The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 695 - It Is An Honor To Die In This Diverse And Equitable Plane Crash

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, United Airlines has decided to start hiring pilots based on diversity rather than merit.

00:00:06.540 This is yet another conservative slippery slope argument come to life.

00:00:09.940 Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden equivocating on whether companies should boycott Georgia over their voter ID law.

00:00:16.320 Caitlyn Jenner considers a run for governor and a former CIA director becomes the latest ex-government official,

00:00:22.360 one of many to publicly entertain the idea that aliens may have already visited Earth.

00:00:26.240 In our Daily Cancellation, we'll talk about Tucker Carlson's interview with the governor of Arkansas last night.

00:00:30.880 He attempted to defend his position in favor of chemically castrating children, and it did not go well.

00:00:36.460 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:08.360 As a conservative, you can be confident of two things when you make a slippery slope argument

00:02:14.860 in relation to any left-wing idea or policy. 0.83

00:02:17.540 First, that you'll be condemned as a paranoid lunatic and promptly laughed out of the room.

00:02:22.800 Second, that you will almost certainly be right.

00:02:25.980 Every week, yet another thing happens in reality that people on the right, in the not-so-distant

00:02:30.700 past, warned would happen if we stayed on this cultural trajectory.

00:02:34.900 Precedents do matter, which is no surprise to some of us.

00:02:39.140 If something is justified on a certain basis, then everything else that can be justified

00:02:43.900 on that same basis will probably one day occur.

00:02:47.400 If you tear down statues of Confederate generals because they were racist, then all of the other

00:02:52.240 statues of quote-unquote racist historical figures will come down.

00:02:56.200 If you say that marriage is only a consensual contract between people who love each other,

00:03:00.540 then eventually you'll have children with, you know, three polyamorous homosexual fathers

00:03:05.440 listed on their birth certificates.

00:03:06.880 If you say that it's possible and valid for a person to choose his own gender, then eventually 0.98

00:03:10.840 you'll have thousands of children undergoing gender transitions. 1.00

00:03:14.040 If you justify broad masking mandates during a pandemic, you'll end up with masking mandates

00:03:20.640 even after the pandemic.

00:03:22.180 It doesn't take fortune tellers to predict these future events.

00:03:24.960 It requires only a basic grasp of logic because evidently one thing really does lead to another.

00:03:32.380 Who would have thought?

00:03:33.900 The problem is that the slope is, we have to admit, sometimes so slippery and the logical

00:03:39.780 endpoints so irredeemably absurd that it's impossible to issue a warning about whether,

00:03:45.160 about where these things are heading without sounding like you're making a joke.

00:03:48.220 I mean, I'll admit that.

00:03:50.440 So for example, you know, those of us who opposed, uh, those of us opposed to affirmative action

00:03:55.700 have for years illustrated our point by asking you to imagine, you know, a situation where

00:04:02.800 you're boarding a passenger plane piloted by someone who was given the job, uh, to fulfill

00:04:08.260 a racial quota rather than based on merits.

00:04:11.260 I mean, no matter how committed you are to diversity, uh, we would say when you're 30,000

00:04:16.860 feet in the air, traveling 500 miles an hour, you want your captain to be the best of the

00:04:21.220 best, no matter his race or gender.

00:04:24.700 It would surely be small comfort as you plunge into the Pacific due to human error by your

00:04:29.860 underqualified yet inclusive flight crew to know that, you know, the wreckage will be

00:04:34.820 diverse and eclectic.

00:04:36.060 But this is the sort of catastrophic insanity to which our emphasis on diversity over merit

00:04:42.300 leads.

00:04:44.120 That's what we've always said, right?

00:04:46.300 And now United Airlines is here to prove the point.

00:04:49.300 This is another time when we have to say, I told you so.

00:04:52.580 And we really do hate to say it.

00:04:54.780 On Tuesday, United tweeted out the big news.

00:04:56.980 This is what they said.

00:04:58.200 Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day.

00:05:02.300 Quote, that's why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women 1.00

00:05:07.140 or people of color.

00:05:09.200 The airline news website, One Mile at a Time, has more details.

00:05:12.880 They say, quote, United Airlines is the only major U.S. airline to own a flight school.

00:05:17.960 And the airline is beginning to accept new applications as of today as it embarks on a

00:05:21.180 plan to train 5,000 new pilots by 2030.

00:05:24.480 Upon completion of the program, pilots are guaranteed a job with United.

00:05:26.920 That's cool in and of itself, as we, the article continues, as we see how the industry expects

00:05:33.360 there to be so much demand for pilots in the coming years.

00:05:35.800 What's even cooler is that United is setting a goal of having at least half of those pilots

00:05:39.880 be women and people of color.

00:05:41.640 Just to show you why this is needed, a mere 5% of airline pilots in the U.S. are women. 0.98

00:05:46.960 Even more jarring is that just over 1% of airline captains are female, meaning a vast 1.00

00:05:52.160 majority of female pilots are first officers. 0.99

00:05:54.040 So it shows you that progress is being made in the sense that there are more entry-level

00:05:58.740 pilots than senior pilots who are female, but it also shows you how much more work there 1.00

00:06:02.400 is to be done.

00:06:03.420 The percentage of U.S. airline pilots who are people of color is even smaller.

00:06:06.900 And perhaps the most shocking statistic of all is that there are fewer than 150 black

00:06:11.580 female pilots at U.S. airlines. 0.92

00:06:16.120 Yes, cool is one way to describe this plan by United.

00:06:19.740 I think maybe a better word would be something like horrifying, you know, that might get

00:06:24.460 closer to the mark.

00:06:26.220 To this point, okay, the safety record of the airline industry is almost miraculous.

00:06:35.020 Millions of commercial aircraft fly through the skies each year and fatal accidents are

00:06:39.440 still so rare that as people like myself with unreasonable anxiety about flying have to

00:06:44.040 constantly remind ourselves, you are orders of magnitude more likely to die in the car

00:06:49.180 on the way to the airport than you are while you're up in the sky in the plane.

00:06:53.400 You are, in fact, more likely to die almost anywhere else on the planet than at cruising altitude

00:07:00.020 on a passenger aircraft.

00:07:01.900 It is, if not the safest place to be, then very close to the safest place you could possibly

00:07:07.800 be anywhere.

00:07:08.720 Now, this has a lot to do with advancement in technology, but it's also a reflection of

00:07:13.680 the incredible skill and competence of the people steering these giant metal buckets over

00:07:18.680 the clouds.

00:07:20.660 Now, as it turns out, there is no miracle or mystery here, actually.

00:07:25.380 People, both those building the planes and those flying them, have made flying as inconceivably

00:07:31.620 safe as it is today.

00:07:33.720 And it really is inconceivable.

