The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 817 - Gay Superman Defeats Climate Change And Racism

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, confirming our longstanding suspicion, Superman has come out

00:00:04.580 as gay. Yet another iconic character has been inducted into the LGBT community. We're told

00:00:09.560 that this is all about creating greater representation for supposedly marginalized

00:00:13.480 groups, but I think there's something else going on and I'll explain. Also, parents at Loudoun County

00:00:18.460 call for the superintendent to resign after the school district covered up the rape of a girl in

00:00:23.100 a school bathroom. We'll talk more about that very important story today. And the Chicago Police

00:00:26.980 Department is having trouble recruiting new cops. Big crisis in the city. I wonder why that's

00:00:31.220 happening. Plus, Lego commits itself to combating gender stereotypes, which is a very important

00:00:36.180 thing. We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:48.560 In our culture's never-ending quest to turn literally everything gay, it was only a matter 1.00

00:00:53.860 of time before it set its eyes on Superman. As the many celebratory news articles inform us,

00:00:59.640 DC comic writer Tom Taylor has just written and will soon release a new Superman comic,

00:01:04.960 wherein the iconic superhero will find himself in a gay relationship with a male pink-haired journalist.

00:01:11.480 And this is actually, if you look at it one way, a pretty conservative move by DC. I figured that by

00:01:16.440 now we, you know, would have a Superman who's non-binary rename him Super Them. But instead 0.98

00:01:23.260 of Super They, we'll have to settle for Super Gay, I suppose. CNN has more on this breaking story. It

00:01:28.420 says, quote, in an upcoming issue of a new Superman series, the Man of Steel enters into a queer 0.93

00:01:32.720 relationship. The fifth issue of the DC comic series Superman Son of Kal-El will confirm that the

00:01:40.720 new Superman, John Kent, child of Clark Kent and Lane, is bisexual after falling for Jay Nakamura,

00:01:46.760 a male reporter. The Superman Son of Kal-El series follows Kent as he becomes Earth's new Superman

00:01:51.780 and grapples with the immense weight of his new gig. Nakamura, a bespectacled writer with a bubblegum

00:01:57.220 pink mop, first appeared in the series' third issue as a shoulder for Kent to lean on when the business

00:02:02.900 of being Superman got too rough. But in the forthcoming fifth issue, Kent falls for the journalist

00:02:07.920 after he, quote, mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he can,

00:02:12.380 according to DC. The particulars of this issue's plot are to be revealed in November, but images

00:02:17.400 from the comic show, Kent and Nakamura sharing a kiss and sitting together atop a building,

00:02:22.640 their legs dangling off the edge. So Superman also has anxiety issues on top of it. And this move comes

00:02:30.960 just months after Robin over in Gotham City came out as gay as well. Not a huge shock there, admittedly.

00:02:37.320 The DC universe also features a lesbian batwoman and various other members of the LGBT community who 0.52

00:02:43.380 have been shoehorned into various comic storylines. Pretty soon, you know, the Justice League will be

00:02:48.420 the Alphabet League, I guess. And of course, the superheroes of this new generation, they don't

00:02:53.520 just show off their woke credentials through their homosexual encounters. They also are focused on 0.83

00:02:58.860 fighting a different kind of villain. So here's Tom Taylor, the guy who came up with gay Superman, 0.93

00:03:03.840 on CNN, talking about the sorts of issues that Superman will be involved in now. Listen.

00:03:10.900 And it struck me as it would be a real opportunity lost if we had another, we had Clark Kent replaced by

00:03:18.080 another straight white savior. So here was an opportunity to create a Superman who could represent 0.67

00:03:25.560 a whole new group of people. And I think that was one that we had to leave them.

00:03:31.120 And we'll be addressing modern day issues like?

00:03:37.900 Like the climate crisis, like refugees. John, in the last issue, has just been arrested, 1.00

00:03:44.800 attending a protest, trying to stop the refoundment of asylum seekers. He does 45 minutes of hard time,

00:03:52.180 is how he puts it. But as a stand, it's a very powerful thing. And yes, so this is one of the

00:03:59.260 things for him. He is trying to work out who he is, who he is as Superman, who he is as John Kent.

00:04:05.240 And so us as the writer and everybody at DC Comics is watching him go through this process of finding

00:04:11.520 himself and seeing that on the page.

00:04:13.320 Okay, so this is a gay environmentalist Superman. I think the creators of Captain Planet should 1.00

00:04:20.800 really sue for plagiarism, if you ask me. I do wonder how Superman will fight climate change

00:04:26.900 exactly. Will he like beat up the sun, maybe engage in hand-to-hand combat with the weather,

00:04:31.760 dropkick a cloud? I mean, how does that work exactly? And the thing is, that would be exciting

00:04:36.380 to watch, if a little bit confusing, I suppose. But it sounds like Tom Taylor has

00:04:39.760 more earthbound ideas in mind, like having Superman attend political demonstrations.

00:04:45.020 You know, kids can now flip excitedly through the pages of their favorite comic book,

00:04:48.840 watching Superman hold signs and shout slogans, and then go home and start a hashtag campaign to

00:04:56.300 raise awareness. His kryptonite is a frowny face emoji. In the final climactic battle,

00:05:01.440 he defeats Lex Luthor by reporting him to Twitter for hate speech. I guess that's the way it's going to go.

00:05:05.920 So, now, you know, it's easy to make fun of this kind of thing, and we should make fun of it.

00:05:11.840 But we shouldn't let the fantastic absurdity distract us from the underlying agenda, which

00:05:16.620 is more sinister than anything gay Superman will be fighting against in the new comics. 0.72

00:05:20.980 We can all look around and clearly see that gay and trans characters and storylines are being

00:05:27.580 injected into everything, from comics to movies to TV shows. Even the most iconic and enduring

00:05:34.600 characters are forced to undergo this kind of conversion therapy. And we know that the

00:05:38.820 conversion is only ever allowed to go one way, right? White, straight characters can be made

00:05:44.360 non-white or non-straight. But if non-white, non-straight characters are made white or straight,

00:05:48.940 it's a hate crime. And everybody responsible must be fired and then dragged into the town square

00:05:52.960 and stoned to death. That's the way it works now. But we're told this is all a matter of representation, 0.99

00:05:58.460 right? The left says that all these identities must be rammed into every story because audience

00:06:05.620 members who share that identity deserve to be represented. Tom Taylor made this claim in that

00:06:10.940 same CNN interview. Let's listen to that. I promise he will punch a robot. That's just a

00:06:16.140 guaranteed. He will come up against Lex Luthor in our upcoming annual. All those things are part and

00:06:22.220 parcel of Superman. And this is just something extra that that very important symbol can now

00:06:28.840 represent. And I have to say, having seen the reaction today, having seen online what it's

00:06:34.600 meant to people, I've seen so many messages from all over the world in so many different languages,

00:06:40.680 people saying that they saw this news and burst into tears. People saying that they never thought

00:06:45.580 that they would be able to see themselves in Superman. That they wish other people who, older people,

00:06:51.040 older people, have said they wish they had this growing up. And they're so happy that younger

00:06:56.420 people or people who haven't come out yet have this today. By the way, keep this in mind, this kind

00:07:02.880 of thing in mind. Because the other thing that we hear from the left, and I'll probably get this

00:07:09.080 too, because I'm doing this segment right now, when some of this inevitably ends up on Media Matters.

