The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 835 - The War On Masculinity

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Senator Josh Hawley provokes mockery and jeers from the media for suggesting that there's an attack on masculinity in our culture.

00:00:07.380 But he's completely correct, of course. In fact, the situation is even worse than he describes.

00:00:11.500 Masculinity is in its death throes in the West, and if masculinity dies, the West will go down with it.

00:00:16.360 We'll talk about why. Also, another day, another prosecution witness in the Kyle Rittenhouse case accidentally destroys the prosecution's case.

00:00:22.520 And a new poll says that 70% of Americans are experiencing anxiety and depression because of climate change.

00:00:27.900 Can that possibly be true? Plus, Snopes does a fact check on the claim that Joe Biden let one rip in front of a member of the royal family.

00:00:34.520 And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the Republican Party's embrace of sexual identity politics with the newly christened RNC Pride Coalition.

00:00:41.500 All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:09.840 So as a general rule, if you say something and the media catches wind of it and reacts as though 0.98

00:02:14.520 it's the dumbest, craziest, most asinine thing anyone has ever said in the whole history of the human race, 0.99

00:02:18.860 then you can be pretty confident that you were right. 0.99

00:02:21.340 Not only right, but right in a very important way about a crucial topic

00:02:24.860 that they are terrified to even acknowledge or talk about.

00:02:28.600 Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has provoked this kind of over-the-top,

00:02:32.700 overcompensating reaction after delivering a speech at the National Conservative Conference

00:02:36.820 a few days ago about the attack on manhood and masculinity in our culture.

00:02:41.300 Then he discussed the same subject in an Axios interview yesterday, which we'll play in a minute.

00:02:44.900 And between the speech and the interview, he has been widely mocked and derided by the left and the media.

00:02:50.700 Attack on masculinity? What attack on masculinity? That's absurd, they declare.

00:02:54.840 In an article on CNN.com, Gloria Borger called Hawley's claim conspiratorial.

00:03:00.580 It's a conspiracy theory.

00:03:02.460 Rolling Stone called it bizarre.

00:03:04.580 MSNBC said the whole idea of an attack on masculinity is hilarious and empty.

00:03:09.240 Kevin McDermott in St. Louis today accused Hawley of mansplaining.

00:03:12.920 And yet the fact that a man would use the term mansplaining only proves the point that masculinity is in deep decline.

00:03:20.440 At least when it comes to that particular guy.

00:03:23.080 But I think it's even, the problem is more widespread than that.

00:03:26.200 Even the guy interviewing Hawley for Axios seems kind of flummoxed by the notion that the people who use phrases like

00:03:32.040 toxic masculinity may also be waging an assault on masculinity. 0.97

00:03:36.620 A thing which they think is toxic.

00:03:38.860 Let's listen to some of that exchange.

00:03:40.960 What's a man to you? Paint a picture.

00:03:44.440 What's a man? Well, a man is a father, a man is a husband, a man is somebody who takes responsibility. 0.96

00:03:49.200 As conservatives, we've got to call men back to responsibility.

00:03:52.380 We've got to say that spending your time not working, and we have more and more men who are not working,

00:03:56.860 spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online while doing nothing,

00:04:01.520 is not good for you, your family, or this country.

00:04:03.640 So a viewer is watching this, and they're thinking, really?

00:04:06.420 What the liberals are doing are going to push me to watch Pornhub more or play Donkey Kong more?

00:04:11.600 Do you mean that literally, really?

00:04:13.020 Well, what I mean literally is that I think the liberal attack, the left-wing attack on manhood,

00:04:18.000 says to men, you're part of the problem.

00:04:20.180 It says that your masculinity is inherently problematic.

00:04:23.460 It's inherently oppressive.

00:04:24.500 What's your basis for linking that to what liberals or the left, as you would say, do?

00:04:31.180 Is that based on data or based on a hunch?

00:04:33.520 Well, it's policy over many years.

00:04:35.260 I mean, if you look at the policy of deindustrialization, those are policy choices Mike pursued over many years.

00:04:40.680 Wait, how does that connect to porn?

00:04:43.060 Oh, well, you've got men, 16 million men, Mike, who are idle, who don't have anything to do.

00:04:48.500 Now, partly that's their own responsibility, but also partly it's because jobs have dried up

00:04:52.640 in many cities across America and rural areas, too.

00:04:55.980 I think you put together lack of jobs, you put together fatherlessness,

00:04:59.180 you put together the social messages that we teach our kids in school.

00:05:02.800 I think we've got to confront that and its effects.

00:05:05.940 What's a man?

00:05:06.660 Well, he's not someone who wears those kinds of socks that that guy's wearing.

00:05:10.180 Holly is, of course, right about everything he said,

00:05:13.620 and he could have gone much further if the other guy didn't cut him off every four seconds.

00:05:17.980 There is indeed much more to be said.

00:05:19.260 And I think we could break this subject down into three parts, three questions.

00:05:23.780 How do we know that masculinity is declining?

00:05:26.720 Why is it declining?

00:05:28.700 And why is it a problem that it's declining?

00:05:31.000 So I'm going to try to answer all three in just a few minutes,

00:05:33.940 though this will be far from a comprehensive treatment, but we'll go through this.

00:05:37.040 First, how do we know that masculinity is declining?

00:05:39.800 Well, simply because every single relevant societal marker is pointing in that direction.

00:05:43.920 I mean, every single one.

00:05:45.280 Record numbers of men are not working, as Holly alludes to.

00:05:49.260 Not fulfilling the masculine role of provider, even if they just be providing for themselves. 0.82

00:05:54.240 And a great many of them would be providing only for themselves if they provided at all,

00:05:57.900 because record numbers of men have never married.

00:05:59.960 Millions more were married, but no longer are.

00:06:02.060 Or else they had kids but never got married, leading to a growing crisis of fatherless homes.

00:06:08.980 In the education system, boys are falling behind.

00:06:11.920 Girls get better grades. 0.94

00:06:12.960 More girls end up going to college. 0.55

00:06:14.620 Now that going to college is actually a good idea in most cases, but that's the way it leads.

00:06:18.260 Boys are far more likely to drop out, to be expelled, to be suspended.

00:06:22.240 They're also far more likely to be judged so incorrigible and uncontrollable that they have to be put on psychotropic drugs.

00:06:29.840 Out in the world, away from the confines of the education system, men are experiencing epidemics of drug abuse and homelessness.

00:06:35.580 Violent crime is surging, and men are most likely to be both the perpetrator and the victim when it comes to violent crime.

00:06:42.460 As Holly indicates, men are increasingly retreating into cyberspace, replacing physical reality with a virtual reality.

00:06:50.440 Americans spend collectively billions of hours, billions, watching porn, and men account for most of that, but certainly not all.

00:06:57.080 The average gamer spends a little over eight hours a week playing video games, which may not sound like much.

00:07:02.720 I mean, it's an hour a day or so, but that's an entire extra work day spent playing with a toy.

00:07:08.800 And that's the average, okay, which means that a large portion are playing much more than that.

00:07:13.560 Two times, three times, four times that amount.

00:07:15.480 In a recent survey, a third of respondents said that they skip showering, they skip socializing, they skip eating so that they can play more video games.

00:07:25.400 Many gamers, you know, complain that video games are unfairly maligned in these kinds of conversations.

00:07:31.000 And they're probably right that an hour a day spent playing video games is not much different from an hour spent, you know, watching TV or scrolling social media.

00:07:39.320 The fact is that most of us are spending way too much time on all of that.