00:07:35.620 People, millions and millions and millions of flights go by and no one dies.

00:07:42.700 Again, you can't say that about cars, that's for sure.

00:07:45.860 This is a long way of saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

00:07:50.920 Almost every person who has ever boarded a plane has arrived at the destination they had

00:07:56.060 in mind, intact and unharmed.

00:07:57.680 Almost every single person, almost.

00:07:59.360 What that tells us is that there probably is no major widespread problem with the way that

00:08:06.760 they select pilots.

00:08:08.000 Whatever they've been doing up until right now, keep doing that.

00:08:11.660 It's working.

00:08:13.320 The fact that this record of success belongs mostly to men is not a problem.

00:08:18.300 It's not jarring or shocking.

00:08:20.240 It's not something that we need to fix.

00:08:21.640 If men in general have made the best pilots, so be it.

00:08:26.640 If anything, if we're going to do anything with that information, wouldn't we be recruiting

00:08:32.800 more men, not fewer?

00:08:36.300 Wouldn't we be saying, well, men appear to be pretty damn good at this.

00:08:39.160 Let's get some more of them.

00:08:42.460 Or better yet, it's a reason to continue recruiting pilots exactly as they've been recruited until

00:08:48.080 now, which is not based on gender at all.

00:08:52.120 The process has worked splendidly.

00:08:54.420 It literally could not have worked any better.

00:08:58.540 Now, United, doing a little PR damage control, which will prove easier than the sort of damage

00:09:03.040 control they might be doing in the near future, responded to concerns on social media by claiming

00:09:09.720 that all applicants will still be qualified.

00:09:12.640 Okay, they wrote, and listen to the language here.

00:09:14.220 They wrote, quote, all of the highly qualified candidates we accepted the

00:09:18.020 academy, regardless of race or sex, will have met or exceeded the standards we set for

00:09:22.640 admittance.

00:09:24.220 Hmm.

00:09:25.780 Notice what they didn't say.

00:09:28.140 They didn't say that the most qualified candidates will be accepted, only that every candidate will

00:09:33.680 have met their standards.

00:09:35.740 This leaves them open to accept one candidate who merely meets the standard over another candidate

00:09:41.320 who exceeds the standard.

00:09:44.180 You notice what they also didn't do.

00:09:45.540 They didn't promise that they won't lower or change the standard in order to fulfill this

00:09:49.440 quota, which they're going to have to.

00:09:53.360 If you want to go from 5% women to 50%, you're going to have to change this. 1.00

00:10:01.400 Obviously, the standards you have in place right now, those really high standards so that

00:10:05.760 only the best of the best of the best get through, you're going to have to lower them.

00:10:09.260 But it's not going to work otherwise.

00:10:12.860 That's what the military discovered, which is why they lowered their standards, too, for

00:10:16.080 women. 0.81

00:10:17.280 Now, defenders of these sorts of quotas will often try to have it both ways.

00:10:20.680 Even today, there are leftists online claiming that, you know, United can still hire the best

00:10:24.980 of the best, even while ensuring that half are women or, quote, people of color.

00:10:28.760 But this is really a one or the other proposition.

00:10:31.220 It really is.

00:10:32.020 If you're hiring the best of the best, you cannot possibly declare ahead of time what

00:10:37.920 race and gender and in what exact proportion the best of the best will be.

00:10:42.980 If you can stick to hiring the best of the best while still succeeding in hiring 50% women, 1.00

00:10:47.140 then there's no need for this quota at all.

00:10:48.880 What's the point?

00:10:50.100 The fact that they need the quota means either that they are confessing to deliberately discriminating

00:10:55.560 against women and black people until this point, or that they're moving away from hiring 0.93

00:11:00.040 the best applicants in order to hire the most diverse applicants.

00:11:05.020 So which is it, United?

00:11:06.520 Are you confessing to illegal discrimination?

00:11:09.120 And are you preparing now to pay out the billion-dollar settlements that are coming?

00:11:14.280 Or are you announcing a plan to hire less qualified pilots in the future?

00:11:18.820 Again, it is really one or the other.

00:11:21.760 Those are the two options.

00:11:23.740 I'm guessing the latter is the case here.

00:11:26.520 United will risk killing you in a plane crash if it scores them a few woke points.

00:11:32.280 That's what this is.

00:11:35.180 Wokeness destroys everything.

00:11:38.380 Even things that were almost perfect, it destroys.

00:11:42.360 Like the safety record for airlines.

00:11:44.380 Almost as close to perfect as a thing can be in this flawed world that we live in.

00:11:51.180 And you know, if this is the point, if this is the plan, and since I'm not going to be flying

00:11:58.340 United anyway because I value my life, I'd suggest that they go all in.

00:12:03.700 I mean, why stop at only including more women and people of color in the cockpit? 0.97

00:12:07.380 Here's a jarring stat for you.

00:12:10.380 Can you believe this?

00:12:12.560 No member of the blind community has ever been hired as a commercial airline pilot.

00:12:18.040 Can you believe that?

00:12:18.940 That's incredible.

00:12:19.660 I mean, surely the Wright brothers would have burned their invention had they known it would lead to bigotry of this kind.

00:12:26.380 I mean, all of these years of commercial air flight, there's never been a blind pilot?

00:12:35.680 If United is breaking glass ceilings, why not this one?

00:12:39.120 I mean, they're going to be breaking quite a few ceilings in the near future, I imagine.

00:12:42.580 They ought to add this to the list too.

00:12:43.840 I would only request that the passengers on United's historic first flight by a blind pilot 0.92

00:12:50.480 should be all of the executives in the company who decided to put diversity above the safety of their customers.

00:12:57.040 Put them all in a plane and send them up on the plane being flown by a blind pilot. 0.92

00:13:02.100 That's what I would say.

00:13:02.780 I mean, surely these executives would leap at the chance to be a part of history

00:13:06.320 and then to shortly become history.

00:13:10.220 So come on, United.

00:13:12.220 Show us all.

00:13:13.040 Show us all how progressive you really are.

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00:14:41.960 Number one, so Joe Biden is equivocating now a little bit.

00:14:46.880 We know that he was fully in favor of the MLB all-star game moving out of Georgia,

00:14:53.480 punishing the people of Georgia because the legislature and the governor came up with a bill

00:15:01.540 that would protect the integrity of elections.

00:15:04.600 So this is insane on multiple levels, of course.

00:15:08.940 Why would we need to punish anyone for trying to protect the integrity of elections?

00:15:13.000 And if you are going to punish somebody for this, why would you punish the people of Georgia,

00:15:17.380 business owners and so on, who are losing tens of millions, up to $100 million or more?

00:15:22.140 Because of this.

00:15:23.480 Joe Biden was in favor of that.

