The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 760 - Feminists Experience Equality. They Don't Like It.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have moved one step closer to signing women up for the draft,

00:00:04.540 yet the people who have clamored for gender equality for so long aren't celebrating the

00:00:08.580 news. I wonder why. Also, we have our five headlines, including Nancy Pelosi once again

00:00:11.860 declaring herself a devout Catholic in spite of her rabid defense of child murder. And the mayor

00:00:17.060 of D.C. outlaws flavored tobacco, but I'm sure we'll still be ready to throw any cop who tries

00:00:21.820 to enforce that law under the bus. Hunter Biden gets ready to sell some of his art for hundreds

00:00:26.480 of thousands of dollars. We'll take a look at his masterpieces today. Are they worth all of that

00:00:30.980 money? We'll take a look. And the team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians has chosen a new

00:00:36.360 name, but will the new name also be offensive? We'll try to figure that out today. And so much more on

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00:02:08.940 So let's talk, first of all, about equality, which is perhaps the most destructive myth

00:02:14.220 of modern times. And we'll begin at a basic level with children. One of the basic jobs of a parent,

00:02:22.680 especially when your kids are young, is to make them understand that not everything is equal. To

00:02:28.060 demand complete equality all the time is to be unreasonable and selfish and immature. Now,

00:02:33.840 some parents are dumb enough or weak enough to cater to this childish and selfish need for equality, 0.99

00:02:39.220 fairness, as the kids usually call it. That's not fair. And so they make sure that everyone gets 0.99

00:02:45.100 exactly the same amount of ice cream and each child gets to play with a toy for exactly the same

00:02:49.980 amount of time. And if one child gets to do something, the others can do it too. And on and

00:02:55.800 on and on. I've even known a family where the living room had one especially comfortable chair

00:03:00.740 with the best angle for TV watching. And the parents had a chart to determine whose turn it was

00:03:07.940 to sit in the comfortable chair. Everyone had to have the same amount of time, the same amount of

00:03:14.140 sitting time allotted to them. It had to be exactly equal. Parents who feed into the equality demands 0.79

00:03:20.600 will end up doing many absurd things like this. There's going to be charts and stopwatches and

00:03:27.740 various measuring devices to make sure that everything is the same for everyone all the time.

00:03:33.160 Now, we don't play that game in my house, I can tell you. Sometimes one kid gets a little more

00:03:39.400 ice cream than the others. Sometimes one gets to do a fun thing that the others don't. Sometimes,

00:03:44.740 you know, I'm running an errand. I'll take one of my kids with me to run some errands. I'll get them

00:03:49.280 a candy bar or something if I'm feeling generous. And then the others find out about the candy bar

00:03:53.380 and they demand to know why they didn't get one too. And when they do, I'll say, well, because that's

00:03:58.240 the way it worked out this time. And also, I'm dad. Don't speak to me that way. Our kids know that we

00:04:04.220 aren't setting timers or making charts or breaking out the measuring cups. If you want to sit in the

00:04:09.080 comfortable chair, get there first. Claim your spot. If you're fighting over the chair, I might just 0.71

00:04:13.820 take it from all of you and sit in it myself. If you're complaining that you didn't get enough ice

00:04:17.600 cream, I'll take that away too and eat it myself. If you're whining that one of your siblings has

00:04:22.280 better toys than you or more toys, I'll remind you that what you should be saying is, thank you,

00:04:27.140 dad, for the toys I have, which you paid for. I'm grateful for however many toys you decide to give

00:04:33.200 me. If I had just one toy and that was it, I would still leap for joy and sing songs of gratitude and

00:04:39.560 gladness. Daddy. The point of parenting this way is, one, my wife and I, we're not wearing black and

00:04:46.340 white striped shirts. We're not referees, okay? We don't have the whistle playing referee the whole

00:04:51.240 time. That's not what we're doing. We have better things to do. And also, again, the demand for

00:04:55.220 complete equality all the time in all situations is unreasonable, childish, and selfish. It's the

00:05:00.980 enemy of gratitude, of generosity, of love. The child who complains about another child's superior

00:05:06.900 toy is failing to show gratitude for his own toy while also failing to demonstrate love for the

00:05:13.200 other child. He should be happy that his sibling or his friend or whoever has a toy that he enjoys.

00:05:18.780 Envy and resentment are not the appropriate response and should not be encouraged.

00:05:22.960 He's also being impolite and irrational. All of these reactions are incorrect. They also are

00:05:28.300 understandable from a child. I was the same way as a kid. All kids are. Our job as parents is to help

00:05:33.600 our kids grow in wisdom, maturity, and virtue. And we don't do that by supporting their delusional

00:05:39.400 desire for total fairness and equality. We also want our kids to understand that not only are all things

00:05:45.740 not equal, but this is important too, people are not equal either. People are different,

00:05:52.420 have different strengths and weaknesses, and that's okay. My son is a naturally gifted athlete.

00:05:56.760 He's constantly doing cartwheels and flips and various acrobatic stunts, which will win him well-deserved

00:06:01.500 praise and applause, unless he's doing it off the coffee table or something. My daughter has basically 0.70

00:06:06.900 no athletic ability, but she's a gifted artist, and she's very creative and crafty. But my daughter will 0.99

00:06:11.700 sometimes get jealous when she hears us complimenting her brother on his athletic ability, and her

00:06:15.520 brother will sometimes get jealous when he hears us complimenting his sister on her latest arts and

00:06:19.600 crafts project. Again, we have to help them understand that they are different. They have different skills,

00:06:24.920 and that's a good thing. Okay, what I'm not going to say to my daughter is, no, no, you're just as good

00:06:30.500 of an athlete as your brother. She's not. I'm not going to say to her brother, no, you're just as good

00:06:34.240 of an artist. You're different. That's cool. That's good. You want to be better at this thing over here?

