The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 785 - The Ashli Babbitt Shooting Looks Even Worse Now That The Cop Has Spoken Out

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt has gone public. He was interviewed

00:00:05.000 by NBC, and after seeing him and listening to his side, I am even more sure than I was before

00:00:10.000 that her killing was unjustified. She was murdered. Also, President Biden literally

00:00:14.540 falls apart on camera while responding to the terrorist killing of 13 American servicemen,

00:00:19.260 and the Supreme Court shuts down Biden's unconstitutional eviction moratorium,

00:00:23.700 unsurprisingly. Plus, the media is lying about COVID in Florida again, and in our daily

00:00:28.240 cancellation, we'll deal with the new non-binary remix of It's Raining Men, a very important issue

00:00:34.280 and one of many that we will discuss today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:45.420 So last night, finally, more than a half a year after the unarmed Ashley Babbitt was shot by a

00:00:51.960 Capitol Police officer in the Capitol building, the name of the shooter was made public, and not

00:00:57.360 because it was officially released by anybody in a position of authority, as has happened in every

00:01:01.940 other controversial police shooting in recent memory. They would have been fine just letting

00:01:06.420 his name never make it officially into the public, even though it had been circulating online for some

00:01:10.720 time now. In this case, it was because the officer himself, Michael Byrd is his name,

00:01:15.680 decided to speak out. Fortunately for Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who shot Ashley Babbitt in the chest at

00:01:21.820 near point-blank range as she was climbing through a broken door, he was able to face the public with the

00:01:26.620 help of a very powerful PR team, otherwise known as the entire mainstream media. Doesn't even have

00:01:32.180 to pay them. Pay them. It's a pretty sweet deal. Lester Holt of NBC News sat down with Byrd to

00:01:38.320 pitch him softballs and give him a chance to extol his own virtue and courage, which he was more than

00:01:44.520 willing and eager to do. Early on in the exchange, in fact, Byrd declared that he showed, quote,

00:01:50.800 the utmost courage in reference to himself by shooting an unarmed woman in the chest.

00:01:56.120 Listen to this.

00:01:57.680 Could you give us the nature of some of those threats?

00:02:00.160 They talked about, you know, killing me, cutting off my head, you know, very vicious and cruel

00:02:10.160 things. Racist things? 0.90

00:02:12.640 There were some racist attacks as well. It's all disheartening because I know I was doing my job.

00:02:18.680 Given the nature of the threats that you describe,

00:02:21.060 do you have any concern about showing your face and identifying yourself?

00:02:24.740 Of course I do. That is a very vital point and it's something that is frightening. I believe I

00:02:34.140 showed the utmost courage on January 6th and it's time for me to do that now.

00:02:41.140 Oh, I'm sorry. He actually credits himself with courage twice. So he has the utmost courage on

00:02:45.920 January 6th by shooting an unarmed woman in the chest. He also has the utmost courage just by

00:02:49.700 sitting down in front of a friendly media who is ready to celebrate him and accept everything that

00:02:53.920 he says. There's a lot of courage there as well. Now, what led into that is he was being asked about

00:02:57.820 the threats, the response he's gotten after his name leaked on social media and he claimed that

00:03:04.220 he's getting all these threats, people threatening to cut off his head, he claims. He claims anyway.

00:03:09.460 And you see Alester Halt there, again, part of the PR team leading him, coaching him along.

00:03:14.220 It's like racist threats? Was there racist threats too?

00:03:16.340 Oh, yeah, sure. Oh, yeah. Racism also.

00:03:20.860 We haven't seen any of that. We have no evidence of it, but that's what he tells us.

00:03:25.220 At least nobody can accuse him of having an overabundance of humility, at least.

00:03:30.640 And Bird then goes on to explain what led up to him deciding to pull the trigger on that day.

00:03:36.140 He does claim, he claims that he issued repeated warnings.

00:03:39.980 And that's one really important part of this. Did he say anything? Did he issue any warnings before

00:03:45.680 firing his weapon? He says that he did, but that's not substantiated by any video that we've ever been

00:03:52.520 allowed to see or any witnesses that we've heard from. It seems like you probably could substantiate

00:03:58.260 that. I'm sure on the other side of that door, there's some security footage, security cameras all in

00:04:04.420 that building. You might be able to hear some of that, but we haven't, we haven't, they haven't

00:04:07.920 released that to us. We haven't heard from any witness who says that they heard him yelling

00:04:13.240 and giving a warning, but he says that he did. And we'll listen to that part here.

00:04:18.420 He says officers barricaded the door, what he considered the last line of defense.

00:04:24.140 I had been yelling and screaming as loud as I was, please stop, get back, get back, stop. We had

00:04:30.580 our weapons drawn. Bird, only his hand and gun visible, targeted a figure trying to climb through

00:04:38.680 a window. He fired a single fatal shot hitting Ashley Babbitt. She was 35 years old, an Air Force

00:04:47.260 veteran, Trump supporter and QAnon follower. I was taking a tactical stance.

00:04:54.140 You're ultimately hoping that your commands will be complied with. And unfortunately they

00:05:00.580 were not. When you fired, what could you see? Where were you aiming?

00:05:06.020 You're taught to aim for center mass. The subject was sideways and I could not see a full motion

00:05:14.360 of her hands or anything. So I guess her movement, you know, caused the discharge to, to fall where

00:05:26.240 it did. And what did you think this individual was doing at that, at that moment? She was posing a 0.87

00:05:30.720 threat to United States House of Representatives. Now, you note there how they also included the bit

00:05:38.180 about how she was a QAnon follower. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Now we're told

00:05:43.140 that George Floyd being a violent felon who rushed into a woman's home and put a gun to her stomach and

00:05:53.640 robbed her in front of her kids, that, that history, those biographical details about George Floyd are

00:05:59.480 not relevant at all. In fact, if you bring them up, you're a horrible person. You're a racist even 0.99

00:06:04.500 somehow for simply bringing that up. It's got nothing to do with anything. We're told. 0.98

00:06:08.940 And yet the fact that Ashley Babbitt believed in some kooky, uh, QAnon thing, what does that have

00:06:14.780 to do with anything? Did, did he know that? Isn't that what we're always told about George Floyd?

00:06:20.440 Well, yeah, he might've done all these horrible things and been this violent, uh, terrible scumbag of 0.96

00:06:26.200 a person, but, but, uh, the officer didn't know that did, didn't know that. That doesn't get him off the 0.98

00:06:31.780 hook. Well, what did, what information about Ashley Babbitt did Michael Byrd have? None.