00:15:26.480 But now he's, because if we're talking about slippery slope,

00:15:30.900 if you're moving the Major League Baseball out of Georgia for this,

00:15:35.120 then what about all the other professional sport events that happen in Georgia?

00:15:38.960 There are quite a few of them.

00:15:41.160 And Biden was asked about that yesterday.

00:15:43.400 And here's what he said.

00:15:44.240 Mr. President, do you think the Masters Golf Tournament should be moved out of Georgia?

00:15:49.680 I think that's up to the Masters.

00:15:52.580 Look, you know, it is reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses

00:16:07.500 are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are.

00:16:19.540 There's another side to it, too.

00:16:21.760 The other side to it, too, is when they, in fact, move out of Georgia,

00:16:26.040 the people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most.

00:16:35.340 I think it's a very tough decision for a corporation to make or a group to make.

00:16:41.280 But I respect them when they make that judgment, and I support whatever judgment they make.

00:16:46.220 But it's the best way to deal with this is for Georgia and other states to smarten up.

00:16:52.280 Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. 1.00

00:16:56.260 Oh. Well, that's a good argument.

00:16:59.280 I mean, it's hard to argue with a point like that. It's so salient.

00:17:02.600 Stop it. Just stop it. 0.55

00:17:05.440 Well, why should they stop it? What's wrong with what they did?

00:17:07.460 Stop it. Just stop it. Come on, guys. Just stop it. Okay?

00:17:11.840 The new Jim Crow. 0.93

00:17:14.580 My God.

00:17:16.880 Jim Crow. Again, I'm waiting. 0.62

00:17:18.780 You know, I'm waiting for someone to provide even, not that this would even begin to prove their point,

00:17:27.380 but can you give us an example of one person, one person who wanted to vote

00:17:35.600 and was not able to because of a voter ID law?

00:17:41.520 Can you even explain how that would work?

00:17:46.880 On a theoretical basis, can you explain how that works exactly?

00:17:51.580 And the better question is, can you explain it in a way that won't come off as incredibly racist?

00:17:58.180 Because remember, what you're suggesting is that it's not that people in general have trouble figuring out how to get an ID.

00:18:08.080 What you're saying is that black people have trouble figuring this out specifically.

00:18:12.040 So can someone, can some white liberal explain that in a way that makes sense and is not racist?

00:18:20.320 I haven't heard it yet.

00:18:21.780 And then after you've done that, give us the example of someone really wanted to vote.

00:18:26.640 They had two years or four years, if we're talking just presidential, to get an ID and they were not able to do it.

00:18:35.820 And because I want to know who that person is, and I would like to talk to that person.

00:18:43.340 And I want to find out how they operate in life.

00:18:48.900 How do they go about their daily lives without a photo ID as an adult?

00:18:53.580 You need it to do almost anything.

00:18:55.580 So what is, what is your living in a life as a, as an adult in modern society without an ID and unable to figure out how to get one?

00:19:09.060 Like, what is that like?

00:19:10.680 What is your day-to-day existence like?

00:19:15.240 But we never get that.

00:19:16.800 And now, now Biden is saying, well, maybe we don't, let's not move everything out of Georgia.

00:19:20.940 As long as they smart, smarten up and do what we say, then that's the best thing.

00:19:29.680 Now, meanwhile, for more insight into this issue, I thought we should really turn to someone who is a legal scholar.

00:19:38.980 One of the great minds, I think, in society today and certainly in media.

00:19:43.120 This is Shannon Sharp, along with Skip Bayless on the Fox Sports show Undisputed.

00:19:48.920 And here he is, for some reason, this is a sports show.

00:19:51.900 And for some reason, he's chiming in on voting law and all that kind of stuff.

00:19:54.580 And here's what he had to say.

00:19:55.960 I like the move by MLB.

00:19:57.660 I like they're taking a stand.

00:19:58.820 And Skip, at some point in time, you're going to have to put action to your words.

00:20:01.620 You say you're about inclusion.

00:20:03.080 You say you're about doing the right thing.

00:20:05.360 At some point in time, you have to put those actions into words.

00:20:08.180 I mean, put those words into action.

00:20:09.700 That's what they're doing, Skip.

00:20:10.860 Now, you're going to be relegated to where you can take this game to.

00:20:13.760 Because there's a lot of other states that are doing the exact same thing as Georgia.

00:20:17.060 Texas, Florida.

00:20:18.020 So those, Florida, you're off the list.

00:20:20.160 Texas, you're off the list.

00:20:20.960 There are a lot of states that are doing the exact same thing that Georgia did.

00:20:25.760 Now, Skip, what I don't understand, and this is what's confusing with me.

00:20:30.180 Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, was on the under ticket for President Trump.

00:20:36.220 President Trump lost the election because of fraud.

00:20:39.140 But they won the election.

00:20:40.660 They won their Senate races.

00:20:42.360 It was fair and square.

00:20:43.860 I'm confused, Skip.

00:20:44.880 How does that work?

00:20:45.680 Well, the top guy lost, but my election was fair and square, so let's do something about it.

00:20:50.320 Now, in 2016, we know for a fact Russia tried to interfere.

00:20:54.800 Mitch McConnell would do nothing.

00:20:56.360 He wouldn't even bring it to the floor.

00:20:58.580 Now, you want to put these right because what they see, Skip, there's a changing of the guard.

00:21:03.900 More people are becoming of age to vote, and they're minorities.

00:21:07.240 And they're voting.

00:21:08.020 So instead of changing your messaging and try to reach out to a new base, what do you do?

00:21:12.820 We're going to try to restrict so you can.

00:21:15.420 It shouldn't be harder to vote than to get a gun.

00:21:18.400 Now, what's wrong with that picture, Skip?

00:21:19.720 You know that they're making it harder for you to vote than to get that gun.

00:21:23.460 No, we don't want to do nothing with a gun.

00:21:24.980 I want my Second Amendment.

00:21:27.300 Right.

00:21:28.180 What's wrong with that picture, Skip?

00:21:29.540 What's wrong?

00:21:30.220 Well, what's wrong with that picture is that you're hallucinating, Shannon.

00:21:34.460 That's what's wrong with the picture.

00:21:35.620 There's a lot wrong with the picture.

00:21:36.680 It doesn't exist.

00:21:38.100 It's a picture that you drew.

00:21:40.280 It's like a stick figure picture that you drew somewhere.

00:21:43.080 I don't know.

00:21:43.980 It's not reality.

00:21:47.600 I love when people make up something, and then they become offended by it.

00:21:53.300 Can you believe this?

00:21:54.580 It's harder to vote than get a gun.

00:21:58.280 It's outrageous.

00:22:00.440 Yeah, I mean, if you're making things up, anyone could do that.