00:07:14.220 But there goes, oh, the conservative media making a big deal about bisexual Superman. Isn't that so 0.71

00:07:21.960 ridiculous? Why do you care so much? They do that whole thing. Meanwhile, CNN is doing a news segment 0.99

00:07:30.720 on it, bringing the creator of Gay Superman to come on and talk about how people are reduced to tears of 0.68

00:07:37.040 joy over the fact that there's a bisexual Superman. So they can make a big deal. They make a big deal 1.00

00:07:44.160 about it on the left and tell us that it's a big deal. I mean, it's breaking news. We're talking about

00:07:49.780 it on CNN. People are crying tears of joy. They're overcome with feelings of ecstatic emotions

00:07:59.500 because of it. That's how big of a deal it is. But if you say, all right, fine, it's a big deal.

00:08:09.560 I agree. It's socially, culturally relevant. But I have an issue with it. I have a criticism. And

00:08:15.540 here it is. The moment you do that, then they say, well, what are you making a big deal of it for?

00:08:19.140 Well, you're the one who told us it's a big deal. We're taking you at your word on that.

00:08:28.180 Now, if this was all true, that this is really about representation, it would only be more evidence

00:08:34.540 of the increasing narcissism of our age. I mean, the whole idea that we must be represented in a

00:08:39.800 story in order to connect with it or understand it is fundamentally self-centered. Part of the beauty

00:08:45.900 of storytelling, what we love about a good story or should love about it, is that we can become

00:08:50.000 absorbed in it and forget about ourselves to some extent. That's what people mean when they talk

00:08:55.440 about escapist entertainment and all entertainment is or should be escapist to some degree. We all live

00:09:01.360 every day absorbed in our own stories. That's what we spend most of our time thinking about is our own

00:09:08.420 stories. But when you're reading a book or watching a film, et cetera, the beauty is that you're

00:09:13.060 becoming invested in somebody else's story, not your own. The demand that you must see yourself

00:09:19.280 reflected in it, that everything must be a mirror showing you back to yourself, ultimately defeats

00:09:24.900 the purpose and only fuels more of the narcissism that causes this problem to begin with. It's true

00:09:30.700 that we should be able to relate to the characters and stories, but we should be able to relate to

00:09:34.940 them because of what the characters say about the universal human condition. I mean, when I read

00:09:40.540 Dostoevsky, for example, I don't feel represented by the characters in the way that people mean

00:09:47.200 representation these days because the characters are all a bunch of 19th century Russians.

00:09:52.560 But I do feel represented only in the sense that they're dealing with moral dilemmas and searching

00:09:58.980 for deeper truths just as I do and we all do. I mean, I can relate to that because I'm a human being.

00:10:05.040 That's the kind of representation that matters, but it's not the sort of representation that we

00:10:10.140 always hear about. And anyway, this is all irrelevant because it's not what's going on here.

00:10:15.400 They aren't turning all the characters gay in an effort to represent gay people. The percentage of

00:10:21.480 gay and trans characters on TV and in comics now far exceeds the percentage in the general population.

00:10:27.080 If this was truly a matter of representation, they'd have stopped by now. I mean, we'd say,

00:10:32.040 okay, well, we've got proper representation here. It's a small minority. The general population

00:10:38.180 should be a real small minority on the screen if it's just about representation, but it's not

00:10:43.980 because the point behind adding the gay characters and especially making a character like Superman gay

00:10:49.240 is not to merely represent an identity, but to present an ideal. Okay. They're saying to the audience,

00:10:58.500 especially to children in the audience. And the comic book audience is still mostly kids.

00:11:04.640 Although there are far too many adults that are in the audience as well. But what they're saying to

00:11:09.780 the audience is this is the ideal way to be. They want to erase straight white male characters 0.75

00:11:17.200 because the people doing the erasing despise straight white male people. That's the point. I mean, 0.63

00:11:26.100 you heard it there from the guy who created the character. Oh, we don't want another straight 1.00

00:11:29.500 white male saying it with disgust. So they wish to create a society. You know, they don't want all 0.87

00:11:41.040 the straight white male people in society. They want to create a society filled with different sorts of

00:11:45.000 people. And the so-called representation is one way of pushing that agenda. 0.92

00:11:52.000 And we know that also because it always comes with, it's not as though, okay, you've made Superman gay

00:11:59.720 and, but then he continues along just being Superman, doing Superman things and the gayness and his, 0.78

00:12:06.460 his, uh, his sexual attraction is just, you know, it's a, it's a minor detail. But other than that,

00:12:12.160 I mean, he's fighting Lex Luthor and he's doing all this. That's not what they do. It comes in a package

00:12:17.580 where, okay, now he's focused on refugees and he's focused on fighting climate change. And of all the

00:12:24.600 villains turn into straight white male conservatives, you know, whereas that used to be the hero. Now it's

00:12:31.300 the villain. So it all comes in one package. And that's the point in all of these stories, whether

00:12:39.680 they're doing it in comic books or they're doing it in Hollywood, on TV and media, it's about presenting

00:12:45.820 an ideal to the audience. This is how you should be. Even if you can't fly around like Superman,

00:12:54.840 this is the ideal way to be. And that's the point. Even if, of course, they'll never, ever be honest

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00:14:18.460 mention offer code Walsh. Okay, so a great night at the Ryman yesterday, by the way. We did our

00:14:24.260 backstage live at the Ryman, which was pretty surreal in a lot of ways. Huge crowd there. I think we were

00:14:30.980 at capacity. I think it was 2,800 people or something like that. And Sweet Baby Gang, I got to

00:14:37.260 tell you, Sweet Baby Gang was there in force. People showing up in the t-shirts. They were also

00:14:44.540 selling the t-shirts for $57 as well. And people were buying them. It wasn't quite that much, but it

00:14:50.280 was still a lot of money. People were buying the t-shirts and Sweet Baby Gang was there. And I feel a

00:14:55.220 certain, honestly, I'm wracked with guilt today because I feel as though I did fail the Sweet Baby

00:15:03.480 Gang because I never gave a shout out explicitly to the Sweet Baby Gang from the stage at the Ryman.

00:15:10.640 And I wanted to. I was waiting for my opening and I never found the segue. And I realized as we were

00:15:18.280 kind of wrapping up and Jeremy was wrapping things up that the segue wasn't going to come. And I thought

00:15:24.800 now's my opportunity. I got to jump in right here at the end. I got to ruin the ending. And I, but I,

00:15:30.860 but I didn't. At the last minute, I decided not to. So I, you know, I take responsibility for that.

