The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 843 - Another Major Public School Sex Abuse Scandal

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, as yet another sex abuse scandal engulfs yet another public school

00:00:04.180 system, an NBC News op-ed argues that parents should stop involving themselves in educational

00:00:09.120 matters because to intrude in schools is like interfering with your child's surgery, they say.

00:00:13.900 It's a terrible analogy, but also revealing. We'll talk about that. Speaking of NBC,

00:00:17.840 an MSNBC reporter was caught following the Rittenhouse jury home after deliberations.

00:00:23.160 What does it take to get a mistrial, exactly? And students at SLU have started a petition to

00:00:28.120 stop me from speaking on campus in a couple of weeks. So I started my own petition to stop them

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00:00:37.640 winning in a landslide, I got to say. We'll talk about all that and a whole lot more today on The

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00:02:00.960 start with this. You know, it's hard to keep track of all of the scandals and controversies

00:02:04.740 engulfing the public school system at the moment. And it's not that it's not that things have suddenly

00:02:09.380 gotten this bad. It's that parents are finally starting to notice how bad it is and has been for

00:02:14.140 many years. This is a reckoning and it's a long time coming. The North Kingston School District in Rhode

00:02:19.620 Island has entered the foreground in recent weeks as all manner of abuses have come to light. Here's

00:02:25.300 the local Fox affiliate in Rhode Island with a report on just one of their scandals. And this

00:02:30.460 one is really bad. It says over more than two decades as the boys basketball coach at North

00:02:35.460 Kingston High School, Aaron Thomas was widely respected for success on the court culminating

00:02:39.840 in the school's first ever state championship of 2019. Yet within two years of the victorious season,

00:02:44.580 Thomas was out at North Kingston High, quietly taking a new job at a middle school in a neighboring town.

00:02:49.620 School officials made no announcement about the celebrated coach's departure until last week

00:02:53.860 when Thomas was put on administrative leave at his new school after the attorney general's office

00:02:58.620 confirmed it was investigating his behavior as a coach. A months-long investigation by Target 12

00:03:03.480 discovered the reason for Thomas's abrupt fall from grace. Former student athletes had come forward

00:03:09.580 to accuse Thomas of making them meet him behind closed doors and strip naked behavior they said he

00:03:15.800 engaged in for years. We're then given some details about how these, what exactly happened. This was

00:03:22.180 all part of a quote-unquote fat test that the coach would administer. And here's how those were carried

00:03:29.680 up. It said, once naked, the coach would instruct the teenagers to perform stretches, sit cross-legged in

00:03:35.740 front of him, and allow him to use a caliper to pinch and measure their body fat, according to documents

00:03:40.600 obtained by Target 12, as well as interviews with 10 former students, parents, and town officials who

00:03:44.440 spoke on the condition of anonymity. Two others sent emails to Target 12 detailing similar experiences.

00:03:51.840 The people who spoke about their experiences had either played for Thomas's students or were parents

00:03:55.240 of children who played for him over a period of time stretching from the early 2000s to as recently

00:03:59.500 as 2019. Some played sports, others other than basketball. One former player said,

00:04:05.440 after I grew up, I started asking some real questions about what had happened. Did I need to be naked?

00:04:10.220 As part of its investigation, Target 12 contacted five professional personal trainers. Each said it is

00:04:16.220 unnecessary to be naked for such a test. Now, after remaining silent about all of this for weeks, the

00:04:23.200 superintendent this week finally addressed the issue at a school board meeting, claiming that he handled

00:04:28.720 everything properly and appropriately. Now, again, this guy was, he left the high school,

00:04:35.440 and was sent to go work at a middle school instead. But parents of the district, they say

00:04:41.660 otherwise. They say this was not handled appropriately. They claim that there was a cover-up,

00:04:45.280 much like what we saw in Loudoun County. And there's no dispute that parents and the public

00:04:50.820 were not told about any of this until it was reported in the media, just like Loudoun County.

00:04:57.080 The school system now says that it couldn't alert the public because of, quote unquote,

00:05:01.100 privacy concerns. They would have liked to tell everybody, but they had to worry about privacy.

