The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 728 - The Fragile Weaklings Who Lead Us

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, AOC is still talking about the supposed trauma she experienced on

00:00:05.180 January 6th, even though she was never in any danger and never personally encountered any

00:00:09.320 rioters at all. We'll discuss also five headlines, including the media finally coming around to the

00:00:13.320 idea that COVID came from a Chinese lab after a year of insisting that this was all a conspiracy

00:00:18.240 theory. Funny how things change. Also, the White House finally acknowledges the surge in violent

00:00:22.800 crime in our cities, but pins the whole issue on lax gun control, of course. And students 0.53

00:00:27.080 at a school in New York were given a class on pornography without parental consent. And

00:00:32.220 our daily cancellation will discuss the push to normalize facial hair on women. Yeah, that's a 1.00

00:00:38.120 thing now. It is a thing. And we'll talk about it. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall

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00:02:32.040 January 6th, the one solitary example of right-wingers participating in a riot after months and years of

00:02:38.600 near non-stop left-wing riots, nearly five months later, many of our lawmakers, none of whom were

00:02:44.700 physically harmed in the incident, have not been able to emotionally recover. And they're always

00:02:49.620 eager to remind us of that fact. None so eager as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who appeared on a podcast 0.96

00:02:55.860 called Latino USA a few days ago to once again discuss her trauma. Now, personally, I'm traumatized

00:03:03.380 that the show is called Latino USA and not the more inclusive Latinx USA. But for whatever reason,

00:03:09.420 AOC chose to appear on this bigoted, transphobic show. During the course of the conversation,

00:03:14.700 she repeatedly claimed that what happened on January 6th was an attempted coup and that it was mere

00:03:21.380 seconds away from being successful. She also complained of her own emotional and psychological

00:03:25.620 trauma and said that she has been in therapy because of it. Let's listen to a little bit of that.

00:03:32.180 I think after the 6th, I took some time and it was really Ayanna Pressley when I explained to her

00:03:41.120 what had happened to me, like the day of, because I ran to her office and she was like, you need to

00:03:46.780 recognize trauma and that this is something that you went through, but we're all going through.

00:03:53.700 And it's really important to pause after that because that's how you process it.

00:03:59.500 And I feel like I learned this the hard way after my father had passed away when I was a teenager

00:04:06.020 because I was like, you know, first born, only daughter of a Latina family. You know how that

00:04:12.700 dynamic is and you need to like do everything. So that happened to me at a young age and I socked it

00:04:19.600 away. And I, I had to live with that for years. And so I learned my lesson then. And now I feel like

00:04:27.760 I've kind of taken, I've had to take a beat. If I take a couple months now and just be really good,

00:04:35.500 then I don't have to live with this thing festering and lingering with me like a roommate in my apartment

00:04:42.240 for years. So you're doing therapy. Yeah. Oh yeah. I I'm doing therapy, but also I've just

00:04:52.140 slowed down. I think the Trump administration had a lot of us, especially Latino communities

00:04:57.800 in a very reactive mode. And so I've been putting myself in a more proactive space.

00:05:07.520 There was a time when people would be embarrassed to admit that they're in therapy

00:05:12.140 and that was, that was wrong because it's not, it's not shameful in and of itself to be in

00:05:17.280 therapy, but we have, we've massively overcorrected to the, to the other side, to the other end of the

00:05:22.680 extreme. And you can be sure that, you know, that your trauma is especially severe when someone has

00:05:28.200 to tell you that you're suffering it. You know, now that you mention it, I am traumatized. That's how

00:05:34.280 you know you have the real stuff, right? That's how we think of trauma. Now we think of something

00:05:38.940 that you might not even know about. Uh, so you need someone to tell you, whether it's a therapist

00:05:44.080 or a friend to tell you that you're traumatized and that's how, you know, I think the thing with,

00:05:48.200 with, with real trauma is that no one needs to tell you. I mean, it's possible to really be

00:05:52.800 traumatized by traumatizing things, experiences. You don't need anyone to tell you that that's how you

00:05:59.360 feel because it's, it's abundantly clear. Now, before we talk more about the alleged trauma,

00:06:05.360 it, it, I think it must be clarified once again, and we have to keep clarifying it that, uh, what

00:06:09.980 happened on January 6th, 6th was not a, not a coup. Okay. It was not a near coup. It was not an

00:06:15.920 attempted coup. It was not an almost coup. It wasn't even coup adjacent. A coup is when a group of

00:06:23.320 people, usually a small group, violently overthrow the government. That's what a coup is. The people in

00:06:30.540 the Capitol building that day, they were not going to overthrow the government. They were not close to

00:06:35.860 overthrowing the government. There was no threat that they would overthrow the government. Overthrowing

00:06:41.360 the government was not on the menu of plausible outcomes that day. It was just not going to happen.

00:06:47.800 You know, what happened, it could have gone like any event. It could have gone many different ways,

00:06:52.580 but it couldn't have gone that way. The government was not getting overthrown.

00:06:56.780 And it, and it wasn't what they were trying to do anyway. If you actually think that our government

00:07:03.200 can be overthrown, overturned in a matter of a few hours by a bunch of hooligans taking selfies and

00:07:09.400 stealing furniture, then, uh, I, you know, I don't know what to tell you. January 6th, what, what was

00:07:14.260 it? It qualifies as a riot. And not everybody, um, who was there in DC that day was involved in a

00:07:21.380 riot, but, uh, but some were, and it qualifies as trespassing and it qualifies as vandalism in some

00:07:28.980 cases, but it was not a serious and organized attempt to actually overthrow and take over the

00:07:35.620 government, which means that it was not a coup and it was not an insurrection. And as has been pointed

00:07:42.520 out many times, and we must continue pointing out if it was a coup and an, and an insurrection, then that

00:07:48.140 label certainly applies to every single BLM riot that we've seen over the last many years. In fact,

00:07:54.600 now, as for the trauma, I think the assumption among many people on the right is that people like

00:08:01.380 AOC and all the other Democrats who've made similar claims are simply lying about their trauma. They're,

00:08:07.240 they're pretending to have been emotionally scarred. This is all one big fraudulent sob story.

00:08:11.980 And the evidence marshaled by those who take this position includes the fact that many Americans

00:08:16.580 across the country endured, as we just discussed, weeks of sustained violent rioting, and neither AOC

00:08:21.700 nor any other Democrat ever asked them about their trauma or showed any concern for it whatsoever.