00:06:42.740 Now this leads us to perhaps the most revealing point in the interview. Holt asks him if the fact

00:06:48.800 that he didn't know whether she was armed altered his decision-making at all. And listen to his answer

00:06:55.560 because it's very important here. Her family points out that she was not armed. That's correct.

00:07:01.920 The fact that you weren't aware whether she was armed or not, did that alter the decision-making?

00:07:06.660 It did not. What should we make of the fact that there were other officers in other potentially

00:07:13.060 life-threatening situations who didn't use their service weapons that day? Um, I'm sure it was a

00:07:19.200 terrifying situation. I can only control my reaction, my training, my level expertise. That would be

00:07:27.680 upon them to speak for themselves. Former President Trump has, has talked about you and this, and this

00:07:35.100 incident. He says she was murdered. What does it feel like to hear that from a former president?

00:07:43.020 Well, it's disheartening. If he was in the room or anywhere and I'm responsible for him, I was

00:07:51.660 prepared to do the same thing for him and his family. What does it feel like? What does it feel

00:07:57.700 like to be, to be, to be called a murderer? Yeah. What does it feel? Well, it must not feel great.

00:08:06.200 Can we get that question to all of, all of the other cops in every single shooting that the BLM has

00:08:14.140 been upset about? They've all been called murderers from the very top. What about the cop who shot

00:08:20.160 Micaiah Bryant? Saving someone's life in the process, saving the life of a young black woman by

00:08:29.060 shooting someone who was trying to stab her to death? Some crazed lunatic with a, with a butcher knife. 1.00

00:08:33.800 He was called a murderer by many, many very prominent people, including in the White House, 0.99

00:08:42.300 if I remember correctly. Can we sit down with him? So how does that make you feel? When you were,

00:08:48.520 when you were directly saving someone's life and you were called, you were accused of racist murder.

00:08:55.100 Now that question isn't asked. We only ask it of, of this guy here. Now on the, on the topic of

00:09:00.380 whether or not she was armed, notice what, what Officer Bird does not say. He does not say that

00:09:07.820 he thought she was armed. He doesn't say that he couldn't see her hands and thought maybe there was

00:09:13.360 a gun. He doesn't say that he thought she had a bomb in her backpack or something. He says that he

00:09:19.720 wasn't sure if she was armed or not. And he shot anyway. That's what he just said. Now I want you to

00:09:25.820 imagine any other police officer from any other shooting in memory, offering a justification like

00:09:31.480 that. Well, did you think he was armed? I didn't really know. But you shot him? Yeah. What kind

00:09:39.280 of reception do you think that would receive? And we'll return to that point in a moment, but let's

00:09:43.760 wrap up with one more clip. Holt briefly puts Bird in a mildly uncomfortable position by asking him

00:09:48.960 about an incident a few years ago where Bird left his loaded service weapon in a bathroom

00:09:53.840 and walked away. Clearly demonstrating, you would think, a certain recklessness that may have played

00:09:59.520 a role in what transpired on January 6th. But Bird simply shrugs that off and says that it was a

00:10:04.620 mistake and it was dealt with and Holt doesn't push him on it. Then at the end, Bird, who has already

00:10:09.240 bragged of his incredible steadfast courage, makes this claim. Let's listen.

00:10:14.100 Multiple investigations have now upheld Bird's actions on January 6th.

00:10:20.780 Capitol Police in their press release after exonerating you said your actions potentially

00:10:26.560 save members and staff from serious injury and possible death. What was it like to hear those

00:10:32.640 words, to see those words? Those words meant a lot because that's exactly what I did on that day.

00:10:40.760 That was my mission. That was what I prepared for. And it's rewarding and refreshing to hear that.

00:10:58.580 Oh, I'm glad you're rewarded and refreshed. This is grotesque and just disgusting. You think you 0.96

00:11:03.200 can't be any more disgusted by the media, but then they managed to stoop to new lows every single day.

00:11:10.760 He killed a woman and the whole interview is about how he, how does that make you feel? How does it

00:11:14.960 make you, must make you feel good to hear, to hear that? The Capitol Police did an investigation

00:11:21.320 of themselves and discovered that they themselves hadn't done anything wrong. Well, that settles that,

00:11:26.780 I suppose. In fact, he's quoted, Michael Bird is quoted by NBC News as, and these aren't the words you

00:11:33.520 hear in that clip, but they quote him in their article that him saying that he saved, quote,

00:11:40.780 countless lives, countless lives. He's not even saying that he thought he was saving lives at the

00:11:47.800 time. That would be one thing. He's saying that even now, looking back on it in hindsight,

00:11:54.360 he did save all of those lives. I mean, how? We know that Ashley Babbitt, we know now some of this

00:12:03.520 he might not have known at the time, but now we know that Ashley Babbitt was a five foot two inch 1.00

00:12:08.840 unarmed female. And even now he's saying by killing her, he saved countless lives. What was

00:12:15.100 she going to do? Was she going to bust through the window and murder dozens of armed cops with her 0.95

00:12:19.420 bare hands? Was she Uma Thurman and kill Bill, some kind of trained assassin? The claim from Bird is 0.99

00:12:25.920 absurd on its face. The whole interview was absurd, again, grotesque and impossible to imagine any

00:12:32.900 other police officer ever receiving that kind of treatment or being given this sort of opportunity

00:12:37.940 by NBC or any other media outlet at all. And that's one important point to be made about this,

00:12:43.260 of course. Before we talk about whether Babbitt's shooting was justified based on the objective

00:12:47.140 facts of the case, it is inarguable that the people defending it, every single one of them

00:12:51.840 would be exploding with outrage if she had a different skin color and a different political 1.00

00:12:56.740 affiliation. All of these defund the police champions have finally discovered one unarmed

00:13:02.140 shooting of a civilian that they support, which only proves what we already knew, that all of their

00:13:07.900 concern over police brutality really has nothing to do with police brutality at all.

00:13:13.200 And I am not aware, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that none of these people

00:13:19.260 have come to the defense of Ashley Babbitt. Not a single one. And they believe by their own

00:13:28.680 professions that police officers are, many of them, serial killers, basically. They only get into this

00:13:35.840 line of work because they want to bully and kill people and be oppressors. That's what they say. 0.97

00:13:40.520 Right? And normally when there's a shooting of a civilian and the person is unarmed, right? That's

00:13:50.960 all the information they need. They were unarmed and period, you don't kill them. We have been told

00:13:56.540 this so many times. And yet in this case, it's not even that they look the other way, they celebrate it.