00:15:37.020 I do. But still, I know the Sweet Baby Gang was there. I could feel, I could feel the force and the

00:15:42.260 energy. And so, you know, it was a lot of fun. And then we had, you know, before, before the,

00:15:49.960 the event, we had our VIP meet and greet, which was kind of a receiving line. And I think there was

00:15:58.240 350 people in line. And, you know, we all took pictures with, with each person, 350 people in a

00:16:05.960 row. And I, you know, I have to say, I know I talk about how, you know, I'm an, I'm an introvert.

00:16:12.720 So I don't necessarily enjoy those kinds of, I, I, I, I don't mind being, I prefer to be on stage.

00:16:22.220 I don't necessarily enjoy those kinds of interactions as much. I mean, I've, I've admitted

00:16:25.920 that, but I thought I was being pretty jovial by my standards. You know, I was making, I had the

00:16:35.740 small talk down with each person. It's like 350 people in a row. And so I had the brief little

00:16:40.300 small talk exchanges down. We were talking about the weather. No, it's hot out there for October.

00:16:44.640 What is this? July? Am I right? You know, that kind of thing. And, but people kept coming up to

00:16:49.560 me even still and saying like each person that came up would console me saying, oh, this is,

00:16:55.380 this will be over soon. Don't worry about it. They were consoling me because I was being forced to

00:16:59.040 meet them. That's what I thought. Am I really giving off those vibes? I thought, I thought I'm doing

00:17:02.700 pretty well here. But that's just, that's, I guess I can't, I can't overcome that. Those are,

00:17:09.260 that's just me. That's just my, that's my aura. Um, and then we had, uh, and then it was also

00:17:14.640 really good starting off the event. We had the booming let's go Brandon chant from the entire

00:17:21.280 audience. Um, which I gotta say the, we haven't talked about the let's go Brandon thing very much

00:17:26.860 on this show. Um, I think it's a great innovation. I think it's hilarious. It's one of the most clever

00:17:34.880 things I think that conservatives have come up with. It's a, it's a small thing, but it's very

00:17:40.160 clever because of what, because of what it allows you to do. Cause of course we all know what we're

00:17:44.220 really saying with let's go Brandon. And I want to say one other, one other thing about that,

00:17:46.980 about the let's go Brandon thing, because you hear criticisms of this, uh, even from some

00:17:53.080 conservatives who say, well, you know, I'm not a big fan of let's go Brandon or of the more vulgar

00:17:59.120 version of the same thing. Uh, we, we, we, we shouldn't be doing that. Even if we are,

00:18:04.060 even if we're critics of Joe Biden, we shouldn't be doing that because we should have more respect

00:18:09.520 for the office. And so at backstage last night, when the entire audience is, is chanting, let's go

00:18:16.060 Brandon, we are showing a lack of respect for the office of the presidency. That's the criticism

00:18:22.380 anyway. And, uh, I don't find that criticism compelling at all. I gotta tell you.

00:18:29.120 And I'll tell you why, because I don't think it's our job as citizens to show respect for the office

00:18:38.040 of the presidency. I'm not even sure exactly what that would mean. I mean, what do you mean with

00:18:42.300 show respect for the office? It's the, he's the president. This is not royalty. These are supposed

00:18:48.280 to be public servants. They're politicians. So what exact reverence do you want for the office itself?

00:18:56.800 I think when it, when it comes to showing respect for the office of the presidency,

00:19:02.100 that responsibility falls to the person holding that office. They're the ones who are supposed to

00:19:10.040 show respect for it. And if, and if the president, the person holding the office shows respect for the

00:19:15.540 office themselves, then I will show respect for them. Okay. You have to earn, if you're a politician,

00:19:24.420 you have to earn the respect of the population. You have to earn the respect of the citizens.

00:19:29.320 We're not going to grant it to you just by nature of the fact that you hold the office.

00:19:36.640 Joe Biden has shown no respect for his own office. So why should we respect it?

00:19:42.340 When he abuses the powers of his office, when he stands up there and admits and says, I don't have

00:19:52.020 the authority to do this thing that I'm about to do. And then he does it. Well, that is showing a

00:19:59.860 total lack of respect for the office, what the office is supposed to be, for the actual responsibilities

00:20:07.780 of that office, for the limits of the power that that office grants you. So he has desecrated it.

00:20:17.680 If it is a thing that can be desecrated to begin with, he shows no respect for it.

00:20:24.800 And so I have no respect for him.

00:20:26.480 I think in, in, in America, you know, our real response, when it comes to corrupt politicians,

00:20:37.380 we should treat them with no respect at all. I think if anything, there's, there's still too

00:20:45.140 much respect for corrupt and incompetent politicians. We should have zero respect for them. 0.91

00:20:50.340 Every single day we should get up and say to these so-called public servants who are supposed

00:20:57.160 to be serving us. I mean, that's in theory, that's what it's supposed to be, right? We're

00:21:01.560 supposed to be the bosses. So we should get up every day and say to them, okay, you, you earn

00:21:08.240 it now. You, you want my respect? Earn it.

00:21:10.060 All right. So speaking of people who have not earned any respect in the office that they hold,

00:21:21.080 here's this from Fox News. It says more than 60 concerned parents, students, and residents spoke

00:21:25.620 at the Loudoun County school board meeting Tuesday evening with many demanding the resignation of

00:21:30.660 Loudoun County superintendent, Scott Ziegler, in the wake of allegations that the school district

00:21:34.660 covered up two alleged sexual assaults. Parents attended the school board meeting with signs urging

00:21:39.360 Ziegler to resign. Parents pointed to two alleged sexual assaults, the first of which the victim's

00:21:44.640 father claims took place on May 28th. This is from the Daily Wire report, which we, which

00:21:50.600 we talked about yesterday. We talked about it on the backstage show as well. The father says

00:21:54.580 his ninth grade daughter was assaulted in the bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt. Elizabeth Lancaster,

00:21:59.320 the attorney for the father of the alleged victim, said the boy was charged with two counts 0.84

00:22:02.580 of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio. 0.57

00:22:07.280 The sheriff's office says, told Fox News, we can confirm a May 28th, 2021 case that involved a

00:22:15.260 thorough two-month-long investigation that was conducted to determine the facts of the case

00:22:18.920 prior to the arrest. This case is still pending court proceedings. The Loudoun County Sheriff's

00:22:22.500 Office is not able to provide any documents that pertain to a pending case. At a June 22nd board

00:22:28.880 meeting, Ziegler declared, quote, that the predator transgender student or person simply does not 0.96

00:22:34.080 exist. And that to his knowledge, quote, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our

00:22:40.220 restrooms. So that's what he said on June 22nd. He said, there's no record of any assaults occurring

00:22:47.560 in restrooms. Meanwhile, on May 28th, there was this alleged assault that was already making its way

00:22:54.600 through the legal system that police had been made aware of. Are we supposed to believe that

00:22:59.980 Ziegler, the superintendent? I mean, a girl was allegedly violently, brutally raped

00:23:07.760 in a bathroom during school hours, and we're supposed to believe that Ziegler didn't know about it?