00:08:28.220 AOC wasn't even in the, in the building when the riot happened or where it happened.

00:08:31.960 She at no point actually encountered the riots at all. She was in no danger whatsoever.

00:08:37.100 What about store owners who had to run out and seek cover while their shops were being looted and

00:08:42.180 burned? Many such cases. You know, it, it, it seems as if, if, if AOC had trauma, then they had

00:08:50.500 something much worse than trauma. Yet AOC and the other Democrats has no evident concern for them.

00:08:57.040 Far from it. In fact, they defend and romanticize the rioting in that case. So all of that is true.

00:09:03.300 Um, it's also true that AOC has a history of pretending to be upset and traumatized by things.

00:09:07.340 She has a history of shedding crocodile tears. Like when she pretended to cry in front of an empty 0.90

00:09:11.980 parking lot a few years ago, infamous, infamously. But even with all that said, yeah, I don't think

00:09:18.520 these people are necessarily lying about feeling traumatized. We should not underestimate or overlook

00:09:28.220 the fact that Washington DC is currently full of some of the weakest and most fragile human beings

00:09:35.060 on earth. These are not leaders. That's a big part of our problem right now, politically in this

00:09:41.040 country. And not just people who are weak and fragile, but who are in fact proud to be so.

00:09:50.380 That's why AOC is talking openly about needing therapy for this. If you do need therapy for it,

00:09:56.820 that's not something I'd be bragging about. If AOC though says that she's in, she's nearly incapacitated,

00:10:03.080 she's in a state of shock, still like trembling in fear because some people were trespassing in a

00:10:08.620 building across the way from her five months ago. Um, I think we should take her at a word.

00:10:13.180 We, we live in a culture overrun by people who are not able to process uncomfortable feelings or 0.97

00:10:20.760 difficult situations. People who run to therapy or reach for prescription drugs rather than simply

00:10:26.180 endure even the mildest difficulties. And in fact, when you think about it, it only makes sense that we

00:10:32.820 should be led by those kinds of people as well. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:51.600 That's Truebill.com slash Matt. Uh, I, I just, I wanted to mention not, not really a headline,

00:11:59.020 but I don't know if you knew that yesterday was, uh, hopefully you, you did know you, you celebrated,

00:12:03.640 um, that yesterday was Pan Visibility Day. Actually, I'm sorry. It's a Pansexual and Pan Romantic 1.00

00:12:12.100 Awareness and Visibility Day. So you gotta be aware of them and also make sure that they're visible.

00:12:17.620 Um, now the, the, the one thing, the one immediate problem that comes up when you think about trying

00:12:25.200 to make pansexual people more visible is that, uh, they don't exist, you know, because that's 1.00

00:12:31.620 not a thing. And so that's a problem when you want to be aware of people and you want them to be

00:12:36.020 visible, but they don't exist. It's, it's a little bit of a difficulty or, or, you know, it's, it could

00:12:41.000 go, I, there's one of two ways. Um, nobody's pansexual or maybe everybody is because it depends

00:12:48.920 on, on how you define it. So I did look this up because I wanted to participate in a Pansexual 0.94

00:12:55.620 Awareness and Visibility Day. I care deep, as you know, uh, I care deeply about these kinds of things.

00:13:00.960 And so I looked it up. There's a, in fact, Twitter linked to this. It's, um, a website called

00:13:07.400 Gendered Intelligence, Understanding Gender Diversity and in Creative Ways. This is a website

00:13:14.460 out of the UK. And, um, here's what they say. They say on Pan Visibility Day, we want to debunk

00:13:21.240 the misconceptions that still exist about being pansexual and panromantic. Bad representation,

00:13:27.440 visibility are crucial for recognition and ultimately for LGBTQ plus equality. Uh, okay.

00:13:33.600 So what is it? That's the question we all have. First things first, it's a real identity and not

00:13:38.220 a rare one. Pansexuality is still regarded as an identity by, as a disregarded as an identity by many,

00:13:44.280 but more and more people are coming out as pansexual, including celebrities and MPs like Layla

00:13:49.900 Morin. Uh, okay. A fun fact about the word pan is the Greek word for all. 0.78

00:13:55.460 Pansexuality doesn't mean liking or loving everyone you meet just because pansexual people

00:14:02.400 can feel attracted to people, regardless of their gender. It doesn't mean they'll feel

00:14:06.320 attracted or in love with everyone they meet. Um, okay. So this is just bisexual, I guess. Well, 1.00

00:14:13.580 no, it says pansexuality is not the same as bisexuality, but they can coexist. Bisexuality

00:14:18.920 means being attracted to more than one gender. So many bisexual people also identify as pansexual

00:14:24.640 and vice versa. What being bisexual and pansexual means is ultimately down to each individual.

00:14:31.640 Definitions are there to guide us, but they're not ultimate truths. Everyone has their own

00:14:36.340 interpretation of what an identity means and that's totally okay. So this was a, this is a

00:14:41.240 reference guide that I think Twitter linked to and Twitter would never steer us wrong.

00:14:45.000 And this is supposed to tell us what, what pansexual people are on pan visibility day and

00:14:49.940 awareness day. And, uh, there are a whole bunch of words, no definition. It's not anything

00:14:54.900 kind of beats around the bush a little bit. And then when we get down to the brass tacks,

00:14:59.520 it tells us that, well, you know, definitions, what's a definition anyway? It's whatever you want

00:15:05.620 it to be. So go back to the beginning. Either there are no pansexuals or maybe everybody is 0.94

00:15:11.620 because it could be anything. Maybe I'm a pansexual. It's possible. Um, all right, let's go here.

00:15:18.840 Number one, former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo might also be pansexual for all we know. He was

00:15:24.080 on a Fox yesterday. He says that he's convinced that COVID came from a Chinese lab. And what you're

00:15:30.360 about to hear if this was a month ago and anytime before that, uh, this would be condemned as

00:15:38.140 conspiracy mongering and so on. But now all of a sudden, this is a, this is an acceptable theory.