00:05:06.900 Meanwhile, as this is going on, parents in the district, in the very same district,

00:05:10.660 have also uncovered pornographic material, which has been made available to children in the district,

00:05:16.180 apparently down into the elementary school ages. One is a now familiar book called Gender Queer,

00:05:22.960 which apparently enjoys wide distribution in schools all across the country, because we've seen

00:05:27.020 outrage over this book all across the country. The other is a graphic novel called Fun Home.

00:05:34.140 Now, both of these books depict graphic scenes of sex between teenagers. The superintendent has again

00:05:41.740 defended himself on this one also, arguing that these reading materials are intended to promote,

00:05:47.020 quote, sexual health among kids. Now, by now it's clear that promote sexual health is just a fancier

00:05:53.700 way of saying grooming. And this is why parents are involving themselves in what Democrats would say

00:05:59.720 is the school's business. Parents don't trust the schools. They suspect that the schools have plans

00:06:05.680 and intentions for their children that fall far outside of the proper academic realm. And they're

00:06:11.820 right, of course. Democrats are flailing around trying to explain why the parental drive to protect

00:06:17.340 and defend their children is somehow sinister. Now, in fairness to the Democrats on this point,

00:06:22.200 they've staked out a position on education that is impossible to intelligibly defend.

00:06:27.640 You cannot really blame them, I guess, for their bad arguments as there are, those are the only

00:06:32.040 sorts of arguments available to them given the position they've taken. The claim that the state

00:06:37.840 ought to have unquestioned authority to teach children whatever it wants, to groom them in whatever way it

00:06:43.660 wants, and that parents who try to offer their two cents are infiltrators at best and terrorists at worst

00:06:49.740 is not one that can be supported on either logical or moral grounds. Still, from a menu of disagreeable

00:06:57.500 talking points, they seem to always choose the stupidest and most repugnant options. So stupid 1.00

00:07:03.900 and repugnant, in fact, that they tend to make the opposition's argument for us. So case in point, 1.00

00:07:08.300 an NBC News op-ed published last night from left-wing author and journalist Christina Wyman. And here's

00:07:15.580 the headline. Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory and don't get how teaching

00:07:21.700 works. Stupid parents, they don't understand how teaching works. It begins like this. Parents and 1.00

00:07:28.120 politicians across the country are interfering with the curricula that public schools use to teach

00:07:32.380 students. State legislatures are passing laws to keep critical race theory out of schools.

00:07:37.460 Literary classics like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are banned for sexual content. And school

00:07:42.580 libraries are coming under attack for containing books about gender. There are even parents who are

00:07:48.200 trying to shield students from learning about mental health and suicide, as though helping children

00:07:52.260 build emotional fortitude is a bad thing. And then things really go off the rails. She says,

00:07:57.200 parents have always tried to interfere with curricula, as I observed when teaching middle school in the

00:08:01.140 mid-2000s. Even then, there was no shortage of parental input about the content of my instruction

00:08:06.060 from books to test questions. Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control

00:08:11.680 teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated. But it actually, gasp,

00:08:17.080 doesn't work that way. It's sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you can interfere with an

00:08:22.100 operation simply because the patient is your child. No, it's not sort of like that at all. I mean,

00:08:29.580 that analogy is sort of like the stuff that comes out of the back end of a cow. For one thing,

00:08:34.700 parents do indeed have an enormous amount of say over what sort of medical procedures their kids

00:08:40.480 undergo. The left, of course, is trying to erode those rights as well, which partly explains why

00:08:44.940 she chose to make this comparison in the first place. For another, teaching grade school is not

00:08:51.200 nearly the sort of specialized, complex skill that is performing surgery. Teachers are not surgeons.