00:14:04.800 They don't care about police brutality. They don't care about abuses by the state. They don't care

00:14:08.320 about anything or anyone. They don't even care about the dead criminals whose faces they paint

00:14:12.760 in murals on walls. It's only about the ideology. The dead bodies are vehicles for their ideological

00:14:18.800 agenda. Now they'll deny this, of course, and say that somehow this is different. Ashley Babbitt was

00:14:24.320 in a government building, they'll say. She was trespassing. She was warned, allegedly. But almost

00:14:29.820 all of the BLM martyrs were also warned repeatedly to stop. And they didn't. George Floyd was warned. 0.65

00:14:35.260 Jacob Blake was warned. Rayshard Brooks was warned. They were all warned.

00:14:40.660 Michael Brown was certainly warned. And as far as government buildings, if that somehow makes

00:14:45.440 all the difference, and I don't see why it should. I mean, is there something sacred about a government

00:14:51.660 building? If they've been doing this in some sort of private building, that changes things? Why?

00:14:58.700 Are the lives of congressmen and politicians, are they actually more important than the lives of

00:15:06.700 just regular people? Is that what you're saying? Apparently, that's what we're being told.

00:15:11.680 But if that does make all the difference, well, BLM militants invaded a police station 0.54

00:15:15.600 and burned it to the ground with cops fleeing for their lives. They assaulted a federal courthouse for

00:15:21.920 months on end. If any cop had fired a single shot at any of them, and they didn't, not one shot fired,

00:15:28.700 through all of those months. But if they had, there would have been eruptions of outrage.

00:15:37.180 BLM would have burned cities to the ground in response. Even more cities, anyway. So we know 1.00

00:15:43.540 that that is the case with these people. We know that that's the hypocrisy here. And it actually is

00:15:50.060 hypocrisy in this case. That's an appropriate use of the term. Because a hypocrite is someone who

00:15:55.380 pretends to believe something, pretends to hold a conviction or principle that they don't actually 0.99

00:15:59.420 hold. And that describes BLM and defund the police to a T. But just looking at the objective facts on

00:16:08.280 the ground, the objective facts of the case, was, can we say, with everything that we know now, there's

00:16:13.120 still a lot that we're not being told. There's still a lot of evidence that we're not being allowed

00:16:16.940 to see. A lot of footage that we're not being given. Many supposed eyewitnesses that we've never

00:16:21.860 heard from. But based on everything that we know and have seen, can we say that Ashley Babbitt's

00:16:28.520 shooting was justified? And I would say even more now that I don't see how that could possibly be the

00:16:33.720 case. And I think there are a few points, a few things that point to that. And many of them were

00:16:40.300 touched on in the interview, but they weren't, they didn't dwell on it. They just moved on.

00:16:43.520 One of them is that there were a whole lot of cops there that day and not a single other,

00:16:48.300 one of other cop felt the need to fire their weapon. I think that really tells you something.

00:16:55.740 He was the only one and he claims that he saved countless lives.

00:17:00.820 If he needed to fire a shot to save countless lives,

00:17:04.760 then, then countless lives should have been, should have been taken elsewhere because all

00:17:11.580 these other cops weren't firing any shots. So that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:17:18.920 We also know that, that Ashley Babbitt was surrounded by armed police officers behind her 0.98

00:17:27.800 coming up the steps, uh, with, with rifles and, and, uh, and on the other side of that door,

00:17:35.120 he wasn't the only one in that, in that hallway. You can even see that on the clip.

00:17:40.480 Did he need, did he have to resort to lethal force in order to stop her when she is an unarmed woman 0.97

00:17:47.420 surrounded by police officers with their guns trained on her?

00:17:51.800 I don't see how that could possibly be the case.

00:17:58.580 Could he not have run up as she was climbing through the door and pulled her down and put her in cuffs

00:18:06.220 and detained her? Could he not have easily done that?

00:18:09.820 Um, if he had said something like, well, I thought she had a gun. I thought I saw one. 0.65

00:18:24.060 Yeah. Then it would just be a matter of, do we believe the claim that he actually thought he saw a gun?

00:18:28.520 And there'd be no way for us to know. We don't really know. We can't be inside his head in the moment,

00:18:32.020 but he's not even saying that he's not even saying, I thought she had a gun.

00:18:36.700 He is saying, I didn't know.

00:18:42.000 And that to me is the final fact that really settles it.

00:18:45.740 She was murdered and it's more clear than it ever was before.

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00:20:10.380 All right, so let's go first from Fox, the latest from Afghanistan. This is a day after two suicide 0.83

00:20:15.640 bombings hit the Kabul airport. The death toll in Afghanistan has risen to more than 100 people.

00:20:21.080 Thursday's bombing near the airport killed at least 95 Afghans. And now we know 13 U.S. troops

00:20:27.860 have been killed as well on the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since August 2011.

00:20:34.620 Late Thursday, U.S. Defense Department officials said the death toll for U.S. service members remained

00:20:39.260 at 10, but the count included 10 Marines and two Army soldiers instead of the previously

00:20:44.560 reported 12 Marines. And then there was also one member of the Navy was also killed.

00:20:51.540 And then that's on top of 100 additional people. And I think we could expect at least that part of

00:20:59.040 the death toll to rise. You know, we're going to play, we'll play some clips from Joe Biden's

00:21:06.920 press conference yesterday. And we talked about this on backstage last night. And if you watch the

00:21:12.440 press conference, it was, it was, it was in many ways, one of the most disturbing presidential

00:21:20.960 addresses that I would say, in fact, the most disturbing one that I've ever seen in my lifetime.

00:21:27.740 Given the context, given what he is responding to, to see this old, frail, confused man, just

00:21:38.400 collapsing on camera, was extremely disturbing. And it doesn't give you a lot of confidence

00:21:47.180 that we're going to get out of this situation. And when I look at this, you know, one of the big

00:21:53.340 questions that I have is, um, and you know, as I've been saying for the last couple of weeks,

00:21:58.920 and like we debated very passionately and furiously on our backstage last night, which is really

00:22:04.540 interesting conversation, by the way, if you have, if you didn't watch that episode, you should go

00:22:06.880 back and watch it. Uh, it's on, you can watch it on YouTube or dailywire.com. But I, I still

00:22:12.600 maintain that leaving Afghanistan is the right thing to do. Uh, it's been handled in the most 1.00

00:22:18.960 incompetent way imaginable. And a number of very obvious mistakes, like shutting the air force base

00:22:27.540 down, very obvious mistakes have been made leading to this situation where now we had, uh, Marines

00:22:35.300 at the airport facilitating the evacuation of thousands. And they're still there facilitating

00:22:43.220 the evacuation of just thousands of Afghan civilians. Why? While there are still hundreds and hundreds of

00:22:52.480 Americans trapped behind enemy lines. And they're at the airport facilitating this evacuation of just

00:22:58.060 masses and masses of, of, of Afghans. Now we've been told that, oh, well, the, the Afghans were 1.00

00:23:04.760 evacuating their interpreters or their people that worked with our military. We owe it to them. Really 1.00

00:23:11.140 all, all of those masses of people at the airport, they're all interpreters. They, they all work.