00:15:43.560 Let's listen to him. And so there are many things the United States government could do to impose

00:15:47.780 real costs on the Chinese communist party until they come clean about what they know and what they

00:15:52.140 did. We know for sure they covered up this virus. I am confident that we will find that the evidence

00:15:57.980 that we have seen today is consistent with a lab leak. And I'm convinced that's what we'll see. If

00:16:01.920 I'm wrong, I hope the Chinese communist party will come forward and make a fool. If only we had, if 1.00

00:16:06.820 this is the true, and this happened November of 2019, if only the world would have known, think about

00:16:14.940 how much grief this planet would have been spared. Oh, Bill, I remember talking with Dr. Redfield

00:16:23.060 about this at great length. We were working so hard. HHS, Secretary Azar, myself, we were working

00:16:28.960 so hard to get this information. This would have been early January of 2020 when we were still trying

00:16:34.160 to figure out precisely what was about to hit the world. And the Chinese communist party had gone

00:16:38.140 completely dark. They wouldn't take our phone calls. They wouldn't answer our questions. We sent

00:16:42.120 inquiries. We couldn't get a straight answer. Our ambassador, Ambassador Branstad, couldn't get a

00:16:47.940 straight answer. The Chinese communist party clearly knew they had a problem. They didn't want the world to 0.94

00:16:51.800 know it. And I'm convinced they still know they have a problem and don't want us to know it.

00:16:56.520 Yeah, this is, I mean, I was saying months ago at the very beginning, this to me seems

00:17:02.660 this has shades of Chernobyl. This seems a lot like Chernobyl, a lot of ways. And that's assuming

00:17:10.980 that the virus leaked from a lab intentionally and there was no purpose behind it. I think that's

00:17:17.660 another thing we don't, we just don't know. But this is kind of like Chernobyl, but a lot worse

00:17:24.060 in terms of the death toll and the global implications. But this is something that you're

00:17:30.960 allowed to say now. Now you're allowed to say it. But as you recall, for months and months,

00:17:37.860 this was a conspiracy theory. And I think there are a couple of things going on here

00:17:44.080 for why the media has changed course on this. Partly they've changed course because they have no

00:17:51.720 choice. The evidence more and more is pointing in that direction. The evidence is always pointed in

00:17:57.100 that direction. But what we know from the media is they don't, they don't want you drawing conclusions

00:18:06.980 before they tell you to draw them. A lot of this is about power and control. Now I think the

00:18:13.920 assumption from a lot of people on the right is the media is trying to cover for the communist

00:18:18.420 Chinese government. I'm sure there's some of that. I think there's also just your standard

00:18:24.620 ordinary narcissism among these people in the media. Where they say, no, no, no, you wait for us.

00:18:32.240 We'll tell you. We, along with certain people in government and the so-called experts,

00:18:38.800 we will tell you when you're allowed to believe X, Y, Z. That's up to us to decide.

00:18:47.420 What we've seen with COVID over the last year, and this of course predates COVID,

00:18:51.920 but especially over the last year, there's been this just all out attack on common sense

00:18:58.720 where you're not allowed to make common sense judgments. And you didn't have to be an expert.

00:19:05.580 You didn't have to be in the intelligence community to a year ago, look at the situation and say,

00:19:13.720 huh, this came from Wuhan. They've got this lab right there in Wuhan. What are the chances?

00:19:23.880 What are the chances that coincidentally, with no connection, you've got this global pandemic,

00:19:31.280 this virus that originates in an area of the world where they've also got this lab there?

00:19:35.620 I mean, there's a chance that it's coincidental, but from the beginning, it seemed like most likely

00:19:42.520 this is a, there's a lot of smoke, there's probably a fire situation.

00:19:47.160 When choosing between, you know, when you have two options and one is a wild, incredible coincidence,

00:19:54.600 and the other is where you, where there are a couple of dots that are easily connected and you

00:20:00.320 connect them. And if you have no other information, it doesn't make any sense to assume that the

00:20:05.920 coincidence is, is, is the explanation. And certainly at least it's worth talking about,

00:20:14.460 but these are, that's a common sense conclusion. Just like the people from the very beginning who said,

00:20:21.360 why, you know, why are we telling people they can't walk around outside? Why are we shutting

00:20:26.460 down parks and playgrounds? Why are we shutting down, um, beaches? Why are people wearing masks

00:20:33.200 when they're walking around outside? This doesn't make any sense. It's, it's, there's, there's no

00:20:36.400 common sense. Use your common sense. This is this, we shouldn't be doing this, but that's another one

00:20:42.640 where yet now the so-called experts in the media, they've gone on board with that a year later

00:20:47.300 after screaming at us that if we made that argument up until now, we were trying to kill 0.97

00:20:53.140 everyone's grandmothers. Um, so I think that's a lot of what this is. It's an attack on common sense.

00:20:59.980 And part of the reason why there's this attack on common sense happening on the part of the media

00:21:03.760 is that they want you to wait for them so that they have that control and power because they're

00:21:10.100 more intelligent than you and me. And they'll tell us when we're allowed to think, uh, anything really.

00:21:17.300 All right. Number two is from the daily wire. It says parents of students attending Columbia

00:21:20.720 grammar and preparatory school in Manhattan were furious after the school forced students to take

00:21:25.140 an explicit class on pornography without parental consent. Of course, the school at first denied

00:21:31.340 hosting the workshop, then later apologized. The class, which involved the slideshow and a lecture

00:21:36.840 by an instructor featured raunchy images and presentations on porn genres and only fans, a subscription

00:21:43.780 website used largely for pornography. The New York post detailed the workshop. Let's see how much of

00:21:48.620 this I can actually read. Um, the often explicit slide presentation and lecture by the person's name

00:21:55.620 is, uh, Fonte, Justine Ang Fonte is the, uh, lecture. The presentation lecture by Fonte to the 120

00:22:04.000 boys and girls included lessons on how porn takes care of three big male vulnerability vulnerabilities,

00:22:09.780 statistics on the orgasm gap showing straight women have far fewer orgasms with their partners than

00:22:16.100 gay men or women and photos of partially nude women, some in bondage bondage to analyze what is porn and 0.90

00:22:23.320 what is art. Uh, Fonte's presentation, some of which was seen by the post included a list of the most 0.68

00:22:29.780 searched pornographic terms of 2019, including, and now there are a bunch of things that I know I can't

00:22:34.940 read on the air. Um, one slide cited various porn genres such as incest themed consensual, barely legal

00:22:45.460 and kink and BDSM. Um, the workshop was designed and taught by Justine Ang Fonte, the health director

00:22:55.100 at Dalton, another top prep school. And by the way, I looked up her bio, um, and her bio says that she's

00:23:01.640 on Twitter anyway, so she's a passionate, she, they health educator fighting for a more sex positive

00:23:07.520 world. Uh, so that's what's happening at that school. I mean, this is, this is a slightly more

00:23:13.500 grotesque and explicit version of the kind of sex sex ed that you find in schools all across the

00:23:19.260 country. So you might say, well, yeah, this is some fancy school in New York. Bunch of far left

00:23:26.660 wackos are there, mostly far left wackos sending their kids there. Of course, this is happening 0.86

00:23:31.600 there. It's not happening in my kid's school. They would never do that. Uh, I wouldn't be so sure.