00:07:45.360 And it's not like gamers are only playing video games and not using the internet or watching TV.

00:07:49.860 They've just added an additional chunk of screen time.

00:07:53.000 Still, as a pound for pound comparison, an hour spent staring at Netflix is no better or more worthwhile than an hour on games.

00:08:01.220 That's true. I would agree with that.

00:08:03.200 The difference, though, is that games are more immersive.

00:08:06.800 They're able to take the place of physical reality in a much more convincing and seemingly complete way, which means that they have a greater tendency to dominate your life.

00:08:17.600 Not every gamer is dominated by games, but many are.

00:08:20.920 They eat, sleep, and breathe games.

00:08:23.800 They've all but dropped out of society in favor of games.

00:08:27.160 That's where it becomes dangerous.

00:08:29.860 Games are not the only culprit, though.

00:08:31.340 In general, modern Western men are obsessed with toys of various kinds.

00:08:37.260 And recreation.

00:08:38.880 We are much, much less likely than our grandfathers to develop actual useful physical skills.

00:08:44.420 Or even hobbies that involve doing physical things out in the physical universe.

00:08:49.780 Someone said to me yesterday, they said, well, what's the difference between playing video games all day or going fishing?

00:08:54.640 Well, I don't think you should be playing video games or fishing all day.

00:08:57.260 You should be doing, you should be working and providing for your family.

00:08:59.520 But can you really not see a difference?

00:09:01.260 In one case, you're out in nature.

00:09:03.980 You're breathing fresh air.

00:09:06.180 You're outside.

00:09:07.800 You're, you know, you're developing a survival skill.

00:09:12.120 You're doing something that people have been doing, a skill that people have been utilizing since ancient times.

00:09:17.140 I mean, there's clearly a difference between those two things. 0.93

00:09:20.620 Whether it's video games or TV or watching sports or obsessing over children's comic books and cartoons, men have become softer, more frivolous, more useless.

00:09:28.180 Women have their own corresponding problems that are often just as severe, yet not exactly the same. 1.00

00:09:34.920 That's a different subject, though, as women are different from men. 0.93

00:09:38.100 Right now, what we're establishing, what we need to establish, is that men are, in fact, in crisis.

00:09:45.380 And if men are in crisis, then masculinity is in crisis.

00:09:49.080 Because masculinity, by definition, relates to the qualities and attributes that are characteristic of men.

00:09:54.080 Now, why is this happening?

00:09:58.060 Another complex question that requires a longer answer than I can provide.

00:10:01.700 But in brief, we know, for one thing, that there's been a dramatic decline in testosterone levels among men over the last several decades.

00:10:08.160 This is a documented fact.

00:10:10.060 And the decline is incredibly extreme.

00:10:13.000 I mean, something like 1% reduction per year, on average, in testosterone.

00:10:16.740 So, if you look around today and you see a striking number of soft, feminine, girly sorts of men, that's not your imagination.

00:10:24.880 That's a very real biological phenomenon, which is, you know, that's driving this.

00:10:32.060 The drop in testosterone probably has something to do with environment, probably has something to do with diet.

00:10:36.700 It's also a self-perpetuating thing.

00:10:40.060 Men with less testosterone are less inclined to go out and exercise and compete, you know, do competitive sorts of games.

00:10:46.900 But a lack of exercise is one of the things that can cause lower testosterone.

00:10:50.920 Obesity is associated with testosterone deficiency as well.

00:10:54.660 But it's not all biological.

00:10:56.260 Boys from a young age enter into a society where masculinity and masculine impulses are actively discouraged and punished.

00:11:05.120 Most boys will be in the government school system starting from the age of four or younger.

00:11:10.280 I mean, Joe Biden wants kids there starting when they're like two.

00:11:13.080 And that is a system.

00:11:17.160 The government education system is a system run by women and designed for girls.

00:11:23.000 There is no time or space or patience for boys with aggression and energy.

00:11:27.580 In other words, boys who act like boys are not welcome in the system.

00:11:32.020 Those traits are not just discouraged, but they're treated as diseased, as symptoms of mental illness.

00:11:37.360 Girls are a lot better at sitting still, memorizing things, being calm. 0.99

00:11:43.300 You know, you can sit them down at a desk and give them an activity and they can sit and do that for hours, potentially.

00:11:49.540 Boys are much less likely to have that ability naturally, which is why the school system will look at a boy that, you know, struggles to sit there and sit still and do boring things and say he's diseased, but stuff some drugs in his mouth.

00:12:04.120 Boys who will not be broken will eventually be drugged.

00:12:10.060 Their boyhood is literally medicated out of existence.

00:12:14.220 Sometimes this can take on a very direct and extreme form as our culture, the school system and many families encourage boys to dress as girls and quite literally become girls or try to become girls anyway.

00:12:24.120 This is a process helped along or really driven in the home.

00:12:28.420 Many boys not only go to schools run by women and designed for girls, but they live in homes run by women and designed for girls. 0.97

00:12:36.720 Either they have no father in the home or the father father is a physical presence, yet an empty shell. 0.90

00:12:42.720 A cuckolded eunuch who allows his wife to lead the family while he goes off to watch porn and play with his toys.

00:12:48.980 This is the environment many boys find themselves in, and there will be no relief as they grow older and enter into an adult world that is just as hostile, if not more, to masculinity than the school system in his home were. 0.79

00:13:02.420 So all of this, or rather you add all of this to the overarching societal pressure both men and women constantly feel to experience life as passive consumers and viewers.

00:13:13.960 And we begin to see quite clearly how we end up with a society overrun by passive, weak, emasculated, effeminate men.

00:13:24.560 But is this a problem?

00:13:26.660 I mean, do we actually need manly men?

00:13:29.340 Yeah, we do.

00:13:31.280 No society in history has ever thrived absent of masculinity.

00:13:36.240 None.

00:13:37.140 Now, granted, none were ever crazy enough to try.

00:13:39.540 We are, in many ways, attempting to blaze a new trail here, but it will not lead to anywhere or anything but ruin.

00:13:46.340 What role has masculinity traditionally played in society? 0.75

00:13:51.460 Well, men have been the fighters.

00:13:53.240 They've been the hunters, the builders, the protectors, the providers.

00:13:57.900 Men have also traditionally led in fields like science and math.

00:14:02.100 The great majority of technological advancements and discoveries have been made by men.

00:14:06.860 Men, that's a fact, and it's not a coincidence, nor is it the result of women being excluded in anything.

00:14:13.820 The thing about a pioneer, a genius, you know, someone who discovers things and changes the course of civilization, you can't exclude them.

00:14:24.620 They are going to have their influence on the world.

00:14:27.820 So, the fact that when it comes to math and science, it's mostly been men, that's because men are more inclined in that direction.

00:14:36.740 Men have been the pioneers in multiple senses of the word.

00:14:39.560 Men are especially suited for these various roles because they're typically stronger, they're typically more competitive, and they're more analytical, which is where the math and science comes in.

00:14:51.120 Men are also bigger risk takers.

00:14:52.780 See, women are more emotionally intelligent. 1.00

00:14:55.800 They have much greater empathy, while men tend to think more systematically, and they tend to care less about how people feel.

00:15:00.880 I'm not just making this up, by the way.

00:15:03.340 I mean, this is the experience of every single human on Earth.

00:15:05.780 We all know this inherently because we live in human society.

00:15:08.280 But they've also done studies on this subject, and these are always the results.

00:15:12.460 In fact, I was just reading an article in The Telegraph about the largest study ever conducted on this subject, about the differences in the way men and women think.