00:22:05.000 I can make up all kinds of outrageous scenarios.

00:22:08.300 Now, I say this as someone who I've been clear that I don't actually think it would be outrageous.

00:22:13.000 I think it would be good if it really was harder to vote than to get a gun.

00:22:18.300 I think that's the way it should be, but it's not that way at all.

00:22:22.200 And we've gone through all the reasons why.

00:22:24.160 Now, you watch a clip like that, and I know it's easy to say any time I play any sort of clip like that from whether it's a celebrity or somebody on sports media, the comments that I always get, people are probably leaving the comments right now if they're watching on Daily Wire or YouTube.

00:22:38.760 The comments are, well, what does it matter what this person says?

00:22:42.480 Who cares what this person says?

00:22:44.260 It doesn't.

00:22:45.540 It shouldn't matter, right?

00:22:47.800 But it does.

00:22:48.640 It actually matters a lot more, a lot more than anything that anybody says on cable news.

00:22:54.040 What you just heard there is the same nonsense that you hear on cable news, but on cable news, it makes very little difference because the people that are exposed to it on CNN are already the people who believe this stuff.

00:23:07.500 That's why they're watching CNN, right?

00:23:11.540 Or they're watching CNN because they're in an airport, but they're not really watching it.

00:23:15.260 They have their headphones on, and they're watching it like on mute or something.

00:23:17.680 But as far as people choosing to tune in to CNN, they already believe this, and they're watching it so that they're told more of what they already believe.

00:23:28.480 It's the old echo chamber thing.

00:23:29.960 Now, here, a whole lot of people who are impressionable, because most people are, and they're not tuning in to get propaganda, but they get it, and it sinks in.

00:23:44.320 Unfortunately, the average audience of sports media, and that's nothing against people that watch sports media.

00:23:53.620 I watch it, too, but it's like the average audience anywhere.

00:23:56.300 They hear a claim like that, and if it seems to kind of confirm their priors, and it sort of seems to fit in with the vague impression they have of the world and reality, they're going to accept it.

00:24:07.820 Like, there are probably thousands of people that heard that segment and came away thinking, wow, it's harder to get a gun than to vote.

00:24:19.740 Well, that kind of makes sense.

00:24:21.840 I guess that's true.

00:24:22.660 That's amazing.

00:24:23.480 That's horrible.

00:24:24.240 And who's responsible for this?

00:24:27.500 The Republicans?

00:24:28.160 Well, we've got to get them out of office, then.

00:24:31.080 That really is—they're not going to go and look it up and Google and spend even five minutes researching that or thinking critically about it.

00:24:40.720 They're not going to go to the next step and think, no, wait a second.

00:24:42.680 Well, hold on.

00:24:44.000 Doesn't a gun cost money?

00:24:45.200 I mean, right there, that alone is a barrier to entry that you don't have for voting.

00:24:51.740 I mean, that alone makes getting a gun harder along with everything else.

00:24:55.660 No, they're not going to think that.

00:24:57.900 You know, most people are not critical thinkers.

00:24:59.560 That's what it comes down to.

00:25:01.360 And so what you just heard there, very influential, makes a big difference.

00:25:05.380 Shouldn't, but it does.

00:25:08.000 All right, number two.

00:25:09.200 Here's Dr. Fauci on cable news.

00:25:13.140 Puzzling—this is on—what is it?

00:25:14.680 MSNBC.

00:25:15.360 He's puzzling over the fact that cases are going down even as people ignore him, if you can believe it.

00:25:20.720 I can, but he can't.

00:25:22.260 Here he is.

00:25:23.200 You mentioned Texas and that full ballpark in Arlington yesterday.

00:25:27.060 There was a lot of concern last month when Texas effectively opened up, dropped all those restrictions, and said, it's back to life.

00:25:34.640 And if you go to Texas, as you know, it looks like 2019.

00:25:38.300 The restaurants and the bars are full and open.

00:25:40.320 The ballparks are full.

00:25:41.580 And yet, we've seen cases and hospitalizations since then continue to tick downward.

00:25:47.680 So what do you make of that as all of us look around and sort of try to consider how safe it is to get back to normal life?

00:25:54.140 Yeah, you know, it can be confusing because you may see a lag and a delay because often you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect of what you're doing right now.

00:26:08.720 You know, there are a lot of things that go into that.

00:26:11.040 I mean, when you say that they've had a lot of activity on the outside, like ballgames, I'm not really quite sure.

00:26:19.940 It could be they're doing things outdoors.

00:26:21.880 You know, it's very difficult to just one-on-one compare that.

00:26:25.380 You just have to see in the long range.

00:26:27.480 I hope they continue to tick down.

00:26:29.760 If they do, that would be great.

00:26:31.780 But there's always the concern when you pull back on methods, particularly things like indoor dining and bars that are crowded, you can see a delay and then all of a sudden tick right back up.

00:26:43.860 We've been fooled before by situations where people begin to open up.

00:26:48.760 Nothing happens.

00:26:49.580 And then all of a sudden, several weeks later, things start exploding on you.

00:26:54.080 So we've got to be careful we don't prematurely judge that.

00:26:58.220 Yeah.

00:26:58.700 What he says before, I assume he's going back, you know, months ago, before we there are millions and millions of people vaccinated, many millions of people more who have already been exposed and are immune.

00:27:11.720 That's what we hear guys like Fauci now that it's that in their mind, it makes no difference.

00:27:19.580 Like they were still supposed to believe that there could be, you know, a massive spike and suddenly we're back where we were six months ago.

00:27:30.520 That's what we're being told.

00:27:31.640 That's what we're supposed to believe.

00:27:32.580 But if the vaccine works, that should basically be if the vaccine works and also your your conferred immunity by prior by if you if you previously had the virus, but we were told both of those things.

00:27:49.020 Then it should basically be impossible at this point that we all of a sudden find ourselves nationwide back where we were six months ago because of all the people that are immune to it.

00:27:58.660 But Fauci is I mean, you got to you got to see from his perspective.

00:28:03.960 He knows that eventually the time is coming.

00:28:09.040 When he's not going to be getting the cable news hits anymore, no one's going to care what he says.

00:28:13.740 Eventually, eventually society's moving on from him and he's not he doesn't have the power that he does.

00:28:19.120 He doesn't that he has right now.

00:28:20.220 He doesn't have the fame and the prestige and everything.

00:28:22.880 He's going to be yesterday's news.

00:28:25.460 You know, one hit wonder.

00:28:26.640 And he's he's afraid of that moment.

00:28:29.700 A lot of these people are.

00:28:32.320 A lot of these people that have been bureaucrats, that have been in public life, working for the government for years, for decades, suddenly finding themselves as these rock stars.