00:06:39.460 Practice. Spend more time doing it. The problem is that, as is the case with so many other lessons

00:06:45.720 we teach our kids. Our culture is constantly sabotaging us, undermining us. We teach our

00:06:53.860 children to forget about equality and focus on gratitude and love and hard work, but the culture

00:07:00.660 is essentially the exact opposite message. Sadly, we live in a country now utterly obsessed with

00:07:06.840 equality and overrun with emotionally stunted, overgrown, post-adolescent children who had parents 0.76

00:07:14.680 who played referee rather than being actual parents. I know that although I'm teaching my kids that not

00:07:20.360 everything is equal and not everyone is equal because everyone is different, they're entering a world 1.00

00:07:25.640 which has fully invested itself in the equality delusion. They're entering a world which has decided that

00:07:32.060 all people are the same, there are no inherent differences, and everyone should have the same

00:07:36.860 outcomes in life and have the same responsibilities and privileges. But as already established, this

00:07:42.380 obsessive focus on equality is born from immaturity and selfishness, which means that even when equality

00:07:49.540 is granted, the people who demanded it still aren't happy. That's the other thing you notice with kids.

00:07:56.180 You start feeding into the equality thing, you just end up doing it more and more and more.

00:08:02.580 Because they begin to think that it's something they're entitled to.

00:08:07.300 And you see that with adults too. The more they're given this artificial equality,

00:08:12.740 the more they want it, but the less satisfied they are when they get it.

00:08:17.540 And that brings us finally to this. Reported by The Hill, it says,

00:08:23.060 The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that

00:08:27.540 would require women to register for the draft. The National Defense Authorization Act,

00:08:32.180 approved by the committee behind closed doors on Wednesday, amends the Military Service Act to

00:08:36.500 require registration of women for selective service, according to a summary released on Thursday.

00:08:41.460 Now, a few things we should say right off the bat. First of all, there obviously is no draft right now,

00:08:46.740 and it might seem sort of far-fetched that there will ever be another draft again.

00:08:50.340 And then again, a war with China, if that's where we're headed ultimately, may well require it. 0.94

00:08:56.980 Either way, whether the draft is ever reinstated or not, it says something about our country that

00:09:02.340 women are forced to sign up for it. And it doesn't say anything good. It is immoral and absurd and a 0.97

00:09:09.380 disgrace for a nation to draft its daughters into combat. Men are supposed to protect women from things 0.99

00:09:17.620 like that. That's the job of men. In fact, men go over to fight these battles precisely so that

00:09:27.780 the women and children don't have to experience the violence and the horror. That's the whole point.

00:09:35.860 If you're going to just send your daughters in anyway, then what's the point?

00:09:38.820 Now, my daughters will certainly not be signing up. I would go to prison before I'd ship them off to 1.00

00:09:47.620 go fight in any war. That's for sure. So that is one law, if it is signed into law, that I will

00:09:53.780 happily disobey. And I can take that position without self-contradiction because I don't believe

00:09:59.860 that men and women are equal. And I don't believe that they should have all the same roles or 1.00

00:10:03.540 responsibilities in society. I've been very consistent about that for years. There's nothing

00:10:08.660 that could ever make me abandon my stance on that issue. I would rather be dead than ever affirm the

00:10:14.420 insane modern notion that there is no fundamental difference between men and women. I would prefer

00:10:19.300 death over that. That's how strongly I feel about it. The funny thing, though not surprising, 0.96

00:10:25.940 is that many of the people who supposedly feel the opposite way about it,

00:10:29.780 people who've been clamoring for equality, who've claimed that men and women are indeed the same,

00:10:35.940 that the very terms men and women have no meaning, many of those people, if the reaction on the internet is

00:10:41.620 any indication, are not happy about this news about the draft. In fact, I haven't seen any feminist

00:10:48.100 or any champion of gender fluidity celebrate it. Forcing teenage girls to sign up for the draft 1.00

00:10:54.980 is one of the most profound endorsements a country can give to the notion of gender equality.

00:11:01.300 Those who've been marching under the gender equality banner should be dancing in the streets. 1.00

00:11:06.340 And yet, for the most part, they're not. As I said, this is no surprise. We have always known that

00:11:12.260 the clamoring for equality is selective, just as it is with my kids. My son might complain that his

00:11:18.420 sister got a larger piece of cake, but he's never once complained that his sister was given a harder

00:11:22.740 chore to do. Likewise, feminists have called for more female CEOs and more representation in Hollywood 1.00

00:11:29.620 and other posh and fancy industries. But I've never heard any of them worry about the fact that the

00:11:35.860 vast majority of roofers and garbage collectors are men. That's because even the people who believe 0.89

00:11:42.340 in equality really don't believe in it and don't want it. When they cry for equality, what they mean

00:11:49.540 always is that there is some particular privilege they want to be granted or benefit they want to be

00:11:55.540 given, whether they've earned it or not. The equality advocates never ask to share in suffering,

00:12:02.420 to share in duty, to share in sacrifice. It turns out that even the champions of equality

00:12:09.460 know that equality is not a desirable or even feasible goal.

00:12:17.060 But even so, whether they wanted the form of equality that ends with women getting drafted to 0.96

00:12:22.900 die on foreign soil far away or not, they now have it. It may not be what they wanted, but it's what 1.00

00:12:30.580 they asked for. And they have only themselves to thank. So congratulations, feminists. You earned it. 1.00

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00:13:29.620 five-star review if you like what you hear. All right, let's start. I just saw this. This just

00:13:36.260 breaking news just came across my desk. Cleveland's baseball team has changed its name. So I got the

00:13:44.500 story here from CNBC. Um, it says Cleveland's major league baseball team is changing its name to

00:13:52.180 guardians. Now we know they, they used to be, uh, the Indians and that's, we've decided that's 0.98

00:13:58.980 offensive. No one's ever explained why that's offensive. Why is it offensive to say Indians?