00:23:18.360 Well, that's impossible to believe. I mean, it's just, it's impossible to believe.

00:23:23.180 So we can look at this. I don't think we have to say it's an alleged cover-up by the school board.

00:23:29.700 It's a cover-up. This horrible thing happened, allegedly, and you denied that it happened at

00:23:36.620 all. That's what a cover-up is. And we could say that even without all the other details that we get

00:23:44.580 from the father about how, when he went to the school after this happened, when they called him to

00:23:48.800 come in, and they told him they want to keep it in-house. Even without that, you've got clear

00:23:57.200 indication, proof of a cover-up, and the superintendent denies that it happened, when he had to know about

00:24:04.540 it. So school board meeting was yesterday, and let's play, this is from Fox, as some of the clips

00:24:10.680 here of the parents trying to hold the school board accountable for this cover-up. Let's listen.

00:24:16.640 The 80-40 policy was rushed through to a vote without consideration for the safety of all

00:24:22.740 students, simply to satisfy a political agenda. Your moral compasses are busted. You, Dr.

00:24:30.280 Ziegler, and our school board, every one of you are complicit in these crimes against our

00:24:36.240 children because you did nothing about it. What is worse than a child being raped at school, 0.95

00:24:42.680 the cover-up by those who are entrusted with the safety and well-being of children?

00:24:47.940 I warned you about policies that you were putting into place that would be a danger to our students,

00:24:52.880 and we've seen that happen. When is enough is enough? When are you going to change the

00:24:58.180 policies to keep our children safe?

00:25:01.200 This is not China. This is the United States of America, and we will not be silenced. You are liable

00:25:07.980 for these injustices. Remove the superintendent immediately, and then resign for your negligence

00:25:14.080 and duplicity. End this nightmare.

00:25:17.840 I am 14 years old. The fact that I have to be here to fight for my rights to not have a

00:25:22.340 more radical agenda shoved down my throat in school is not only concerning, it's upsetting.

00:25:27.920 The last one there, it's hard to hear exactly what's being said, and that's all by design. I mean,

00:25:39.000 that's why they have to wear the masks. The masks function, in this case, as literal muzzles. That's why 1.00

00:25:46.780 they require them to put them on. I mean, there's no other audience in the room.

00:25:53.740 They're standing. They're given 60 seconds to address the school board with nobody within 15

00:26:00.900 feet of them. They can't take the mask off. They can't take it off for 60 seconds so that

00:26:06.060 they can speak and be understood. No, they can't take it off because they want the words to be

00:26:13.060 muffled. These despicable, gutless, scumbag cowards will do everything they possibly can. 1.00

00:26:23.740 To avoid any kind of accountability whatsoever. 1.00

00:26:28.720 But these Loudoun County parents, they continue to put on a clinic

00:26:34.440 that other parents across the country should really follow. There's a model here that's being

00:26:41.240 presented. And I obviously saw it for myself when I became a resident of Loudoun County and when I was

00:26:48.560 there. But they've got it organized. They know exactly what they're doing. And now, because

00:26:53.940 they're only given 60 seconds to speak out about the cover-up of a violent rape of a girl in a

00:27:01.540 bathroom during school hours, they're only given 60 seconds to talk about it. What it means is that

00:27:06.440 then you just need, you need 30, 40 parents in a row hitting on this same topic because they only

00:27:13.740 get 60 seconds. And if you all stay on the same topic and you stay on message, then

00:27:20.040 cumulatively, you've spoken about it for 40 minutes, 50 minutes.

00:27:24.500 And that's exactly what they're doing. And I hope they continue to do it.

00:27:30.460 Every single school board meeting,

00:27:32.400 every person that goes up there

00:27:35.540 should be specifically calling for Scott

00:27:38.540 Ziegler,

00:27:39.500 I forget if Scott is his first name, anyway,

00:27:42.120 for Scott Ziegler

00:27:43.620 to step down because of this issue

00:27:46.560 until he does.

00:27:47.200 All right, let's move next to Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary. 1.00

00:27:55.880 We have discussed the proposal by the Treasury Department, by the Biden administration

00:28:03.040 to monitor all bank accounts with transactions that are $600 or more. So if you, you know,

00:28:13.140 $600 enters your, your checking account or leaves your checking account at any point over the course

00:28:19.480 of a year, then the IRS wants to know about it. And they want to have direct access to your account

00:28:24.100 so they can monitor all of that, um, all of that information and all of that data.

00:28:30.420 Now, Janet Yellen on CBS being asked about this again, and she says, no, no, no, no, no,

00:28:36.480 this is, this is not an invasion of privacy. And if you're just a normal middle-class person,

00:28:42.680 this, this isn't even about you. Uh, this is really about high-income people and billionaires.

00:28:50.040 Here she is explaining it.

00:28:52.080 You want banks to report transactions of $600 or more. That's what the IRS wants.

00:28:59.060 Does this mean that the government is trying to peek into our pocketbooks? If you want to look at

00:29:04.200 $600 transactions?

00:29:06.060 Absolutely not. I think this proposal has been seriously mischaracterized. Um,

00:29:11.680 the proposal involves no reporting of individual transactions of any individual. Look, the big

00:29:21.380 picture is that we have a tax gap that over the next decade is estimated at $7 trillion,

00:29:28.920 namely a shortfall in the amount that IRS is collecting due to a failure of individuals to

00:29:38.540 report the income that they've earned. But that's among billionaires. Is that among people who are

00:29:43.320 transferring $600? No, it tends to be among high-income individuals whose income is opaque and the IRS

00:29:52.860 doesn't receive information about it. If you earn a paycheck, you get a W-2, the IRS knows about it. But

00:30:01.100 high-income individuals with opaque sources of income that are not reported to the IRS. There's a lot of tax

00:30:10.060 fraud and cheating that's going on. And all that's involved in this proposal is a few aggregate numbers

00:30:18.880 about bank accounts, the amount that was received in the course of a year, the amount that went out in the

00:30:25.340 course of the year. So am I showing, um, am I failing to show respect for the office of the Treasury

00:30:33.160 Secretary if I say that, you know, Janet Yellen is a lying, obfuscating clown? I don't, I don't know if 0.98

00:30:40.260 that's another office that I'm supposed to respect the Treasury Secretary. She certainly doesn't have any 0.82

00:30:46.200 respect for us. And I don't, I don't, I don't just mean that she has no respect for our rights or our

00:30:52.640 privacy. Obviously she doesn't. Um, she has no respect for our intelligence. She, she thinks that 0.95

00:30:59.760 we're all a bunch of, you know, sub 75 IQ morons that we would buy what she just said there. So the 1.00

00:31:09.480 target allegedly is high income earners and even billionaires. And so their, their way of, uh, of,

00:31:17.720 of smoking out those, you know, those high income earners with obscure opaque sources of income