00:15:21.920 It was a University of Cambridge study of well over half a million people, which is an enormous sample size, and it found exactly this.

00:15:29.040 Should be no surprise.

00:15:30.740 In the study, women are empathetic. 0.95

00:15:33.660 Women are more empathetic. 1.00

00:15:34.800 Men are more logical.

00:15:36.020 Doesn't mean that men have no empathy.

00:15:37.580 Hopefully, they're not psychopaths.

00:15:38.460 And it doesn't mean that women have no logic. 1.00

00:15:42.060 They're not insane.

00:15:44.140 But women tend more towards empathy.

00:15:46.240 Men tend more towards being logical.

00:15:49.440 Now, other scientists condemned that study when it came out, even though it was, again, the biggest study of its kind, very thorough.

00:15:59.300 But other scientists condemned it, and they said it's neurosexism.

00:16:03.380 But that only proves the point I'm making here.

00:16:05.620 It is a womanly, feminine approach to get upset about the results of a study because it might hurt people's feelings. 1.00

00:16:13.040 Now, we certainly need people in society who care about feelings.

00:16:16.500 But we also need the manly input, which says, well, to hell with how they feel.

00:16:20.640 This is the truth.

00:16:23.320 This is what we lose when we lose masculinity.

00:16:26.160 We largely lose not only the benefits of physical strength, but also the voice of a more detached, somewhat cold logic and reason.

00:16:37.300 A healthy society values both the feminine and the masculine, and it finds a place for both.

00:16:43.900 Yes, a role for both.

00:16:45.900 A gender role, if you like.

00:16:48.800 An unhealthy society like ours thinks that it can shove one half of that equation out the door and lock the deadbolt and leave masculinity out in the cult. 1.00

00:16:58.200 But it can't work.

00:17:00.620 Society needs masculinity. 0.88

00:17:02.520 It needs men. 1.00

00:17:03.820 It won't function without it.

00:17:06.340 It certainly won't thrive without it.

00:17:08.740 And that's a lesson that I think we're going to learn the hard way.

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00:18:25.960 I'm trying to forge through here.

00:18:29.540 I know it's trite and boring to complain about daylight savings time.

00:18:32.940 But I can't help it because it causes very real suffering in my life.

00:18:38.920 As soon as that clock moves back an hour and everybody's bragging about how, oh, we get an extra hour of sleep.

00:18:44.840 All that means for us is that our kids are up at 5 a.m. now instead of 6 a.m.

00:18:48.320 So this morning I heard the boys at 5.30 in the morning wrestling at 5.30 in the morning.

00:18:56.580 I don't even want to look at another human being until about 11 a.m.

00:18:59.940 And even then I still don't want to look at another human being.

00:19:02.620 These kids, they wake up every morning.

00:19:04.080 Every morning they wake up and they're either singing like it's a karaoke night at the bar or they're beating the hell out of each other.

00:19:10.560 Sometimes out of anger, sometimes out of joy.

00:19:14.140 Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the two.

00:19:17.220 They slept past 6.15, I think, one time in their lives.

00:19:19.960 But I ruined it because I realized that it was like it's already dawn and we haven't heard the kids yet.

00:19:25.040 They haven't woken up the whole house yet.

00:19:26.320 And so I thought they must be dead or something.

00:19:27.880 And I ran in there and then I woke them up and I ruined it.

00:19:33.160 Anyway, that's not really what I what it was.

00:19:35.000 What did I want to complain about?

00:19:36.180 I want to complain about daily savings times.

00:19:37.400 Right.

00:19:38.140 The thing that gets me about this.

00:19:40.560 Is the only reason we go through this is that a German guy 100 years ago wanted more time to look at bugs. 0.73

00:19:51.040 I mean, that's the reason daylight savings time exists.

00:19:53.540 That's the origin.

00:19:54.780 It's not for the farmers.

00:19:56.380 OK, you still hear people who say, well, we have daylight savings for the farmers.

00:20:01.780 What?

00:20:02.620 How would that help?

00:20:03.660 How do you think daylight savings time helps the farmers?

00:20:06.500 Daylight savings doesn't actually adjust the orbit or the rotation of the earth.

00:20:12.840 It doesn't affect the sun.

00:20:14.820 OK, so there's going to be the same amount of sun as there was before.

00:20:18.540 The crops don't care what time it is.

00:20:20.200 No, but this this guy, this German freak, this bug watcher, he knew what time it was and it did affect him. 0.84

00:20:27.400 And he just thought it'd be easier for him and his schedule and everything.

00:20:31.120 And when he wants to eat dinner and all that stuff, if we could if we could move the clock ahead an hour.

00:20:36.720 And so he suggested it to the world and the world was like, OK.

00:20:43.300 And we've been stuck with it ever since because of that.

00:20:46.920 In many ways, this guy was the first trans.

00:20:49.120 You know, he was like a pioneer.

00:20:50.000 He said we should all self-identify as time travelers and move ahead an hour.

00:20:54.980 And we did.

00:20:55.860 And we still do.

00:20:57.360 For no reason.

00:20:58.380 No one can explain why.

00:20:59.560 I mean, that guy's dead and gone.

00:21:01.480 He's looked at all the bugs he wanted to look at.

00:21:04.520 It was very nice of us as a world to accommodate him in that way.

00:21:08.640 But we're still doing it.

00:21:09.540 And no one knows why.

00:21:12.820 Did he even accomplish?

00:21:14.100 I mean, did he like use that extra time to discover a new species of centipede or something?

00:21:18.780 I don't know.

00:21:19.340 I think he just wasted it.

00:21:22.080 All right.

00:21:23.600 Let's start with this.

00:21:24.500 Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:21:25.240 The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is continuing.

00:21:29.420 And the theme here every day.

00:21:30.960 We've got another video.

00:21:32.080 Again, we'll play one today as well.

00:21:34.380 Of a prosecution witness totally destroying and undermining the prosecution's case.

00:21:40.680 And so we have another such case today.

00:21:44.660 This is Gage Grosskreutz.

00:21:47.920 I think it's how you pronounce his name.

00:21:49.340 He was one of the guys who was shot.

00:21:52.140 There are three people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse, all three of them attacking him.

00:21:57.740 And so he shot three people in self-defense.

00:22:00.100 And this guy was fortunate enough to survive it, which is why the media, if you look at the media headlines, they're referring to this guy who you're just, we're going to see in a second.

00:22:08.900 They're referring to him as the lone survivor of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting.

00:22:14.000 That's not a misleading or biased way of putting it, is it?

00:22:21.160 But he's a left-wing militant. 1.00

00:22:23.600 And by all accounts and all appearances, an all-around scumbag. 0.98

00:22:30.320 And here he is admitting that, and it takes him a little while to get there, but eventually he admits that he pointed his gun at Kyle Rittenhouse. 0.98

00:22:38.780 He had a loaded gun, and he pointed it at Kyle Rittenhouse, and that's when Kyle pulled the trigger.

00:22:42.920 Let's listen.

00:22:44.540 It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun, now your hands down, pointed at him, that he fired, right?

00:22:53.680 Correct.

00:22:56.740 Oh, okay.

00:22:59.020 So he had a loaded gun.

00:23:01.520 And that exchange actually goes on for a couple of minutes, and he tries to kind of perjure himself.

00:23:07.820 And at first he says, when he's asked the same question, well, Kyle Rittenhouse didn't fire until he pointed a gun.

00:23:12.680 He says, oh, that's not true.