00:14:03.640 Uh, but it is now the I word can't say that anymore. So now they are the guardians. Uh, it says, uh,

00:14:12.500 the franchise announced this on Friday, dropping the racially offensive name. It has been known for,

00:14:17.060 uh, as for more than a century, the name guardians is a reference to well-known art deco statues located

00:14:24.660 on the Lorraine Carnegie bridge, uh, and which connects downtown Cleveland to the city's trendy, Ohio city

00:14:32.500 neighborhood. Those statues are known as the guardians of traffic. So you named your team after some

00:14:38.980 statues on a bridge of all this time thinking about it. And that's what you go with

00:14:45.540 the franchise franchise, which announced the name change in a tweet on Friday morning

00:14:51.460 had long faced pressure from activists locally and nationally to ditch the name Indians,

00:14:55.960 which critics said was racist. It's been, it's been the baseball's clubs, baseball club's name since

00:15:00.500 1915. Um, okay. So the Cleveland guardians, I think a few, a few issues here first being there

00:15:09.300 was no reason to change the name to begin with. Um, anyone complaining about it should have been

00:15:15.620 simply ignored, but first of all, guardians, before you find out that it's based on some art deco

00:15:24.980 statues on a bridge. Guardians sounds, it actually sounds almost too sort of epic and, and almost

00:15:32.180 celestial makes you think of guardian angels. You think guardians and then Cleveland guardians

00:15:40.820 from Cleveland. There's some, there's a, it's, it, there's an incongruity there that, that kind of

00:15:46.740 doesn't make sense. And also the name guardians might still be offensive. I can't think of why,

00:15:55.860 but I'm sure, I'm sure someone will think of a reason. Um, I, I mean, right off the top of my head,

00:16:02.360 it, it is based on statues. We know that statues, uh, there's a lot of trauma related just to statues.

00:16:09.420 Many people in this country have been, have been traumatized by many different statues. Um, and so that

00:16:15.480 might, might, might, might bring those to light. I mean, think about it. The guardians based on a

00:16:19.960 statue, there are, there were Confederate statues. So in effect, this is basically a Confederate name.

00:16:30.700 If you think about it. Um, and also guardians, it's, that's kind of a gruddy thing of, we think of

00:16:38.460 guardians. You think of it's aggressive. It's, um, these are people who are armed or guarding. It brings

00:16:44.840 to mind war and battle. And then that also is an offensive stereotype of Native Americans,

00:16:53.640 that they were a warfaring people, even though they were, but still,

00:16:58.200 or we could go the other way and we could say that it's offensive because it erases Native Americans.

00:17:05.220 Guardians is a, I think if you follow the etymology of, of that word, it's kind of a French

00:17:10.380 Anglo word and, and, and, you know, in its, uh, in its etymology. And so now we're taking Native

00:17:17.820 Americans and we're erasing them. It's a, it's a whitewashing. So there are many different angles 0.99

00:17:23.920 we could take here to figure out why this is offensive. Uh, and it'll just be interesting to

00:17:27.660 figure out, you know, the PC mob, what do they go with? I think they got three solid options.

00:17:31.520 It's still offensive to Native Americans because it's a stereotype somehow, or it erases Native

00:17:36.860 Americans, or it's a, it, it, it is a traumatizing because it's related to statues. I think any of

00:17:42.660 those are good. We'll see where they go next. It'll be fun to keep track of. All right. From

00:17:47.480 the daily wire, um, all hail Mississippi says the Mississippi attorney general Lynn Fitch asked the

00:17:53.680 U S Supreme court on Thursday to defend the right of the people to pass laws that protect life and

00:17:58.540 women's health, urging the court to overturn Roe v. Wade. So this is a very important step here

00:18:03.620 that Mississippi has taken that someone needed to take asking the court specifically to overturn Roe

00:18:08.920 v. Wade. Uh, Fitch wrote in a brief, the court's abortion precedents depart from a sound understanding

00:18:14.620 of the constitution. Um, in Roe v. Wade, this court held that abortion is a right specially protected by

00:18:21.380 the 14th amendment. And so laws restricting it must withstand heightened scrutiny scrutiny. This court

00:18:25.620 should over, overrule Roe and Casey. So what Fritz, uh, Fitch said, the brief stated quote, Roe, Roe and

00:18:33.040 Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in

00:18:38.540 text, structure, history, or tradition. And that won't shock you to learn. I fully agree with that.

00:18:46.260 Uh, and, uh, no matter where you stand on abortion,

00:18:50.640 even if you are fully in favor of it, uh, you should still, if you're an honest person,

00:19:00.360 I don't know if that's a, that's, that's probably not a type of person that can exist in honest

00:19:06.340 pro-abortion advocate, kind of an oxymoron there. But if that oxymoron could exist in reality,

00:19:13.440 then that would be a person who would say, I'm in favor of abortion, but Roe v. Wade's is 0.97

00:19:18.400 ridiculous. It was decided wrongly because clearly there is nothing in the text of the constitution

00:19:24.420 that makes any mention of abortion that is related in any way to abortion.

00:19:32.660 So it should be overturned. Now the question becomes the court as it is currently

00:19:37.800 assembled. Is this a court that would overturn Roe v. Wade? And, uh, I pray that they do, 0.56

00:19:44.760 but all I'm going to say is do not get your hopes up. We hear in the media that this is a,

00:19:51.340 a far right court, conservative majority court. It's certainly not far right. And I don't, I,

00:19:57.300 I wouldn't even call it conservative majority. Um, how many justices, how many of all of the

00:20:08.220 justices on the Supreme court, how many can you, can we count on? How many do we know would

00:20:12.560 absolutely vote correctly to overturn Roe v. Wade? I think two, there's two that we know would 0.58

00:20:21.960 maybe a third. You could see possibly going that way. I don't see how you get to a majority.

00:20:33.840 Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, you think they're going to come down on, on overturning Roe v. Wade?

00:20:43.640 The problem is especially Roberts, Kavanaugh too. They, they have shown, um, putting aside their

00:20:49.900 philosophy of law, they have shown that they, they do care about being accepted in polite society

00:20:58.720 at the cocktail parties and so on. And if they decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, they would be,

00:21:05.480 and anyone, if, if this court decided that anyone on the majority side of that decision would be seen

00:21:12.860 as the backlash they would get is, is unimaginable. I think in fact, they would, they would be putting

00:21:19.820 their, taking their life into their hands. You got to keep in mind, to the left, abortion is their 0.99

00:21:28.120 holiest and highest sacrament. To take that away, all this stuff they say, the handmaid's tale,

00:21:35.780 you want to take away a woman's right to choose, it's like enslaving women. They really believe that, 1.00

00:21:41.500 they've convinced themselves of that. And it is, it is hard to fathom, predict fully the reaction

00:21:51.500 if Roe v. Wade was overturned. Even though, even upon overturning Roe v. Wade, it wouldn't mean that

00:21:58.840 abortion is now illegal across the country. Roe v. Wade is overturned unless there's a constitutional

00:22:04.360 amendment, like a personal amendment, which isn't going to happen. Simply overturning Roe v. Wade,

00:22:09.200 all that means is that states can now make their own laws, which should have been the case.