00:23:16.120 No, these are just people in Afghanistan who showed up to the airport because they want to leave.

00:23:19.620 Understandably they want to leave. There's no way to know really who they are or whether they worked

00:23:27.940 with us or not. It is a mob of people who want to get out again, understandably, but what is not

00:23:37.980 understandable is why our guys are there dealing with that. The first objective should be get Americans

00:23:46.940 out. First thing you do. And then any Afghans that we act that actually worked with us, that we made a 1.00

00:23:54.180 deal with them and said, we're going to get you out, then we should follow through on that deal.

00:23:59.880 And then after that, you know what we do? We leave. It's not our job to evacuate half of the country of

00:24:06.600 Afghanistan from the country. But Joe Biden standing in front of the people last night, uh, did not imbue

00:24:17.540 anyone with a whole lot of confidence, um, going forward. I thought we're going to jump ahead a little

00:24:22.660 bit because I thought maybe the defining moment, and this will be really the defining image of Joe

00:24:28.720 Biden's presidency. And I said that when we were sitting down watching the press conference, uh, I said that at the

00:24:33.020 time, this is the image right here that will summarize his entire presidency. We'll see it here.

00:24:39.260 He's, he's going back and forth with, uh, Peter Doocy. And at one point he becomes sort of exasperated

00:24:43.720 and he kind of hunches down and just, just watch it here. If you didn't see it, here it is.

00:24:50.180 You know, as well as I do that a former president made a deal with the Taliban, 0.52

00:24:56.940 that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May one in return, the commitment

00:25:06.580 was made. And that was a year before in return. He was given a commitment that the Taliban would 0.88

00:25:13.660 continue to attack others, but would not attack any American forces. Remember that I'm being serious.

00:25:22.880 No, I, I'm asking you a question because before, no, no, no, wait a minute. I'm asking you a

00:25:29.600 question. Is that, is that accurate? The best of you or not?

00:25:34.120 You know, I've actually seen people on social media claiming, trying to defend what Biden is

00:25:49.620 doing there. He's, and he's, what he's actually doing is he's sort of like just giving up.

00:25:57.220 Um, I've seen people on social media claiming that he's in, that this is, that he's praying.

00:26:01.960 This was a moment of him praying for the lives lost in Afghanistan. Uh, no, that's not what he's

00:26:08.140 doing. He's frustrated and he's collapsing on camera. He's giving up.

00:26:13.760 He can't do it. There's one reporter in that room and it's only ever Peter Ducey. He's the only guy.

00:26:20.980 There's one reporter in that room who will ask tough questions and actually have follow-ups and

00:26:26.300 demand some kind of answers. And this frail, old, pathetic, nothing of a man who was a pathetic, 1.00

00:26:33.500 nothing of a man before he became frail and old, by the way, can't handle it. 0.99

00:26:37.600 Uh, but I think even, so that's the defining image. There's one other moment before that,

00:26:46.360 that also really encapsulates his presidency. I think, uh, when he first began to take questions,

00:26:52.980 the way that he phrased it was, was interesting. Let's watch that.

00:26:57.560 Thank you.

00:27:02.540 May God bless you all and may God protect his troops and all those standing watch for America.

00:27:07.600 We have so much

00:27:10.040 to do

00:27:12.500 within our capacity to do it.

00:27:17.880 We just have to remain steadfast.

00:27:22.060 Steadfast.

00:27:23.580 We will complete our mission

00:27:25.140 and we will continue

00:27:27.240 after

00:27:29.180 our troops have withdrawn

00:27:30.760 to find means by which we

00:27:34.280 find any American

00:27:36.400 who wishes to get out of

00:27:39.080 Afghanistan.

00:27:40.960 We will find them

00:27:42.040 and we will get them out.

00:27:45.940 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:27:47.720 I gave me a list here.

00:27:50.340 The first person I was instructed to call on was

00:27:53.140 Kelly O'Donnell of NBC.

00:27:55.200 Mumbling,

00:27:57.880 stumbling around,

00:28:02.120 semi-coherent.

00:28:05.420 It was very disturbing even before that in a speech because he's, he's doing a lot of the mumbling thing.

00:28:10.180 He can, he can barely speak.

00:28:12.460 It's no exaggeration to say.

00:28:13.940 And then there will be these moments of lucidity where he starts.

00:28:18.680 It's like it was, it's the Joe Biden of, uh, of 15 years ago.

00:28:22.100 So lucid in comparison, right?

00:28:24.880 Relatively speaking.

00:28:26.100 But he has these moments where suddenly he's on the ball a little bit more and he's projecting his voice more.

00:28:32.100 And then he kind of goes back down again.

00:28:34.600 So the, the, the lucidity comes in waves and the waves are farther and farther apart.

00:28:40.440 And that is what happens with dementia where, when someone is losing their mind and losing their mental facilities.

00:28:49.580 Where it begins, where they've got these rare moments where they kind of lose track of their thoughts and they go blank for a minute.

00:28:56.840 And that was Joe Biden like five years ago.

00:29:00.420 And then, um, and then those moments come closer and closer together.

00:29:04.480 And until eventually get to the point where the lucid moments are the ones that are far apart.

00:29:08.500 We're watching that happen.

00:29:09.760 So, so many Americans have watched this happen with their grandparents or their parents.

00:29:14.040 And now we're watching it happen with the president of the United States.

00:29:17.480 A consequence of having a 78 year old president, as I have said all along.

00:29:22.300 And then he, then he says, uh, we're, we're going to, I was instructed to call on.

00:29:26.280 Well, who's instructing you?

00:29:27.980 You're the president.

00:29:29.640 Who's, who's passing on these instructions.

00:29:34.000 And that's distressing to hear for two reasons.

00:29:35.860 Number one, he's, he's too out of it to realize that he shouldn't be saying that out loud.

00:29:43.380 And number two, for the obvious reason that, that there is something to be said out loud and to begin with here, that he is being instructed to do things.