00:31:24.880 is to monitor all transactions over 600 bucks. You want to find the billionaires who are cheating on

00:31:33.800 their taxes. And so you're looking at checking accounts with $600 in them. Wouldn't it be

00:31:41.700 transactions over, I don't know, rather than $600, uh, $60,000 or at least $6,000 or something

00:31:51.340 exponentially greater than 600. So you're looking for a very specific small sliver of, um, of people

00:32:03.780 here. You're, you're, you're fishing for a very particular, allegedly a very particular kind of

00:32:09.600 fish. And your way of doing that is to cast this massive net that'll catch dozens of species of fish

00:32:21.880 that you aren't even looking for. That's, it's almost believable in a certain way because it's so

00:32:29.280 boneheaded and inefficient and wasteful that, yeah, it's exactly what you expect from the

00:32:35.560 government. They, they, they're, they're looking for billionaires. And so they start with people

00:32:40.880 who spend $600 in a month. Uh, it's such a, it's such a dumb claim that you, you, you could almost 0.97

00:32:50.020 believe that they would be this stupid, but, um, no, I don't think it's, it's, it's their own 1.00

00:32:54.120 stupidity. I think it's their assumption about our stupidity that we would believe that. 1.00

00:33:00.740 No, this, as I said, is about what this is really about is putting everybody under a permanent 0.96

00:33:06.980 financial, you know, uh, under a permanent IRS audit.

00:33:13.760 They are auditing almost all Americans. I don't know what percentage, and if I were,

00:33:19.320 that'd be an interesting thing, I wish they could tell us that. What percentage of Americans

00:33:23.100 have transactions in a given month totaling at least over $600?

00:33:29.880 I, you know, I got to think it's a pretty sizable majority.

00:33:34.520 So a sizable majority of Americans are having their economic freedom and privacy erased.

00:33:39.700 And we're all being put under a permanent audit so that they don't have to go through the trouble

00:33:48.320 of having individual specific audits of the actual people that they are trying to find.

00:33:57.040 Attach the billionaire tax cheats and so on.

00:34:01.340 All right, next, this is from the daily wire. It says the Chicago police department

00:34:04.820 is engaged in a nationwide campaign to recruit police officers, but the city is still suffering

00:34:11.380 from an officer shortage. With officers retiring and transferring to smaller departments,

00:34:15.980 Chicago appears to be down nearly 1,600 officers. The city's CBS affiliate reported on Tuesday that

00:34:22.320 Chicago police officers aren't only retiring in record numbers. Many are leaving the big city

00:34:25.980 departments for smaller ones. It's contributing to an officer shortage that many city leaders believe

00:34:30.620 will only get worse before it gets better. Officers who spoke to CBS Chicago noted that the

00:34:36.280 problems go beyond simple burnout, though that's a contributing factor to many officers' decision

00:34:40.280 to leave the department. Officers cited long working hours, mandatory overtime, and low pay as reasons

00:34:45.180 they departed Chicago for other cities or decided to simply leave the force entirely.

00:34:51.680 Honestly, if you value your life and the lives of your children and your family,

00:34:57.400 I don't know how you remain living in a place like Chicago.

00:35:02.020 And I understand that it's a lot easier said than done. As someone who doesn't live in Chicago

00:35:05.720 myself, and I don't depend, I don't have a job that requires me to be there. I understand that.

00:35:12.640 I also understand that moving is difficult.

00:35:17.560 Since I've been married, we've moved like six times. But the point is, it can be done.

00:35:22.840 Listen, I just don't understand how anyone who has any other options stays there in Chicago or in

00:35:32.440 cities like it. They're running out of cops. And meanwhile, they've decriminalized gang shootings

00:35:42.660 in that city. It was just last week that they decided not to file any charges against gang members

00:35:49.440 who shot and killed each other in the middle of the street. It's not going to get better.

00:35:57.300 You've seen this precipitous decline. And you'll notice there has not been an uptick.

00:36:04.160 It hasn't been, we haven't seen any evidence that the trends are going to start heading in a positive

00:36:09.380 direction. And they won't. Because all of this stuff has a snowball effect.

00:36:15.040 Um, and here's, here's the problem. And you know, you find this in Chicago and it's not just in

00:36:22.120 Chicago where they're having trouble attracting police officers, recruiting and hiring police

00:36:27.240 officers. They're, they're having trouble keeping cops, um, on the job, even the ones that have

00:36:33.760 already been hired. It's, it's, that's obviously no mystery.

00:36:38.780 I mean, it's, it has been turned into an almost impossible job to be a police officer

00:36:47.540 and cops now know, and this case, this again is the case, not just in Chicago, but across the entire

00:36:55.680 country. Now you go out and you do your job on a daily basis. It's bad enough knowing that the media

00:37:04.980 is completely against you, much of the community that you're risking your life to protect, they 0.60

00:37:13.160 also hate your guts. And you know that the moment you're trying to arrest someone for committing a 0.63

00:37:21.620 crime, the moment they start resisting, um, the moment they turn violent, the moment they grab a gun

00:37:30.700 and start shooting at you. It's a lose, lose situation. And the more violent they are towards

00:37:38.020 you, the more of a lose, lose situation it is because you could not respond with a equal force

00:37:45.520 and end up getting killed, or you can respond with equal force and neutralize the dangerous threat.

00:37:54.980 And then, you know, that the media and, uh, the community that you were just protecting and

00:37:59.880 serving there will immediately set to work to destroy your life because of it.

00:38:05.360 So that's what you know as a cop, the moment, the bad guy pulls out a knife or a gun in that

00:38:10.020 moment, you know, okay, um, good chance here. I'm either dead at the end of this or in prison,

00:38:14.700 no matter how it goes. What, what a mystery that's people aren't very eager to sign up for something

00:38:24.100 like that. And here's what, here's what ends up happening. I mean, you've obviously got lots of

00:38:30.720 cops that leave. What about the cops that stay on the job? Um, or the ones who actually still sign

00:38:41.200 up for this job? Despite this, this kind of environment, this kind of atmosphere,

00:38:46.980 what kind of people are you going to attract now? Well, the only people that right now that I could

00:38:55.560 see that would sign up to be a cop, I think there's probably like two types of people.

00:38:59.740 One would be, um, people who have a deep sense of duty and are extremely courageous and they feel

00:39:09.320 called to this and they're going to do it anyway. Knowing what a lose lose it might be for them,

00:39:14.460 knowing they're putting their life on the line in more ways than one because their physical lives

00:39:22.260 could be taken from them or everything, but their physical lives could be taken from them. If they

00:39:27.660 have to use force against the violent suspect and then their lives are destroyed, you know,

00:39:31.960 knowing all of that, they still sign up for it. I think there are going to be people who do it

00:39:35.320 because, because they just, they, they feel duty bound and these are courageous, self-sacrificing

00:39:40.760 people. But that's not going to be everybody. Um, you're also going to have people who sign up for

00:39:48.280 it because they're just desperate for a job. I suppose you're gonna have some people like that.

