The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 777 - A More Diverse And Inclusive Taliban

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it could be a Babylon Bee headline, but it's tragically real.

00:00:04.140 The State Department issued a statement yesterday calling for the Taliban to be inclusive and

00:00:08.260 representative. Our country is run by people who are completely out of touch with all semblance

00:00:12.340 of reality. We can't hope to solve Afghanistan's problems if we can't solve that problem. We'll 1.00

00:00:16.640 talk about that. Also, Joe Biden makes his excuses in a speech yesterday. He's been roundly panned

00:00:20.760 for the speech and for good reason. But was he actually right about some of what he said? We'll

00:00:24.660 discuss. And the governor of Tennessee tells the state's public schools that they cannot issue mask

00:00:28.760 mandates. Then Nashville schools say, hey, we're going to do it anyway. And in our daily

00:00:32.400 cancellation, we'll talk about Lizzo's claims that her critics are fatphobic, sexist, and

00:00:37.180 racist. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:06.820 We begin today with some good news, a job opportunity in an up-and-coming sector. The job search site

00:02:13.240 Daybook has this Help Wanted ad posted by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the

00:02:19.260 Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women for short. In what appears to be a very real listing,

00:02:24.700 UN Women is calling for a partnership specialist to advance gender equality and women's empowerment

00:02:30.420 in Kabul, Afghanistan. It says that the length of the initial contract will be one year,

00:02:36.660 which conveniently is also the life expectancy of whoever takes the job. There's no information on

00:02:41.400 how the position became available. We can use our imagination. And also, we're not told anything

00:02:45.300 about the dress code, which at this point we can assume is probably restrictive. But it does say

00:02:50.740 that the key traits needed for this job are respect for diversity, integrity, professionalism,

00:02:57.080 and of course, a death wish. I trust that a whole flock of pink-haired Antifa feminists will be 1.00

00:03:02.780 applying for this job at once. I mean, why wouldn't they? There's plenty of misogyny to fight in

00:03:07.360 Afghanistan, plenty of fascism to fight. I'm sure they'll be on the first plane over there if they can 0.92

00:03:13.220 find a flight that goes in. Now, in fairness, we can maybe assume, maybe, maybe, that this listing

00:03:18.640 was posted before the events of the last few days. That would make it slightly less crazy.

00:03:24.180 That assumption, though, may be giving too much credit to the brain-dead bureaucrats who are 0.78

00:03:29.120 currently running the entire Western world. After all, it was just yesterday that a spokesman for

00:03:33.780 the State Department, a man appropriately named Ned, got up in front of cameras and said this.

00:03:38.980 Additionally, the UN Security Council issued a joint press statement earlier today calling for

00:03:44.380 a new government that is united, inclusive, and representative, including with the full

00:03:51.080 and meaningful participation of women. The Council spoke with one voice to underscore that Afghanistan

00:03:58.480 must abide by its international obligations, including to international humanitarian law,

00:04:04.380 and ensure the safety and security of all Afghans and international citizens.

00:04:10.660 Well, Ned has spoken, ladies and gentlemen. Not just Ned from the State Department, but all of the

00:04:16.840 Neds of the UN Security Council. They have all spoken in one voice. The Taliban must, must we say, 0.99

00:04:22.700 must be representative and inclusive. We not only demand that the 7th century barbarian horde

00:04:28.800 currently running Afghanistan must tolerate women, but that they must, in fact, include women 0.85

00:04:33.480 in their government. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. You're

00:04:37.040 thinking, this is outrageous. This is stupid. This is embarrassing. This is insane. I mean, 1.00

00:04:41.760 how could they tell the Taliban to respect women and not mention that they should also represent and

00:04:47.440 include members of the LGBT community? You know, how has the State Department, to this point,

00:04:52.320 not so much as suggested that the Taliban consider appointing a trans woman as a warlord

00:04:57.460 of some village somewhere, at a minimum? Well, don't worry. They'll get around to that,

00:05:03.120 I'm sure. For now, the focus is on insisting that men who literally cover their women in burlap sacks 0.91

00:05:08.240 must magically leave those old ways behind and embrace Western egalitarian principles.

00:05:14.020 What if they don't? Well, I'll tell you what happens if they don't. The State Department will monitor

00:05:19.620 the situation, and they stand ready at a moment's notice to meet with the UN Security Council

00:05:24.980 and form a resolution to be voted on by the General Assembly to issue a written condemnation

00:05:30.200 using the strongest language to scold the Taliban for their inappropriate and, frankly, unpleasant 0.88

00:05:34.960 and, dare I say, unacceptable conduct. What else do you want? Well, perhaps you want instead a minimal

00:05:42.620 amount of sanity and competence from those who lead us. On that score, you're out of luck. These are,

00:05:48.980 after all, the same people who flew pride flags in Kabul, who tell us that the greatest terror threat 0.66

00:05:54.860 we face are parents complaining to their school boards about masking mandates and a guy who stole

00:06:00.900 a lectern from the Capitol building. These people who've been working diligently to instill cultural

00:06:06.720 sensitivity in our military. The people who issue military recruitment ads that look like Disney

00:06:12.180 princess films. This is what we get. This is what we get specifically from a ruling class that is

00:06:18.640 itself immersed in leftist ideology. They are immersed in it the way that a man might be immersed in lava

00:06:26.660 after being thrown into a volcano. There's no rescue. There's no hope. They are consumed by this

00:06:33.120 lethal substance melting into it and becoming eventually indistinguishable from the substance

00:06:37.600 itself. The lesson here, if you hadn't learned it by now, is that the prevailing religion of the day

00:06:44.540 in this country and across the West, the religion of leftism, is by its nature entirely detached from

00:06:51.620 and hostile to reality. This is why our leaders are incapable of leading. They are incapable of doing

00:06:59.300 anything at all, of running a city or a federal government, much less a global imperial empire.

00:07:05.620 They're limited, ironically, much the same way that the Taliban is limited. The Taliban is frozen

00:07:11.040 1,300 years in the past, doomed to live like savages in misery and filth, and to drag whatever 0.91

00:07:16.940 nation or province they run down with them. Their beliefs will not allow for peace or advancement or

00:07:23.360 flourishing. Won't allow it. Which means, by the way, if you hear, because in response to the

00:07:30.280 State Department saying they need to include women, there are actually some people, at least if social media 0.71

00:07:34.840 is any indication, who are hopeful for this because the Taliban has said, and I just saw an Al Jazeera

00:07:41.240 headline that was just published. The Taliban has said that, oh yeah, we'll include women in the

00:07:46.320 government. Sure, we'll do that. We're not going to kill anybody. We've turned a new leaf.