00:22:12.960 Well, it, it, it, abortion should be illegal across the country. Um, that's not going to happen. 0.99

00:22:23.140 So in reality, Roe v. Wade is overturned. States make their own laws. And that means places like

00:22:29.700 California, New York, many of the states with the highest population centers still going to have

00:22:36.740 all the abortion you want. Even so, the reaction will be, um, demonic. We can be sure. So it would 0.83

00:22:45.940 require some real moral courage and fortitude. There are two justices on the court who I am sure

00:22:51.120 have that moral courage and fortitude. The rest, I don't think so. But again, we can, we can pray and

00:22:58.260 we should. Speaking of having no courage or moral fortitude, Nancy Pelosi was, uh, once again, given a

00:23:04.120 chance to defend her support for tax funded abortion, given the fact that she's quote unquote Catholic.

00:23:09.580 And here's what she said. Because it's an issue of health of many women in America, especially those, 1.00

00:23:15.680 uh, in, uh, lower income situations and in a different States. And, uh, it is something that

00:23:22.220 has been a priority for many of us a long time, uh, as a devout Catholic and mother of five and six

00:23:30.000 years. Uh, I, uh, feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children,

00:23:37.020 six years, almost to the day, but that may not be what we should. It's not up to me to detect,

00:23:43.740 dictate that that's what other people should do. And it's an issue of a fairness and, uh, justice

00:23:51.780 for poor women in our country. So we need, we need poor women to be able to kill their kids. 1.00

00:23:59.620 We don't want more. We don't want more poor people. That's, that's the message here, basically. 1.00

00:24:06.640 She's saying, yeah, I mean, I can have all these kids, but we don't want all these poor people. 1.00

00:24:11.020 Uh, and, and she's a devout Catholic, she says. Now those words do have definitions. Uh, the word

00:24:22.060 devout, let's just break this down for a second. Devout Catholic who supports abortion. Well, what

00:24:29.780 does, what do these words mean? Devout Catholic. Well, devout means totally committed to a cause

00:24:34.280 or a belief. Totally committed. Catholic. What does that mean? That means a member of the Catholic 0.55

00:24:40.700 church. So if you're a devout Catholic, it means that you are totally committed to the church,

00:24:49.320 uh, and to the, to the, uh, the beliefs that are a part of being a Catholic.

00:24:59.300 So I'm just wondering, how can you be not only a Catholic, but a devout Catholic

00:25:02.980 while fundamentally rejecting the moral authority of the church, which is what you would need to do

00:25:09.560 to support abortion. This is not a matter of Catholics. Um, in spite of the misunderstanding

00:25:17.620 of many people who are not Catholic, Catholics are not required to agree with everything the Pope

00:25:22.760 says. If that were the case, then I wouldn't be Catholic because I disagree with what the Pope

00:25:26.660 says all the time. But when it comes to the, to the church's fundamental moral authority,

00:25:34.180 official pronouncements from the church, the official position of the church, it's, it's long

00:25:41.760 standing moral teachings going back thousands of years. When it comes to that, well, you're perfectly

00:25:50.900 free in America to disagree with those, but you can't call yourself a devout Catholic while you do it.

00:25:55.140 It doesn't make any sense. That's it. You cannot be a devout Catholic or any kind of Catholic

00:26:03.020 while rejecting the moral authority of the church, because to reject the moral authority and no one

00:26:07.520 ever follows up on this with her. No one ever, there's never a follow-up question. I'd love to hear

00:26:13.600 it. Not that it would matter. She would dance around it or refuse to answer it, but still, I would love

00:26:18.100 to hear someone say, well, hang on, Nancy, you say you're a devout Catholic. The church is a position 0.79

00:26:24.840 on abortion has always been that it's intrinsically evil. Never wavering from, from that for centuries 0.88

00:26:31.920 upon century. So are you saying that the church is wrong on this fundamental moral issue?

00:26:41.060 Well, yes, you are. Well, then why are you Catholic? If you think the church is fallible when it comes

00:26:47.940 to morals, then you have the same opinion of the church that every non-Catholic has, and you're 0.57

00:26:54.460 perfectly entitled to have that opinion, but not to call yourself a Catholic while you do.

00:26:57.640 Just like I can't sit here and say, uh, I'm, uh, I disagree with the Mormons about everything 1.00

00:27:07.060 fundamentally, but, uh, sure, I'm a Mormon. That word has a meaning, and this is not the meaning.

00:27:13.900 It's kind of funny, too, that you have people who hate the church, despise it, have no respect for it,

00:27:20.560 and are not Catholic themselves. And yet, if you say that Nancy Pelosi isn't a Catholic,

00:27:26.480 they take it personally. They get offended as if you're insulting Nancy Pelosi.

00:27:33.780 You shouldn't even see that as an insult. You hate the church. You should see it as a compliment

00:27:37.440 when I say that Nancy Pelosi isn't a Catholic.

00:27:39.320 So it doesn't make any sense at all. Um, all right. Speaking of not making sense,

00:27:48.620 Mayor Bowser of DC had a big announcement. She signed into law the Flavored Tobacco Prohibition

00:27:53.780 Amendment Act of 2021. Here's her statement posted to Twitter yesterday, um, announcing it. She says,

00:28:01.200 to attack disparities in health outcomes and ensure all Washingtonians, no matter where they live in

00:28:06.100 our city, have the same opportunities to live long, healthy lives, we must think and act broadly.

00:28:11.220 Last week, when we broke ground on Whitman Walker at St. Elizabeth East on the same campus

00:28:15.340 where we are building a new full-service hospital and down the street from, uh, the future DC

00:28:19.500 health headquarters, we could feel how transformative these investments will be for our residents.

00:28:23.860 Um, blah, blah, blah. We know that black residents are disproportionately, yeah, it really said 1.00

00:28:28.680 blah, blah, blah. I'm reading, this is a verbatim. I'm reading it. We know that black residents 1.00

00:28:32.140 are disproportionately affected by tobacco use and flavored tobacco, including menthol,

00:28:36.100 continues to have a particularly insidious effect on our community. Today, we take a hugely

00:28:39.920 impactful step. I hate that word impactful, uh, step to reducing tobacco initiation and addiction

00:28:48.040 in Washington, DC. Black residents are disproportionately affected by flavored tobacco.