00:29:50.140 And that's a word of warning.

00:29:53.060 That's a caution for all of the people right now who are saying Joe Biden has to resign.

00:29:58.700 Uh, impeach.

00:29:59.700 Biden was trending yesterday on Twitter and I get it on an emotional level.

00:30:04.800 I think he is absolutely unfit to be president and has been from the beginning.

00:30:13.440 I think he deserves to be impeached.

00:30:16.240 It's not ever going to happen.

00:30:17.860 You need, you need the Democrats to go along with that.

00:30:19.940 Of course, they're not going to do it.

00:30:22.220 Um, but even in some fantasy scenario where Joe Biden was kicked out of office, remember that Joe Biden is the puppet.

00:30:34.800 He's the one who is being instructed to do things.

00:30:40.440 He is the, he's the weekend at Bernie's fleshy mannequin who's carted out there to barely even speak in front of cameras.

00:30:49.600 So if he's the puppet and you get rid of him or he steps down or he goes on to meet his maker, as many people this age do, as everyone this age, that age eventually does, then you're going to go from the puppet to the people pulling the strings.

00:31:07.600 So it's, it's hard to see that as an improvement.

00:31:14.440 And that only speaks to how, I guess it speaks to how, to how absolutely screwed we actually are. 0.53

00:31:19.080 I hate to say it.

00:31:21.480 There's really no way out of this.

00:31:22.820 You would need everybody in the White House and, uh, to, to resign.

00:31:30.260 You need the whole system to forfeit their power, which is not going to happen.

00:31:36.380 It's always been the plan from the beginning.

00:31:37.920 I don't, I don't think anyone ever, uh, anyone behind the scenes ever imagined that Joe Biden would actually make it all four years.

00:31:44.840 So this is all according to plan.

00:31:51.520 I thought this was also pretty, uh, revealing yesterday morning.

00:31:56.800 Yeah.

00:31:57.280 August 26th at, at, uh, right, right before 8am.

00:32:01.840 This was tweeted out by the Sergeant Major of the army, Michael Grinston.

00:32:05.860 I think we have this tweet from him, um, right before the attack.

00:32:10.200 Okay.

00:32:10.680 Now, in fairness, this was, this was before the attack.

00:32:12.920 Well, like an hour before, here's what the Sergeant Major of the army, Michael Grinston tweeted.

00:32:18.880 He said, diversity is a number.

00:32:21.020 Do you have people that don't look or think like you in the room?

00:32:23.940 Inclusion is listening and valuing those people.

00:32:27.300 Women, hashtag women's equality day reminds us we're smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team.

00:32:35.160 Our values demand it.

00:32:36.380 So this is what the army, this is what the top brass, the people in charge of our military were worried about yesterday.

00:32:41.940 While terrorists were strapping suicide vests onto their bodies and heading to the airport to kill 13, uh, of, of our own guys.

00:32:50.620 That, this is what they were focused on is celebrating women's equality day.

00:32:57.460 Claiming that we're really, you're, we're more lethal by being inclusive. 0.96

00:33:02.140 Women in the army, they make us more lethal. 1.00

00:33:09.100 Now you want to claim that that makes us a more tolerant army than go ahead. 0.60

00:33:12.260 But the, the point of the army is not to be tolerant.

00:33:15.020 It is to not tolerate certain things like our enemies who wish us harm.

00:33:23.940 But now the claim is that actually we're more, we are more deadly and fierce and formidable fighting force.

00:33:30.600 If we're inclusive and tolerant, we've got a lot of, uh, estrogen pumping through the ranks.

00:33:35.620 How so?

00:33:36.280 Show me the, uh, the science on that.

00:33:38.860 I'd like to see some, see some studies on that.

00:33:43.420 That show that, uh, the fighting units with women are more deadly. 1.00

00:33:50.000 So that defies all common sense.

00:33:52.700 And there's no evidence of that whatsoever and no reason to think that it's true.

00:33:55.760 But this is what our military is focused on.

00:33:59.900 And that's one of the points that I was making yesterday in the backstage that I've, I've been making now for the last couple of weeks.

00:34:05.980 That I, I don't think, uh, the United States should be in the business of building empires overseas or nation building or, uh, pursuing imperial ambitions.

00:34:17.500 I don't think that the United States should be doing that.

00:34:20.740 Um, our, our founding fathers certainly never imagined that for the United States, never wanted that.

00:34:25.760 But even if I could go along with that in theory, even if in theory, I could agree that there's, that it's a good idea for us to become an empire and to expand our reach across the globe.

00:34:42.060 The problem is we're not operating in theory.

00:34:44.240 We're operating in reality.

00:34:47.220 And in reality, the people who are running the empire are these kinds of people.

00:34:52.180 And this is the influence that they're extending across the globe.

00:34:55.760 So if you like the idea of empire building in theory, what I would say is take it out of theory and put it in reality.

00:35:04.300 Do you want these people to be the ones building the American empire?

00:35:08.540 Because they're the ones doing it.

00:35:13.060 Uh, and speaking of these people who are in charge of the American empire, Nancy Pelosi, in the midst of the crisis in Afghanistan yesterday, she got, this was after the attack.

00:35:21.680 She got in front of, uh, cameras and, uh, and this is what she was talking about.

00:35:26.180 Here we are 101 years later.

00:35:29.860 Women in positions of high, uh, responsibility.

00:35:33.280 But an attack on the, the right, the right to vote that is happening in our country.

00:35:39.580 A few days ago on Tuesday in the House of Representatives under leadership of Terry Sewell, a woman from Selma, Alabama, we passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Enhancement Act.

00:35:51.260 To offset the damage that the courts are doing to the right to vote.

00:35:59.080 And in, in, in doing so, we also need the Senate to pass it and to pass H.R. 1, which is legislation to overturn the voter suppression laws that are being enacted across the country.

00:36:12.020 Not only to suppress the vote, but to nullify the vote.

00:36:16.980 So we have important work to do.

00:36:19.740 We have important work to do.

00:36:21.380 I, when I saw that clip yesterday, I actually did kind of a double take because she, I kind of clued in when she said there was an attack on the right to vote is after the deadliest day.

00:36:38.140 She knew that we just suffered the deadliest day in Afghanistan for our military in a decade.

00:36:43.720 And she's out there talking about the entirely fictional attack on the right to vote.

00:36:49.960 Again, get rid of Biden and these people are still in charge.

00:36:55.040 Another word of warning again.

00:36:56.740 All right.

00:36:57.080 Moving on to a couple other things.