00:07:53.020 And there are people taking this seriously. Well, let's give them a chance. Who knows?

00:07:56.600 It's not possible. If you're dumb enough to believe it, it's not possible. It's not just 1.00

00:08:06.260 that it's probably not true. It can't be. It won't be. Their belief system will not allow it. They

00:08:13.960 would have to renounce their belief system first. Now, our ruling class, constricted by their own 0.87

00:08:21.420 religion, driven into madness by a worldview which militates against truth and common sense every step 0.98

00:08:28.040 of the way, they cannot recognize this reality about the Taliban because they cannot recognize

00:08:32.800 any reality at all. They are frozen in their own way, incapacitated, useless, paralyzed by their own 0.89

00:08:40.240 lunacy. Now, it hasn't led them to the same sort of barbarism that we see from the Taliban, but it does 1.00

00:08:46.640 cause different kinds of barbarism and not all that dissimilar in some cases. For example, radical

00:08:52.400 Islam supports female genital mutilation, which is a terrible thing. Leftism supports the genital 0.99

00:08:58.000 mutilation of both males and females, except for the purpose of turning males into females and vice

00:09:02.720 versa. In fact, the type of genital mutilation endorsed by the left is even more barbaric and

00:09:09.080 insane if such a thing is possible. The point is that we need to see this sort of madness from the

00:09:14.980 State Department calling for inclusivity and representation among the Taliban in the greater

00:09:19.760 context of a government suffocated by its own ideology, presiding over a country which is

00:09:25.780 collectively choking to death from the same cause. This is all the more reason, as I argued yesterday,

00:09:31.540 why we should put our colonial dreams to rest. I mean, we're run by men who can barely tie their own 1.00

00:09:37.380 shoes. How do you expect them to rule an empire? Now, let's get to our five headlines. 0.97

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00:11:00.560 So I got to mention this. This is sad. I mean, this is really sad. This makes me sad

00:11:04.540 in the same way that, you know, you felt sad seeing the kid who sat alone at the lunch table

00:11:10.920 in the cafeteria in school, that kind of a pitiful kind of sadness. Um, and it really ruins your lunch,

00:11:17.840 honestly, to see what a loser he is. So some woman named, uh, Donna Proventure, who, uh, 0.98

00:11:26.060 I guess apparently is a journalist and writes for the Washington Post or has written for them.

00:11:29.920 Um, she tweeted this and she tagged me. Um, she tagged, she wanted me to see this. So I feel,

00:11:35.360 you know, I, to call it to your attention and publicly mock her. I feel that, uh, I am doing

00:11:40.440 what she wanted me to do. So this is what she tweeted. She says, literally the greatest birthday

00:11:44.740 gift I've ever been given honoring my favorite hobby, undermining everything Matt Walsh stands for.

00:11:50.140 And it's a picture of her holding a sweatshirt that says, not now, sweetie, mommy's cyber bullying

00:11:56.340 Matt Walsh. And then there's a, a middle finger, I guess. I don't know the middle fingers. She given

00:12:01.720 the middle finger to her kid because she's talking to her kid in the sweater. I don't know.

00:12:05.620 The point is, you know, I, I have never heard of this person. I don't know who she is.

00:12:10.640 And yet I am her favorite hobby. How sad is that? And she wears my name on her body. Now

00:12:16.780 I will forget about her existence shortly after we finished talking about this and she'll go on

00:12:23.980 stewing over me, imagining that she's cyber bullying me. So this is worse than the kid at

00:12:30.840 the lunch table. This is the kid at the lunch table is sitting there alone, telling himself

00:12:34.580 that he's the most popular kid in school. It's just, it's, it's very sad. She spent probably

00:12:40.120 countless hours, apparently tweeting at me. And I never even noticed it while she brags to

00:12:47.740 the people around her. Look at me, cyber bullying this guy. By the way, can we just acknowledge

00:12:52.740 the elephant in the room here? Like, um, that shirt would be pathetic no matter whose name 0.97

00:12:57.660 is on it. Okay. But it's worse when you put me on it because I'm not famous enough to justify 0.96

00:13:02.760 that. So it makes it even worse because a good number of people who will see that they

00:13:07.080 have no idea who I am. So you'll have to explain me to them. You'll have to like give my biography

00:13:13.080 to them, actively tell people about me and promote me all to get back around to the sweatshirt,

00:13:20.180 which after you explain it will seem even lamer and weirder to the person you're talking

00:13:24.060 to than it did before you explained it. If she walks around wearing that, how many times 0.59

00:13:28.640 is she going to be stopped and say by people saying, who's, who's Matt Walsh? Oh, he's

00:13:32.960 this guy on the internet and I don't like him. I tweet mean comments to him a lot. And so

00:13:38.880 I put it on a sweater and the person will just slowly back away. Okay. All right. Good.

00:13:45.480 Good job. By the way, she deleted the tweet after I responded. So that tweet has now been

00:13:51.500 deleted, but, um, the sweater is out there somewhere. I don't know if it's available for

00:13:56.520 sale, but it's out there. Okay. So Joe Biden, uh, addressed the public yesterday and, uh, gave

00:14:04.480 a pretty short speech about the situation in Afghanistan. Took no questions, hurried off the

00:14:09.860 stage. Well, hurried as much as he can possibly hurry, kind of shuffled off the stage afterwards.

00:14:13.660 Took no questions from the press. Uh, we know that if this was, if this was Trump in a similar

00:14:21.200 situation and giving a speech, even people who hate Trump would have to acknowledge that

00:14:25.560 he would have sat there for an hour or stood there rather taking questions from the press.

00:14:32.820 Every single question hostile to him, but he would have, he would have stood there reveling

00:14:39.400 in it, taking the questions, but Joe Biden can't take any hostile questions. He's off

00:14:43.300 the stage. Um, the speech itself has been roundly panned by really everyone on all sides.