00:08:57.940 If we required that sort of specialization and qualification and intelligence from teachers,

00:09:04.740 there wouldn't be enough teachers to man the assembly lines at these educational factories. 0.96

00:09:09.740 For still another, medicine is or should be mostly objective, right? If a child has a tumor,

00:09:16.780 the tumor has to be removed. Now, depending on the sickness and the medical intervention

00:09:21.020 that's recommended, you might get different opinions from different medical professionals,

00:09:25.080 but you are, at the end of the day, dealing with the physical body, which has certain physical

00:09:30.020 needs that the doctors are supposed to be tending to. But education is concerned with a deeper

00:09:36.020 question. What sort of people do we want our children to be? How should they be formed morally

00:09:43.800 and intellectually? What shape should they take? I mean, you could see why a doctor would ideally be the

00:09:49.580 expert on what sort of medicine to give a child. Even there, it's not unquestioned by any means.

00:09:56.000 But you could see how they ideally would be the expert on it and on what kind of surgery to perform.

00:10:01.760 But why should a public school teacher be an expert on what sort of person your child ought to be?

00:10:08.100 Why would the state be the authority on that subject?

00:10:10.720 Finally, and this is really what it comes down to, I think. Kids in school are not sick, okay?

00:10:18.300 They're not sick people in need of treatment. We don't send them to school to be healed.

00:10:24.060 But that is indeed how the left views the situation. For all of their talk about the

00:10:27.680 separation of church and state, the way they see it, the state school is a church.

00:10:33.140 And the children in its care are in need of spiritual healing.

00:10:36.200 Things like the pornographic books, certainly critical race theory, gender theory, all of this,

00:10:43.040 that's all part of the treatment plan. And we should get out of the way and let our children 0.62

00:10:49.180 be healed, they say. But we absolutely shouldn't listen to that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:56.060 We'll see you next time.

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00:12:04.980 That's code Walsh. Okay, so the Rittenhouse jury went home for a third night without a verdict last

00:12:11.800 night. Went home, okay? They went back to their homes because they haven't been sequestered through

00:12:19.360 any portion of this, even during the deliberations, which is just one of the things that's completely

00:12:25.640 crazy about everything we've seen happen with this trial. Why does sequestering a jury, why is that an

00:12:32.500 option that exists in the first place if it's not going to be used in a situation like this? Just

00:12:37.180 like it wasn't used with the Derek Chauvin trial. And I can remember on this show screaming until my face

00:12:42.680 was blue about that as well. Why wouldn't you? What's the argument against sequestering the jury?

00:12:50.280 And once again, why is that an option if we're not using it for a trial like this? The Kyle

00:12:55.180 Rittenhouse murder trial is one of the most high-profile, contentious, explosive murder trials

00:12:59.860 in modern American history. And it is happening amid protests and people threatening violence and

00:13:06.780 rioting and everything else. And that doesn't warrant sequestering the jury? You just send them home at

00:13:12.780 the end of the day and say, well, don't talk to anybody. Don't do that. Wag your finger at them.

00:13:18.540 Tell them don't talk to anybody. Don't consult anything, any resources. Don't go online.

00:13:26.400 Well, we know for a fact that the instruction that they're not supposed to consult any resources when

00:13:33.700 they're not deliberating, we know that's not being followed because last night the judge allowed one

00:13:39.500 of the jurors to bring the jury instructions home with her. And it's like 30 pages of instructions and

00:13:46.760 she was allowed to bring it home. Which it would seem to me as a non-legal expert, that would seem to

00:13:55.240 be the sort of thing that you can't allow. Because you're bringing, you know, all of the jury

00:14:03.300 deliberations and reading the instructions and all of that stuff, that's supposed to happen during the

00:14:08.320 deliberations. You can't bring that home with you. This, you can't have a, this is not a homework

00:14:12.540 assignment situation. But the judge refused to sequester the jury. He's refused to, up to this point,

00:14:21.020 to call a mistrial. Even though he said in open court, he said that a grave constitutional violation

00:14:29.360 was committed while the prosecution was making its case. He said that no mistrial. We know now that

00:14:37.860 the prosecution withheld evidence from the defense, no mistrial. And now we also know that MSNBC sent a

00:14:47.520 reporter, well, they say they didn't send him, but an MSNBC reporter, an MSNBC employee was in the

00:14:54.500 vicinity, was, you know, apparently following the bus with the jurors home last night. And still no mistrial

00:15:02.860 for this. And the judge doesn't seem all that upset about it, but here he is yesterday revealing this

00:15:09.260 information about MSNBC.