00:36:58.300 You may, you may be hearing that it's a bloodbath down in Florida.

00:37:02.100 People dying of COVID left and right.

00:37:04.460 You've probably seen the headlines like this one from Miami Herald.

00:37:07.320 This is the headline.

00:37:08.140 It says Florida COVID update, 901 added deaths, largest single day increase in pandemic history.

00:37:18.680 The COVID panic porn pushers have been having a field day with this, the deadliest day in history, they're saying.

00:37:26.780 Which is, which is at first kind of surprising because you think, well, really we're having the deadliest day now when you've got millions and millions of people who either are vaccinated or have natural immunity.

00:37:41.760 Now we have our deadliest day, but that's unexpected.

00:37:46.200 That's why you always want to go and actually read the article.

00:37:49.320 So here's what, if you read the article, this is what it says in the Miami Herald.

00:37:53.760 Remember, they said deadliest day is most deaths added in a single day in pandemic history.

00:37:59.440 And it says Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

00:38:09.640 All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25th, with about 78% of those people dying in the past two weeks.

00:38:17.620 The majority of deaths happened during Florida's latest surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant.

00:38:23.560 Oh, okay.

00:38:24.180 Well, hold on a second.

00:38:25.440 So we're going back to July 25th.

00:38:29.280 So allegedly this, the deadliest day, most deaths added is how they put it.

00:38:34.520 But these are all the deaths that are being reported that have happened over the course of an entire month.

00:38:40.660 And that becomes the deadliest day.

00:38:42.120 Now, they'll get away with this because they'll say that, well, we didn't say it was the deadliest day exactly.

00:38:48.080 We said it was the most reported deaths in a day.

00:38:51.820 Which technically is true, but what they want you to take away from that headline and what most people take from it, because they don't click on it, is that it's the deadliest day.

00:38:58.660 I would hope that everyone realizes this by now, really with anything with the media, but especially when it comes to these sensational claims about COVID.

00:39:10.440 You look, you can't judge anything by headlines.

00:39:14.220 You always got to read into it.

00:39:16.380 There's almost always more to the story.

00:39:18.040 Here's another headline.

00:39:20.180 This is from the AP.

00:39:20.820 It says,

00:39:21.100 The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

00:39:30.800 The court's action late Thursday ends protections for roughly three and a half million people in the United States who said they faced eviction in the next two months.

00:39:37.060 The court said in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reimposed the moratorium on August 3rd, lacked the authority to do so under federal law without explicit congressional authorization.

00:39:49.840 The justices rejected the administration's arguments in support of the CDC's authority.

00:39:54.940 The three liberal justices dissented.

00:39:57.260 Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the three, pointed to the increase in COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant as one of the reasons the court should have left the moratorium in place.

00:40:05.040 He said the public interest strongly favors respecting the CDC's judgment at this moment when over 90% of counties are experiencing high transmission rates.

00:40:15.940 So you notice how the liberal justices who want to affirm this authority by the executive branch to waive their scepters mightily and declare that nobody is allowed to, all landlords across the nation aren't allowed to evict delinquent tenants.

00:40:35.860 But even the liberal justices who support it, they don't make any constitutional argument for it.

00:40:42.060 They're not attempting to claim that this authority exists in the Constitution.

00:40:47.560 They're saying instead that, well, it's, it's, there's a pandemic right now and it's, it's the public interest.

00:40:54.800 We should respect, we should, this is the constitutional argument that the liberal justices are making, that we should respect the CDC's judgment.

00:41:02.540 There is no constitutional argument at all.

00:41:07.280 In fact, Cori Bush, who she was the one, the member of the squad, remember she set up her little fake homeless encampment outside of the Capitol building, staging an insurrection of sorts. 0.98

00:41:17.280 And she had all of her Oreos and junk food and everything.

00:41:19.640 And she was hanging out out there.

00:41:20.880 And she eventually is one of the, one of the main ones that, that, that bullied the White House into extending the moratorium. 0.99

00:41:27.160 Before this decision was decided, she tweeted, 11 million people will face eviction if the Supreme Court blocks the eviction moratorium extension.

00:41:32.580 It's a simple choice, uphold the moratorium or put the lives and livelihoods and millions at risk.

00:41:38.360 The American people are counting on SCOTUS to make the right decision.

00:41:42.780 Well, that's simply false, first of all, that 11 million people are facing eviction.

00:41:46.640 That assumes that all of the people who have not been paying their rent can't. 0.91

00:41:54.360 And once this eviction, the moratorium is lifted, they're all going to be tossed out on their butts.

00:41:59.560 Because a certain portion of them will be, and justifiably so, because they haven't been paying their rent for a year.

00:42:06.840 But there's also going to be a pretty large number of people who can pay it, but they're just not, because they don't have to.

00:42:15.300 That's part of human nature.

00:42:17.700 When you don't, when you don't force people to fulfill their obligations, there's a certain portion of them who won't, unless you make them.

00:42:24.080 But even if that was true, once again here, there is no, she doesn't try to say that the executive branch of the CDC had this constitutional authority.

00:42:37.520 Instead, it's an emotional argument, it's putting lives at risk.

00:42:41.420 It has nothing to do with anything, actually.

00:42:43.280 The only question is whether the CDC had this constitutional authority to do what they did, and clearly they didn't.

00:42:51.820 All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:42:55.880 This is from Kunal, who says,

00:42:58.260 Matt is harsh on politicians all the time, but he's never commented on male politicians' looks.

00:43:03.920 So yes, this was sexist, talking about my comments about Kristi Noem.

00:43:07.760 Well, that's not true at all.

00:43:09.520 Just the other week, I said that de Blasio, the mayor of New York, looks like the love child of Rex Ryan and Gumby.

00:43:16.980 So, which he does.

00:43:20.800 I make fun of the looks of politicians, male and female, all the time.

00:43:25.000 Give me some credit here.

00:43:29.560 Yo Mama's Boo says,

00:43:31.280 Matt is low-key becoming as popular a conservative voice as Candace Owens.

00:43:36.160 Whenever he moves people on both the left and right, pay attention, even Carrie Underwood.

00:43:40.020 Well, I appreciate that, but please don't use the phrase low-key.

00:43:43.340 You're too old for that.

00:43:45.140 Yo Mama's Boo.

00:43:46.120 I don't know how old you are, but I'm assuming, because everybody is.

00:43:48.340 But thank you, and also you're banned from the show.

00:43:51.260 Jerry says,

00:43:52.160 Matt, what I love about you most is you stick to your personal beliefs no matter what criticism you endure.