00:14:53.080 And that's pretty rare that a speech given by a politician is going to be panned by both

00:14:58.000 sides, especially when it's a Democrat politician. The media hated it for the most part, some exceptions,

00:15:02.720 uh, certainly everyone on the right hated it. Let's play a quick clip of, uh, the speech just

00:15:08.400 to get the kind of the flavor of it. Here it is. I've argued for many years that our mission should

00:15:13.720 be narrowly focused on counter-terrorism, not counter-insurgency or nation building. So what's

00:15:20.400 happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed

00:15:29.520 sometime without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that

00:15:38.440 ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision. American troops cannot

00:15:45.080 and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for

00:15:53.360 themselves. Uh, I have to tell you, I feel dirty listening to a Biden speech and agreeing with

00:16:02.120 anything he says, but, uh, I did in fact agree with those clips there. I did. I agreed with pretty

00:16:07.700 much all of that. Now that doesn't make it a good speech. Okay. Because for one thing, in terms of

00:16:14.880 delivery, you could tell that he could barely, he barely knows what he's saying. Uh, you could see it in

00:16:19.640 his eyes. You could tell in the way he's delivering it. He's, he's reading the words and it's not

00:16:23.180 registering in his brain. So that's, that's a pretty big problem. Um, and also it was an excuse

00:16:29.560 making speech and it, it did not deal with the real issue and the thing that has caused, uh, and,

00:16:37.940 and precipitated most of the criticism, which is the, the way that the, the, the withdrawal was

00:16:42.920 handled, the way that the pullout was handled. He didn't, he just glossed right over that common

00:16:48.620 political technique, also pretty smart political technique to talk about the thing. You know,

00:16:53.680 you're going to talk about the thing that you want to talk about. You're going to frame it the way

00:16:56.140 you want to frame it. You're not going to talk about what your critics are talking about, but,

00:17:00.460 um, we can't really call it. So it was, it, it, it may or may not have been a politically smart

00:17:07.580 speech. I guess we can't even call it that because it was panned by everybody. Um, there's probably

00:17:13.320 no speech he could have given that would have changed much of anything for him politically.

00:17:18.620 But he did avoid talking about the main thing, which is how the pullout was handled and why it

00:17:26.240 was handled that way. Instead, he's talking about why we needed to leave. As far as that goes,

00:17:34.220 the reasons that he gives putting the, the pullout to the side, the reasons that he gives for leaving

00:17:40.020 that I agree with. And you know what, if he had given that exact speech six months ago, and in fact,

00:17:46.220 he did give almost that exact speech six months ago when he was laying out why we had to leave.

00:17:51.880 And that's, I agree with it. The problem is that he's giving it again now when that's not really

00:17:56.860 the issue. The issue is the manner, the manner of leaving. But even with that acknowledged, um,

00:18:04.080 he, he is, it is true that the Afghan military gave up the entire Afghan government fled the country.

00:18:15.480 He should have known that that was going to happen. I think he did know, or at least the people really

00:18:20.160 running our government knew that it was going to happen. Should have planned for that. Should

00:18:24.360 have taken that into consideration, made sure that we could evacuate all of our people beforehand,

00:18:29.280 before all of that happened, but there's no getting, but there's no getting around the fact

00:18:34.600 that they did in fact flee the country and the Afghan military gave up. And I, I don't see how

00:18:40.620 they could put all the blame on, on, on Biden that you want fine by me. Um, but I don't see how

00:18:48.660 the Afghan military escapes all blame. The way people are talking about them, it's like,

00:18:56.700 they're a bunch of infants, like they're toddlers. Oh, poor Afghan military. We can't expect anything 1.00

00:19:01.540 from them. Really? We can't 300, 300,000 of them supposedly trained and equipped for 20 years.

00:19:09.280 We abandoned them. We have been 20 years later. We abandoned them 20 years later.

00:19:14.980 That's what you call abandonment. When you're left to defend your own country after 20 years abandoned.

00:19:23.420 Now, if you want to talk about abandoning our own people on the ground and not having a, uh, a, a plan

00:19:32.600 in place to get them out. Yeah, there's abandonment. Heads should roll over that. There should be

00:19:38.680 resignations over that. There should be, there should be prison sentences over that. But if you're going

00:19:46.380 to sit here and tell me that the Afghan military was abandoned, it's their country. What do you mean

00:19:53.840 abandoned to their own country? If you're a military and you can't defend your own nation after 20 years

00:20:03.420 of being trained, then whose fault is that? And I don't want to hear anything about, oh, well,

00:20:10.500 they, they didn't have air support. Yeah, that's the point. We're leaving. Take care of yourself now.

00:20:17.140 Did the Taliban have air support? Well, they didn't have the intelligence on the ground. How much

00:20:21.760 intelligence does the Taliban have? These, this, this gang of seventh century savage scumbags? 1.00

00:20:32.680 Are they flying in there with jets and you got, you got, you got a quarter million of you and you 0.99

00:20:40.960 just leave? You don't even try. Even if I were to say that they're, they're put in a difficult

00:20:47.140 situation because the, our military isn't there to guide them and help them. Fine. It's a difficult

00:20:52.540 spot. So you don't even try then you don't even try is what we're being told. That's what, so if

00:20:59.760 you're, if you're in the military and you're put in a tough spot, don't even try. Give in to forces

00:21:05.480 that you outnumber three or four to one. Can we play this here? Here's the Taliban, by the way, 0.94

00:21:11.960 after they took over the presidential palace, let's play this. Here's them. Uh, they're,

00:21:16.360 they're in a gym checking out some of the gym equipment. There they are. So these are the guys

00:21:23.660 that just conquered Afghanistan. Take a look at this. How much are these guys benching?

00:21:31.520 40 pounds, maybe at most. Look at that dude. He's trying to, he has no idea. Well, he's never

00:21:40.840 used a, any kind of, of a gym equipment in his life, clearly. All right. That guy was bicep 0.98

00:21:47.480 curling about, uh, about 15 pounds. And these, these are the dudes. There was a, there was

00:21:54.140 another video of them taking over an amusement park and they're like playing on the bumper

00:21:58.520 cars. And these people just conquered Afghanistan in two days. Can't even say they conquered 0.98

00:22:06.500 because there was no, there was no fight. It wasn't even a surrender. It was just like,

00:22:11.660 yeah, all right. You can have it. There you go. Country's yours. I don't, I don't buy that.

00:22:18.840 I don't, I don't buy absolving you. You are duty bound to defend your own country. That's

00:22:23.740 why you're in the military. Absolving them of blame. Give me a break. Come on. Um, a little

00:22:31.780 more Afghanistan stuff here. So, uh, well here, this is related. MSNBC had a, an interesting

00:22:37.760 way of talking about the Taliban's takeover. They said it was a peaceful takeover, much

00:22:42.920 like the BLM riots with buildings burning in the background was actually mostly peaceful.

00:22:49.240 The takeover by the Taliban was also peaceful. Let's play that from MSNBC. 0.72

00:22:53.320 Hi Matthew. Well, the country is essentially now in the hands of the Taliban for all intents 0.98

00:22:59.380 and purposes. Uh, they've taken over Kabul, the president, or should I now say the former

00:23:05.080 president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. The Taliban have taken over the

00:23:11.640 presidential palace. They've renamed the country, the Islamic Emirates taken down the Afghan flag and

00:23:18.040 hoisted up, uh, their own colors. Uh, and it's been a relatively, um, peaceful, if you like a process.