00:28:55.800 Is it, how does that work exactly? Is it, uh, you know, are you saying that a black person walks 0.67

00:29:00.440 into a convenience store and a box of, uh, of black and milds just leaps off the shelf and assaults 0.69

00:29:06.040 them? What you're saying is that according to you, black residents of your city prefer this kind 0.96

00:29:13.400 of tobacco and make the decision to buy it. That's what you're saying, but they shouldn't be allowed 0.97

00:29:20.540 to make that decision. You're, you're, you're, you're announcing, uh, very paternalistically.

00:29:26.000 And so you're going to prohibit it. Here's the problem though, among many, um,

00:29:33.420 laws require enforcement. If you're going to have the law, someone has to enforce, enforce it.

00:29:41.760 We have people who do that. They're called law enforcement officers, the same ones that you on

00:29:47.960 the left want to defund. So what this means now, if you're, if you're going to, if you're not going

00:29:54.280 to enforce it, then we might, we might as well not have the law. If you, if you do want to enforce

00:30:01.060 the law, then that means that police officers are going to have to go and start writing citations

00:30:08.200 or arresting people, however the law is written for, for selling or, or, uh, or using this kind

00:30:14.040 of tobacco. Are, are you willing, is this law important enough that you're willing for someone

00:30:21.520 to potentially get shot over it? Now that doesn't mean that the cops are just going to see someone

00:30:27.680 with a black and mild, a flavored, you know, a Philly or something flavored, uh, vanilla flavored,

00:30:32.840 something gross like that. And the cops are going to show up and just shoot the person. No, 0.99

00:30:35.600 that's, that's not what happens. But if they show up to enforce the law and the person they're

00:30:41.700 trying to enforce it on resists, what are they supposed to do then? Say, well, okay, nevermind.

00:30:50.000 Hey, we got to write you a citation for this. This is illegal. And they say, no, I'm not, I know I

00:30:55.000 refuse. The cops are supposed to respond. Well, nevermind then. Oh, you don't want us to enforce

00:31:00.680 the law on you. Well, thanks for letting us know. Be on your way. Have a good one.

00:31:07.220 Once again, if that's the interaction you want, then you might as well not have the law at all.

00:31:11.180 You got to think this all the way through.

00:31:16.200 Um, if they resist and we're going to have the law, then that means that they had, now they have

00:31:20.840 to use force and then things can spiral from there. So as I saw, we say with these things,

00:31:28.460 you know, if, if it's a law, if you're thinking about passing a law and you wouldn't want anyone

00:31:35.980 potentially getting shot over it, if it's not worth using state force, potentially violent force

00:31:42.820 to enforce it, then the law should not exist. And if you're thinking to yourself, well, that means a

00:31:48.100 whole lot of laws should not exist. Well, yep. If the shoe fits. All right, moving on here. This is

00:31:56.620 from Yahoo. A little bit of celebrity gossip. I don't do this very often, but I wanted to mention

00:32:00.720 this. Nicole Young will be receiving a substantial amount of money from Dr. Dre amid their divorce. 0.91

00:32:06.900 The rapper Dr. Dre, not a real doctor, at least as real a doctor as Jill Biden is anyway. A judge

00:32:11.500 ordered the music mogul to pay a young $293,000 per month in spousal support. That's 300 grand per

00:32:20.380 month, more than $3.5 million a year. While it's a good chunk of change for most people,

00:32:24.760 the sum is much less than she requested. Dr. Dre's now ex-wife asked for $2 million a month

00:32:31.080 that he's going to have to pay now. Okay. As far as the specific situation with their marriage and

00:32:39.840 all that, I don't know anything about it. It doesn't matter who's right and wrong. Who's the

00:32:43.800 bad guy? Who's the good guy? Reading one of the articles I saw that apparently allegedly he committed

00:32:49.000 infidelity, but also there was a, there was a prenup and she's saying that the prenup, he tore up the

00:32:53.860 prenup at some point in the marriage and he's saying, no, I didn't. And then back and forth and

00:32:56.480 back and forth. Um, many times in a marriage, and I think anyone who's a marriage counselor could

00:33:02.400 probably attest to this, you know, it's, it's relatively rare in a marriage that there's a,

00:33:07.520 that there's a straightforward, especially 20 years you've been married or more. There's rarely a

00:33:11.940 straightforward good guy, bad guy situation. Even when you mix an infidelity and all these kinds

00:33:17.240 of things, um, normally there's a whole lot of fault to go around for everybody. That's usually

00:33:22.500 the way it goes. There are exceptions, but I will say not knowing the situation, 300 grand a month

00:33:29.400 seems excessive, shall we say. Child support is one thing, but spousal support for a grown woman 0.90

00:33:34.940 with no minor children to the tune of $3 million a year seems absurd. You see, the thing is that our

00:33:41.800 divorce laws don't make a lot of sense. Our whole approach to marriage, our view of marriage makes

00:33:48.240 no sense. What most people would say is that these days, if you ask most people, they'll say that

00:33:54.460 marriage is a private affair. It's a private concern and you have the right to get divorced and cut ties

00:34:00.700 with one another. And that's it, right? It's as simple as that. It's what most people think of

00:34:05.060 marriage. Well, the problem is that even in a no fault divorce situation where you can break the

00:34:10.440 contract for literally no reason. And it's the only contract you could do that with, by the way,

00:34:15.760 uh, break it for no reason at all. But even there, you have to do it through the courts. You have to do

00:34:21.220 it through a government institution. And because of alimony, in fact, you can't actually break it all

00:34:26.620 the way. If the man is paying alimony, then he is being told that he must remain responsible for

00:34:33.020 and to his wife after the alleged dissolution of the marriage.