00:23:14.120 And then they keep going through it, and finally he says, oh, okay, yeah, you're right.

00:23:17.520 And he has no choice but to admit it, because once again, for the millionth time, this is all on video.

00:23:25.060 So we know exactly what happened.

00:23:29.400 And this man pointed a loaded gun at Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:23:35.880 Clear-cut self-defense.

00:23:38.300 This, again, is not simply a matter of Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent, he should be acquitted.

00:23:45.820 All of that is true.

00:23:47.340 But the real point is that he never should have been charged with anything to begin with.

00:23:51.380 There was never any evidence.

00:23:52.600 See, in order to charge someone, I'm not a lawyer, but I know this, in order to charge somebody with a crime, there has to be some kind of evidence that they committed it.

00:24:00.980 And then you bring, and then the prosecution brings that evidence, the state brings that evidence to a jury of your peers and tries to prove its case.

00:24:10.160 But there's no evidence here at all.

00:24:12.460 None.

00:24:14.060 All of the evidence that's available, and there's a substantial amount of evidence available, but all of it is exculpatory.

00:24:21.220 All of it exonerates the defendant, who never should have been a defendant.

00:24:26.620 But what's he really on trial for?

00:24:31.640 As we know, Rittenhouse is on trial for being a non-leftist white male.

00:24:38.880 That's why he's on trial.

00:24:40.440 That is the real, he did commit a crime.

00:24:42.860 Kyle Rittenhouse committed a crime, and the crime he committed, he committed it at birth.

00:24:48.440 When he was born to white parents as a man, as a boy.

00:24:52.600 That's the real crime here.

00:24:57.340 Which is, we hear about, the left talks about dog whistles all the time, constantly accusing everyone of dog whistling.

00:25:03.820 I don't think they really know what they mean when they use the term anymore.

00:25:07.100 Of course, no words have any objective meaning when it comes, as far as these people are concerned.

00:25:12.120 But talk about dog whistles. 0.53

00:25:15.340 When you had high-ranking Democrats, to include the now President of the United States, calling Kyle Rittenhouse, you know, immediately after this happened, after the shooting happened, Joe Biden, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all the squad.

00:25:30.320 I mean, everything, the media, the left, they all labeled him a white supremacist.

00:25:34.180 There was never any evidence of that whatsoever, none.

00:25:38.700 No indication of that.

00:25:41.240 He didn't, and he didn't even, none of the people that he shot in self-defense were black.

00:25:47.280 Even if he had, it wouldn't make him a white supremacist, but this was a, this was white-on-white violence the whole time. 0.90

00:25:53.840 No reason to call him a white supremacist, but that's a, that's a dog whistle. 0.80

00:25:59.840 What they really just mean to say is that he's white. 0.99

00:26:01.820 So when they say, oh, he needs to be arrested and charged, and he needs to rot in a, in a cage, because he's a violent white supremacist, that's a dog whistle, and what it really means is he needs to rot in a cage because he's a white male. 0.99

00:26:16.020 Take the supremacist part of, out of it. 0.97

00:26:18.520 Anytime you hear the left say white supremacist, just remove supremacist in your mind, and then continue on with what they're saying, and that's what they really mean.

00:26:31.820 All right, what else we got here?

00:26:34.700 You know, speaking of white supremacy, speaking of non-existent white supremacy, did you know that there, the highways, there's also racism, there's white supremacy literally built into the roadways.

00:26:45.860 And Pete Buttigieg, who is back from paternity leave, finally, after about three months, has decided to, just woke up one day and decided, you know, maybe I'll go to work.

00:26:55.960 And looking at everything that's happening in a country, a country in crisis on so many levels, what he's worried about is the racism built into the roadways.

00:27:06.520 Let's listen to this.

00:27:08.400 Can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways that you talked to the grill earlier when you broke that information with us?

00:27:20.120 Can you talk to us about how that could be deconstructed?

00:27:23.320 For sure, yeah.

00:27:24.000 So the principle of Justice40 is that at least 40% of the clean investments in this bill will go to benefit the communities that are overburdened and underserved.

00:27:34.380 So part one of that is defining those investments that are eligible, and that's a lot of it.

00:27:38.600 And we're working to map out kind of program by program, mode by mode, what would qualify.

00:27:43.380 For example, if we're buying clean buses, right, how do we make sure in terms of where those buses go?

00:27:48.540 But also looking at the business opportunity, the jobs that are going to be created, the businesses that will have a chance to compete for the business opportunities it creates.

00:27:57.120 That, too, I think is a very important element of equity here that's in the spirit of Justice40.

00:28:01.840 And, again, we have a lot of guidance and oversight from the White House since that's an administration-wide initiative.

00:28:07.220 But we know that we've got to build our own internal kind of ways of aligning and defining that inside the administration.

00:28:14.640 As to where we target those dollars, you know, I'm still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood,

00:28:28.720 or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or it would have been, in New York was designed too low for it to pass by,

00:28:40.080 that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.

00:28:43.600 Yes, how are we going to deke, what did you say, deconstruct the construct?

00:28:49.460 How will we deconstruct the construct?

00:28:51.760 That's a dog whistle also.

00:28:52.720 That's a dog whistle for I'm a pretentious bore with nothing to say.

00:28:57.120 Deconstruct the construct.

00:28:58.760 This is what we're worried about, though, is that the highways themselves are racist.

00:29:03.860 And so now we need a very literal sort of reparations, tearing down bridges, rebuilding highways to heal the racial wounds of the past. 0.56

00:29:16.840 And also, I also think you could argue that the fact that highways are paved in, you know,

00:29:24.660 that you have black pavement on the highways.

00:29:27.240 I think that's also probably racist.

00:29:29.840 What message does that send? 0.74

00:29:32.440 Every single day, you as a white person, you are driving on black pavement. 1.00

00:29:42.060 Sending a message, I suppose, that black people are beneath you. 0.99

00:29:45.500 So I think we should probably repave all the roads, paint them, paint them, I don't know, paint them white. 0.98

00:29:52.900 Might be a little bit, the glare might be a little bit tough, but we should try that.

00:29:57.820 We could paint them rainbow colors.

00:30:00.220 They're actually, they actually are doing that in some, in some cities, especially in Canada.

00:30:04.040 But then again, that, that, that sends the wrong message.

00:30:05.720 Then you're trampling on, on gay pride.

00:30:07.880 You don't want to do that.

00:30:08.300 So I think we, I think we'd pave all the roads white.

00:30:10.400 Put white, put, put the color white beneath the tread of our tires where it belongs.

00:30:18.720 What else we got here?

00:30:19.780 This is a terrible, terrible story, a terrible update to a terrible story.

00:30:26.340 A story that just gets worse and worse in the days, the days following this tragedy.

00:30:31.260 It says, this is from the Daily Beast now.

00:30:32.660 It says a nine-year-old who was crushed and trampled at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival on Friday

00:30:38.240 is fighting for his life in the hospital.

00:30:41.180 Ezra Blount, who attended the festival with his father, suffered major organ damage

00:30:46.660 and was in medically induced coma as of Monday, according to ABC 13.

00:30:50.860 A woman identifying herself as Blount's auntie wrote on Instagram,

00:30:54.920 the child had damage and trauma to his liver, his kidneys, brain, heart, and lungs.

00:31:00.940 It says that the child's father placed him on his shoulders to keep him above the chaos.

00:31:05.860 The father was crushed and passed out, and then the child fell.

00:31:09.940 He got trampled, and now he's hanging on for dear life.