00:43:57.000 You're a good man, and as a woman, I find you a very desirable type of man that we need more of.

00:44:01.100 I'm just going to read all these comments that are complimenting me.

00:44:06.620 Shotzi says,

00:44:07.640 Hot privilege is a double-edged sword.

00:44:09.620 There are pitfalls to being more attractive than a lot of other women, 1.00

00:44:12.800 but it isn't misogyny to point out that appearance may get you more attention.

00:44:16.740 Yeah, I mean, look, as someone who, admittedly, I experience hot privilege myself,

00:44:20.920 that is a privilege that I will admit to.

00:44:25.760 But it is kind of, as you point out, it's a blessing and a curse.

00:44:31.100 I find my own beauty, to be both a blessing and a curse.

00:44:34.620 Because on one hand, I am strikingly handsome.

00:44:38.280 On the other hand, people often don't treat me the same as other people.

00:44:42.740 And I know that I make others feel bad when they set their eyes upon me.

00:44:46.280 So I think you're right about that.

00:44:49.940 And let's see.

00:44:53.060 Just another conservative says,

00:44:54.400 Today, my identity has changed.

00:44:56.100 I am now a non-binary slug that is attracted to trans women who identify as fish. 0.99

00:45:00.720 Again, thank you for your tolerance.

00:45:02.480 And thank you for coming out and speaking your truth and living your truth.

00:45:06.160 And I applaud you for that.

00:45:07.580 And I find it quite impressive and inspirational as well.

00:45:13.540 And Dan Vasquez says,

00:45:15.220 Matt, just own your misogyny and be proud of being called that.

00:45:18.480 The people who hate you are still going to call you misogynist no matter what.

00:45:21.400 Just say, okay, and they won't be able to use that against you again.

00:45:26.300 Yeah, I mean, I don't care at all about being labeled that.

00:45:30.140 Or about being labeled anything else.

00:45:31.740 Especially by people who reflexively label you in lieu of making actual arguments.

00:45:37.720 But I'm also not going to, as you say, own my misogyny.

00:45:41.140 Because I'm not, in fact, a misogynist.

00:45:44.380 So it would be factually untrue.

00:45:46.760 I'm not going to agree to something that's factually untrue.

00:45:48.820 So misogyny is the hatred of women. 1.00

00:45:52.480 Okay?

00:45:53.260 And I don't hate women at all. 0.99

00:45:54.840 I love women. 1.00

00:45:55.420 I think women are great. 1.00

00:45:57.020 I love women as women. 1.00

00:45:58.720 Meaning I appreciate the unique things that women bring to the table in society. 1.00

00:46:02.900 The people trying to erase women, literally erase them. 0.99

00:46:07.560 They're the misogynists. 1.00

00:46:09.480 They hate women. 1.00

00:46:10.560 Now, I kind of hate what I'm saying right now. 0.99

00:46:15.540 Because I'm doing the, the Dems are the real misogynists.

00:46:21.100 And I don't like that. 0.99

00:46:22.640 As I've said many times, the Dems are the real racists. 0.95

00:46:25.060 Or Dems are the real transphobes. 0.95

00:46:26.800 And I'm kind of doing that here.

00:46:27.940 I realize that.

00:46:29.800 But in this case, they actually are.

00:46:33.060 They really are misogynists. 0.99

00:46:34.980 They really do hate women. 1.00

00:46:38.260 And they want to get rid of women as a category. 1.00

00:46:41.640 And I think that's an important point.

00:46:44.020 I wouldn't necessarily say all of this in response to being labeled that way.

00:46:47.960 Because I think that you're right.

00:46:49.180 That dismissiveness is the correct approach. 1.00

00:46:51.840 But between you and me, this is the truth.

00:46:54.600 For the record.

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00:48:26.600 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:48:31.300 So today for our Daily Cancellation, we turn to transgender singer Mila Jam. 0.68

00:48:36.840 Mila Jam has recorded an updated and revamped version of the well-known song

00:48:40.860 It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls.

00:48:42.700 Now the original is certainly no classic, not exactly an artistic high point for Western civilization,

00:48:47.820 though compared to much of what came after and some of what came before,

00:48:50.780 it may be higher up on the scale than we would like to think. 0.99

00:48:52.900 But in any case, it's a dumb song. It's a bad song. 1.00

00:48:55.180 But it's kitschy, and it has character at least.

00:48:58.220 It's become iconic in its own way, thanks mainly to its use in comedy montages and so forth.

00:49:03.900 Another quick side note here, since we're on the subject.

00:49:05.940 I discovered only just this morning when I was researching the background of It's Raining Men,

00:49:10.680 because this is the kind of thing my job entails,

00:49:12.700 so that I could give you all of this unnecessary information.

00:49:15.260 I discovered that one of the women in the Weather Girls group is named Martha Walsh. 0.99

00:49:20.040 There's no relation as far as I know, though if there was, I would certainly be proud to call her kin.

00:49:24.660 But we probably spent more time talking about It's Raining Men than is necessary,

00:49:27.560 mostly because no amount of time was necessary at all.

00:49:29.940 And it's probably also not necessary to play the remix for you,

00:49:32.520 but I'm going to do it anyway, because there are a few salient points to be made about it.

00:49:37.700 In Mila Jam's new and inclusive version for 2021, all references to men have been removed,

00:49:43.560 which means the entire point of the song has been removed.

00:49:45.680 There are also no references to women.

00:49:48.020 This song, which is originally about sex, has been rendered sexless,

00:49:51.740 as Mila Jam sings not about women or men, but about them.

00:49:55.520 Here's a small taste of It's Raining Them.

00:49:59.060 It's Raining Them.

00:50:29.060 It's Raining Them.

00:50:31.600 Hallelujah.

00:50:32.800 It's Raining Them.

00:50:35.200 Amen.

00:50:36.240 It's Raining Them.

00:50:38.680 Hallelujah.

00:50:39.880 It's Raining Them.

00:50:42.220 Amen.

00:50:45.800 Well, so there's that.

00:50:49.900 I'm sure you're glad that you were able to see that.

00:50:52.880 And I'm glad you were too, because if you can get past just how terrible the song is

00:50:56.700 and everything else about it, I think it does provide some very useful,

00:50:59.760 if still grotesque and disturbing insight into our current cultural condition.

00:51:04.020 I mean, think about the chorus.

00:51:05.620 It's Raining Them.

00:51:07.200 The original song has heterosexual women singing about their desire for men. 0.84

00:51:11.140 Men are a particular and definable group,

00:51:13.380 which with particular and definable features,

00:51:15.780 which heterosexual women find appealing.