00:15:14.260 A person who identified himself as James G. Morrison, and who claimed that he was a producer with NBC News,

00:15:24.260 employed for MSNBC, and under the supervision of a person, what's going on?

00:15:36.260 Oh, okay. Under the supervision of someone named Irene Bayon in New York for MSNBC, the police,

00:15:47.260 when they stopped him because he was following in a distance of about a block and went through a red light,

00:15:55.260 pulled him over and inquired of him what was going on, and he gave that information and stated that he had been

00:16:03.260 instructed by Ms. Bayon in New York to follow the jury bus.

00:16:10.260 Okay, so he, this was someone with MSNBC who said that he was told to follow the jury bus home.

00:16:21.260 Yet another reason why he probably shouldn't be sending them home. I know there's some people on the right,

00:16:26.260 there's some people on the right especially seem to really like this judge. I don't like him.

00:16:31.260 I think he seems like a sort of a doddering old fool who's not, who's not up to the task here. 0.99

00:16:38.260 Just kind of rambling his way through this thing. 0.98

00:16:41.260 And, and as I said, he should have called a mistrial about there's five or six different reasons to call it.

00:16:48.260 And he hasn't.

00:16:50.260 And he did ban MSNBC from the courtroom, but there's not, you know, even with this,

00:16:56.260 there's not the sort of urgency around this situation that there ought to be.

00:17:00.260 When you've got in a, in a, in a trial like this, where we can already assume that the, the jurors are worried about backlash and everything.

00:17:13.260 And now we know the media is following them home.

00:17:17.260 There ought to be a lot more urgency around that than we just saw there.

00:17:21.260 Now MSNBC, they put out a statement a couple hours after all of this was revealed.

00:17:28.260 And this is supposedly a statement denying, but it's not really a denial.

00:17:34.260 It's more of an, it's really a confession within the framework of a denial.

00:17:39.260 So here's what they say.

00:17:40.260 Last night, a freelancer received a traffic citation.

00:17:43.260 While the traffic violation took place near the jury van,

00:17:46.260 the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations and never photographed or intended to photograph them.

00:17:55.260 Huh?

00:17:57.260 So yeah, he happened to be, I mean, we just had our reporter.

00:18:01.260 We had one of our guys, a freelancer.

00:18:03.260 He happened to be, he just so happened to get this, um, traffic violation right next to the jury van.

00:18:08.260 It's a coincidence, but, but he, he never intended to contact the jurors during deliberations.

00:18:15.260 Okay.

00:18:16.260 Those, there's, there's two words there.

00:18:20.260 That's, that's a really important qualification because of MSNBC never intended to contact the jurors period.

00:18:27.260 Then that's what they would say.

00:18:29.260 No, never intended to contact them during deliberations.

00:18:34.260 What he wanted to do was find out who they are, get their identities, find out where they live.

00:18:40.260 So that after the deliberations, um, the media could contact them.

00:18:45.260 And if they come down with a not guilty verdict, the media could dox them.

00:18:49.260 That was the intention.

00:18:51.260 So this is all but a confession from the way that it's, that it's framed, but no mistrial.

00:18:57.260 We're just going to carry on like that didn't happen.

00:19:00.260 Carry on as if the constitutional, the, the, uh, um, grave constitutional violation never occurred.

00:19:07.260 Carry on as if the defense had not withheld evidence.

00:19:10.260 Carry on as if the media is not following the jurors home.

00:19:14.260 And as if, by the way, they're not aware that that is happening.

00:19:19.260 Because you're sending them home where they could easily be exposed.

00:19:24.260 And I'm sure they are being exposed to media and everything.

00:19:27.260 So they know that they're being followed by the media.

00:19:35.260 Not only that, but even, you know, even Kyle Rittenhouse's defense, not to Monday morning quarterback this thing, but it's not quite Monday morning in terms of the trial.

00:19:45.260 But even his, his defense lawyers don't seem to have the urgency that they ought to have.

00:19:52.260 You know, as, as a layman, as a layman watching this, um, it doesn't seem to me like they're really fighting for their client as forcefully as they ought to be.