00:23:38.040 This is again, slightly more explicit than if, if your kid is 16 years old and is in a public school,

00:23:46.280 they've probably had a lesson similar to this, maybe slightly more toned down.

00:23:51.440 But that's what, that's what sex ed is. That's the whole point. That's the whole point of sex ed in

00:23:58.860 school. Now what they call a comprehensive sex education. That's the term of art for it. So if 0.97

00:24:06.660 your kid's been through a quote unquote comprehensive sex education course, they've been through stuff

00:24:10.100 like this, which is why I have always said that, and this should have been our argument all along.

00:24:17.440 It shouldn't have been, uh, let's reform sex ed or let's make sure there's parental consent before 1.00

00:24:23.540 or any of that. Our argument all along should have been this shouldn't, none of this should be in,

00:24:29.980 be taught in school at all. Yes, there should be no sex ed in school at all. Nothing called sex ed.

00:24:37.620 We want to teach about human reproduction. Great. That's for science. We want to talk about the,

00:24:47.000 the, the body parts and how they function. Fantastic. Well, there's, there are classes for

00:24:51.400 that anatomy. You know, that's anatomy, that's biology. 0.63

00:24:56.840 So I'm not saying that the school should overlook the scientific facts of human reproduction entirely.

00:25:04.940 No, although we're getting to a point now where I don't trust the school to teach those subjects

00:25:09.780 either, because who knows what they're telling kids about? How do you determine a male from a

00:25:13.700 female and that kind of thing? But in an ideal scenario, yeah, obviously you're going to teach 1.00

00:25:18.500 that stuff in school because these are scientific facts, but there is no reason why the school should

00:25:24.560 go beyond that at all. We don't need to get into any of, uh, you know, you're trying to shape

00:25:32.540 how kids view sexuality, giving them advice on how to engage in it, when to engage in it. None of 0.72

00:25:42.760 that. Your own, your own per as a teacher, your own personal moral and ethical views on these

00:25:49.280 subjects. None of that should be in the school. It's not the place for it. That should have been

00:25:56.320 our message all along on the right, but, but it wasn't. And so now you end up with this kind of

00:26:01.400 thing. And the other thing you have to keep in mind is that, you know, the schools believe

00:26:06.360 that they have total control over your kids and that they are more, you know, that, that,

00:26:14.340 that their moral claim to your children supersedes your own because they're the educators and you're

00:26:22.960 sending your kid to them for six or seven hours a day. And so they, they really believe most of the

00:26:28.320 people running these schools across the country. They really believe that as a parent, it's, it's,

00:26:34.160 it's actually none of your business. What's happening at school. If your kid comes out as 1.00

00:26:41.300 transgender at school and all the teachers know it, it's none of your business. They don't have to tell 1.00

00:26:46.960 you that. That's, that's the attitude. And, um, so when you send your kid into school, that's

00:26:54.940 what you're encountering. That's what they're encountering. I should say. All right. Number

00:26:59.620 three from the daily mail says Joe Biden, uh, will skip a commencement ceremony traditionally

00:27:04.240 attended by presidents amid a row of pro-abortion views of the Catholic university. Biden's administration

00:27:09.000 will be the first since Bill Clinton's to skip the university of Notre Dame's commencement ceremony

00:27:13.020 after more than 4,000 students and alumni signed a petition urging school officials not to invite

00:27:18.100 the president over his pro-choice view on abortion. A white house official told the Catholic news

00:27:23.020 agency on May 11th that the president was invited to give a commencement speech and receive an honorary

00:27:27.220 degree from the school, but would not attend due to a scheduling conflict. So they're saying it's a

00:27:32.220 scheduling conflict, but really, you know, they don't want to send Joe Biden in to give this

00:27:36.320 commencement address and then it's a protest or something. And so that's why they're not doing it

00:27:39.180 to save him the embarrassment. Uh, this is a, this is a rare encouraging story. So I'm glad we put it

00:27:44.460 in here. It's not so much encouraging on the part of school that they invited him to speak in the

00:27:48.760 first place, but this is what we expect from Notre Dame, the people running that school. It's been that

00:27:52.560 way for a long time, but at least the students and some faculty members did the right thing and said,

00:27:59.580 no, you can't send, uh, he, he doesn't, but this is, this is supposed to be a Catholic university.

00:28:07.140 We can't have him here speaking, especially because he claims to be a Catholic. Now I think 0.98

00:28:12.440 for a five, if memory serves me and based on this article, Obama spoke at a commencement at Notre

00:28:19.780 Dame, even though he obviously is far left pro-abortion and that was horrible and never should have

00:28:26.860 happened. But that wouldn't be as bad as Joe Biden speaking because at least Obama doesn't claim to

00:28:33.460 be a Catholic. And so there's no confusion there, but there's a real, there's a real scandal when

00:28:40.120 you've got these politicians who claim to be Catholic, but clearly aren't. And then they're given

00:28:44.920 platforms by Catholic institutions. That's a real scandal. That's a real problem. And yes, I can say

00:28:51.840 that I can say that Joe Biden is not Catholic, no matter what he says, I am in a position where I

00:28:59.100 can declare, not because I have any special authority, but simply because being Catholic means

00:29:04.620 something. And, and anyone who is Catholic, we have to insist that it means something.

00:29:12.780 Now on the left, they can make up labels and identities that mean nothing. Pansexual can mean, 0.88

00:29:18.020 means everything means nothing. Fine. Being a Catholic means something. And one of the most 0.95

00:29:23.880 fundamental things that it means is that you accept the moral authority of the church. If you don't

00:29:27.200 accept the moral authority of the church, you don't have to. There's no law saying you have to in this

00:29:31.640 country. And if you don't, okay, but then you're not a Catholic, obviously. If you think of the Catholic

00:29:40.060 church as just, you know, just, just a human institution like any other, um, prone to make moral errors and so

00:29:47.420 on, then, then, okay, but clearly you're not a Catholic. And that's what Joe Biden believes.