00:31:18.020 So this is why I said yesterday, we have to keep in mind,

00:31:22.140 first of all, the eight people that killed, that's the body count.

00:31:25.780 That's the death toll right now.

00:31:27.800 It could tragically climb.

00:31:29.840 And these are mostly kids.

00:31:33.880 And I said that thinking these are probably, you know, 13, 14, 15, 16-year-olds.

00:31:38.260 I didn't imagine a nine-year-old.

00:31:40.680 And it does raise the question, you know, of what in God's name was a nine-year-old

00:31:47.260 doing at this kind of music festival?

00:31:51.600 With Travis Scott, I mean, this isn't like The Wiggles or Raffi in concert or something.

00:31:59.560 This isn't Veggie Tales.

00:32:02.480 This is Travis Scott's music.

00:32:04.720 I'm not really a Travis Scott fan.

00:32:07.020 I don't pretend to be an expert in his music.

00:32:09.920 But having just listened very briefly to get a taste of it, it's exactly what I expected. 0.55

00:32:14.180 The degenerate, disgusting filth, all of the music is about, mostly just about doing drugs, 0.79

00:32:24.300 violence, I mean, all that kind of stuff. 0.97

00:32:25.800 That's all the music.

00:32:28.260 And there's a young child there.

00:32:32.760 You know, you got to put, you obviously have to put responsibility on the parents.

00:32:36.120 I mean, bringing your kid to an event like this is, it's inexcusable.

00:32:42.220 But also this goes to the organizers, the people running the event.

00:32:45.360 How is there not an age limit?

00:32:46.740 How do you let a nine-year-old?

00:32:48.720 If there's a parent reckless enough to try to bring a nine-year-old into an event like that,

00:32:53.040 how are they not turned away at the door?

00:32:58.420 So we're so concerned about the health and safety of nine-year-olds that when they go to school,

00:33:04.040 they got to wear masks for COVID-19.

00:33:05.720 But we're going to let them into a rap festival with 50,000 people in the middle of a, you know,

00:33:13.220 giant 50,000-person mosh pit listening to music, promoting drugs and violence and sex and everything else?

00:33:20.540 So one thing in our society, and this is one of the many tragic consequences of it,

00:33:29.540 is that our culture just has no respect for or understanding of childhood and the innocence of childhood

00:33:39.980 and what sort of content is appropriate for kids.

00:33:47.140 There are many parents like this, and fortunately, it doesn't, most of the time,

00:33:52.240 it doesn't have the immediate violent, tragic consequences that we find in this case.

00:33:58.080 But you run into a great many parents who just have, they have kids, but they have no clue,

00:34:03.360 no concept of what children are psychologically or physically prepared to handle.

00:34:14.360 I mean, there are plenty of parents out there at nine years old, 10 years old.

00:34:20.420 You know, as I've railed against many times, they give their kid a phone with full internet access

00:34:24.260 and say, oh yeah, go, go, go, go, just spend two hours on YouTube.

00:34:28.440 I'm sure there's nothing there that's not appropriate for you.

00:34:31.320 Meanwhile, I don't know, 95% of it is not appropriate for kids that age.

00:34:38.540 Many parents just have no understanding of this at all, of what is appropriate for kids,

00:34:42.700 what it means to be a child, how, you know, how to protect a child's innocence

00:34:51.760 or why they should protect it to begin with.

00:34:55.540 And this is a problem that goes back through the generations.

00:34:58.100 And many times it's because their parents weren't focused on that kind of thing.

00:35:01.000 I mean, many of these kids, many of these parents now, when they were kids,

00:35:05.040 they came home from public school to empty homes because both parents were working

00:35:09.460 or it was a single parent home or whatever.

00:35:12.220 And they had no kind of parental guidance at all.

00:35:15.160 And so they just, in order to know how to be a parent, as a child, that's when you learn

00:35:23.940 a lot of lessons about what it means to be a parent that you will take with you.

00:35:26.860 Even if you don't realize it, you're going to take it with you into adulthood.

00:35:31.900 This is not any great insight, right?

00:35:35.360 You learn parenting from your own parents and you take cues from them.

00:35:39.120 A lot of parents today with kids basically were not parented.

00:35:45.820 And so they have no idea.

00:35:51.360 There need to be criminal charges in this case all over the place.

00:35:56.340 I think Travis Scott should be among the ones who face criminal charges.

00:36:01.420 All right.

00:36:02.240 What else we got here?

00:36:03.260 I wanted to mention this.

00:36:04.640 This is from yaf.org.

00:36:07.120 It says a Catholic university in Missouri is investigating a conservative student group

00:36:11.300 for refusing to bow to the anti-science left.

00:36:14.080 According to a tip received through Yaf's campus bias tip line,

00:36:17.320 the St. Louis University College Republicans received a letter from the school's Office

00:36:20.320 of Student Responsibility and Community Standards informing them of an investigation

00:36:23.300 into a video posted on the organization's Instagram page.

00:36:28.360 It says that, basically saying the video is harmful and it's a violation of the handbook.

00:36:34.800 So, the college Republicans used a famous line from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh asking the

00:36:38.500 liberal students to define what a woman is. 1.00

00:36:42.100 The video, which racked up nearly a thousand views, poked fun at the leftist group SLU Sluts.

00:36:47.320 That's the group.

00:36:47.980 That's what they call themselves.

00:36:49.200 SLU Sluts. 1.00

00:36:50.280 Who argued that not all women have a uterus and not all people with uteruses are women.

00:36:57.340 So, and this, by the way, yeah, I'm pretty sure.

00:37:01.980 Let me see here.

00:37:02.540 Yeah, okay.

00:37:03.020 So, this is supposedly a Catholic university.

00:37:06.380 And I bring this up because, so the conservatives on campus asking this question that I have

00:37:16.420 asked so many times, what is a woman? 1.00

00:37:19.180 They're being investigated by the campus for that. 0.98

00:37:21.660 The group SLU Sluts, the sluts are not happy about it. 1.00

00:37:25.320 The sluts are very upset. 1.00

00:37:26.700 Again, self-professed sluts. 1.00

00:37:27.940 That's what they call themselves. 0.97

00:37:28.960 Um, I was, and I am, I'm going to be speaking at SLU on December 1st.

00:37:34.700 And that's where this, that's where a lot of this comes from.

00:37:37.680 I was originally planning a different topic, but given how upset the sluts are and the 1.00

00:37:45.920 campuses at the, what is a woman question. 0.90

00:37:48.380 Now I know that when I speak on December 1st, that is going to be the entire topic of my,

00:37:52.920 of my talk.

00:37:53.480 So, um, the conservatives on campus did a one minute video with what is a woman, uh, 1.00

00:37:58.820 camp, the university didn't like that.

00:38:00.620 So now I'm going to give you a 45 minute speech on it, on just that topic.

00:38:04.700 And so if you're anywhere in town or if you, if you go to SLU, make sure you're there on

00:38:08.720 December 1st.

00:38:09.740 All right.

00:38:10.060 What else do we have?

00:38:10.880 Howard Stern is very upset at, um, Aaron Rodgers because he didn't get vaccinated as we continue

00:38:20.240 with this, uh, controversy over the fact that, you know, an NFL player decided, you know,

00:38:26.800 made decisions for his own body, decided he didn't want to get vaccinated.

00:38:29.800 Howard Stern, very upset about it.

00:38:30.840 Let's listen to a Stern for a minute.

00:38:33.180 I was so worked up over the weekend about this Aaron Rodgers of the NFL.