00:23:25.420 They haven't had to fire a lot of shots. There hasn't been a lot of bloodshed in Kabul. It was a

00:23:30.960 pretty straightforward takeover for them. Uh, they've also taken over the airport. Uh, there've

00:23:36.740 been reports of shots fired at the airport and Taliban fighters, uh, are all over the place.

00:23:42.500 Uh, but they're not in any sort of clashes with us personnel, although commercial flights have so

00:23:49.120 far been suspended. Military evacuation flights are still taking place. And I, from what we understand

00:23:55.500 right now, most of the U S personnel are at the airport now trying to get onto various, uh, evacuation

00:24:02.640 flights out of the country with a very few security personnel left at the embassy burning what's left

00:24:09.680 of sensitive paperwork. Yeah. Everyone's kind of dunking on this, uh, on that report from MSABC saying

00:24:16.540 that it was a peaceful takeover, but actually it, it, it was, it doesn't mean that the Taliban is

00:24:23.420 peaceful. It doesn't mean that, that, that, uh, what's about to follow isn't going to be brutal

00:24:28.340 and horrible, isn't already brutal and horrible, but it is inarguably the case that the takeover of

00:24:35.400 the country was peaceful. Why? As you said, there wasn't, nobody fired a shot. The country was handed

00:24:41.460 over to these people. It, it, it would have been non-peaceful if the Afghan military and government

00:24:48.640 had had any interest whatsoever in defending their own nation, then it would have been non-peaceful.

00:24:54.720 I mean, the Taliban was perfectly willing to go in there and kill lots of people, but they didn't

00:24:58.940 have to. So yeah, that's actually true. That's, that's look at me. I'm defending Biden and MSNBC

00:25:06.700 that right there. Well, you just heard there mostly an accurate reflection of what actually happened.

00:25:12.120 If it's, if it sounds outrageous to you, well, it is outrageous.

00:25:18.640 And you can't put all the blame on, uh, he says, the only thing I take issue with is that he says,

00:25:24.140 well, there's, there's no, uh, conflicts with the U S military. The military is not firing at them,

00:25:28.740 which is also true, but that's not the point.

00:25:33.260 The issue is where's the Afghan military nowhere to be found.

00:25:38.700 They ran away, but you know, that's all, again, it's all our fault, right?

00:25:43.140 No, no, no attempt at all to defend their own people in their own country.

00:25:46.500 No attempt, zero attempt. And that's our fault. Okay. Sure. All right, let's move on. Bill de

00:25:53.620 Blasio has continued making his hostage demands, hoping to, uh, browbeat New Yorkers into getting

00:26:00.680 vaccinated. And here's the latest from him. Much as you want to celebrate the city's return,

00:26:06.040 how concerned are you that we're at a very precarious point on the Delta research?

00:26:10.560 Well, it's a very important question, Andrew, and I thank you. Uh, and we're always looking for that

00:26:15.320 balance. I'll tell you something. This is absolutely strategic to say to people to fully

00:26:23.100 participate in the life of the city and to love and enjoy this city, go get vaccinated. Uh, we believe

00:26:29.880 it's going to make a huge impact. We're obviously seeing a real uptick in vaccinations already.

00:26:35.640 We made a decision weeks and weeks ago, the whole ball game is vaccination. And once you make that kind

00:26:43.940 of profound strategic decision, you throw everything you got at it, uh, we are not interested in half

00:26:48.380 measures. We're interested in vaccination. So making vaccination something that allows you to enjoy all

00:26:54.720 that's good in life and knowing that that first dose provides protection to begin with, but much

00:27:00.460 more importantly, gets you on the road to the second dose. And that's what we see overwhelmingly that

00:27:04.540 people go back and get that second dose. Um, that's how we built this strategy. So we're watching

00:27:10.260 every day, uh, for any, uh, areas of concern, but the key is always to move vaccination as aggressively

00:27:18.300 as possible. Vaccination is what allows you to enjoy all that is good in life. That's an, that's

00:27:28.360 interesting because there are plenty of unvaccinated people out in the country right now who are perfect, 1.00

00:27:33.960 we're enjoying life quite a bit, uh, having no problem enjoying all that's good in life.

00:27:41.040 So no, it's not vaccination that enables you to enjoy all that's good in life. Vaccination really

00:27:46.820 has nothing to do with it one way or another. Um, it's, it's more so to say Bill de Blasio is

00:27:54.640 declaring that if you don't get vaccinated, he has, he has created this arbitrary standard now.

00:28:00.080 And if you don't get vaccinated, he will actively try to prevent you from enjoying all that's good

00:28:06.520 in life. So that's what he should be saying. If he was being honest, if you don't get vaccinated,

00:28:11.600 I will try to prevent you from enjoying your life. That is what he's saying. I mean, it's,

00:28:18.800 it's not quite phrasing it that way, but almost, if you don't get, if you don't inject this substance

00:28:25.980 into your body, I will prevent you from enjoying life. That's what we're being told from the mayor

00:28:35.000 of the largest city in the United States of America, allegedly a free country, inject this

00:28:40.620 into your body right now. Don't ask questions about it. Don't question it, put it in your body

00:28:46.780 or I will prevent you from enjoying life. I will take everything from you. If you don't put this in

00:28:50.500 your body right now, by the way, bodily autonomy is really important. My body, my choice.

00:29:00.180 In addition, unrelated to that, put this in your body right now, or I will, or I will strip your 1.00

00:29:05.120 life of all meaning. That's what's happening in the United States of America. And it's being allowed. 0.63

00:29:11.420 It's being tolerated. Speaking of tolerance. Here's something on the positive end though. Governor Bill

00:29:19.120 Lee here in Tennessee, we like Bill Lee here. And he just signed an executive order. He said,

00:29:25.520 no one cares more about health and wellbeing of a child than a parent. I'm signing an EO today that

00:29:30.260 allows parents to opt their children out of a school mask mandate. If either a school board or health

00:29:34.720 board enacts one over a district. Now here's an example of something that a governor actually has

00:29:42.760 the authority to do, because we're talking about public schools. Those are government institutions

00:29:47.140 run by the state. Bill Lee is the governor of the state. So he can do this. And he's putting an

00:29:55.380 executive order into place saying, hey, you can, at school, if you want to have a, if you want to

00:29:59.280 have a mask policy, that's fine. But you got to allow children and families to opt out of it. You're

00:30:04.500 going to let them make a decision. Now that's called good leadership. That's called a discernment,

00:30:12.340 which is something we rarely get from our leaders. But then this from WKRN here in town says the

00:30:17.260 director of Metro Nashville public schools announced the district will continue to enforce its mask

00:30:23.300 policy, despite Governor Bill Lee's executive order, allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates.