00:28:41.980 And they don't want to lose that status.

00:28:44.240 So they're going to say whatever they can to hold on to it.

00:28:47.340 All right.

00:28:47.820 By the way, the actor Morgan Freeman, if you're wondering, has chimed in about vaccines.

00:28:55.940 And here's his message.

00:28:58.680 I'm Morgan Freeman.

00:29:00.000 I'm not a doctor, but I trust science.

00:29:04.000 And I'm told that for some reason people trust me.

00:29:08.860 So here I am to say I trust science and I got the vaccine.

00:29:13.920 If you trust me, you'll get the vaccine.

00:29:18.620 And math is called the distributive property.

00:29:22.380 And people is called taking care of one another.

00:29:26.380 Get the vaccine.

00:29:28.260 Help make our world a safe place for us to enjoy ourselves again.

00:29:33.200 Please.

00:29:36.480 But why would I trust Morgan Freeman?

00:29:39.840 Who is this?

00:29:41.000 The Creative Coalition and a bunch of other companies.

00:29:45.160 Morgan, if you trust me, you'll get the vaccine.

00:29:47.820 Why should we trust Morgan Freeman?

00:29:49.920 I mean, I don't really have an opinion on trusting him or not trusting him.

00:29:52.200 He's just an actor.

00:29:54.120 But again, it's just like with the Shannon Sharp clip we played.

00:29:58.820 You know, you and I, maybe if we're critical thinkers, we'll say, I don't care what Morgan Freeman is.

00:30:02.500 I mean, my opinion on the vaccine isn't going to be changed one way or another by the fact that Morgan Freeman.

00:30:05.800 Yeah, he's got a nice voice and a very authoritative sounding voice.

00:30:10.180 And we all like to listen to things that are narrated by Morgan Freeman, obviously.

00:30:14.440 But it doesn't actually make him more trustworthy just because we like the sound of his voice.

00:30:17.940 As critical thinkers, you and I, we know that.

00:30:21.760 But there are a lot of people who that is really their thought process.

00:30:27.220 They think, well, Morgan Freeman, he played God, didn't he, in one of those movies?

00:30:30.580 Well, if we can't trust God, then who can we trust?

00:30:34.720 All right.

00:30:34.920 Number three, this is from The Hill.

00:30:35.980 It says, Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly eyeing a bid for governor of California.

00:30:41.340 The former Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality TV star and Olympian is talking with political consultants as, quote, she actively explores a run.

00:30:53.280 And apparently what I had read was that there's someone from the Trump team involved in this.

00:30:58.100 Actually, no surprise there.

00:30:59.160 You know, and of course, they always make, you've always got all kinds of interesting people running for governor in California.

00:31:07.760 So that's, that's par for the course.

00:31:11.640 But I am seeing some conservatives online who are saying, well, this is great.

00:31:15.760 You know, you have Caitlyn Jenner, Republican.

00:31:20.400 Then the left's not going to know what to do.

00:31:23.980 You know, we play the left's identity politics game against them.

00:31:27.840 And, um, and, and they'll be totally disarmed.

00:31:33.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:31:35.200 How many times do we have to say it doesn't work that way?

00:31:38.620 In order to play the left's identity politics game against them, to use it against them effectively, uh, they have to have integrity.

00:31:48.100 And live by their own standards, which they don't.

00:31:51.040 So, yes, it, you know, when, when, when they've got Rachel Levine as the assistant health secretary, and, uh, if you, if you criticize Rachel Levine, they're going to say you're automatically a transphobe.

00:32:05.680 It's not going to work that way.

00:32:08.740 You might, you might wish that it would, but it doesn't work that way.

00:32:11.740 If the Republican governor of California is transgender and then, you know, the left criticizes him. 0.64

00:32:18.680 You, and, and then you think you can say, well, that makes you a transphobe.

00:32:22.680 No, they, that's their standard.

00:32:27.280 It only, they only apply it to us.

00:32:28.760 They don't live by it.

00:32:29.840 No matter how often we complain that they don't live by it, they're not going to.

00:32:35.920 And also this, you know, this gender stuff, gender theory, as I have been saying for years, um, even as many conservatives laughed about it and told me, oh, you're going to die on this hill.

00:32:48.520 This isn't the hill to die on.

00:32:49.520 I was told it was a sideshow.

00:32:50.660 I was told it was, uh, you know, a passing fad.

00:32:53.820 It won't matter.

00:32:54.860 Um, as I've been saying for years and have, there's another one of those, I hate to say, I told you so situations, but I was correct and, and I'm still correct that this is one of the defining issues of our time.

00:33:07.640 So we can't embrace left-wing gender theory in hopes of playing their identity politics game and using it against them. 0.94

00:33:14.360 Like it's going to be some great chess move.

00:33:15.700 It's not going to work.

00:33:17.080 We lose a lot more than we gain.

00:33:20.660 Uh, okay.

00:33:21.840 Number four, the New York Post, uh, reported yesterday, Disney World said Tuesday that customers will be allowed to temporarily take off their masks while posing for outdoors, outdoor photos beginning Thursday.

00:33:34.440 Disney World did not comment further on what prompted the updated guidelines, which now say that face coverings must be worn at all times, except when dining or swimming.

00:33:42.320 So as it stands, the reason I read that is as it stands right now at Disney World, you have to wear a mask at all times while at the park, even on the rides.

00:33:52.540 And you're only allowed to take it off for pictures or to eat.

00:33:54.880 And as far as eating goes, you, you can't do that or drink while walking around.

00:33:59.420 You have to do it in the designated areas.

00:34:01.000 That's been the rule since June.

00:34:02.860 You also have to submit to temperature checks on your way in.

00:34:05.820 And if you don't submit, then you could be arrested.

00:34:07.640 And that happened to a guy a couple of days ago.

00:34:09.000 He was arrested at Disney World because he didn't want to do the temperature check.

00:34:11.620 Um, and this is all on top of the standard Disney World trappings, you know, thousands of dollars that you have to pay between the tickets, the hotel, travel, et cetera, 97 degree heat, 97% humidity, the lines, the crowds.

00:34:25.980 And this is something people choose to do something they subject themselves to on purpose.

00:34:31.340 They pay money for the privilege of walking around all day in the heat with a face muzzle on, money leaking out of their bank account, sweat leaking out of every pore, accumulating in their masks, which they're breathing in all day as they wait in these lines.

00:34:49.900 It is hell on earth.

00:34:51.320 Why would anyone choose to do that?

00:34:53.720 This is your vacation.

00:34:55.740 You get two weeks off a year or whatever, and you're going to spend it doing that.

00:35:01.340 I can't understand it.