00:20:05.260 Given what is happening, given what we're all witnessing, this is one of the great miscarriages of justice that we've ever seen ever that any of us have ever seen in our lifetimes in the court system unfolding right now.

00:20:21.260 And it's like, you know, even, even the defense, they, they, they, they don't seem to care as much as they ought to.

00:20:31.900 That's just my, my perspective on it.

00:20:34.840 I could be, maybe I'm misinterpreting, but.

00:20:38.540 Meanwhile, out on the steps of the, uh, of the courthouse where all the protesters are gathered, we've been seeing some scenes like this.

00:20:46.600 So first, um, a couple of days ago, the protesters on both sides were, uh, they were, they, they shared a pizza.

00:20:53.400 So they ordered some dominoes and they were sitting, here's the video.

00:20:56.600 And this was, this was being shared on Twitter.

00:20:58.260 And people were saying, this is nice.

00:20:59.720 They're finding common ground.

00:21:01.560 They're sharing a pizza.

00:21:03.220 Uh, and here they are eating, eating, uh, eating a meal together, breaking bread.

00:21:07.780 And this is, but this is supposed to be inspiring, I guess that they can all sit together.

00:21:12.500 And then, and then both sides sat down and had some pizza.

00:21:16.600 And then the very next day, um, the, uh, some, some police officers were there and they were giving out cookies to the, to the protesters.

00:21:27.360 And I think they were calling it cookies for peace.

00:21:29.240 There it is.

00:21:30.100 Giving out cookies too.

00:21:31.200 Isn't that nice?

00:21:33.220 Cookies for peace.

00:21:34.080 I mean, these are all the, you know, let's give, let's give cookies to the potential rioters.

00:21:38.480 And maybe that'll convince them not to burn down the city again.

00:21:41.840 Come on, boys and girls, come get some cookies.

00:21:45.980 Okay.

00:21:46.380 If you want cookies, you can't burn down the city.

00:21:48.780 All right. 0.95

00:21:50.240 Burn down the city. 0.98

00:21:51.100 No more cookies.

00:21:54.400 I, I, you know, I'm, I'm sorry, but I'm not very inspired by this or the pizza thing.

00:21:58.560 I have to tell you, I know that we're supposed to find common ground and all that kind of stuff, but when, when you've got, uh, people who are demanding that an innocent man go to prison because he defended himself against arsonists and child rapists who are trying to kill him.

00:22:20.920 You know, when you've got people demanding that that man as a blood sacrifice be sent to prison for the rest of his life.

00:22:29.400 No, that's, I don't want to share pizza with you.

00:22:32.440 I don't, I don't want to share common ground.

00:22:34.320 There is no common ground.

00:22:36.320 I don't even want to share a country with you.

00:22:39.920 And sitting down for 30 minutes and posing for cameras, pretending like we have anything in common whatsoever, pretending like we respect each other.

00:22:48.300 I'm not sure what the point of that is.

00:22:50.920 Because all those people, the BLM, you know, protesters and everything, having the pizza and acting very friendly, if they don't get their way, they'll happily go out and loot and burn. 0.96

00:23:04.320 And attack you in the street and stomp on your head. 0.56

00:23:09.160 There is no, there is no common ground there. 0.89

00:23:10.880 See, in order to have common ground and have unity, like I talk about all the time, there has to be some common ground.

00:23:17.680 First of all, you have to have some basic things in common, but also there has to be respect.

00:23:22.220 I mean, there has to be some amount, some element of basic respect between people in order for there to be any hope of peace and unity and all that great stuff.

00:23:33.320 And I like the idea of peace and unity as an idea.

00:23:40.120 But the problem is I can't respect you if you're on that side of it.

00:23:42.780 You know, a man goes to Kenosha to stop rioters from, to do his part to try to stop rioters from committing all this violence and destruction.

00:23:55.020 And next thing, you know, he's under attack and he has to defend himself and you want to put him in jail for the rest of his life.

00:24:02.860 I cannot respect you at all on any level.

00:24:06.740 I don't respect you as a man.

00:24:08.020 I don't respect you as an American. 1.00

00:24:09.600 I don't respect your point of view.