00:30:28.520 Director of schools, Dr. Adrian Battle said school districts were not notified before the executive

00:30:34.140 order was released. I don't know why that makes a difference. He said the governor's executive

00:30:38.480 order was released without prior notice to school districts for review or comment.

00:30:43.000 As such, Metro schools will continue to require face masks pursuant to the rules adopted by the board

00:30:48.380 as we further review this order and explore all the options available to the district to best protect

00:30:53.320 the health of our students, teachers, and staff. Well, they need to further review the order.

00:30:57.140 Okay. What is there to review? It's pretty short. It's like one paragraph.

00:31:02.600 And all it says is you can't force people to wear masks. They can opt out. That's it. There's not a lot

00:31:08.460 to review. The Nashville school board says, well, we got to, we had to take a moment here, really study

00:31:14.760 this thing. We need about, we need about five, six, seven weeks. Got to go through this line by line.

00:31:20.200 It's very, it's very complex. Oh, really what they're saying is, oh, I don't care what you say,

00:31:27.000 governor. We're a public school. We're run by the state. You're the governor of the state,

00:31:31.760 but I don't give a damn what you say. We're going to do what we want. Try and stop us. What are you

00:31:36.000 going to do? Send the state police in? Start cart, cart the school board off to jail? Sounds good to me

00:31:43.860 personally. I doubt that's going to happen. See, this is how, um, this is how Democrats operate.

00:31:54.740 Assuming that the people running Nashville public schools are all Democrats, which I'd say is a

00:31:58.920 pretty safe assumption. At least 98% Democrat, we could assume. This is, this is how they operate.

00:32:03.340 They say, no, we don't, we don't care about the law. We don't care about authority. We don't care

00:32:07.840 about anything. We don't care about any of that. Chain of command doesn't matter. We're going to do

00:32:13.760 what we want to do. Try and stop us. An attitude, an approach that I wish Republicans would consider

00:32:21.700 adopting every once in a while. And finally, one other thing on, uh, on masking and schools and

00:32:27.980 everything else. Eric Feigel Ding, who's an epidemiologist and a trusted, one of those trusted

00:32:34.180 experts of the expert class posted this video of a teacher crying about going back to school.

00:32:40.260 And, uh, if this sounds like something that you may have heard last year, well, yeah, it is exactly

00:32:47.520 like last year, but this is this year. Now the teachers are still crying and saying they shouldn't

00:32:50.700 have to go back to school. Um, they, they want two years now of schools being shut down and, uh,

00:32:56.200 she's crying about going much like a child might cry about going back to school. So is this teacher.

00:33:00.780 Here's what she has to say. I have had my regular back to school anxieties, things like, am I going

00:33:07.900 to have enough time? Am I going to get my lessons done? Are the students going to be okay? But this

00:33:13.520 year there is this overshadowing apprehension that's clouding my normal back to school thoughts.

00:33:22.160 And it's with, it's with, it's with thoughts like, if I die, who's going to take care of my children?

00:33:35.440 And if I end up in the hospital, how am I going to pay those bills?

00:33:39.240 And if I give COVID to my students or my own children and they die, how am I going to live

00:33:50.620 with that? And I want you to ask any teacher how they feel this year. And I'm sure that they will

00:33:58.940 tell you that they have never experienced anxiety like this. Never experienced anxiety like this,

00:34:04.880 except for last year. Right. Because the teachers love talking about their anxiety. This is never,

00:34:10.520 no one has ever suffered like we are suffering. We're being, we're being told to go to go to work.

00:34:16.520 You want us to do our jobs? This is unimaginable. Meanwhile, almost the rest, the rest of society

00:34:25.040 has been going to work and doing their jobs. For some people, the, this, the entire time never stopped.

00:34:32.540 Almost everyone else now is back on the job, working around people, doing, you know, doing what

00:34:41.060 they're supposed to do. Um, and except the teachers, they, they refuse, no, it's to send them back is a,

00:34:50.460 is a horrible oppression. You know what? I see a video like that and it does upset me. It does upset

00:35:00.200 and it does distress me to see her tears because I am upset to think and to realize once again 1.00

00:35:06.420 that our T that our kids are being taught by such self-serving, selfish, narcissistic morons. 1.00

00:35:17.160 That is what is upsetting to me to see an idiot like this. 1.00

00:35:21.320 And that, that is the, uh, the, the amount of contempt at this point that we should heap on teachers 1.00

00:35:29.400 who are still crying about having to do their jobs. Get another job, lady. If you still, do you, 1.00

00:35:36.540 was that what you really want? You want two years of the kids not in school

00:35:39.280 because of your unreasonable, paranoid, psychotic, delusional fear.

00:35:49.260 Get another job, please. There's 10 million of them available. You could go do anything else.

00:35:56.120 We're also told all the time that teachers are underpaid. They don't get paid a lot. So

00:35:59.500 you should be able to go out and find a better paying job.

00:36:02.100 Leave the kids alone, please. You don't want to go back to the job to work. We don't want you back

00:36:10.640 at work. All right. Before we get to reading the comments here, uh, we also want to play this for

00:36:18.120 you. This is, this is another football related item. We had one yesterday, uh, about Tim Tebow,

00:36:23.660 who, by the way, I just saw before we started shooting, Tim Tebow, uh, is, had, was cut by the

00:36:28.300 Jacksonville Jaguars. So there was a lot of controversy that we talked about yesterday,

00:36:32.280 Tim Tebow and his first preseason game. The fact that he was on the field at all was very upsetting

00:36:36.880 for people in sports media. They said, well, what about Colin Kaepernick? Uh, and now he's been cut

00:36:41.640 from the team. And I, but I'm sure that will not stop the claims of racism. All the people who said

00:36:47.080 that it's racist, that Tim Tebow has given this opportunity, Colin Kaepernick wasn't, are they going

00:36:52.140 to go back around and apologize and say, Oh, well, I guess this wasn't a racist conspiracy. I mean,

00:36:55.460 they cut him after all. I guess they were just given a chance to try out. He wasn't good enough.

00:36:58.300 They let him go. I doubt they'll apologize. Um, another football related item. The NFL has added

00:37:05.000 a new point of emphasis for refs this year. Uh, taunting is a point of emphasis. That's always 0.75

00:37:09.700 been against the rules, but now it's a point of emphasis, which means that they're going to be

00:37:12.640 throwing a lot of flags for it. Uh, players who taunt will get a 15 yard penalty. And we saw what

00:37:17.560 this will look like during the Colts preseason game on Sunday. Go ahead and play this, this clip

00:37:21.020 here. This is the Colts preseason game. Um, you see a great run here.