00:29:53.700 Even if he doesn't say it, that's obviously what he believes because he thinks that the Catholic 0.60

00:29:57.960 church got it wrong on this central moral issue. And not just this one, but many others.

00:30:05.620 More news from the white house. Jen Psaki was asked about, uh, the, the rise in violent crime and

00:30:15.100 she acknowledged it for a change, but here's what she pins it on. Let's listen.

00:30:20.560 4,000 more people shot and killed by guns in 2020 compared to the year before. Is there a crime problem

00:30:28.100 in this country? Well, I would say certainly there is a guns problem. Uh, and that's something the 0.96

00:30:33.980 president would say. And there are communities where, uh, local violence and community violence

00:30:38.540 is an issue. And that's one of the reasons that we have proposed and have now are implementing

00:30:43.780 funding for community violence prevention programs across the country. I will say, um, that we don't

00:30:50.080 often highlight, and you just gave me the opportunity to, the fact that between mass shootings, mass

00:30:55.820 shootings that get a lot of attention, that we lower the flags, there are hundreds, thousands of people

00:31:00.900 who lose their lives. And that's one of the reasons the president will continue to advocate

00:31:05.240 for the Senate passing, uh, back universal background checks, but also advocate for actions

00:31:10.460 in states where we have seen, uh, the greatest level of activism over the past several years.

00:31:15.220 Does COVID have anything to do with the increase in numbers that we've seen in the last year?

00:31:19.260 Uh, in terms of local community violence, it's, it's an interesting question. I'd have to ask

00:31:23.560 our team to check on that. I know as I started off this briefing, giving an update on that,

00:31:27.960 we've seen, uh, statistics on domestic violence. Um, and obviously we know that there are, um, uh,

00:31:33.720 the loss of life at the hands of gun violence, uh, is often, uh, too often suicide, uh, can be

00:31:39.680 domestic violence. And we've seen statistics as, as it relates to the impact on mental health, but

00:31:44.540 I'd have to check with experts on the assessment of that. Okay. So I, I guess I should correct

00:31:49.440 myself because I said that she acknowledges the, uh, the crime epidemic, but not really,

00:31:57.240 they're not acknowledging that she says, well, not a crime, but there's a gun problem specifically.

00:32:03.700 No, there's a crime problem. Uh, our cities across the country are beset by crime or ravaged

00:32:10.220 by crime by violent crime and nonviolent crime and all kinds of crime. Uh, but mostly violent crime

00:32:15.940 and not all of it involves guns. In fact, a lot of it doesn't. And of those that do involve guns,

00:32:23.620 of course, the, the, uh, I don't think I need to spend much time on this because we're probably on

00:32:27.220 the same page. The, the suggestion that all you have to do is have stricter gun laws and that's

00:32:33.700 going to solve the problem is it is it's an, it's an insult to our intelligence. It's absurd.

00:32:39.020 We, we, we can start with the fact that in many of these cities, almost all of these cities are blue,

00:32:47.640 um, run by Democrats and they already have strict gun laws and that has accomplished nothing.

00:32:58.660 There's, there's no evidence that especially in these cities, as you make the gun laws stricter,

00:33:04.620 it makes the crime go away. If that was going to be the trend, we should see some evidence of that.

00:33:11.580 And we don't. So they already have these laws. Um, the average criminal in let's say Baltimore city,

00:33:21.960 if you got some 18 year old gangbanger out there or younger, a lot of times,

00:33:27.480 let's say, let's just take a, you know, a hypothetical case, but one that happens many

00:33:34.460 times every day in cities across the country, um, and accounts for a big, a great portion of,

00:33:41.220 of the homicides. So you've got a, um, a teenage male gangbanger running up and shooting someone else,

00:33:51.000 um, over a dispute, a drug related dispute, trying to protect his corner or whatever.

00:33:58.860 Okay. How many crimes have been committed in that act? Because we, we can already guarantee

00:34:07.660 that the gun he's using is an illegal gun. He did not, he didn't go to a gun. He most likely

00:34:14.080 didn't go to a gun gun shop and fill out the paperwork and present his ID and do all of that.

00:34:20.620 He got the gun some other way. So he's already by possessing the gun, he's already committing a

00:34:27.040 crime by using the gun to shoot someone. He's committing a crime. He's involved in, in, uh,

00:34:35.500 he's, he's a drug dealer. He's committing a crime there. Like many, many crimes committed in that one act.

00:34:41.660 So by making more laws, so let's say that he, let's say that in that one act, he commits

00:34:50.180 six different crimes. Okay. Pass more laws. And instead of committing six crimes, he commits 10

00:34:57.440 or 20. It doesn't matter. Pass so many laws so that in that one act of shooting the other drug

00:35:04.700 dealer on the street corner, he commits 50 crimes. Well, commit, commits six crimes or 50 break six

00:35:14.160 laws or 50 laws. What difference does it make? If the six laws didn't do it, I don't think adding

00:35:19.320 a bunch more will make a difference, especially when you're not enforcing the laws that are already

00:35:24.720 on the books. And what, what do you need to enforce laws? Let me think for a second.

00:35:33.340 Who are those people? Right now I'm blanking. Who are those people that are in charge of enforcing

00:35:38.360 laws? What do we call them? Law enforcement. Oh, that's it. Yeah. Law and it's actually law

00:35:43.720 enforcement officers are the people who enforce the laws. So for the laws we have in the books right now,

00:35:49.080 we need, we need those people to do that job. And if you make more laws, then probably need even more

00:35:54.940 law enforcement officers to enforce all the extra laws that we have. But on the left, they want to

00:36:02.040 have more laws and fewer people to enforce them. You want to talk about trends. Okay. How does that

00:36:10.380 work? More? So laws are, they want laws to go up like this, but then law enforcement to go down like

00:36:15.560 that. There's a big gap here. And that gap is a problem. And that gap gets filled in with a lot more

00:36:23.140 violence and a lot more crime. Speaking of law enforcement, let me, I want to talk about this as

00:36:31.440 well. Because cops were actually, I noticed this on social media, cops were receiving some praise on

00:36:37.260 social media for a change. After bringing, this happened a couple of days ago, they brought a quadruple

00:36:42.420 murder suspect. They brought him in. He was on the lam. They brought him in safely. No, no shots fired.