00:24:11.920 I don't respect any of it.

00:24:13.840 How can I?

00:24:16.520 It is not respectable by definition.

00:24:19.540 All right, let's go to this.

00:24:20.880 Um, I'm supposed to be speaking at St. Louis University on December 1st.

00:24:24.960 And this has apparently been a subject of great controversy on campus for weeks now.

00:24:30.060 And, you know, some of the leftist groups on campus, they don't want me to speak.

00:24:33.680 They're terrified of what I might say.

00:24:36.140 And they now have a petition.

00:24:37.540 It's the Keep Matt Walsh Off of St. Louis University Campus Petition.

00:24:41.180 It's on change.org.

00:24:42.580 So if you feel the same way with them, I mean, you could go find the petition and sign it.

00:24:46.920 It's addressed to the president of the school and the administration.

00:24:49.240 And let me read a little bit of this petition.

00:24:51.940 It says, conservative speakers have visited our campus previously without issue.

00:24:56.040 Political discourse is valuable and arguably necessary to our college education.

00:25:02.060 Arguably necessary.

00:25:03.680 But Matt Walsh is not simply a conservative speaker.

00:25:06.440 He is a threat to women, to LGBTQIA plus community and racial minorities on campus.

00:25:12.400 His Twitter is one example of his dangerous persona.

00:25:15.280 I can think of a better advertisement for my Twitter page, I guess.

00:25:20.500 That's my dangerous persona on Twitter.

00:25:24.280 He says, as you can read from his social media, Matt Walsh holds extremely controversial and harmful opinions.

00:25:30.980 For example, he calls feminism rotten at the core and one of the worst things to ever happen to Western civilization.

00:25:36.580 Yeah, I mean, my only qualification there, my only clarification, I suppose I should say, is that I would probably argue it's not one of the worst things to happen to Western civilization.

00:25:46.780 It may indeed be the worst thing to ever happen to Western civilization. 0.99

00:25:49.540 But he responds to his dissenters by calling them stupid and morally deranged. 1.00

00:25:54.800 True. 1.00

00:25:55.260 I do.

00:25:55.540 I do. 1.00

00:25:56.160 In fact, well, I only if you're stupid and morally deranged, then I will observe that fact. 1.00

00:26:00.800 I'll point that out. 1.00

00:26:01.960 Can't be blamed for that.

00:26:02.740 But he says, gender theory is by far the biggest threat in our schools.

00:26:07.260 These extreme statements allow no room for healthy conversations.

00:26:10.620 Instead, they promote dangerous stereotypes.

00:26:13.680 Allowing Matt Walsh to speak on campus is not representative of the Jesuit education we have received in our years at SLU.

00:26:19.760 Well, I can't argue with that.

00:26:22.180 I would be quite offended if anyone ever accused me of saying anything that is in keeping with or representative of Jesuits.

00:26:30.680 Furthermore, hate speech galvanizes people.

00:26:34.540 Matt Walsh will potentially be on campus for a few hours, but his speech will last more than a few hours.

00:26:38.840 For his supporters, his words will become a tool to advance their discriminatory behavior.

00:26:44.440 Et cetera, et cetera, and so on and so on.

00:26:45.700 It goes on for a while.

00:26:46.900 The petition got about 1,400 signatures in two days.

00:26:50.060 So, you know, not too bad, I'll say.

00:26:51.800 So then I decided to make my own petition.

00:26:55.000 Instead of the keep Matt Walsh off of St. Louis University campus petition, I made the keep Matt Walsh on St. Louis University campus petition.

00:27:01.880 And here's what mine says.

00:27:02.760 I'll read you mine.

00:27:03.360 It's a lot shorter.

00:27:05.180 I said, we, the undersigned, believe that SLU administrators should not cave to the leftist demand to shut down the upcoming Matt Walsh talk. 1.00

00:27:12.080 This campaign is driven by ignorance, cowardice, fear, and stupidity. 0.99

00:27:14.840 It represents everything that an institution of higher learning, particularly a Catholic institution, should oppose. 1.00

00:27:19.580 If ideas such as women don't have penises and it's wrong to kill babies are not welcome on campus, then SLU will have declared itself to be nothing but a radical far-left religious cult. 0.96

00:27:28.840 It will have sacrificed truth and free expression on the progressive altar. 0.99

00:27:32.580 And it will have done all of this in a fruitless and ultimately self-defeating attempt to appease a deranged ideological horde that cannot be appeased no matter how much it is coddled.