00:37:28.300 The lag's going still against the Panthers. He's this, this guy's dragging the, uh, county

00:37:33.400 tractor pull right there. There's the taunt and he gets the 15 yard penalty. First of all,

00:37:39.300 he drags like 10 guys, about 10 yards. It's a great run. And he's excited. He's pumped

00:37:43.940 up. He gets up and he just flexes for like a second and kind of, and says something to

00:37:50.520 the guy on the ground and they throw a 15 yard penalty. That's a flag. And this is, this is

00:37:55.580 evidence of two things, which, which is a problem in football. First of all, the people who work in

00:37:59.700 football are constantly trying to convince themselves that football is more serious than

00:38:03.740 it is. They want to convince themselves because they've given their life to this. And so they want

00:38:07.900 to convince themselves that it's more than just a child's game, which is what it is. Why shouldn't

00:38:12.360 you taunt? It's a game. They're playing a game. That's all they're, they're on a, they're on a grassy

00:38:17.740 field trying to get the ball across a line. It's a game. It's a fun game. I like watching it,

00:38:23.520 but it is a game, but we can't have any of that in football. This is, this is, we need

00:38:28.580 professionalism. Do we in a game? Why? And also you see the same issue that you find with

00:38:35.940 any bureaucracy and the NFL is a bureaucracy, you know, a non-governmental bureaucracy where

00:38:44.520 you have a bunch of people constantly trying to justify their jobs because in any bureaucracy,

00:38:49.780 whether it's in the NFL or the federal bureaucracy, bureaucracy at any level, um, you know, like 80%

00:38:55.360 of the people there shouldn't have jobs at all. They really have nothing to do.

00:39:01.880 So what they're always trying to do, their, their real job, whatever their, whatever their job,

00:39:06.380 their official job title is, doesn't matter. Their real job is to constantly justify the fact

00:39:11.440 that they have a job. And so they're always looking for problems to solve, for things to do.

00:39:16.500 And that's the NFL. So this year, here's a problem. Guys saying mean things to other guys on the NFL

00:39:25.480 field. That's a problem. You know, that'll, that'll justify our jobs for another year and we'll find a

00:39:31.700 new problem next year. That's the way bureaucracies function. All right, moving on now to reading the

00:39:37.220 comments. This is from Mark says, hilarious and pathetic that Matt, who was prime age to serve after 9-11, 0.67

00:39:43.020 but didn't. Accursing the Afghans of being cowards. I guess he means accusing. Maybe a cursing would 0.99

00:39:49.400 work too. Accusing the Afghans of being cowards. I served in Afghanistan as well as Iraq and had the 1.00

00:39:53.740 honor of serving alongside many, many brave and honorable Afghan soldiers and prosecutors. They risked

00:39:58.020 their lives fighting Al-Qaeda and its allies, unlike Matt. Also, we weren't fighting in Afghanistan

00:40:01.980 because it was noble. We were there because it was in the U.S.'s interest. Well, Mark, I thank you for your

00:40:07.760 service. First of all, I mean that sincerely. Um, I will say that I was 15 on 9-11. So a little

00:40:13.920 young to serve at that point. By the time I was of age, we had been mired in Iraq for no justifiable

00:40:20.900 reason. And thousands of young men were dying because of lies told by our intelligence agencies.

00:40:25.800 Um, and, uh, we had at that point, by the time I graduated, I guess we'd been in Iraq for about a

00:40:29.980 year. Um, and no, I, I didn't really want to get involved in that. I admit I respect everyone who did

00:40:36.940 join. I admire you grateful for you. Um, but no, I never, I never, I never felt that I was duty bound

00:40:47.740 to go fight in Iraq, um, or Afghanistan. And if our country is ever invaded and my family and my

00:40:58.120 community is threatened, then yes, I will be duty bound to defend them. Um, I feel confident that I

00:41:06.040 would defend them because simply for the fact that I'd rather be dead than allow harm to come to my

00:41:10.440 family. And that's not a close call for me. But if I did slink away like a coward, which is kind of

00:41:16.020 what you're insinuating here. If I did, if I were to run and abandon those who need me in this time of

00:41:23.000 need, abandon my country to the barbarian hordes at the gate, then yes, I would not only be a coward, 1.00

00:41:30.960 but a hypocrite and no man at all. That would be absolutely true. Maybe you're right that I am 0.99

00:41:37.560 that. I don't think I am, but okay, whatever. None of that changes the facts as far as Afghanistan

00:41:44.820 goes. None of that changes the facts. What my, my personal character does not change the facts.

00:41:53.160 So I'm going to allow you to make any assumptions about that, that you want.

00:41:58.600 Doesn't it change the facts on the ground? And especially doesn't change the most basic fact

00:42:03.900 that a nation must be able to sustain and defend itself. And the army of a particular nation

00:42:13.540 has the foremost responsibility to defend that nation.

00:42:17.860 The foremost responsibility for defending a nation cannot fall on the army of a different 1.00

00:42:24.040 country, superseding the responsibility of the army of that country. That's my basic point.

00:42:33.840 It's certainly not an anti-US military point, quite the opposite.

00:42:39.620 I'm saying, I don't want to, I don't want to see any more of our young men, some of our best

00:42:49.060 sent over to that God forsaken desert to defend a country that has no interest in existing. 0.61

00:43:00.020 Okay. Let's see. Evan says, Matt, if every single job involves working with incompetent workers,

00:43:07.000 as you claimed, would you mind giving us a list of the incompetent people who work at the Daily Wire?

00:43:13.880 Well, look, um, all I'm going to say, and this is true, is that last week I asked for an espresso

00:43:22.140 to be made and brought to my desk. And five minutes later, it had not been brought. And I had to ask

00:43:28.200 twice. So first of all, do never claim that I don't suffer. And that's all I'm going to say about

00:43:36.320 that. Um, let's see. Tony says for, for someone that doesn't do foreign coverage, Matt, you're spot 0.62

00:43:42.040 on. So many good points. I hadn't even thought about maybe you should do more of this. I hope

00:43:47.580 not. I mean, right now we sort of have no choice, but to talk about these kinds of issues because

00:43:50.960 it's, it's the only thing that anybody is talking about. But, um, as I said, as I began the show

00:43:55.600 talking about yesterday, um, my focus is on what's happening in this country and the things, especially

00:44:01.300 that, that affect American families. And I think that's what all of our focus should be.

00:44:05.600 Um, another comment says, dress your truth, Matt, be stunning and brave with your wardrobe. So some,

00:44:10.480 some, some, uh, supportive comments for my tan on tan look, which I was being cyber bullied for.