00:39:56.180 Um, but a lot of the people who are in between, who maybe are not heroes, but aren't villains either,

00:40:05.620 just kind of like normal people who in previous years may have become police officers.

00:40:13.380 They're going to have no interest. We've scared all of them away.

00:40:19.060 And as I said, it's not going to get any better from here. Uh, finally, this is from the daily

00:40:23.460 wire. It says Lego group is committed to, uh, removing gender bias and harmful stereotypes from

00:40:29.520 its toys. The company announced in a statement on Monday, Lego cited a study by the Gina Davis

00:40:34.320 Institute on gender in media, a nonprofit pushing for gender balance and entertainment and media

00:40:39.620 showing that the majority of children believe that some activities are just meant for girls

00:40:44.220 while others are meant for boys. Lego is calling on parents and children to champion inclusive play

00:40:49.920 to change the perception of children, according to the toy company. Uh, and this is happening at the

00:40:55.780 same time that the California governor, Gavin Newsom, uh, signed a law mandating in, in the entire

00:41:02.820 state of California, that large retail stores have to offer toys in gender neutral sections. So if 0.99

00:41:09.080 they, if they employ 500 or more employees across California, um, it is now a matter of law that they

00:41:15.900 have to have a gender neutral section for toys, which of course that doesn't achieve anything, but just 0.99

00:41:22.240 make it harder for parents who are shopping, you know, trying to find toys for their, for their kids

00:41:29.080 because all parents realize this, like the vast majority of kids. It's not because we tell boys,

00:41:37.340 Oh, here are the, here are the toys for boys. You have to play with those. Oh, you're a girl where 1.00

00:41:42.680 you're, you're, you're only allowed to have pink things and you have to play with dolls.

00:41:46.520 We don't tell our kids that it's just that that's most of the time what they naturally gravitate to

00:41:52.780 from a very young age. And it's, it's always been an interesting thing for me to have,

00:42:00.580 you know, I've kind of had this, uh, been able to see this, this, this play out in my own life,

00:42:07.940 having a boy, you know, having fraternal twins, boy and a girl and raising them, you know, they were,

00:42:15.400 they were the first kids that we had and, uh, we raised them the same way. And we had, you know,

00:42:20.080 we have a, even from a, from a young age, we had a playroom and with all the toys laid out and we,

00:42:25.900 we never said to our daughter, well, here's the girl section of toys. Here's the boy section.

00:42:30.840 And you got to stay over here. We never said that. We just, here's the toys, go play,

00:42:35.400 get out of mom and dad's hair for a second and go play with the toys. And what would they do?

00:42:41.020 Almost every time daughter's going for the dolls, a son's going for the action figures

00:42:45.820 because it turns out that there is something innate within, you know, there's something about

00:42:52.180 girls from a young age where they have this kind of maternal instinct. And that's why they like to 1.00

00:42:57.020 play with the dolls and they'll sit there and brush the doll's hair and they'll, they have fun

00:43:00.260 changing the doll's diapers. Boys for the, for the most part, don't do that. There's something

00:43:05.120 innate and ingrained. Most parents recognize this. Some parents recognize it to their heart because

00:43:10.900 they wish they don't, they don't want their kid to subscribe to these genities, awful gender 1.00

00:43:15.360 stereotypes. And yet they do. And so you get rid of the gender segregation of the, of the toy

00:43:22.760 department. All you're doing is just making it hard for the parents because they, because they're,

00:43:26.840 they're still looking for the same kinds of toys. I think it was Target did this a while ago where

00:43:32.820 they made a big deal about, oh, we're not going to, we're not going to separate toys by boy versus

00:43:37.120 girl anymore. But if you go to Target still and you go to the toy section, they've still

00:43:42.380 done that. I mean, they've got all of the girl type toys here in this aisle and all the boy type

00:43:46.880 toys here. They just don't have the word boy and girl on it. And almost every parent who has a

00:43:52.940 daughter, they're going to the girl section because this stuff is much of it is innate.

00:43:59.160 It is not determined by society, despite what we're told. All right, let's get now to reading

00:44:07.680 the comments.

00:44:09.920 Tiffany says, Matt quoting the princess bride earned himself the spot of best

00:44:28.920 YouTuber in my book. Well, it sounds like you got pretty low standards, but I'll take it.

00:44:33.400 And yeah, I'm an unapologetic fan of the princess bride. I think it's, it's, you can't call it one

00:44:40.540 of the greatest films ever made certainly, but it's one of the most rewatchable movies I think

00:44:47.180 ever made. It's one of those movies that anytime it's on TV, you can just sit down and watch it

00:44:51.860 and enjoy it. And all right, what else we got here? Mr. Walsh, of all the different names of Christ,

00:45:02.340 do you have a personal favorite? Also, what's the most important thing you've learned since you started

00:45:06.860 your show and have seen it grow like it has? Personal favorite name of Christ? Well, I think Christ

00:45:13.060 is, that's a good one. I'm happy with that. Our Lord, I suppose, is also, I hadn't really thought

00:45:18.920 about what my favorite name is. As far as what I've learned since starting the show, I'm not sure

00:45:22.740 if this is something I've learned, but I've just seen it, I've seen it demonstrated over and over

00:45:27.880 again. And that is that people are desperate for basic common sense. And that's a bad sign for society

00:45:42.460 that common sense is so rare, but it has made it possible. I mean, it's, it's good. It's given me

00:45:48.580 a career because there's, there's so much insanity out there. All you have to do is speak basic truths.

00:45:57.000 You don't have to have any deeper, brilliant insights. And that's good because I don't have

00:46:01.600 any. All I could just do, I mean, I can sit here and say, uh, you know, women have uteruses 1.00

00:46:08.160 and even a truth like that, people are hungry and desperate for it. So I guess that's, I suppose,

00:46:15.860 what I learned. Scott says, Ben used your office today, but the alien playing the banjo and a little

00:46:21.280 astronaut on your desk weren't visible on the camera. Um, I'm afraid he stole them. You know,

00:46:28.000 they do that sometimes they come in here, they kick me out of my own studio. I mean, Ben comes in here

00:46:32.560 like he owns the place or something, tells me to leave. And every time that happens, no matter who's

00:46:37.240 using the studio, they, they always take the alien and the banjo away. It's like, fine,

00:46:43.200 you can use my studio if you want, but you, this is, this is my studio.

00:46:52.040 Don't, don't, and there's nothing to be ashamed of with the, the alien and the banjo.

00:46:57.320 I do take offense to that. Uh, Tom says, Hey Matt, you silly person. People sleep, uh, 0.99

00:47:04.000 people sleep. You're counting that as free time. I wake two hours before work. One hour is just to

00:47:10.020 get there. When you add that in, my workday is 11 hours. So I only have five hours of free time.