00:36:48.440 Nobody was killed. And so that's why the cops were actually being praised. But let's listen to this

00:36:54.880 story from Fox. Okay. It says the days long manhunt for quadruple murder suspect, Tyler Terry, came to

00:37:02.240 an end in South Carolina Monday morning without violence after authorities launched a massive operation

00:37:07.160 involving a force of 300 officers to squeeze out the suspect from his hiding place. The Chester County

00:37:12.300 Sheriff's Office said Terry was safely taken into custody near Highway 9 and Highway 99 in Chester

00:37:17.360 County. They said no shots were fired by any party and that neither Terry nor any of the officers were

00:37:21.820 injured during his capture. Law enforcement received praise on social media following the announcement

00:37:26.320 that the manhunt ended safely with no injuries to the suspect or officers. One user wrote,

00:37:30.880 exceptional work bringing this to a peaceful end. Another said, great job to all. Thankfully,

00:37:34.820 all are okay. Another one said, I knew they would take him alive. Cops don't act like that around here.

00:37:42.460 Way to go. Terry, 26, have been evading police since running from a car wreck after a high-speed chase

00:37:48.480 last Monday night in Chester County. Since then, officers, dogs, helicopters, and drones had searched

00:37:53.260 the woods, neighborhoods, and industrial areas for Terry. The strong perimeter of 200 officers in place

00:37:59.960 overnight grew to more than 300 by the early morning with officers from cities, counties, state,

00:38:03.800 and federal agencies joining the manhunt, according to the Chester County Sheriff's Office.

00:38:07.760 All right. So that's the story. They brought the guy in. That's great. And they did it peacefully.

00:38:14.820 And there are no, he wasn't killed in the process. And we should also note that the suspect here,

00:38:22.100 Tyler Terry, is a black man. And that's kind of interesting. Because we're told that all cops do

00:38:32.660 when they're bringing a black suspect in is they just murder the guy with no provocation. Or they 0.99

00:38:38.500 wait for the slightest provocation. Itchy trigger fingers, and they're just looking to murder him. 0.98

00:38:43.100 Yet here you have a black man wanted for four murders, known to be armed and dangerous, on the 0.97

00:38:52.680 lamb, and they managed to bring him in. And this is being used as an example. And even some people 0.84

00:38:59.640 on the left are saying, hey, why can't, if they could do that with this guy, why can't cops always do

00:39:06.140 that? Well, let's, let's look at what was required. First of all, 300 law enforcement officers were

00:39:16.260 involved in cornering this guy and finding him. And I'm sure that had something to do with the fact

00:39:22.460 that he was taken peacefully, that he knew he had literally nowhere to go. So there were a whole lot

00:39:30.140 of law enforcement officers going to find this guy. Do we think maybe it would have gone differently?

00:39:36.460 He's hiding out in the woods. And if they sent in like two or three officers to go apprehend him,

00:39:42.880 we think maybe it would have gone differently. Maybe he would have said to himself, oh, I could

00:39:46.300 definitely get away. All I got to do is, you know, run away from these people, maybe kill him, 1.00

00:39:50.380 whatever I have to do. 300 is different. I can't get away from 300 people. So they brought him in 1.00

00:39:58.300 safely, which is great. They said 300 officers. And, and also as far as what says, no shots were

00:40:05.780 fired, which means that the suspect didn't instigate any violence. It seems as far as we

00:40:13.180 know, he didn't fight them. He certainly didn't fire any, he didn't shoot at them. He didn't try to

00:40:16.380 kill them. He didn't, he didn't, uh, you know, get in a car and drive it right at them. Nothing

00:40:21.260 like that. So that's how it ended safely. And what does that tell us? What lesson can we bring

00:40:28.420 from that? Number one, you need law enforcement officers. And sometimes you need a lot of them.

00:40:33.960 And when you're dealing with a really dangerous person, you need a whole lot of them.

00:40:40.960 The more you have in that situation, the safer it's going to be for everyone involved, including

00:40:45.120 the suspect. And what does that mean? It means, yeah, we probably shouldn't be defunding,

00:40:51.480 uh, police departments. We should be funding them. A lot of these cities, a lot of these places,

00:40:58.360 they need more officers, not fewer. Then more officers are going to make everyone safer.

00:41:03.880 Including the criminals are going to be safer. Um, and we also learned from this that even if

00:41:10.260 you're a very dangerous, very bad guy, if you don't fight the police officers or try to kill them

00:41:17.260 while they're bringing you in, you will almost certainly survive the encounter and you'll be 0.97

00:41:23.160 brought in safely. No matter who you are, no matter what crime you committed, no matter what your race

00:41:29.340 is, it's funny how that works. So I think that to me, that's the lesson I take from this.

00:41:36.320 All right, let's go now to reading the YouTube comments. Um, JD says, Matt, I get that you want

00:41:44.780 people to speak up about these issues. However, I think the problem for many is not having the

00:41:48.400 platform to adequately do so. Considering the few that are available will swiftly de-platform those who

00:41:53.900 speak out in opposition. As a result, I believe a more effective objective is to first create our own

00:41:57.800 infrastructure. So people that are willing to challenge these ideologies cannot be silenced.

00:42:02.180 If they took down the daily wire tomorrow, then blocked you from Twitter and Facebook,

00:42:06.340 similarly to what they did to Steven Crowder, your ability to speak out effectively would be nearly

00:42:10.940 eliminated. I'm not saying I know what the solution is, but I think the days where simply letting our 1.00

00:42:15.340 voices be heard, um, had any substantial power are far gone. Okay. So there's two quick points here.

00:42:21.480 I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but first of all, um, there's, there's no escaping the

00:42:31.780 responsibility that we all have to speak up. And I'm not saying if we all speak up that magically

00:42:38.240 everything will be better tomorrow, but you're, you're referencing, I think specifically what we 0.95

00:42:43.440 talked about top of the show yesterday, the, the gender ideology madness, kids that are being sucked

00:42:49.540 into this thing, being mutilated and destroyed permanently, disfigured, drugged, and all of that.

00:42:55.980 Um, uh, what I know for sure is that if the sane, decent people in this country are silent and what we

00:43:04.600 already are, many already are silent. If they remain silent, then there's nothing that can be done.