00:44:16.180 I guess, I guess I get cyber bullied a lot. Maybe my, you know, who should, who should be wearing

00:44:21.060 that sweater I showed you before? My wife. She is the one who does all the cyber bullying. 1.00

00:44:25.560 She is my most dedicated cyber bully. And I tell you, if I got her that sweater for her, 1.00

00:44:33.640 it really would be the greatest gift ever. Uh, let's see. Blake says my two-year-old son

00:44:40.920 is in speech therapy and I worry that he won't succeed as well, uh, due to the masks. His therapist

00:44:45.700 even said it's harder to teach speaking skills with most of their face covered. And I hate to hear

00:44:51.120 that. And of course that is absolutely true though. Um, especially, I mean, in speech therapy,

00:44:58.780 they're making him wear the mask. I shouldn't be surprised. I kind of am that it's almost impossible

00:45:06.020 to do when you're, you're taking the visual cues away. We don't think about it. We don't, we, we as

00:45:13.700 adults who have fully developed language skills, some of us anyway, uh, we don't really think

00:45:18.660 about the visual cues that are involved in verbal communication, but they're there. And, and early

00:45:24.400 on in the learning stage, especially for a child who has some, some developmental struggles to take

00:45:29.900 that away is really unthinkable. And finally, another comment says AF is internet shorthand for as

00:45:35.780 foretold your wife is well within her rights to cyber bully you. Well, I don't know about that. Um, 1.00

00:45:41.880 so AF is as foretold I'm skeptical. I mean, you could be right. You could be, but I don't know if the

00:45:47.680 kids really use the phrase as foretold enough to need a shorthand for it. Maybe they're big fans of

00:45:54.080 biblical prophetic literature. I don't know. I'll try dropping that at church on Sunday and I'll let

00:45:58.420 you know how it goes. Well, I don't have to fake excitement about this one. Not that I fake it about

00:46:02.840 anything else. Cause I'm always excited about reading all the ads. As you know, this one though

00:46:06.480 is a totally different deal. Okay. This is an ad you need to listen to. Um, the sweet baby gang. I

00:46:12.920 don't have to tell you about it. You know about it. I don't have to explain it to you because I can't even

00:46:16.200 really explain it to be honest with you. Uh, the sweet baby gang, we are in the need in need of an

00:46:20.480 anthem. We need a song that encapsulates everything that the sweet baby gang is, which first you have

00:46:27.020 to figure out what it is in order to encapsulate in a song. So it's a pretty big project. Uh, and

00:46:31.560 that's why right now we are accepting official submissions for the sweet baby gang anthem.

00:46:36.520 All submissions should be in the form of a YouTube video, uh, on a link, and it will be judged by

00:46:41.000 American, uh, it'd be judged sort of American idol style by myself and other daily wire hosts who have

00:46:45.960 been roped into this thing to take part in it. Um, and, and also you, the winner will you,

00:46:51.620 the viewer will ultimately decide who the winner is. So to enter, go to dailywire.com slash SBG

00:46:57.580 dailywire.com slash SBG. Again, you got to do a YouTube video. You have to have the link,

00:47:02.040 submit the link and submissions end on August 25th. And I think all the other, we're forcing the other

00:47:07.760 hosts to read this and talk about the sweet baby gang, which is maybe the best part about this,

00:47:11.880 that they have to, to read it. And, um, which is great. All right. Also not as exciting,

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00:48:17.060 My sweet, sweet babies. Let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:23.420 Well, with all the major world events currently unfolding, you may have missed this story,

00:48:28.040 even though it has been dutifully reported by all of our major media outlets. As NBC tells us,

00:48:33.580 the singer Lizzo has tearfully called out fat phobic and racist hate directed towards her Newsweek,

00:48:40.540 the Huffington Post, the LA Times, Daily Beast. Many other sources have issued their own reports

00:48:44.060 on this subject. Apparently in a recent Instagram live video, Lizzo began crying about the internet

00:48:49.440 trolls who are mean to her, accused them of racism and fat phobia and complained about the deep impact

00:48:55.100 that these, that these random anonymous accounts have had on her self-esteem. Now I'm sure you already 0.89

00:49:00.020 agree that this was of course a newsworthy event, but, uh, here's a little bit of that video just so

00:49:05.100 you can fully appreciate the scope and implication of this issue. Here it is.

00:49:12.900 I have people who have something,

00:49:15.220 something mean to say about you.

00:49:21.020 And for the most part, it doesn't hurt my feelings. I don't care. I just think when

00:49:33.100 I'm working this hard, my, my tolerance gets lower.

00:49:42.100 My patience is lower. I'm more sensitive and it gets to me.

00:49:47.480 You know, we're meant to feel quite bad for Lizzo. In fact, we've been sternly instructed to feel bad

00:49:54.700 for her. A post on Jezebel says that her tears are so pure, her heartache is so deep and profound

00:50:00.720 that we quote, don't deserve Lizzo's tears. I don't really know what that means, but I'm sure it meant

00:50:07.160 something to the person who wrote it. A writer for Refinery29 explains that quote, Lizzo's joy,

00:50:12.200 her steadfast belief in her right to exist and fully occupies spaces, upsets people who bought

00:50:18.700 into the white supremacist lie that these things, black bodies and radical beliefs must shrink.

00:50:24.720 Lizzo is beautiful, well-resourced and has millions of fans listening to her reclaim her space.

00:50:30.940 Once again, that doesn't appear to really mean anything. Is there a white supremacist conspiracy

00:50:34.900 to shrink black bodies? Has Rick Moranis turned into a neo-Nazi and begun using his powers for evil? 0.99

00:50:41.040 I'm not sure, but the point we're supposed to take away from this is that, yes, that was a

00:50:46.100 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids reference, kids. You're too young for that. Lizzo is a victim. That's the

00:50:53.120 point. She is an injured, precious flower, and this is all a major problem for the world.

00:50:59.980 Actually, her tearful complaints about mean internet comments are sort of interesting when you compare

00:51:05.120 them to the song she just released called Rumors. Now, in the video for that song, she twerks

00:51:10.940 in a skin-tight suit while boasting that her body is goals, meaning that her body is so beautiful 1.00

00:51:15.800 that other people want to look just like her. You know, they have a goal to look just like her.

00:51:19.840 And she brags about walking around with, quote, her ass hanging out. Now, I know that you're hoping 0.99

00:51:24.880 desperately that I will let you see and hear all of this for yourself, and you're in luck because

00:51:29.320 here it is.