00:47:16.800 Okay. So you have five hours of free time and you get eight hours of sleep a night

00:47:20.940 and then you have your weekends off. That's, that's amazing. That's a great life.

00:47:28.500 I mean, that's, that's, that's a more, that's the point I was making yesterday. That, that is

00:47:33.700 already a more luxurious and comfortable life. You're leading already a more luxurious and

00:47:38.680 comfortable life than the vast majority of people have ever lived on earth. So, so have some

00:47:43.200 gratitude for that. Now a word from Helix sleep. A lot of people these days seem to struggle, um,

00:47:48.300 with sleeplessness. It seems to be an increasing problem. I know, you know, it is for me, especially

00:47:52.120 last night, I think I got about three hours of sleep, but that was not the fault of my Helix matrix.

00:47:57.920 Helix mattress, uh, in Helix sleep because Helix sleep is, uh, it's the most comfortable mattress

00:48:03.000 you'll ever sleep on. And the reason is that it's customized to you. All you got to do is take the

00:48:09.000 quiz takes about two minutes to complete and it matches your body type and sleep preferences to

00:48:13.240 the perfect mattress for you. If you like a mattress, that's really soft or firm. If you sleep on your

00:48:18.260 side or your back, whatever it is, you go through all of it. Like I said, it takes just two minutes.

00:48:21.900 Um, and they'll find the specific mattress that will work with your unique tastes. You don't need to

00:48:27.460 take their word for it. Helix was awarded the number one best overall mattress of 2019 and 2020

00:48:31.940 by GQ and Wired magazine. And you can find out why yourself. If you go to helixsleep.com slash

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00:48:40.980 will give you the best sleep of your life. Right now, Helix is offering up to $200 off and free

00:48:46.160 pillows with all mattress orders for our listeners at helixsleep.com slash Walsh. That's helixsleep.com

00:48:51.000 slash Walsh for up to $200 off your mattress order. And if you didn't catch backstage last

00:48:55.800 night, then, uh, you missed a lot of things, especially the melodic, uh, sounds of Smokey

00:49:02.120 Mike and the God King. Uh, and so that was already, that was already your biggest mistake

00:49:07.080 was to miss out on that, but even worse, it means you didn't hear the extremely exciting

00:49:10.320 news. We've got several new projects in the works that are going to change the way you stream

00:49:14.860 because here at the Daily Wire, we recognize the important role entertainment plays in our culture

00:49:19.060 and in our world. And we've been working overtime to make sure we're bringing you non-woke content

00:49:24.660 that you literally won't find anywhere else. Like our new comedy series, we're bringing you

00:49:29.220 featuring none other than the hilarious Adam Carolla and our new film starring the fearless

00:49:34.460 Gina Carano. It's called Terror on the Prairie, which is currently in production in Montana. And

00:49:39.060 last but definitely not least, we're dropping the teaser trailer for Shut In, our first original

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00:49:48.640 seriously can't wait to share the final products with you. So keep your ears and eyes peeled for

00:49:52.860 updates on their release dates. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:59.900 You know, we followed the John Gruden story pretty closely on the show because I believe it's not

00:50:03.860 only one of the most egregious examples of cancel culture that we've ever witnessed, but also because

00:50:07.580 it represents in many ways a dangerous escalation. We've seen people get canceled for opinions they've

00:50:14.940 expressed in public. We've seen them get canceled after statements they made or things they posted

00:50:18.800 years ago were dredged up and brought to the surface. We've seen conversations taken out of

00:50:23.560 context. We've seen jokes blown out of proportion. We've seen innocuous comments turned into outrages

00:50:29.020 and edgy comments turned into hate crimes. In the case of John Gruden, all of these things are

00:50:33.700 happening at once with the added indignity that nothing he said was public. He communicated his thoughts in

00:50:38.140 private emails from a private email account, but that didn't save him from the mob. And the mob wants

00:50:44.000 us to know that it's not going to save us either because every cancellation is performative. It's

00:50:50.180 never about the present victim, but about setting the stage for the next one. And that's why this story

00:50:55.960 matters and why I want to focus on it one more time here. Of course, you know, as we've seen the

00:50:59.520 media, especially the sports media has been enjoying itself immensely with this issue as they always do

00:51:04.640 when they've got someone to cancel. They enjoy it very much. All the various hosts and personalities

00:51:09.960 in sports media have taken the opportunity to give their own little speeches, have their own

00:51:14.220 theatrically emotional moments. None of them can top Randy Moss's Oscar-worthy performance,

00:51:20.040 but, you know, they're all giving it a shot. There's no point in playing many of the examples,

00:51:23.840 but a few of them are instructive because of what they reveal about the nature of cancel culture and what

00:51:29.040 fuels it. So we'll play clips from two commentators. First, here's Keyshawn Johnson. He's the

00:51:34.360 former NFL wide receiver and a current ESPN analyst. He has known Gruden for a long time, decades,

00:51:40.680 and played for him back in the early 2000s. Now that Gruden is on the floor, Johnson is happy to

00:51:46.240 come on over and stomp on his head because why not? Let's listen. I didn't know that John would

00:51:53.400 say things like that and put him in an email. He just always been a fraud to me. He just always

00:52:04.400 been a fraud to me. Never from day one, he's been a used car salesman. And people bought it because

00:52:13.980 he inherited a championship team built by Tony Dungy and Rich McKay. And he came in there with a

00:52:23.400 and it kind of kicked us over the top to get our world championship, which I am grateful for.

00:52:29.120 But at the same time, I also saw through who he was through that journey of getting a championship.

00:52:35.260 The year that we think about it, we won the championship and we're standing on the podium

00:52:41.200 in the Superbowl and the general manager is trying to raise the trophy. And the head coach takes the

00:52:47.840 trophy from him, basically says, give me this, this belongs to me. And like all of that, when you're

00:52:55.860 paying attention, and then the next year, the general manager leaves in the middle of the season

00:53:01.280 because he doesn't want to deal with all the shenanigans that was going on. He leaves,

00:53:07.300 think about this though, Jay and Max, he leaves in the middle. Rich McKay left in the middle of the

00:53:14.000 season to go take another job with another team because he didn't want to be around this guy.

00:53:21.040 So it just shows how one of the things that keeps cancel culture alive and thriving in our culture

00:53:25.840 is the corresponding death of loyalty. I mean, the canceled person cannot rely on the people who

00:53:31.520 know him to speak up for him. Instead, they'll remain silent or else they'll come out as Johnson does

00:53:35.200 here and say, oh yeah, that guy, total jerk. Never mentioned it before right now, but now that 1.00

00:53:39.340 you mention it, yeah, you know, I've always hated him. A lot of these situations could be solved. I

00:53:43.800 mean, canceled culture could be stopped in its tracks if the friends, employers, associates

00:53:47.340 of the canceled person were willing to venture even an inch out onto the limb to speak up for the

00:53:52.780 victim. But loyalty is a virtue and we live in a virtuous culture. Think of Chris Harrison,

00:53:57.160 former bachelor host, you know, who of course was canceled. His own girlfriend came out

00:54:02.040 and called him a racist when he was getting all the backlash. Now, next and finally, we have

00:54:07.660 Emmanuel Acho, a former player to our media personality turned unapologetic scumbag race 0.99

00:54:13.700 baiter. Here he is giving his thoughts on the matter and pay attention to what he says because 0.97

00:54:17.940 these people just are not hiding the real goal anymore. Listen to this.