00:35:03.800 Um, finally for the New York post, it says former CIA director, James, uh, director R James Woolsey said he believes UFOs could exist after his friend's plane was paused at 40,000 feet.

00:35:18.460 The former chief spook who ran the agency from 1993, 1995, uh, spoke Friday to the black vaults YouTube channel where he was promoting a book.

00:35:27.740 Um, and he said, quote, I never thought there was anything to all this.

00:35:32.820 It always seemed pretty far out to me, but there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.

00:35:42.760 I don't know exactly what that means.

00:35:45.240 It doesn't go into much explanation.

00:35:47.840 Still landed safely.

00:35:49.060 Only proven the point from before.

00:35:51.060 Now, now you've got all these pilots who are encountering UFOs and aliens up there still getting you home, still getting you to your destination.

00:35:59.240 You know, you're still going to land in, in Detroit on time.

00:36:02.020 Pretty impressive.

00:36:02.660 Um, but I really, I really wanted to just get to this part.

00:36:06.820 So listen to this quote.

00:36:07.600 Okay.

00:36:08.160 From the article.

00:36:09.580 It says in December, ex CIA director, John Brennan said it was presumptuous and arrogant to believe that there are no other forms of life than the ones on earth.

00:36:18.600 Here's the quote from him.

00:36:20.020 He said, I think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might in fact be some type of phenomenon.

00:36:28.040 That is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.

00:36:37.760 That's from John Brennan.

00:36:38.760 Have you ever heard a better example of bureaucrat ease?

00:36:42.020 This is the language of a bureaucrat.

00:36:44.060 It's not even, not even English.

00:36:46.260 You feel like you're having a stroke when you listen to it.

00:36:49.100 He's stringing words together and not saying anything at all.

00:36:52.020 This is a guy who has, who has lost the ability to communicate in actual human language.

00:36:58.320 You listen to it again.

00:36:58.940 He says, I think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might in fact be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand.

00:37:09.520 And that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.

00:37:16.180 In other words, he's saying, yeah, I think there might be aliens.

00:37:19.740 You know what this really is?

00:37:20.720 This, this, this is, this is me in seventh grade doing a book report about a book I didn't read and just trying to hit the word count of, you know, 1200 words, throwing in all the words I can.

00:37:33.900 I have only one thought about the book that I got from reading its back cover and I got it and that's all I got.

00:37:39.300 And I got to put a bunch of other words with it.

00:37:42.940 Anyway, I guess that's not really the main point.

00:37:44.260 The main point here is about the UFOs, but instead I decided to rag on John Brennan and said, you know,

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00:39:18.960 Okay, we'll move on to reading the YouTube comments. 0.75

00:39:21.400 This is from Joseph says, evil to the left of me, cowards to the right.

00:39:25.040 Here I am stuck in the middle with Matt Walsh.

00:39:27.620 Kind of has a ring to it.

00:39:29.580 Joe says, my main question is how in the world were these two girls able to make a settlement 1.00

00:39:34.640 so fast?

00:39:35.600 Usually the court system works like a snail. 0.73

00:39:37.940 Yeah, the girls in D.C. who murdered Mohammed Anwar, 66-year-old Uber Eats driver.

00:39:46.540 It's happened like a week ago.

00:39:48.520 Carjacking him.

00:39:49.120 Killed him. 0.80

00:39:50.240 Only cared about their phone. 0.93

00:39:52.360 And now they got a plea bargain.

00:39:53.580 They're not going to prison at all.

00:39:54.940 They're going to spend no time in prison and they'll be totally free by the age of 21.

00:39:58.120 So that's six years for the 15-year-old.

00:39:59.880 A little bit longer for the other girl.

00:40:02.800 Not only did they get that deal, but yes, they did get it.

00:40:06.000 This was decided very, very quickly.

00:40:09.780 They didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it.

00:40:11.440 How did it happen, Joe?

00:40:15.480 Well, it's, I told you, it's privilege.

00:40:18.560 And it's mainly female privilege. 1.00

00:40:21.280 These are the kinds of deals that females often get in the court system. 1.00

00:40:27.960 Mrs. Mack says, we're no longer on a slippery slope.

00:40:30.700 We've hit rock bottom.

00:40:32.460 Well, unfortunately, we haven't.

00:40:33.580 You know, what, if the slippery slope argument is wrong or false, it is only because it's not really a slope.

00:40:42.400 Slope's probably not the best illustration to use.

00:40:46.980 It is, it's a free fall into like a vacuum.

00:40:51.020 It just, it never, it's like you're, it's like you're in outer space.

00:40:54.780 You can't even really call it falling.

00:40:56.400 You're just hurtling through, like what that George Clooney movie where he's hurtling through space.

00:41:00.760 What's that one called?

00:41:01.260 That's what we, that's where we are now.

00:41:04.520 There's no end point.

00:41:06.500 You just go deeper and deeper into the abyss.

00:41:10.280 Cheerful thought.

00:41:13.800 Border X says, most people want it, want you to play the banjo.

00:41:16.780 I just want to hear the telemarketer pitch you had to do.

00:41:19.280 I imagine it being some weird combination of soothing and terrifying, both resulting in me buying whatever you were selling.

00:41:25.340 I don't remember the exact pitch I did as a telemarketer.

00:41:27.480 Um, but, uh, I, I can remember that I got to the point where I was doing it enough that I could tell in five seconds, whether you were the kind of person who might buy from a telemarketer.

00:41:37.680 Cause most people just won't.

00:41:39.920 And, um, and if I could tell you weren't, then we, our phone line might disconnect that.

00:41:44.180 I'm just going to move on to the next person that was, um, and that's, and by the way, you don't, you don't get a lot of telemarketer, the telemarketers these days.

00:41:52.320 But when you do, the one thing I hated, the worst thing as a telemarketer was when you encountered a polite person who didn't want to hang up on you.

00:42:03.440 Like a polite, but intelligent person was the worst thing to encounter as a telemarketer because they're intelligent.

00:42:08.960 So they're not going to buy from you, but they're polite.

00:42:11.080 So they don't want to hang up.

00:42:11.880 And what that means is they're going to sit and listen to you and they're going to make you give that whole two minute spiel just so that at the end that they can say, okay, if you're done, I'm really not interested.

00:42:21.520 Have a great day.

00:42:23.620 If you care about the wellbeing of telemarketers, just hang up.

00:42:26.440 It's the best thing you can do.

00:42:27.640 Then they can move on.

00:42:29.360 Um, and finally, Dr. Emmett Brown says, Matt, would you rather choose as a pet, a dog or a leftist?

00:42:37.620 Well, that's a false choice because I think all dogs are leftists.

00:42:43.840 Think about it. 0.89

00:42:44.280 Needy, entitled, tendency to drool.

00:42:48.780 Very similar.