00:34:39.360 It's one thing if there's a, if there's a cash settlement at the end and, and, and he's told

00:34:43.300 by the courts, well, you got to give her $5 million and, uh, and then you guys can go your separate

00:34:47.340 ways. What the courts are saying is in perpetuity until this person dies or marries somebody else,

00:34:54.280 which they probably will never marry someone else. If it means you have to give up 300 grand a month,

00:34:59.020 right? Um, so what the court is saying is that the commitment that was made actually cannot be

00:35:06.280 broken. It's, it's, you cannot break it fully anyway. So my question is just as simply as, which

00:35:13.200 is it? Is marriage a private thing? Nobody else's business can be entered into and ended whenever the

00:35:20.580 partners in that, in that private arrangement decide, or is it also a public institution in

00:35:27.860 which the commitment you make to one another cannot be severed and potentially remains permanent no

00:35:33.920 matter what you want to do? Because right now in our culture, we kind of say, well, both, we try to

00:35:40.120 have our divorce cake and eat it too. We want to say marriage is only private. It's just about two

00:35:46.560 people loving each other. That's all it is. But then also you go get divorced. You ask the courts

00:35:52.900 to, to, uh, you know, bless it and to enforce alimony payments and everything else. I think we

00:35:59.260 have to choose a path. That's all. I mean, which is it? A marriage is a private thing. Nobody else's

00:36:05.700 business or it's a public concern. Courts, governments are involved, alimony, lifetime support,

00:36:12.320 that kind of thing. It can't be both something to think about. I have my answer, but I'll let you

00:36:18.780 come up with your own. All right. Finally, Hunter Biden, um, reading now from the daily wire, Hunter

00:36:23.440 Biden, the son of Democrat president, Joe Biden is reportedly expected to meet with prospective

00:36:27.160 buyers of his high priced art. Um, a development, which comes after the white house claimed that the

00:36:32.440 identities of the buyers would be kept a secret. So this is something we recently learned that Hunter

00:36:36.540 Biden is a, is supposedly an artist. And now he's, he's talking about hundreds of thousands of

00:36:41.300 dollars that he's going to be making on this, uh, on this artwork. And that, that creates all kinds

00:36:46.300 of problems. He's the son of the president. You've got foreign buyers coming in, giving him lots of

00:36:53.040 money. Um, is this just a way for, for, for foreign influences to make payoffs under the guise of paying

00:37:05.300 for artwork? These are the questions. And then you take a look at the art. We have it up on the screen

00:37:09.500 here. Here are three pieces of artwork and you've got one. It looks like a, maybe a stained glass

00:37:15.520 window designed by a first grader and then drop down the steps. Then you got the one in the middle

00:37:22.240 there. It's maybe, maybe that at best is a middle schoolers art project that somebody dropped a hot

00:37:28.260 dog onto, and then it got ketchup and mustard all over the place. And the one on the, on, on the,

00:37:33.920 the right there, that's just, that looks like Hunter was printing out some kind of color document

00:37:37.620 and it got jammed in the printer and he yanked it out and, uh, and the ink smeared.

00:37:44.940 That's the artwork. I think he's looking at $500,000 either for all of that or one of those. I'm not

00:37:50.400 sure. I mean, you tell me, is it, is this a little suspicious? Uh, but then again, what, what do I

00:38:00.540 know? I'm, I'm no artist. All right. We do have one more thing before we get to reading the comments.

00:38:04.900 I, I got to play this. I almost forgot, um, on a Friday. It just seems like a good time for it.

00:38:10.960 You guys obviously know that I'm a big believer in aliens. Um, uh, and, and yet I'm skeptical of

00:38:17.320 the aliens spiritual cousin, which is Bigfoot. I've never heard of a book Bigfoot sighting that

00:38:23.580 sounded especially compelling or persuasive to me, but maybe this will be different. Uh, someone sent

00:38:29.240 this to me, a listener sent this to me. This is a local news report in Mississippi, uh, recent, this

00:38:34.700 is from a couple of days ago and they're reporting on a Bigfoot sighting and let's just, uh, let's

00:38:39.740 take a look. And I saw some trees shaking and then I really looked and I could see the silhouette

00:38:45.060 of him holding trees like that. And then when he realized I saw him, he screamed at me again

00:38:51.220 and that really scared me. Well, we're in the Mississippi River backwater shooting the story,

00:38:56.060 but I wanted to get a place that looked a little bit more Bigfootish. So I stopped by a couple

00:38:59.760 of spots I know on the way home on the Natchez Trace. Now keep in mind, I had just talked to a person

00:39:04.580 who told me that he had seen a Bigfoot and that the Bigfoot screamed at him. And so here's what I

00:39:10.080 heard in the woods. Can you hear it? Way, way back in the distance. There's this, ah, ah, ah, sound.

00:39:26.600 At first I didn't know what it was. I really didn't think it was a Bigfoot, but I couldn't

00:39:30.900 rule it out because it just never had heard a sound like that. Not on the Natchez Trace anyway. But

00:39:35.240 fortunately at the end of one of its last yowls, you can't hear it because it's inaudible to the

00:39:41.800 camera, but it went putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, chainsaw. So that's my Bigfoot

00:39:47.320 experience. Now, had it been a real Bigfoot, I would have turned into a UFO, an unidentified

00:39:52.160 fleeing object. Back to you guys. Oh, okay. Not a lot going down, going on in Mississippi, down there

00:40:01.600 in Mississippi, it appears, that that report made it onto air. Clearly that was a chainsaw.

00:40:08.300 I never heard a sound like that before. Really? You never heard a chainsaw before? It's very

00:40:11.700 obviously a chainsaw. Couldn't rule out a Bigfoot. No, I think you could probably rule out a Bigfoot

00:40:16.200 on that one. And my main problem with the way that they did this report is it's completely

00:40:22.280 overshadowed. I want to hear more from the first guy who was face to face with a Bigfoot

00:40:27.980 and the Bigfoot was screaming at him. And that's the first time I've heard a Bigfoot screaming.

00:40:35.000 And yet we have no, no visual, no video, no audio, except what turns out to be a chainsaw.

00:40:44.020 That's, that's where the skepticism comes in for me. And I want it to be true. I want to believe

00:40:48.960 all this stuff. Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts. I'm into it. I'm ready. I'm willing.