00:38:42.860 I don't even know where to begin with that story.

00:38:45.680 I mean, this guy, I don't watch football.

00:38:48.480 Sorry.

00:38:48.940 I'm not a big fan.

00:38:50.620 I know the guy's a real good football player. 0.98

00:38:52.660 That's why they put up with his bulls**t. 0.85

00:38:54.980 If I ran the NFL, he's going to be a hall of famer. 0.98

00:38:57.820 So yeah, you know that he's important to the franchise.

00:39:03.660 If I was the, uh, you know, if there was decency in this world, you know, I would throw this

00:39:12.160 guy out of the football league so fast what he did to his fellow teammates.

00:39:17.000 And, you know, bravo, Terry Bradshaw for what you said and everyone else who's got half 0.99

00:39:22.540 a brain in this country, but this f***ing guy, they should throw him out of the league 0.97

00:39:27.080 so fast with the guy who crashed his car at 153 miles an hour. 0.99

00:39:32.640 And some, uh, it's Howard Stern is worried about decency.

00:39:36.840 If we had any decent Howard Stern is concerned about decency, but this is the new improved

00:39:42.220 Howard Stern.

00:39:42.680 Like I was, I was never a big Howard Stern fan, but obviously at least back in the day

00:39:47.600 in the nineties, you know, he was on his, his whole career was defined by a crusade against

00:39:54.280 political correctness.

00:39:56.420 And you just have to imagine that the Howard Stern of 1993, let's say, or how about the

00:40:01.340 Howard Stern of 1991 looking 30 years into the future at the Howard Stern of 2021.

00:40:06.320 How, how would that, how would the 91 Stern feel about the 21, the 2021 Stern?

00:40:12.940 I mean, he would hate that guy.

00:40:14.880 And for good reason.

00:40:18.160 This is why, you know, Howard Stern is what?

00:40:20.140 He's like 85 years old now.

00:40:22.780 At a certain point, you just got to pack it in, go, go to your mansion with all of your

00:40:28.720 many millions and enjoy the rest of your life.

00:40:30.400 Whatever, whatever legacy he had has been totally destroyed.

00:40:37.400 This is what he's become now.

00:40:39.360 Now he's a, now Howard Stern is a defender of the status quo.

00:40:45.380 Howard Stern is crying about the indecency of football players because he didn't get a

00:40:51.860 vaccine.

00:40:52.700 What he did to his teammates.

00:40:54.040 What did he do to his teammates exactly?

00:40:55.180 What are you talking about?

00:40:56.000 What, what explain that a little bit more?

00:40:58.080 Well, he doesn't explain it.

00:41:00.840 I mean, I cut him off, but all he does, he just continues.

00:41:02.800 This is his whole argument.

00:41:03.920 Ah, this effing guy didn't get the vaccine.

00:41:06.200 I mean, come on, this effing guy.

00:41:09.080 That's his whole argument.

00:41:10.620 Very eloquent.

00:41:16.000 Of course, he's, you know, now Howard Stern is a new, improved, decent Howard Stern, but

00:41:19.520 he also can't say more than four words without dropping an F-bomb.

00:41:21.980 So that's, you know, that's his version of decency.

00:41:23.600 I don't know.

00:41:25.320 But I'd like to hear, I'd like to hear some kind of argument.

00:41:27.360 What exactly did Aaron Rodgers do to his teammates?

00:41:30.560 I mean, how did he harm anybody?

00:41:34.040 These are all people who, for them, COVID poses almost no risk at all already because

00:41:39.400 they're young men, very physically fit, and they're all vaccinated.

00:41:44.700 So what harm did he do?

00:41:46.980 That can't be explained.

00:41:49.180 All right, let's move to this.

00:41:50.780 Really, we've just been leading up to this.

00:41:52.520 I think it's the most important story.

00:41:54.460 Snopes has a fact check on the claim that Joe Biden farted while meeting with the Duchess

00:41:59.400 of Cornwall.

00:42:00.560 And the verdict right now from Snopes, they did look into this and they say the verdict

00:42:04.280 is unproven.

00:42:05.780 So this is what they say.

00:42:06.600 An anonymous source told the Daily Mail, the U.S.

00:42:08.580 President Biden farted during his meeting with the Duchess of Cornwall.

00:42:11.420 Despite headlines claiming that Camilla Parker Bowles can't stop talking about it, the Duchess

00:42:15.280 has offered no public comments on the matter.

00:42:17.360 It should also be noted that this rumor started amid a series of unfounded claims regarding

00:42:21.780 presidential farts.

00:42:23.600 No other evidence has emerged about these alleged omissions.

00:42:27.100 No other sources have acknowledged this possible piece of presidential flatulence.

00:42:30.540 And while a number of news outlets have repeated the claim that the Duchess of Cornwall hasn't

00:42:34.300 stopped talking about it, she has not made any public comments about Biden breaking wind.

00:42:39.040 So Snopes says we can't confirm or debunk whether Biden truly farted while meeting with the

00:42:42.840 Duchess of Cornwall.

00:42:43.420 We can say that the evidence for this fart is scarce, that it's based entirely on a single

00:42:48.300 quote from an anonymous source, and that it's made its way around the internet on the heels

00:42:51.560 of several other false fart rumors.

00:42:53.660 Now, they have declared these other rumors.

00:42:56.400 They've declared them rumors and they've said that they're false, but we don't know that

00:42:59.040 either.

00:43:00.140 So there's a lot we don't know.

00:43:01.840 And we've got to be honest about the situation.

00:43:03.260 I think when you're staring at a situation and there's really no evidence one way or another,

00:43:09.180 you've got to be honest about it.

00:43:10.220 So did Joe Biden release exhaust from the tailpipe right in front of a member of the

00:43:14.860 royal family?

00:43:15.900 Did he do this only a week after dumping a load in his pants in front of the Pope?

00:43:21.400 These are questions we have no answer to.

00:43:23.420 All we can do is we can look at patterns.

00:43:25.880 All right.

00:43:26.140 And there does seem to be an undeniable pattern wherein Joe Biden is being accused of gastrological

00:43:37.460 activity, shall we say, often in front of notable international figures.

00:43:44.220 His colon seems to be especially aggressive in Europe in particular.

00:43:49.300 Is there a connection there?

00:43:50.480 Is this even part of some kind of national defense strategy?

00:43:54.340 I don't know.

00:43:54.680 Is Joe Biden being sent over to these other world powers to deploy something of kind of

00:43:59.200 a skunk strategy, sort of emitting an odor as a way to warn off predators on the national

00:44:05.380 or the international stage?

00:44:07.080 I don't know.

00:44:08.300 I can't say.

00:44:09.040 Nobody can say.

00:44:10.240 I just wish that our media would start asking these kinds of questions.

00:44:13.200 Um, if I were in the media, I would, but you know, they, they, they, they're not going

00:44:21.140 to, they would ask Joe Biden about, uh, about what, what flavor ice cream he likes, but they

00:44:29.220 won't ask about the flatulence potentially caused by that ice cream.

00:44:31.780 All I can say for sure.

00:44:32.640 This is one thing we know for sure.

00:44:33.940 Let's just hope that Joe Biden and Eric Swalwell are never in the same room together.

00:44:39.520 All kinds of EPA regulations will be violated in a situation like that.

00:44:42.920 So I think we can say that at least.

00:44:44.380 All right.

00:44:44.560 Now let's move on to the comment section.

00:44:46.980 Do you know their name?