00:42:49.660 It's one of the reasons I don't like dogs, I think.

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00:44:14.040 Now, as we return from Easter and Passover, it's important to reflect on, you know, the impact that these holidays have on our faith and the impact that Judeo-Christian values have on our culture.

00:44:24.040 And that's why we launched, um, a brand new talk show with Candace Owens, one of the fiercest protectors of conservative values and free speech that there is. 1.00

00:44:31.300 Candace is also the only, uh, rather right now, the first, at least, Daily Wire show to appear in front of a live studio audience. 0.94

00:44:38.280 An element that's rarely been included in conservative media, but I think it adds, uh, you know, it adds some excitement to it.

00:44:43.920 It's a fresh new factor.

00:44:44.860 It's a lot of fun.

00:44:46.260 And, um, you know, whatever the left is doing, we can do it better.

00:44:48.920 The show streams on Fridays at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central at dailywire.com.

00:44:53.080 But you can also get the audio podcast, Candace, on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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00:45:05.240 Uh, and remember to leave a five-star review if you like what you hear.

00:45:08.540 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:09.780 Today, in a somewhat rare migration, the person featured yesterday in our opening monologue has now moved straight away to our cancellation monologue.

00:45:20.680 That's Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a man so slight and unimpressive that he makes Eric Swalwell look almost masculine by comparison.

00:45:28.580 And he is the one being canceled today.

00:45:30.240 He was already effectively canceled yesterday upon the news that he had vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical castration of children in the state, calling it a, quote, vast government overreach to prevent doctors from generally mutilating children or giving hormone blockers to children.

00:45:44.500 Hutchinson, a Republican governor in the South, let's remember, took the side of the most fringe and radical elements of the LGBT left.

00:45:51.880 Indeed, he took a side that not but five or ten years ago, even many on the LGBT left would have opposed or claimed to oppose.

00:46:00.280 But as we know, mainstream conservatism is often just leftism about a half a decade behind.

00:46:05.320 So Asa Hutchinson, in this case, is right on schedule.

00:46:09.240 Fortunately, the Arkansas General Assembly performed what you might call a legislative castration of the governor by overriding his veto and enacting the ban anyway.

00:46:19.020 Hutchinson apparently decided that he had not been defrocked and humiliated enough.

00:46:24.980 So he went on Tucker Carlson last night to try and defend his decision to veto the bill.

00:46:30.460 Now, an intelligent man, or at least a man who cares about his own dignity, might have realized that his position is literally indefensible, as in it cannot be defended.

00:46:38.780 And thus, he would have declined the invitation to go on cable news, the top cable news program in the country, and try and defend it because he can't.

00:46:46.020 But Hutchinson is not that sort of man, and so this is what happened.

00:46:51.340 Let's watch.

00:46:52.460 Well, the legislature in Arkansas recently passed a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing so-called puberty blockers, heavy-to-do hormones, to children who believe they're transgender.

00:47:02.800 The law also bans surgeons from physical castration of children.

00:47:07.000 But the governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, vetoed that bill on Monday.

00:47:11.420 Legislatures in Arkansas just voted to override that veto, which brings us to where we are right now.

00:47:16.440 Asa Hutchinson is the governor of Arkansas, and he joins us to talk about this story.

00:47:20.800 Governor, thanks so much for coming on.

00:47:22.160 I really appreciate it in the middle of all this.

00:47:24.780 Now, I think of you as a conservative.

00:47:27.380 Here you've come out publicly as pro-choice on the question of chemical castration of children.

00:47:33.320 Let's pause there for just a moment.

00:47:34.560 But Tucker's introduction of the governor and of the issue is absolutely fair.

00:47:39.680 He summarized things quite succinctly and accurately.

00:47:42.500 Well, I want you to just reflect on this for a moment.

00:47:44.900 This man, Asa Hutchinson, was either so terrified of upsetting the far left or so beholden to his corporate interests, or both, I think both, that he's willing to be known.

00:47:53.820 He's willing to be known now as a man who is, as Tucker said, pro-choice on the chemical castration of children.

00:48:00.880 He's willing to sit there, his smiling mug presented to the camera, and take ownership of the view that sometimes it's good to drug, mutilate, and castrate young boys to turn them into girls.

00:48:12.560 Whatever Hutchinson thinks that he's winning as a result of his self-debasement here, I can guarantee that the reward is not worth the cost.

00:48:22.480 There's no way it can be.

00:48:24.960 So once again, a Republican has given up everything, his dignity, everything, and in exchange, he gets nothing.

00:48:33.360 But it gets worse.

00:48:36.120 Let's listen now to his explanation.

00:48:39.040 This bill was overbroad.

00:48:40.900 It was extreme.

00:48:41.960 It went far beyond what you just said.

00:48:44.480 And I made it clear that if this was about prohibiting procedures, sex reassignment surgery, absolutely, I would have signed that bill.

00:48:53.880 But this, again, is the first law in the nation that invokes the state between medical decisions, parents who consent to that, and the decision of the patient.

00:49:07.480 And so this goes way too far.

00:49:09.940 And, in fact, it doesn't even have a grandfather clause that those young people that are under hormonal treatments, they have to be cut off from.

00:49:19.440 Let me correct you for a second.

00:49:20.820 Well, this is chemical castration, of course.

00:49:22.700 If you stop puberty and suppress the sex hormones, you're chemically castrating someone.

00:49:26.720 So our description was correct.

00:49:29.000 But let me just ask you, I mean, there are all kinds of, we're talking about minors, children here, and there are all kinds of things in Arkansas, kids in every state are not allowed to do.

00:49:35.960 Get married, drink a beer, get a tattoo.

00:49:38.900 Why do you think it's important for conservatives to make certain that children can block their puberty, be chemically castrated?

00:49:47.040 Why is that a conservative value, if you would tell us?

00:49:50.320 Well, first of all, you have parents involved in very difficult decisions.

00:49:54.900 You have physicians that are involved in these decisions.

00:49:58.720 And I go back to William Buckley.

00:50:01.860 I go back to Ronald Reagan, the principals of our party, which believes in a limited role of government.

00:50:08.120 All right.

00:50:09.240 There it is there.

00:50:10.600 Limited role.

00:50:11.280 OK, Ronald Reagan.

00:50:12.780 Apparently, Ronald Reagan was pro-castration.

00:50:15.140 Yeah, you know, I come to think of it, I seem to remember that.

00:50:18.620 What was the famous Reagan quote? 0.99

00:50:20.800 It was Mr. Gorbachev, tear off these balls. 0.99

00:50:24.700 Now. 0.99

00:50:27.460 That might be a slight.

00:50:28.760 I'm prouder of that joke than I should be.

00:50:30.580 I really am.