00:40:56.020 Just give me something halfway believable and you got me. And we're not there yet. All right,

00:41:04.000 let's go to reading the YouTube comments. This is from Andrea. She says, Matt, the BTS fans

00:41:09.220 who call you ugly are not only deaf, but blind as well. Well, Andrea, I won't have you speaking 0.83

00:41:15.260 about BTS fans that way. Okay. You're not going to speak of the BTS gang. I'm not going to have

00:41:22.200 the SBG gang slandering the BTS gang in that way. You are banned from the show, but thank you for that

00:41:29.100 compliment. Lex says, you're definitely not ugly. Well, look, I'd say I'm, you know, I'd say I'm a,

00:41:37.700 I'm a, I'm a solid six and a half. I would give myself that. I think that's fair. So not actively

00:41:42.700 ugly. It's like, it's not, it's not like I'm trying to prove a point. You see some ugly people and it's

00:41:46.980 almost, you almost want to say, well, okay, calm down. We get it. Um, but also not attractive

00:41:53.820 enough to compensate for my character flaws. And so that's kind of where slightly above average,

00:41:58.820 I think, you know what a six and a half is you're six and a half on the physical attractiveness scale.

00:42:05.020 If you're usually the most attractive person in a DMV, when you go to renew your license,

00:42:12.480 um, that makes you, that, that puts you in the six and a half range. So that's kind of where I'm at.

00:42:19.680 You know, I'm probably gonna be the most, the most handsome guy at the DMV at a mall or something.

00:42:24.380 Maybe I'm 70th percentile walking down the trendy place, a spot in a city and on a Friday night,

00:42:30.480 I'm going to be more like the 40th percentile. So that's kind of where I'm at. And I'm comfortable

00:42:33.500 with that. That's, that's a good range to be in. Um, Haley says, I put a mask on my three-year-old

00:42:40.320 once because he needed to go to a doctor's visit. He kept licking it, touching it, rubbing his nose

00:42:44.440 with it. And he had it on for maybe 15 minutes until we got to the room. How do we expect young 0.58

00:42:48.820 kids to wear them all day? More importantly, why? Um, yeah, that's why these masks get incredibly

00:42:54.340 gross. Anyone who has any experience with young kids knows that you put anything near a three-year-old's

00:43:00.460 mouth and it will go in their mouth. So for example, uh, you're trying to wipe your, your three-year-old

00:43:07.520 just had some chocolate ice cream and you're trying to wipe their mouth and they'll do this weird thing

00:43:11.520 where they open their mouth and try to like lick the napkin as you're wiping their mouth off. 0.52

00:43:16.200 That's what three-year-olds do. And now just imagine, imagine taking that, that, that gross

00:43:23.700 saliva covered napkin and, and, and putting it over their face for seven hours. That's what we're doing

00:43:29.500 here. Um, and, uh, Lucas says, Matt, do you think demons in a spiritual realm could be the answer to

00:43:38.680 UFOs? I don't, because I don't see why the demons would need to fly around in vehicles of any kind

00:43:46.700 or why they would be doing it. So no, that's, that's not a theory that I find particularly

00:43:51.840 persuasive. And Joshua says way off topic here, but Matt, can you please address the fact that urinals

00:43:57.240 are going extinct? It seems like more and more places are going away from having men's and women's 0.99

00:44:01.980 restrooms in favor of all gender restrooms, maybe TMI, but I'm a dude and I don't sit down to pee.

00:44:06.580 Okay. Well, that is a sort of TMI, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm fully in favor, as you know, of,

00:44:12.720 of men and women's restrooms. Um, you do know though, and I don't want to get, I don't want to get too 0.99

00:44:17.720 graphic or anything, but you do realize that you don't, you don't have to sit down on the regular

00:44:21.900 toilets, toilets. You can also, there is a, there is, you can also use them while standing up just

00:44:27.320 so you know, I don't know if you were aware of that. Um, but while I support, of course, the, the

00:44:32.460 gender segregation of the restrooms, as far as urinals go, I have to disagree with you. I think

00:44:37.520 that that is a change that I would welcome. Um, I think that men in the men's room, we should,

00:44:43.560 we should get the full stalls, the full bathroom stalls like the women have. To me, this is, 1.00

00:44:48.660 this is one primitive barbaric thing. It's like we're animals all standing next to each

00:44:54.300 other. No, that's one thing we can leave in the past. I think time to move forward. I,

00:45:02.800 I could use that. Call me, um, call me a diva. I don't know, but I, I can use a slightly more

00:45:10.160 dignified and private restroom experience. That's just, that's my opinion. So if you want to know

00:45:17.140 my opinion on urinals, there it is.

00:45:19.260 You know, if I know one woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind, it's a Candace Owens. And while 0.57

00:45:24.500 this often gets her trending on Twitter, it's also got her a studio here in Nashville, the

00:45:28.940 Daily Wire, which you can now come see for your own eyes. However, the catch is you have to be an

00:45:33.980 all access member. Uh, if you are, you can now be a part of the Candace show live studio audience

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00:45:48.140 these are very nice, clean, nice smelling people that we've found the all access members.

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00:46:28.660 book signing and Q and a on Tuesday, and you can submit a question right now when you go to purchase

00:46:34.300 your signed copy. So go do that right now. The Authoritarian Moment on sale on Tuesday. Now let's

00:46:39.620 get to our daily cancellation. Over the past week or so, including today, we've discussed, uh, issues

00:46:48.140 relating to abortion a few times, and that's where the new cycle has taken us though. Even apart from

00:46:52.200 the new cycle, uh, it is one of the central issues of our time and has for that reason, always been a

00:46:56.840 central concern of mine. Now the focus on this topic recently has provoked many people to leave

00:47:01.320 all kinds of comments and send me messages, making all sorts of really bad arguments against my

00:47:05.100 position. And I addressed some of those arguments as presented by people on TikTok. Uh, I think that

00:47:09.820 was last week, but there's one argument that I've not addressed recently, and it's perhaps worth

00:47:15.180 devoting some attention to because many people seem to find it persuasive. At least four different

00:47:19.340 people over the last week have brought this up to me. And the argument varies a little bit

00:47:24.100 depending on who is making it, but the theme and the point is always the same. So I'll pull one of

00:47:28.320 these at random in order to respond to it. Here is the argument as articulated by someone

00:47:31.760 in the comments on my show. I think this was yesterday. And he wrote, quote, okay, thought

00:47:37.580 experiment. There's a burning abortion clinic. And due to the very unusual circumstances you find

00:47:42.460 yourself in, you only have time to choose between saving a perfectly healthy baby who's a few weeks old,

00:47:46.520 or you could save a mini fridge containing a thousand implanted eggs at the very earliest stages.