00:43:09.880 There's no hope because there are a whole lot of people that look at this or many other situations.

00:43:16.660 They know that it's wrong. They know that it's awful, but they don't say anything because they're

00:43:21.060 afraid. And as long as that's going to continue, then there's no hope. So this, that's the

00:43:26.440 responsibility that we all have as far as building infrastructures and that sort of thing. So we're

00:43:30.260 not as susceptible to being shut down by Facebook and Twitter and all that. I totally agree with you

00:43:33.780 there and not to turn this into a, a, uh, shameless promotion or, or advertisement, but that's one of

00:43:40.020 the reasons why the daily wire is trying to build up a subscriber base so that we're not as,

00:43:43.860 um, susceptible and vulnerable to Facebook just coming along and saying, nevermind, you don't,

00:43:48.980 you don't get to exist anymore, which they could do to, you know, many conservative voices and,

00:43:55.280 and, and outlets. So become a, become a member today. Um, Noah says, Hey Matt, I didn't agree

00:44:03.680 with you on the pit bull argument until today I was at the neighbor's house and there were a pit bull

00:44:08.020 broke out of the room, ran at me and bit me for no discernible reason. Many such cases, 0.89

00:44:13.140 many such cases, but they're cute though, right? They're cute until they're, they're, they're, uh,

00:44:19.180 you know, gnawing at your arm till they rip your arm off. They're very cute. And that's what matters.

00:44:24.820 Michelle says, how is affirmative care at all helpful? What if we told schizophrenics, uh, 0.99

00:44:29.560 we'll agree with whatever you say and not challenge your delusions at all. The whole point

00:44:32.880 of therapy is that it's supposed to challenge delusion to root out mental disease and hopefully

00:44:36.820 discover a useful treatment. Yeah. The whole idea of affirmative care is a, is a, is an oxymoron. 0.74

00:44:44.040 It's, it's a contradiction in terms. It's a non sequitur. It doesn't make any sense.

00:44:48.840 Uh, if someone's coming in and they're plagued by a delusion of any kind, you're as a, as a

00:44:54.020 therapist, if you have any role at all, if you're going to, if you're going to be useful at all,

00:44:57.180 it should be to help them overcome that delusion, not affirm it. Um, Nate B says, just stop talking,

00:45:04.880 dude. You don't know what you're talking about. Well, you know what, Nate, you make a very good

00:45:12.200 point. I really, I hadn't thought of it that way, but as I read this now, and I look at the argument

00:45:17.200 that you presented, you say, and this is fascinating. You say, just stop talking, dude,

00:45:21.500 which is, which is already profound enough. But then you also say, you don't know what you're

00:45:25.540 talking about. And I, and I had never considered that until you presented this argument like that.

00:45:30.600 And now, I mean, frankly, my whole, I can see my whole worldview is sort of crumbling right now

00:45:35.060 in my head. I'm questioning everything I thought because of that. So thank you so much for that,

00:45:41.140 uh, really intelligent argument. I really appreciate it. Um, and, uh, finally,

00:45:48.280 uh, where, where is finally, here it is. According to history channels, ancient aliens,

00:45:55.880 I and all others with negative blood are descended from aliens. Maybe that's why I'm so anxious to

00:46:00.860 get off this planet. You know what? I think you're joking, but ancient aliens, they're going to be

00:46:05.820 the one, the people involved in ancient aliens and history channel, which has long been one of my

00:46:08.820 favorite shows, which you can probably tell they are going to have the ultimate. I told you so moment

00:46:14.540 in the end, they're going to be the ones. And they may be the only ones who survive when the,

00:46:20.960 when the alien invasion begins, who knows? Well, it's time to take the mask off,

00:46:25.040 which you really should have never been wearing in the first place. Um, but what we're going to do

00:46:28.980 is take the mask off in a few different ways with, uh, the latest backstage where we make sense of

00:46:33.640 the senseless events that have taken place over the past month. So join Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro,

00:46:37.620 Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan tomorrow night, Wednesday, May 26th for another cigar and reason

00:46:42.240 packed episode of backstage. It streams at seven o'clock Eastern 6 PM central on dailywire.com

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00:47:29.600 daily cancellation. Today with righteous rage, we're going to cancel Glamour magazine. Glamour's

00:47:36.840 website recently featured a story with a headline that you already know is going to be a problem

00:47:40.640 because it contains the word empowering. Uh, it also contains the word normalize, which is even more

00:47:45.460 problematic. So putting it all together, the headline declares this empowering Instagram photo

00:47:50.060 to normalize facial hair for anyone who's grown up believing it's something to be ashamed of just

00:47:55.500 went viral. Now the article reads because you need to hear this very important news. It says whether

00:48:01.780 you remove yours with waxing, shaving, or sugaring, sugaring the hell is that or embrace it in all its 0.66

00:48:09.580 glory. What you do with your body hair is totally your choice. We were all born with it and it's our

00:48:14.420 right to show it off as we damn well please, which is why we have a serious amount of time for this

00:48:18.660 photo doing the rounds on Instagram. Joanna J. Kenny, a 31 year old British esthetician took to

00:48:24.060 Instagram to share a closeup snap of her upper lip hair in all its glory. Gross. Upper lip hair in all 1.00

00:48:30.840 its glory. Alongside the most empowering caption. For all of my dark haired friends, I'm wearing my new

00:48:37.840 lipstick and blue mascara to remind you all that facial hair is normal. She captioned the picture of

00:48:43.140 her upper lip. Joanna explains that she first started noticing upper lip hair in general facial

00:48:47.480 fuzz when she was a teen. Quite rightly, the skincare guru explains that like acne, pores, lines, and

00:48:52.860 wrinkles, facial hair is airbrushed from most forms of media, which she says is most people's point of

00:48:58.240 reference to determine what is normal. So this is me normalizing facial hair for anyone who's grown up

00:49:02.900 believing it's something to be ashamed of. She signs off. Obviously, she amassed plenty of supportive

00:49:07.180 comments from her followers with people thinking, thanking her for sharing the unfiltered post.