00:50:31.580 That might be a slight paraphrase.

00:50:32.920 I don't remember exactly what the quote was, to be honest.

00:50:35.220 In any case, Hutchinson, besides posthumously recruiting Buckley and Reagan into his sex changes for 12 year olds camp,

00:50:41.980 seems to provide these primary rationales.

00:50:45.140 This is this is the these are the reasons that he just gave.

00:50:47.400 Right.

00:50:48.980 One, the government should not interfere with the decisions of patients.

00:50:53.940 Two, this is a difficult decision for parents and doctors and the government shouldn't interfere with their with that either.

00:50:59.080 And three, we as conservatives should support limited government.

00:51:02.420 And then for Walmart told me to say this.

00:51:05.500 Now, admittedly, point four is more subtext as for points one through three.

00:51:10.320 Let's take them one at a time.

00:51:12.740 First, the decision of patients.

00:51:14.240 Well, as we covered yesterday and I've covered many times, the patients are children.

00:51:17.980 They can't consent.

00:51:19.340 They can't make this decision.

00:51:20.860 They're not capable.

00:51:21.560 It is incoherent to say that a 13 year old can, you know, it is incoherent to say that a 13 year old cannot consent to sex and yet that he can consent to a sex change.

00:51:35.320 The same logic and science, psychological and neurological science that supports the notion that 13 year olds can't consent to sex, which they can't, also applies just as much, if not more so, to sex changes.

00:51:48.680 If you take the one position, you're logically committed to the other.

00:51:53.320 Second, this is a difficult decision for parents and doctors.

00:51:56.520 Now, Hutchinson here, who calls himself pro-life, is echoing the exact talking points of the pro-abortion left.

00:52:02.540 First, we're told that killing babies is a solemn and difficult decision that mothers must sometimes make in consultation with their doctors.

00:52:11.240 But the difficulty of the decision is irrelevant.

00:52:15.000 I mean, it may be difficult for a wife who decides to kill her husband in consultation with her hitman.

00:52:20.660 It may be a difficult and personal decision.

00:52:23.900 She may agonize over it.

00:52:25.780 She may think long and hard about it. 0.96

00:52:27.860 But the thing that makes it difficult is that murdering your husband is a terrible thing to do. 0.97

00:52:37.500 What makes abortion difficult is that murdering your child is a terrible thing to do.

00:52:43.040 What makes the medical transitioning of children difficult is that it's a terrible thing to do.

00:52:48.640 In fact, in the case of medical transition and abortion, if these decisions were really what their proponents describe,

00:52:57.840 if the people on the pro side were correct in their view, then these decisions shouldn't be difficult at all.

00:53:04.560 If a baby is nothing but a non-human lump of meaningless cells, why is it difficult to destroy it?

00:53:10.520 You say, it's just a lump of cells.

00:53:11.980 Okay, well then what do you talk about?

00:53:13.040 It's a difficult decision.

00:53:13.980 Sounds easy to me.

00:53:14.740 And if a boy really does have a girl trapped inside him, whatever that means,

00:53:20.300 and you can free this true inner female identity through medical procedures that we're told have no ill effects and no real downside, 0.96

00:53:28.500 then again, why is it a difficult decision?

00:53:31.900 I mean, there's a girl trapped inside there. 0.99

00:53:33.640 Get her out. 1.00

00:53:35.780 But again, the difficulty is sort of a moot point in deciding whether the government has a role.

00:53:42.300 And that brings us to point three.

00:53:43.600 Hutchinson says that this is a matter of limited government,

00:53:47.080 which only proves a point that I've made in the past, 0.99

00:53:49.480 that limited government is a really insufficient and frankly kind of stupid slogan for conservatism. 0.99

00:53:55.000 And, you know, we've all shouted it. 0.99

00:53:56.580 I have too. 0.98

00:53:58.280 But limited government has been mostly a shield for cowards like Hutchinson to hide behind. 0.93

00:54:02.540 That's really what it has, what it's been in practice. 0.95

00:54:05.500 That's how it's worked.

00:54:07.340 Anytime they encounter a fight that they're too afraid to get involved in,

00:54:10.180 they can always lift up the banner of limited government and pretend that they're deserting the battlefield out of principle.

00:54:17.480 It's like a soldier who suddenly becomes a Quaker the moment the first bullet flies. 0.97

00:54:22.440 You know, he sees that first bullet fly over his head.

00:54:24.400 He says, you know what?

00:54:25.040 I think the Quakers had a point.

00:54:27.420 You know, I'm thinking about it again.

00:54:28.940 I read one of those pamphlets a long time.

00:54:30.360 I think, you know, I think I sort of, I think I'm a Quaker now.

00:54:34.340 Limited government conservatives have, in fact, at every level from the presidency on down,

00:54:38.960 expanded the government exponentially and spent money by the trillions.

00:54:43.840 But then when it comes to protecting children from the worst forms of abuse and indoctrination,

00:54:47.960 suddenly they discover their long dormant passion for governmental restraint.

00:54:52.680 But it's a joke, and we should all be too smart to fall for it.

00:54:57.260 The banner that we should be marching under is not something vague and overbroad and useless like limited government,

00:55:03.680 but rather something that perhaps, on second thought, won't fit on a banner at all.

00:55:07.860 Something like, we want a government that is properly ordered and directed,

00:55:13.260 and which uses its power in judicious, lawful, and morally sound ways

00:55:17.320 in order to fulfill its fundamental obligations to its people.

00:55:21.520 Like I said, not going to fit on a banner.

00:55:24.040 But the point is that we aren't asking the government to uninvolve itself from everything.

00:55:30.400 And one area where the government should certainly be involved

00:55:33.440 is in the protection and defense of vulnerable citizens who cannot protect or defend themselves.

00:55:37.880 Vulnerable citizens such as children who, if they manage to survive the gauntlet of the modern womb,

00:55:42.920 now face the very real possibility that they're going to have their minds warped by radical gender theorists

00:55:47.260 and then their bodies deformed to match their warped minds.

00:55:52.140 This is a place for the government to step in.

00:55:55.320 If this is not a place for government to step in,

00:55:57.660 then I can't imagine where else government should step in.

00:56:01.280 If this is not a job for the government, then what could be a job for the government?

00:56:05.900 If we, you know, restrain government here,

00:56:09.700 then how can we justify exerting the government anywhere else?

00:56:16.000 We can't.

00:56:17.260 I mean, that's clear.

00:56:18.580 It's clear even to Asa Hutchinson.

00:56:20.820 But he's decided to pretend that he doesn't understand what he certainly does understand.

00:56:25.640 And for that, today, we must transition Asa Hutchinson to the status of canceled.

00:56:33.480 And we'll leave it there for today.

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