33.400 We're not asking about diversity. 0.56

00:46:34.880 We're not, will this make the military better at killing the bad guys?

00:46:39.620 If, if, if America was going to war with an enemy and you could choose between fighting

00:46:45.780 an enemy with a, with a military comprised 100% of men or a military comprised 50% of

00:46:51.240 men or 50% of women, which would you choose to fight against?

00:46:58.040 Does it make the military better at killing the bad guys when you include more women? 1.00

00:47:01.460 The answer to that question is pretty clearly no.

00:47:04.360 Now we can arrive at this conclusion through the employment of basic common sense.

00:47:08.040 Uh, those who require studies to confirm common sense judgments will be interested to know

00:47:12.780 that the studies do indeed find that exactly what sensible people would expect them to find

00:47:17.960 it as NPR reported in 2015, quote, a year long Marine Corps study trying to understand how

00:47:23.200 gender integration would affect combat readiness has found that all male units were faster, more 0.94

00:47:29.000 lethal and able to evacuate casualties in less time.

00:47:31.600 Overall, according to a summary of the study, all male squads perform better than mixed groups

00:47:37.400 in 69% of the tasks evaluated.

00:47:41.460 Faster and more lethal.

00:47:44.120 All male squads are faster and more lethal because men in general are faster and more lethal.

00:47:49.840 This probably explains why the Navy SEALs opened their ranks to women years ago, but still no woman 1.00

00:47:55.300 has managed to become one.

00:47:56.480 Only the fastest and most lethal can make it through and no woman has ever been able to 1.00

00:48:00.900 get over that bar. 0.65

00:48:02.280 Now, admittedly, I also say this as someone who, like Carlson, did not serve, but it seems

00:48:06.420 to me that when it comes to the U.S. military, faster and more lethal is good.

00:48:13.080 Tell me if I'm wrong.

00:48:14.180 I didn't serve in the military.

00:48:15.320 That's what it seems to me, that it's good.

00:48:18.940 If I had to choose between making the military faster and more lethal or making it slower

00:48:23.740 and less lethal, I would choose faster and more lethal.

00:48:27.580 That seems better to me.

00:48:30.580 If increased efforts to recruit and evolve more and more women will have the effect of 1.00

00:48:35.180 making our fighting forces slower and less lethal, then those efforts are bad.

00:48:40.660 It's that simple.

00:48:41.140 Now, if the other side of this argument has evidence that, in fact, women make the military 1.00

00:48:45.380 more lethal, then they ought to present it.

00:48:48.000 You just heard there, he claimed, he said, this is, including pregnant women and giving

00:48:53.080 them time off with their kids is all part of making us a more lethal fighting force.

00:48:56.720 Really?

00:48:57.720 How so?

00:48:58.940 Can you explain that?

00:49:00.980 I'm going to need a little bit more than that.

00:49:04.480 But the really troubling fact is that the other side isn't actually interested in having an

00:49:08.760 argument about what policies will make the military better at killing the enemy.

00:49:11.720 To them, killing the enemy ought not be the central function of the institution at all.

00:49:17.380 General Jacqueline Van Ovost also responded to Tucker Carlson and explained, quote,

00:49:24.120 there are nearly 70,000 qualified kick-ass female airmen, U.S. Air Force airmen. 1.00

00:49:29.440 For years, we have evolved and will continue to evolve, shedding antiquated policies, preventing

00:49:33.920 any woman from reaching their full potential. 1.00

00:49:35.760 Well, inclusion is our strength.

00:49:38.860 It'll be the difference between winning and losing.

00:49:42.920 Inclusion is our strength.

00:49:45.200 This, of course, is madness.

00:49:47.700 If inclusion is our strength, then why have boot camp?

00:49:51.440 Why have any physical or performance standards at all?

00:49:55.060 Why have elite units like the SEALs and the Rangers?

00:49:58.020 The point in all of those cases is to exclude, to weed out the weakest and the least capable.

00:50:07.500 For the first two centuries of our nation's existence, back when our military was toppling

00:50:11.320 empires and winning world wars, it was thought that our strength was strength.

00:50:17.660 We had the baddest and toughest and most well-trained men and the best strategic minds to lead and

00:50:22.520 guide them.

00:50:22.920 And that's how we achieved world-changing victory after world-changing victory.

00:50:28.100 But that was back when things were allowed to have a purpose that transcended the political.

00:50:32.240 The left will not permit such trifles anymore.

00:50:35.360 Now, all things in their control, let's face it, the military is one of those things, have

00:50:40.340 the primary purpose of advancing the leftist ideological agenda.

00:50:43.460 So we will go out of our way to get women, even pregnant women, into fighter jets and onto

00:50:48.700 the battlefield, and we'll recruit transgender people and pay for their sex changes with tax 1.00

00:50:53.780 money, and do a hundred other things that will in no way make us stronger or safer as

00:50:58.200 a nation, because the powers that be have decided that it is no longer the military's

00:51:01.780 job to be a military.

00:51:04.000 If they are to be warriors anymore, they must be warriors of the social justice variety.

00:51:09.640 And that's how it's going to go, at least until we're invaded and conquered.

00:51:15.480 And for all of those reasons, the people running our military, starting at the top with Joe Biden,

00:51:22.760 are certainly, without a doubt, canceled.

00:51:26.860 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:51:29.020 Thanks for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 12, 2021

Ep. 677 - Biden Performs Social Experiments On The Military

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