00:51:29.820 They hated on me since school, yeah. I never thought I was cool, yeah. Now, me and Cardi,

00:51:35.880 we cool, yeah. I love hoes on foes, yeah. I am body goals, yeah. This s*** from my soul, 0.99

00:51:42.680 yeah. Black people may rock and roll, yeah. Why are you spending all your time trying to break 1.00

00:51:48.500 a woman down? Real as s*** is going on, baby. Take a look around. If you thought that I was 0.98

00:51:55.220 ratchet with my s*** hanging out, just wait until the summer when they let me out the house. 0.94

00:52:01.640 So there you go. Unironically, I will say that the song is powerful. And I don't mean powerful 0.51

00:52:27.460 in the sense that the odor from an overflowing garbage can baking in the sun is powerful,

00:52:31.600 though it is powerful in that sense as well. And there's no doubt that it is a powerfully awful

00:52:35.280 garbage song and part of the music industry's increasingly successful plot to make everybody 1.00

00:52:39.300 dumber. But when I say powerful, I mean really that there are some important lessons we can learn 0.65

00:52:44.260 from all of this. The first is that if you don't want people making comments about your body,

00:52:51.260 don't run around half naked while insisting that everybody look at your body, okay? It's

00:52:57.380 a fact of life that if you purposefully put an intimate aspect of yourself on display to the

00:53:02.780 world, you are going to hear the world's opinions about it. Don't want the world's opinions?

00:53:07.340 Keep it to yourself. You might say that the world should have better manners, you know, and maybe

00:53:12.640 it should, but it doesn't. And at a certain point, you need to start operating within reality as it is

00:53:18.360 actually constructed. Also, manners run both ways. It is bad manners to walk around with your,

00:53:24.340 quote, ass hanging out in Lizzo's words. And in fact, when you do that and you call attention to 0.99

00:53:30.000 it and you say, hey, everybody, look, my ass is hanging out. The people who have been subjected 0.97

00:53:35.200 to that site are, I would say, not only within their rights, but within the bounds of proper

00:53:40.320 etiquette to say something like, wow, gross, can you please stop that? The idea that people have today

00:53:46.080 is that they should have the right to flaunt themselves, their bodies, their personal lives,

00:53:49.640 every personal detail about them, revealing every crack and crevice of themselves to the public,

00:53:54.800 if you'll pardon the phrase, and that they should also get to determine how the public reacts to

00:54:00.160 that ghastly spectacle. But it doesn't work that way. And again, this is not only about showing off

00:54:05.600 your body. These days, people like to show off many other things, all of the most personally intimate

00:54:09.940 details about them, and then become deeply traumatized when strangers honestly react to it.

00:54:15.220 They want us to know their business, but also to stay out of their business. It is schizophrenic

00:54:21.640 and ridiculous. Also, there's something else. Note how Lizzo fronts as this confident, body-positive, 0.99

00:54:28.840 boisterous, bold, self-esteem warrior, and yet in reality, breaks down in tears because a few random

00:54:34.220 people on the internet insulted her. I mean, Lizzo is roundly praised almost everywhere, by almost

00:54:39.960 everyone. She's rich and famous, beloved, highly acclaimed. She's won awards. She's won,

00:54:44.700 she's won commendations of all kinds. The entire media is ready to print headlines congratulating

00:54:49.760 her or consoling her, whatever she needs. She lives in this echo chamber of adulation and yet

00:54:56.260 crumbles if the slightest criticism leaks through the cracks. Now, some of us, like yours truly,

00:55:01.740 are also very harshly judged and criticized on the internet, and yet are certainly not engulfed in

00:55:06.560 flattery nearly to the same extent. And we don't cry over mean comments. Least of all would we cry

00:55:13.060 publicly live streaming it for the world to see? So what's going on here? Well, this is more evidence

00:55:19.140 of what should already be obvious. The body positivity stuff, the self-esteem on steroids

00:55:24.900 stuff, the look at me, I'm so beautiful and awesome posturing that you get from pop stars and from

00:55:29.600 normal people also in this culture these days, that's all an act. That's all a form of overcompensation,

00:55:35.080 a way to disguise their crippling insecurities. People don't go around showing off their bodies,

00:55:40.080 flaunting themselves, talking about how great and amazing and beautiful they are, if they are

00:55:44.840 actually confident in themselves. Confident people wear normal clothing and go about their day.

00:55:53.660 They are body positive in the sense that they don't spend an exorbitant amount of time thinking

00:55:57.860 about their bodies. They are not immersed in thoughts about their own bodies, and they certainly

00:56:04.020 don't need you to think about their bodies. So what we call body positivity is actually body

00:56:09.200 affirmation. The people who constantly announce to the world that they're body positive are actually

00:56:13.780 saying that they need affirmation. They need you to notice them and then notice their bodies and

00:56:18.140 respond in a certain way. They say they don't care about anybody's opinion, but literally the exact

00:56:24.120 opposite is true. There is nothing they value more than everybody's opinion. They live for your

00:56:30.180 approval. They need it, like they need air and water. But putting Lizzo's specific case aside for a

00:56:36.640 moment. I think it's interesting to think about how we got to this point where so many people are

00:56:41.760 so totally dependent upon public affirmation and approval. We've talked about that problem quite a

00:56:48.380 bit. How did we get here? Why is it like this? I think one obvious culprit is the internet. You know,

00:56:55.220 as most kids grow up on the internet, are raised by the internet in many ways, they become conditioned

00:57:01.060 to this environment where everything you do and say is a public spectacle and you receive an immediate

00:57:06.920 judgment from your audience. You do something, say something, post something, and your audience

00:57:12.380 responds right away with either applause or affirmation, jeers or disapproval, thumbs up or

00:57:18.200 thumbs down, nice comments or mean comments. Jerry Seinfeld once said that when he's on the stage, he gets a

00:57:24.680 performance review every 30 seconds because the crowd laughs at the joke or not. And so it's different

00:57:29.940 from other kinds of jobs where you get a performance review every month or whatever. And when you're on

00:57:34.520 the stage, it's like it's an immediate thing. The feedback is also blunt, right? Well, now everybody

00:57:41.520 is on a stage of sorts. Our kids grow up on one where they receive those rapid fire performance reviews

00:57:47.600 every hour of every day. They become conditioned to depend on those reviews, always seeking the dopamine

00:57:52.880 hit that comes with a positive evaluation. And because they live for positive feedback, their greatest fear

00:57:58.700 is criticism, negative feedback. Criticism starts to feel almost like a, almost like a physical danger,

00:58:04.420 something that threatens to undermine their very existence. Now, if this sounds like a horrible way

00:58:09.480 to condition children and like a recipe for a society full of fragile, non-functioning crybabies, 0.74

00:58:14.940 well, welcome to America circa 2021. Lizzo is the poster child for everything that has just been

00:58:22.060 described, which explains her popularity, but also explains why she is today finally canceled. Again, I think,

00:58:28.440 I think this is like the third time. Hasn't set in yet. We'll keep going. And that'll do it for us

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