00:49:11.380 And then we're then informed that this is not the first time this woman has posted to celebrate

00:49:15.840 facial hair on women. The article says that she recently shared a list of all the reasons why

00:49:20.560 her facial hair makes her beautiful. And it's so empowering. I'm not going to read the list because

00:49:26.260 frankly, I'm too repulsed at this point to do that. We're going to completely also leave to the side

00:49:30.860 the issue that the left really can't normalize bearded women at this point, as they've already made it 1.00

00:49:35.900 clear that bearded women are probably men anyway. I mean, they expanded gender roles until the whole 0.99

00:49:40.720 thing snapped back like a rubber band and is now more constricted than ever. So now we must suspect,

00:49:46.360 at least according to modern logic, that any woman who wants to grow a beard is probably actually a man 1.00

00:49:51.440 trapped in a woman's body. But as I said, we'll ignore that logistical complication for now.

00:49:56.660 What about this idea that it's beautiful and should be normalized for women to grow facial hair? 0.54

00:50:03.460 My short answer to that is no. Gross. Stop. My longer answer is seriously disgusting. What are you 0.70

00:50:12.120 doing? My even longer answer is that there's a reason why, to my knowledge, no culture has ever

00:50:17.800 embraced female facial hair as the pinnacle of feminine beauty. Go back even to the ancient Egyptians

00:50:24.600 and women were shaving and removing hair by whatever primitive means were available to them. 1.00

00:50:29.300 My understanding is that they would attach jellyfish to their faces and singe it off. And when I say

00:50:34.700 that was my understanding, I mean that I made it up. But in any case, the point is women have always 0.99

00:50:39.220 removed that kind of unsightly hair. Why? Well, there's a reason why facial hair on men is considered

00:50:47.740 attractive while facial hair on women is not. And this is an important point because we hear all about 0.70

00:50:52.500 the beauty standards and it's supposed to all be arbitrary. It's not arbitrary much of the time.

00:50:57.600 So what's the difference? Well, namely that facial hair is largely a product of testosterone.

00:51:03.620 Women are biologically inclined to pursue men with higher levels of testosterone. Some of this 0.95

00:51:10.140 biological conditioning may be under siege in recent years as some women these days gravitate towards 1.00

00:51:15.620 more sort of androgynous effeminate types. You know, the scrawny, sexless, hairless Gumby's who look

00:51:21.700 like Voldemort if he grew a nose and joined a boy band. Those guys exist and there are women who, 1.00

00:51:26.180 for whatever reason, find them appealing. But for the most part, even now, women, whether they're

00:51:30.980 conscious of it or not, will prefer men who give off signs of virility and strength. On the other

00:51:37.740 hand, men, again, with some notable exceptions, are not looking for the same sorts of things in a

00:51:43.480 woman. If a man wanted a woman who was like a man, he'd be gay. If he isn't gay, then he wants a woman 0.96

00:51:49.620 who's a woman. And on women, from a man's perspective, facial hair does not signal desirable 1.00

00:51:54.660 things as it does on men for women. Instead, it signals poor hygiene and a woman who doesn't care 1.00

00:52:02.660 about her appearance and doesn't take care of her appearance. Of course, a woman is free to present 1.00

00:52:06.740 that way if she wants, but she can't be offended when men are repulsed. Because we're told sexual

00:52:12.760 orientation, right, it's not changeable. It's immutable. So as heterosexual men, we want what

00:52:19.220 we want and we can't help it. And we don't want to be tickled by a woman's mustache when we go in 1.00

00:52:24.040 for the kiss. That's just, that's not what we want. That's not our sexual orientation.

00:52:28.760 Is it possible to change all of this? I mean, could you, over time, condition men to find hairy,

00:52:36.280 unkempt, slovenly women attractive? Could you condition them even to prefer that sort of presentation? 1.00

00:52:41.620 Is this all a matter of arbitrary social constructs that can be changed? Is beauty truly in the eye of

00:52:48.860 the beholder? Well, those are all different questions, I suppose. And the answer to the

00:52:53.380 last question is no. Beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder. There is an objective quality to

00:53:00.640 beauty. Like there are things that are objectively beautiful and things that are objectively ugly.

00:53:07.020 And if you think that an objectively ugly thing is beautiful, it's not just your perspective,

00:53:14.320 you're actually wrong. You have the wrong perspective. We hear so much about shifting

00:53:19.840 beauty standards. And it's true that superficial preferences may change over time. But the fact is

00:53:25.460 that a woman who everyone would find beautiful today would be seen as beautiful probably at any

00:53:32.400 time in history anywhere in the world. There is no time or place or culture that would shriek in

00:53:37.980 horror and revulsion at the sight of Marilyn Monroe, for example. Now, there are some places that would

00:53:44.220 have stoned her to death, but that's not because she was ugly. So beauty is not simply a matter of

00:53:49.160 subjective preference. There is an objective quality to it that holds across all cultures. With that said,

00:53:56.420 is facial hair a more superficial matter? Could you condition men to like it? Could you really

00:54:00.960 succeed in normalizing it in that way? I think probably not. But even if you could, here's the

00:54:07.520 other question. Why try? There's nothing wrong with the current standard. Just because a standard exists

00:54:14.200 today and has always existed, it doesn't mean in and of itself that it should be deconstructed

00:54:19.440 and overturned. This is what we hear all the time, as if it's self-evident. We're told, oh,

00:54:26.720 this is just a social societal standard. We have to get rid of it. Well, even if I agree that it's,

00:54:34.280 even if theoretically, it's a basically arbitrary social standard, why does that mean we should get

00:54:41.180 rid of it? In fact, as G.K. Chesterton warned, we should want to know why offense was put in place

00:54:47.220 before we tear it down, which means the benefit of the doubt should go to the historical standard

00:54:53.080 unless a very good reason can be given for getting rid of it. And it's a hassle to wax my upper lip

00:54:59.960 is not a good reason. Stop complaining and take care of your body and your appearance.

00:55:06.620 That is part of your responsibility as a woman. Yes. Jess says it's the responsibility of a man to do 0.57

00:55:12.960 the same for himself. Women have a right to complain when men allow themselves to become 1.00

00:55:16.820 flabby, shabby, weak, pudgy little things. Men can likewise complain when women not only allow 1.00

00:55:23.180 themselves to be unkempt and unfeminine and gross, but even demand to be celebrated for it.

00:55:28.780 All sides should do their part. This is equality. And for women, part of your part is making sure 0.57

00:55:35.300 you don't look like Commissioner Gordon when you go out in public. And that is why Glamour magazine

00:55:40.320 and all women attempting to normalize female facial hair are all today canceled. 0.99

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 25, 2021

Ep. 728 - The Fragile Weaklings Who Lead Us

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