00:44:50.260 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:56.040 Um, Frank says growing up in the nineties to mosh pits with the likes of Slayer, Pantera,

00:45:01.260 Anthrax, et cetera, there was an unspoken respect where you don't touch anyone not in the pit

00:45:06.140 as they are clearly not willing participants.

00:45:08.480 Seeing this happen at a hip hop concert is not the least bit surprising.

00:45:11.760 Yes.

00:45:12.460 The, um, the etiquette of a, of the mosh pit.

00:45:14.580 Yeah, that was a thing, but, but, but with this concert, it sounds like, as I said, the

00:45:18.980 whole crowd is one big mosh pit.

00:45:22.180 Um, and, uh, and these things just have a, a, a domino effect.

00:45:27.980 Once the panic sets in, in the crowd and everybody's trapped in there, you see how, uh, tragedy soon

00:45:35.100 follows timey shoes says, Matt, in reference to Ashley Biden's diary, is it normal for an adult

00:45:41.620 to shower with a child? 0.86

00:45:42.920 If so, at what age does that have to stop?

00:45:46.560 Um, yeah, there, there are some more allegations, quite a bit more serious than the fart allegations.

00:45:50.960 Well, it shouldn't stop at all because it shouldn't start.

00:45:54.100 No, it is not normal at all.

00:45:55.800 Even a little, not at all.

00:45:57.580 No.

00:45:59.160 Um, Elijah says there's only one video of Travis stopping the show once for like three seconds.

00:46:05.620 Then he went right back to performing.

00:46:07.640 Uh, yeah, I did see that.

00:46:08.840 So I've seen, initially there were claims that Travis Scott stopped the performance multiple

00:46:14.420 times to try to calm the crowd down.

00:46:17.440 And, uh, I've since seen one video where he stops it for, as you say, a couple of seconds

00:46:22.200 and then goes right back into it.

00:46:23.740 There are also videos of him on the stage while people are collapsing in cardiac arrest. 0.96

00:46:28.580 And he seems to be looking right at them while still singing in his garbage auto-tune voice.

00:46:35.620 Um, Jonathan Swank says, Matt, tomorrow you should cancel equity. 0.86

00:46:44.000 Yeah.

00:46:44.620 Um, yeah, you know, the, the right, this, this is, this is a line that, and sure, I'll cancel

00:46:50.980 equity, uh, equity and equality.

00:46:53.240 They're kind of, but this is a line that the right tries to draw a lot where they'll say,

00:46:57.740 well, we don't want equity, but we do want equality.

00:47:01.360 That's, that's another false choice because really, as I explained yesterday, they're both

00:47:04.660 bad.

00:47:05.620 William says, Matt, you're wrong that equality is a woman's virtue. 1.00

00:47:08.400 Men are more competitive indeed, but the attitude of best man wins is predicated on

00:47:12.160 the idea that the competition is fair in the first place.

00:47:15.840 Men champion equality of opportunity.

00:47:17.860 Equality of outcome or equity is what women are more likely to champion. 1.00

00:47:20.960 To want everyone to end up at the same place, regardless of skill, ability, or attitude.

00:47:25.300 For no one to lose and feel bad about not being as good as somebody else.

00:47:28.540 That is a womanly trait, but it is not equality. 0.99

00:47:30.260 It is equity.

00:47:31.140 Men want equality specifically so that the best man wins. 0.70

00:47:35.160 Yeah, I know, again, here's, here's another kind of false choice that you find on the right,

00:47:39.540 trying to thread this needle and saying, well, we don't want equality of outcome.

00:47:42.880 We want equality of opportunity.

00:47:44.620 But even that, I, I, equality of opportunity is also a fiction.

00:47:49.000 I don't know exactly what you mean by that.

00:47:51.000 You're depending on where you live.

00:47:53.860 Um, what your basic skills are, uh, how you were raised.

00:48:00.760 I mean, all kinds of things are going to determine not only outcome, but they're also going to

00:48:05.780 determine what sort of opportunities are presented to you.

00:48:09.500 Okay.

00:48:09.980 This is not, this is not a pitch for systemic racism because it's not about racism.

00:48:14.020 It's just that everybody is unequal and they're an unequal situation.

00:48:19.280 It doesn't mean that one's superior to another.

00:48:21.100 It's just that we all are in vastly different situations.

00:48:27.000 And so to, to even say that we have equality of opportunity, I think that is also a problem

00:48:33.740 to use the left's term here.

00:48:35.160 It is problematic to talk about equality of opportunity, because what are you going to do

00:48:41.260 to make sure that every single person in the country has the exact same opportunities

00:48:46.480 as every other person?

00:48:48.140 That is just not a reality.

00:48:50.140 It's not.

00:48:51.940 I think we need to, we need to recenter ourselves in reality.

00:48:58.280 Now, um, does that mean that, uh, we should be okay with, um, people being foreclosed,

00:49:06.760 the opportunities being foreclosed from, from, from, from people?

00:49:09.280 No.

00:49:09.600 So I think what we should be talking about is maybe, uh, you know, freedom of opportunity.

00:49:14.200 That's what we want.

00:49:17.180 We want everyone to have the freedom to pursue whatever opportunities are, um, available

00:49:24.260 to them, or, you know, we want everyone to have that kind of freedom and that ability,

00:49:27.540 but I don't think the opportunities are actually going to be equal.

00:49:30.420 I think that's a, that's another fiction.

00:49:32.040 That's a story that we tell ourselves.

00:49:33.580 And, uh, I just don't think it's true.

00:49:37.220 Hate to say it.

00:49:38.160 There is.

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00:51:27.220 So today we cancel the Republican Party once again.

00:51:33.880 It's canceled for this news as reported by the, uh, by CNS News.

00:51:37.320 It says the Republican National Committee announced its partnership with the log cabin Republicans 0.97

00:51:41.400 at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort this weekend, creating its first pride coalition, which will

00:51:46.600 invest and mobilize LGBTQ plus communities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

00:51:51.940 According to Fox News, the Spirit of Lincoln Gala held at the, uh, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach,

00:51:56.520 Florida was hosted by the log cabin Republicans, an organization representing LGBTQ conservatives 0.61

00:52:00.600 and their allies on Saturday night.

00:52:02.400 As president, Trump referred to Mar-a-Lago as his winter White House.

00:52:06.040 He and his wife, Melania Trump, were the guests of honor at Saturday's event.

00:52:10.580 Now, I criticized the RNC Pride Coalition on Twitter and it upset a number of people, uh,

00:52:16.480 many of them Republicans, including Richard Grinnell, who's the, um, the acting or was the,

00:52:20.840 the acting director of national intelligence under Trump and the first openly gay person

00:52:24.600 to serve at a cabinet level position.

00:52:26.940 Uh, he was at the event at Mar-a-Lago as well, and he received an award as well.

00:52:30.880 I think he took issue with my criticism along with a number of other prominent Republicans,

00:52:34.480 both gay and straight.

00:52:36.460 Grinnell accused me of, among other things, being, uh, he said I was from the stone age

00:52:40.680 for having a problem with the RNC Pride Coalition.

00:52:43.580 I take great exception to that.

00:52:45.020 I am not from the stone age.

00:52:46.940 It would be more accurate to say that I am from the middle ages.

00:52:49.880 Though, frankly, I would prefer the stone age over the current age.

00:52:52.380 I would take that in a heartbeat.

00:52:54.820 Now, I have been repeatedly accused, not just because of this issue, but in general,

00:52:58.580 of trying to exclude gay people from the conservative movement.