00:54:22.800 Couple quick thoughts on John Gruden and boy, I got a lot of them. First things first, get him the

00:54:26.880 heck up out of there, man. No place in our society for language like that, for speech like

00:54:31.640 that, for thoughts like that, particularly for people in positions of power, not in sports

00:54:37.280 or in life. Now, for those saying it was in 2011, it was such a long time ago. Keep in

00:54:42.460 mind, he was 48 years old in 2011. But more importantly, the dude said he didn't have a

00:54:47.860 blade of racism in him while being racist, which means he didn't even realize what he was

00:54:52.440 doing was wrong. So he hasn't worked to fix it. So those thoughts John Gruden had in 2011,

00:54:57.100 if he ain't worked to fix him, he still has him now. But y'all, this is why it's imperative

00:55:02.180 to have minorities as voices and faces in positions of power in society. So you don't 1.00

00:55:09.340 have rampant ignorance running around like this. The dude was homophobic. The dude was 0.99

00:55:14.100 racially insensitive. The dude was sending topless photos of Washington cheerleaders to the president

00:55:19.680 of the Washington football team. Make it make sense. And lastly, the dude ain't even a good

00:55:26.100 coach right now. He's 67 and 82 since he won the Super Bowl. That's a 45 percent winning

00:55:32.180 percentage. He got to go, period.

00:55:35.320 No place in our society for language like that, says the man who I'm sure has never uttered

00:55:39.820 a crass word in his entire life. But more notably, he says there's no place in our society

00:55:44.140 for thoughts like that. So they're no longer even pretending that their goal is to stop people from

00:55:49.540 engaging in harmful behavior. They're not pretending that this is about holding people

00:55:54.480 accountable for the damage they inflict on other people. This is about telling people what kind of

00:55:59.340 thoughts they're allowed to think. As Acho said to Don Lemon later in the day, it doesn't even matter

00:56:05.700 how you actually treat people. All that matters is what you're thinking while you do it. Listen.

00:56:10.260 Just because someone treats you right does not mean that they treat everybody right.

00:56:15.960 John Gruden, of course, he treated his star quarterback earning $125 million. Of course,

00:56:20.840 he treated him with the utmost respect, particularly publicly. But just because someone is kind and

00:56:26.140 respectful to you does not mean that they are a kind and respectful person.

00:56:32.380 Actually, if someone treats you well and you've never been presented any evidence that he treats

00:56:37.640 anyone else differently, that is, you know, if all you've ever seen from someone is kind and

00:56:44.120 respectful behavior, if that's all you've ever seen, and no one's ever told you about different

00:56:48.720 experiences, then you have no right to any assumption other than the assumption that the

00:56:53.520 person is kind and respectful. See, in a sane society, you judge a man based on his actions.

00:56:59.380 And in fact, if someone has negative feelings or thoughts towards you or in general, and yet still

00:57:07.640 treats you well, that doesn't make him a fraud. Far from it. It makes him all the more respectable

00:57:13.760 because he's not allowing his emotions to dictate his behavior. But these days, as we've seen, actions

00:57:21.740 don't matter. And again, it's not about actions here because these are private emails.

00:57:28.620 No one was harmed by them. No one else knew about them.

00:57:33.100 So it's a victimless crime until

00:57:35.360 they're made public. It wasn't John Gruden who decided to do that.

00:57:40.500 So the point here is about the thoughts, about the feelings. And what we know from the mob is that

00:57:49.660 all that really matters is what they assume your feelings or thoughts really are.

00:57:57.620 And they can assume what your real intentions are. And that's what they're trying to control are the

00:58:03.340 thoughts. This is about drawing a line and saying, okay, here, here are thoughts you're allowed to think

00:58:09.300 and here are thoughts you're not allowed to think.

00:58:14.300 But, of course, I say all this and now my third day of talking about this issue

00:58:19.220 because I do think it's important.

00:58:22.740 But the problem is that this all sounds like a defense

00:58:25.400 of John Gruden, which it isn't because you know my policy.

00:58:30.900 That if you don't defend yourself,

00:58:33.300 if you apologize, then I'm not going to defend you.

00:58:36.860 The moment you do that,

00:58:40.580 you accept guilt,

00:58:42.760 you bow to the mob,

00:58:44.500 there's nothing anyone else can do for you.

00:58:50.640 And so really, at the end of all this,

00:58:52.780 I guess I have to say that

00:58:53.940 maybe it's John Gruden who is canceled.

00:58:57.900 Not for

00:58:58.660 any emails that he sent. I don't care about that.

00:59:01.040 But when you have the mob coming after you

00:59:04.220 and you bow and surrender and submit,

00:59:08.120 then you've only fueled it.

00:59:12.340 You've only, you've only, this, this is what sustains them.

00:59:14.600 You've given them more, the more sustenance

00:59:16.340 to go after the next person.

00:59:18.160 At a, at a, at a certain point,

00:59:23.060 I mean, we need someone.

00:59:25.260 We just need someone.

00:59:26.880 And I'm not surprised that it's not John Gruden,

00:59:28.560 but maybe it'll be the next one.

00:59:30.180 Whoever it is,

00:59:31.200 and it'll be someone.

00:59:33.620 They'll find a new target and they'll find them quick.

00:59:37.060 They got what they want out of this.

00:59:38.420 They destroyed his life.

00:59:39.420 They got the apology.

00:59:41.160 They're not waiting around to have a conversation about it.

00:59:44.860 What have you learned from this, John?

00:59:46.460 How, you know, how can we,

00:59:47.400 how can we help you get back on your feet?

00:59:49.080 And, you know, how can we work on this redemption arc?

00:59:51.380 They don't care about that.

00:59:53.940 They're just going to leave you in tatters,

00:59:56.700 torn to shreds on the side of the road,

00:59:58.640 and they're going to go looking for the next person to run over.

01:00:03.060 We just finally need someone when this happens

01:00:05.820 to say, I don't apologize.

01:00:11.080 Oh, but you hurt our feelings.

01:00:12.560 I don't care.

01:00:13.860 And I didn't even really hurt your feelings in the first place.

01:00:17.840 But even if I did, I don't care.

01:00:20.080 I don't owe you anything.

01:00:21.980 This isn't about you.

01:00:24.100 This doesn't concern you. 1.00

01:00:26.280 Mind your damned business. 1.00

01:00:28.720 Get out of my face. 1.00

01:00:33.160 And until they say that,

01:00:34.440 until someone says that,

01:00:35.420 this will continue.

01:00:37.580 So, we'll leave it there for today.

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