00:47:51.680 Would you actually lose sleep over saving the child instead of these 1,000, quote, children?

00:47:58.160 Now, as I said, this is a popular argument. You've probably heard it before. Sometimes it's a thousand

00:48:02.260 embryos, sometimes it's 10,000, sometimes 500. Sometimes there's a baby or a five-year-old or a

00:48:06.820 kid of some other age. In this case, the commenter says a thousand implanted eggs in an abortion clinic

00:48:12.660 for some reason. We'll assume he meant embryos in an IVF clinic because implantation is when the egg

00:48:19.240 attaches to the uterine wall. If there's a thousand of those, then there are a thousand pregnant women. 1.00

00:48:24.120 And my question is, why are they in a freezer? And also, if I have time to save a thousand pregnant 1.00

00:48:28.940 women, why can't I save the baby too? But this is semantics, perhaps. We'll just say embryos because 0.99

00:48:34.120 that's the form the argument usually takes. And the point here is obvious. If you say that the

00:48:40.100 born child, if you say that you would save the born child over the embryos, then clearly you must be

00:48:45.820 affirming that there is some sort of inherent difference between the born child and the embryo,

00:48:50.400 which reveals supposedly a fundamental contradiction in your pro-life position.

00:48:55.380 That is, unless you take more than 10 seconds to think about the issue.

00:49:00.540 Which I have, so here's how I would break it down.

00:49:05.700 Would I save the born baby instead of the embryos?

00:49:08.940 Yes, absolutely. No question. Does that prove that my position on abortion is wrong or contradictory

00:49:16.600 or logically weak? No, absolutely not. And I'll tell you why. A few things to consider.

00:49:23.660 First, we're talking about emotions here. The decision of who to save in a burning building

00:49:29.720 is an emotional one that you make more than it is a moral one. The reason we're put in a burning

00:49:36.240 building for this hypothetical is to get us to forfeit our moral reasoning and adopt emotional

00:49:42.820 reasoning. Emotional reasoning in a burning building is okay. In an abortion clinic, it isn't. 0.56

00:49:50.500 After all, my personal and emotional connection with my own child would lead me to save him over

00:49:57.000 someone else's. Does that mean I don't recognize the value of someone else's child or that it would

00:50:01.980 be okay for me to kill someone else's child? Of course not. Second point, there's a really 0.69

00:50:07.180 important difference between leaving someone in a burning building because you can't save them

00:50:12.080 and directly killing them yourself. It is morally permissible to commit a good act, saving a child,

00:50:20.500 which may indirectly lead to something bad, the embryos being destroyed. The intention in that case

00:50:26.800 is to save the child, not to destroy the embryos. I'm not the one who's destroying the embryos. I

00:50:32.200 didn't kill them. I merely failed to prevent them from being killed. And that's obviously a really 0.80

00:50:36.860 significant distinction. It's why if there are two people trapped in a fire and you run in and save

00:50:42.060 only one, you're not going to be prosecuted for murdering the one you didn't save. If anyone's

00:50:48.060 prosecuted for murder, it'll be the person who set the fire. See, in abortion, on the other hand,

00:50:52.800 the child is being killed in a, quote, fire set by his parents. A choice is made to directly and

00:51:02.140 purposefully kill the child. It's a very different thing. Third, this thought experiment, if it measures

00:51:10.060 anything at all, it measures how much I personally would value the child over the embryos. But it doesn't

00:51:18.800 matter how I value them personally. It's their intrinsic value that matters. I value my family over

00:51:26.600 your family, whoever you are. I value my family over yours. But your family has the same intrinsic

00:51:32.520 value. See, I'm making the decision based, as I said before, on emotion. I can see the child. I can hear

00:51:38.980 him crying. I'm looking him in the eyes. I grab him. It's instinct. There's also some logic to it. I don't

00:51:44.680 really know how many of the embryos are still, you know, viable, whether they'll ever be implanted

00:51:51.140 and given the chance to develop. I don't know these things. Again, this calculation would not

00:51:55.420 justify killing the embryos under any circumstance, but it would justify my decision to save the child

00:52:00.080 instead. Maybe I can get the point across with my own thought experiment, okay? You're in a burning

00:52:06.780 building. There's an 85-year-old terminally ill cancer patient and a healthy five-year-old boy.

00:52:14.160 You can only save one. Who do you choose? Wouldn't everyone save the five-year-old?

00:52:20.200 Even the 85-year-old himself would probably tell you to save the five-year-old.

00:52:25.000 Is that because the 85-year-old's life has less value? Does the fact that we would all immediately

00:52:30.120 choose the five-year-old prove anything at all about the intrinsic value of elderly people?

00:52:34.540 No, it speaks only to the terrible and morbid calculations we're forced to make when we're

00:52:40.200 put in a dire situation like this. If I had a choice to save my own child or 100 strangers,

00:52:48.860 well, I've got bad news for the strangers. And the news is not that they have no moral worth or

00:52:55.040 basic rights. It's just that I'm dad and that's my kid and I'm not leaving him to burn under any

00:53:00.820 circumstance. So that's how you deal with that argument. But notice something about the pro-abortion

00:53:06.900 side. Notice how they almost always rely on these far-fetched hypotheticals. You're in a burning IVF

00:53:14.880 clinic. You're attached by tubes to a stranger, et cetera, et cetera. Or they rely on extremely hard

00:53:19.900 cases like rape and incest. See, what the pro-abortion side never wants to talk about is the actual reality

00:53:25.960 of abortion in almost every case. Because in actual reality, almost every time, there's no fire.

00:53:33.160 There hasn't been any rape. There's just the child who was conceived through an intentional act by the

00:53:41.400 parents. And he's there now. And so is the mother. And so is the abortionist. And a choice is made

00:53:49.400 that doesn't have to be made. That's the reality. So let's talk about that.

00:53:58.840 But that's the last thing that anybody on the pro-abortion side actually wants to talk about,

00:54:02.960 which is why they are today, yet again, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there for the day and

00:54:10.300 the week. And I'll talk to you next week. Have a great weekend. God bless. Godspeed.

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Ep. 760 - Feminists Experience Equality. They Don't Like It.

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