00:53:02.240 That's not the case.

00:53:04.220 What I want to exclude, what I say we must exclude if we want conservatism to mean anything 0.81

00:53:09.720 at all, is gay pride. 0.58

00:53:12.360 I do not think that there should be an LGBT pride coalition in the Republican Party, and

00:53:18.220 I'll explain why.

00:53:19.540 And let me note at the beginning that if we were back in the ancient times of, not the

00:53:22.780 stone ages or even the middle ages, but say five years ago, it would have been totally

00:53:26.340 uncontroversial for me to suggest that gay pride doesn't belong in the conservative movement.

00:53:30.760 But as we know, the Republican Party is on the same train as the Democrat Party, just a

00:53:35.360 few cars behind.

00:53:36.400 And as the whole locomotive speeds inexorably to the left, the Republican Party is never

00:53:41.600 far behind.

00:53:42.200 That's how a statement that would have been so self-evident as to be boring five years

00:53:45.740 ago can suddenly be not only provocative, but downright offensive today.

00:53:51.120 So here's the problem with gay pride and why it doesn't belong in the conservative movement.

00:53:55.640 It's hard to know even where to begin.

00:53:57.100 I mean, you often have that problem when trying to explain things that should be obvious.

00:54:01.020 So I'll stick with two points here, starting with the most fundamental.

00:54:05.400 Gay pride is an ideology. 0.98

00:54:07.460 It's a philosophy. 0.53

00:54:09.240 And as such, like any ideology or philosophy, it has a history.

00:54:13.480 And we can trace that history.

00:54:15.560 And when you trace the history of gay pride, which isn't hard to do because that history

00:54:18.920 goes back only a few decades, you find that it was from the beginning, has always been

00:54:24.720 and is now an anti-family, anti-virtue, anti-Christian left-wing phenomenon. 0.95

00:54:31.960 There's a reason why Harvey Milk, the child-raping pederast, is a gay pride hero. 0.93

00:54:36.360 He may not be a hero of all gay people individually, but gay pride, again, is an ideology.

00:54:42.740 And within that ideology, men like Harvey Milk are honored and celebrated.

00:54:46.840 Gay pride parades are fully in accordance with the gay pride philosophy. 0.88

00:54:51.060 And that is why they are hedonistic, self-indulgent, self-worshipping, hyper-sexualized spectacles 0.97

00:54:57.620 of decadence and debauchery. 0.85

00:54:59.180 It's not a coincidence or a matter of happenstance that gay pride parades and festivals take on 0.91

00:55:03.480 this character.

00:55:04.240 That's what gay pride, the ideology, is all about and has always been about.

00:55:09.660 Why is that?

00:55:10.620 Well, because gay pride revolves around, really it invented, we should say, sexual identity 0.86

00:55:16.820 politics.

00:55:17.380 According to gay pride ideology, according to sexual identity politics, the most important

00:55:21.840 thing about a person, the number one defining trait, is their sexual proclivity.

00:55:25.920 A person is encouraged to find their identity, to locate themselves within this proclivity.

00:55:32.860 That is not conservative.

00:55:34.720 If that is conservative, then conservatism is totally indistinguishable from leftism.

00:55:39.520 At best, it becomes a different side of the same coin, though I think it really would be

00:55:43.000 the same side of the same coin.

00:55:44.200 Or a coin where the two sides are so similar that it would be really hard to try and play

00:55:48.600 heads or tails with them.

00:55:50.480 Again, I emphasize, everything I've said here would have been considered insane up until

00:55:55.780 about five years ago.

00:55:56.680 Insane only because it's so obvious that it shouldn't need to be said.

00:56:00.240 A segment on a conservative talk show explaining why gay pride isn't conservative would have been

00:56:05.020 like a segment on the Weather Channel explaining why the rain makes you wet.

00:56:09.080 This just shows you how thoroughly, how cataclysmically, the ground has shifted beneath our feet.

00:56:15.960 And many people on the right have been moved all the way to the left without even noticing

00:56:19.580 that they moved at all.

00:56:21.280 This is what happens when you allow yourself to passively float on the tide of culture.

00:56:25.340 You look up one day and you notice that you've drifted far from where you started, though you

00:56:29.320 weren't trying to go anywhere at all.

00:56:30.680 Right-wing gay pride is, as a concept, very similar to right-wing feminism.

00:56:39.560 And there are indeed conservatives who, for years, have been trying to develop a conservative

00:56:43.720 feminism. 1.00

00:56:45.120 Oftentimes, they say that they want to reclaim the spirit of feminism in its original form,

00:56:50.420 in its pure and Edenic state.

00:56:52.360 Back in the mythic first wave period, when feminist pioneers were fighting the good fight and saying 1.00

00:56:59.320 a lot of really conservative things like, quote, the Bible and the church have been the greatest

00:57:03.460 stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. 0.91

00:57:06.660 That was Elizabeth Stanton, godmother of feminism, said that over a hundred years ago in the first 0.99

00:57:12.860 wave, identifying the Bible and church as the enemies in the first wave of feminism.

00:57:19.200 In fact, all of feminism's godmothers said stuff like that about religion, the family, men, 1.00

00:57:25.580 marriage.

00:57:27.380 Feminism, as it turns out, was, at the time, still is, anti-family, anti-Christian, anti-virtue, 1.00

00:57:36.280 anti-man from its very inception.

00:57:39.240 There is no pure form of it to return to. 0.99

00:57:42.180 It is rotten to its core, like gay pride. 1.00

00:57:45.460 Feminism is one of the worst things to ever happen to the human race. 1.00

00:57:49.560 It is one of the greatest evils in history. 0.99

00:57:52.220 It's killed 60 million babies, and that's just the start.

00:57:56.340 And yet some conservatives still think it's possible to be a conservative feminist, 1.00

00:58:00.000 not realizing that it's not a corruption of feminism in its original form. 0.54

00:58:07.560 It is its culmination.

00:58:08.560 Today's feminism is the culmination of the original feminism, a culmination, not a corruption. 1.00

00:58:18.540 The same can be said when you see drag queen story hours or men in bondage gear marching 0.91

00:58:23.440 down the street in front of children. 0.75

00:58:25.760 That's not a corruption of gay pride. 0.82

00:58:27.760 It is gay pride.

00:58:29.060 That's what the ideology of LGBT pride stands for.

00:58:34.140 And speaking of LGBT, what about the T in that initialism? 0.62

00:58:40.780 I asked Grinnell this, and he didn't answer, but it's a good question.

00:58:44.160 Are we including the T in this conservative pride?

00:58:47.560 Are we proud of transgenderism now, too?

00:58:50.600 Are we embracing gender theory?

00:58:53.240 Perhaps looking for a pure conservative form of gender theory? 0.99

00:58:57.040 What's next?

00:58:57.780 Conservative critical race theory?

00:58:59.840 Conservative Marxism?

00:59:01.760 Conservative communism?

00:59:03.380 Where does it end?

00:59:04.880 Maybe we can come up with our own conservative Satanism.

00:59:08.540 Dems are the real Satanphobes.

00:59:12.040 That's where it ends, really.

00:59:13.200 It ends in confusion, impotence, the death of anything resembling conservatism.

00:59:17.720 Unless we come to our senses and start drawing clear lines.

00:59:21.560 And until we do that, I must say, the Republican Party is canceled. 0.85

00:59:26.120 And so is gay pride. 0.98

00:59:27.140 Gay pride is canceled, too, of course. 0.85

00:59:28.820 And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 835 - The War On Masculinity

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