00:51:18.760 But what are them?

00:51:20.380 I mean, who are them?

00:51:21.880 This is a vague and undefinable group with no particular characteristics and features.

00:51:26.580 Are we supposed to imagine that there are people who get all hot and bothered

00:51:29.540 and turned on by the thought of them?

00:51:31.660 The thought of just people in general with no other specifications?

00:51:36.160 Does anybody walk into a room filled with people with thems 1.00

00:51:39.760 and feel attracted to everyone regardless of their physical attributes?

00:51:43.640 Has anybody ever walked into like the DMV and said,

00:51:45.960 Hallelujah, it's raining people in here. 0.98

00:51:48.360 Look at all these thems.

00:51:50.900 I doubt that very many people work that way,

00:51:53.140 but that is indeed how the left thinks it should work and how we should work.

00:51:57.020 They wish to usher in a kind of sexless, ambiguous utopia

00:52:00.920 where nobody is anyone and there is no real sexual attraction

00:52:04.400 because sexual features are irrelevant or erased.

00:52:07.820 And that's what this move to non-binary is all about, 0.99

00:52:10.340 a self-identification which means nothing and is inherently nonsensical,

00:52:13.840 but is also increasingly popular, especially among younger people.

00:52:17.440 Non-binary is not an identity, it's an anti-identity. 1.00

00:52:21.300 It is the rejection of all that is specific and particular and unique about you.

00:52:26.340 You become a them, which is to say that you become really nothing and no one. 0.99

00:52:31.020 Another good example of this is this here.

00:52:33.280 Here's a high school teacher in a recent viral video

00:52:36.200 coming out as non-binary to his students.

00:52:39.380 Watch.

00:52:40.360 I'm about to come out to all my students.

00:52:43.840 So I have a quick announcement for everybody.

00:52:47.500 Can everybody look up from their phones?

00:52:49.240 My class is important, please.

00:52:51.060 Hello.

00:52:51.400 I'm waiting.

00:52:52.360 You guys look at me.

00:52:55.860 So I usually go by Mr. Johnson, but I would like to be called ZOA now.

00:53:00.620 My name is ZOA and I'm non-binary.

00:53:03.120 So you can call me Mr. ZOA, you can call me Miss ZOA, you can call me Mix ZOA.

00:53:09.180 That's M-X period. 0.99

00:53:11.220 And I go by all pronouns.

00:53:13.500 That's it.

00:53:14.720 Thank you.

00:53:15.340 Thanks, guys.

00:53:21.860 That's it.

00:53:22.340 I'm proud of you.

00:53:23.060 Oh, thank you.

00:53:25.040 If anybody has any questions, you can ask me at the end of class.

00:53:29.260 Oh, bravo, sir.

00:53:31.160 So much.

00:53:31.940 Not sir.

00:53:32.640 I apologize.

00:53:33.280 Sir and ladies and gentlemen, bravo.

00:53:38.980 To jump on this trend and to say this thing that is sure to bring you applause is just,

00:53:45.960 it's so courageous, really.

00:53:47.660 Now, it's obviously bizarre and wildly inappropriate for a high school teacher to be talking to

00:53:52.600 his students about this at all.

00:53:54.660 And this is just as obviously someone who is not mentally fit to be a teacher at all.

00:53:58.840 Then again, if we disqualified teachers on that basis, we'd be left with only about 12

00:54:02.420 or 13 of them in the entire country.

00:54:04.100 But either way, think about what he's saying.

00:54:08.020 He is a he and a she and a Mr. 1.00

00:54:11.100 and a miss, a they and a them.

00:54:13.680 He encompasses all identities.

00:54:15.420 He is all things.

00:54:16.420 He is everything to everyone.

00:54:18.740 Now, this is narcissistic to a literally insane degree, but it's a narcissism, an obsession

00:54:23.880 with the self, which erases the self.

00:54:26.520 He is so focused on himself, so in love with himself that he has obliterated himself.

00:54:31.700 He has collapsed into himself and become a sort of ghost or phantom, undefinable, identity

00:54:37.000 less.

00:54:38.180 At least he wants to be undefinable and identity less.

00:54:41.880 And yet he doesn't want to be that either at the same time, because you'll notice something

00:54:44.960 else.

00:54:46.420 How the people who want to reject the gender binary and remove themselves from this thing,

00:54:51.100 which nobody can really remove themselves from, they're reluctant to take it all the

00:54:56.120 way, right?

00:54:57.340 Most of the time.

00:54:59.160 Because if you're a person who's neither male nor female, even though that isn't possible 0.94

00:55:03.220 and nobody fits into that category or ever will.

00:55:05.840 I mean, the appropriate response, when someone says to you, oh, I'm non-binary, the appropriate

00:55:09.600 response is, no, you're not.

00:55:12.240 But if it was possible to be that, and that's the category to which you belong, that in fact,

00:55:18.840 your correct pronoun would be not he or she or they or them, but it.

00:55:22.900 Not they, because they is plural and you're just one person, not he or she, because he 0.79

00:55:28.080 or she denotes male or female, and you say that you're neither.

00:55:30.680 So it would be the correct pronoun.

00:55:34.260 And now think about what if my dreams ever do come true and space aliens land on this

00:55:38.340 planet and they walk off their spaceships and they appear to not have any recognizable

00:55:41.820 sex?

00:55:42.960 Well, we would call them it, wouldn't we?

00:55:45.700 If we were talking about an individual, one of these creatures, we would point and say

00:55:49.400 stuff like, wow, look at it.

00:55:51.900 And well, I hope it doesn't use that laser gun on us and so on.

00:55:56.140 But even most supposedly non-binary people don't want to be called it because it is dehumanizing.

00:56:03.440 It makes you sound like you're not a person, but some sort of bizarre creature, some kind

00:56:07.320 of swamp thing emerging from the muck.

00:56:09.620 You want to be a human and I don't blame you, but the problem is that humans are males

00:56:15.500 or females.

00:56:16.460 That's part of the human deal.

00:56:18.500 You can't escape it.

00:56:19.880 You never will.

00:56:21.560 And you shouldn't try because to escape it is not to expand your identity, but to lose

00:56:28.300 it completely.

00:56:31.380 And that's why the person who sang that It's Raining Them song is canceled.

00:56:36.120 Another one where it took us a while to get back around to it, but they're not going to

00:56:39.400 escape it.

00:56:39.680 They are canceled for that.

00:56:41.780 And we will leave it there for the day and the week.

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