00:27:40.760 We demand more of SLU, stand for truth and freedom, not fear and moral insanity.

00:27:45.940 Thank you.

00:27:47.380 P.S.

00:27:48.300 SBG forever.

00:27:50.260 I had to throw that in there at the end.

00:27:51.780 I couldn't help myself.

00:27:53.280 So we got twice as many signatures in 30 minutes than they got in two days, which is pretty great.

00:27:57.680 And we're now up to, what are we up to?

00:27:58.920 We're up to over 13,000 signatures.

00:28:00.980 And if you want to add your name to our petition to keep me on the campus, then we'll put a link in the description on YouTube and you can sign it there.

00:28:09.980 Or you can find it posted on my social media if you're not listening on YouTube right now.

00:28:14.540 And, you know, already with 13,000 signatures, far more than they were able to get with much more time to do it.

00:28:21.580 But it's clear that the people have already spoken.

00:28:26.020 And so if SLU cancels me now, it will be, I think we could say, an attack on democracy.

00:28:32.880 It would even be an insurrection in many ways.

00:28:37.020 Deeply troubling.

00:28:38.740 I also want to be clear about one other thing here.

00:28:40.240 This is not simply a matter of free speech, okay, or a diversity of ideas.

00:28:49.080 That's not what this is about.

00:28:51.720 It's not merely that, anyway.

00:28:54.860 Okay, I'm not saying that they should allow me to speak on SLU, which, again, is a Catholic campus, allegedly.

00:29:02.240 I'm not saying that they should do it just for the sake of diversity of ideas.

00:29:05.440 What makes it outrageous that they're trying to keep me off of campus is not that my ideas are different.

00:29:14.320 It's that my ideas are right, okay?

00:29:17.640 And that is really an important point.

00:29:20.780 It should need to be said, but it does.

00:29:23.160 It is worse to try to keep right opinions and right statements and ideas off of your campus than to keep wrong ones.

00:29:32.760 Now, we could have an argument.

00:29:33.840 If I was getting up there and saying a whole bunch of wildly fantastic and wrong things, should they still allow me?

00:29:40.260 Well, yeah, I think you could make that argument that they should for the sake of a diversity of ideas and letting people express different opinions

00:29:46.900 and letting the students be exposed to different viewpoints and all of that.

00:29:53.300 But that's not what I'm doing.

00:29:55.500 What I'm saying is true.

00:29:57.100 And so that's my number one argument for why I should be allowed on the campus, because what I'm saying is true.

00:30:05.760 And not only that, but you're a Catholic campus.

00:30:07.820 And if you have students on a Catholic campus who are not only pro-abortion, but are offended at the very idea that anybody could be pro-life,

00:30:21.200 don't even want to be anywhere near that point of view,

00:30:24.460 then something is terribly wrong with your school and your institution.

00:30:31.040 You know, that you've created an environment on a Catholic campus where your students feel entitled to be insulated from viewpoints that are not only true, 0.94

00:30:47.980 but also totally in keeping with Catholic teaching, okay?

00:30:53.940 That should be a problem for you.

00:30:55.340 You should see that as a problem if you're an administrator at SLU,

00:30:58.440 that your students, that you've apparently created an environment where your students feel entitled to be insulated from Catholic teaching,

00:31:06.820 which everything that I say is in keeping with Catholic teaching.

00:31:13.220 And it's also right, again.

00:31:14.560 So I think we really understand.

00:31:17.960 I mean, what are they really upset about?

00:31:19.920 They say it there.

00:31:22.000 One of their big, you know, one of their big problems is my criticism of feminism. 0.93

00:31:27.680 Why do I criticize feminism?

00:31:29.280 Well, for a lot of reasons, but the number one thing is that feminism has led to the deaths of 60 million babies, 1.00

00:31:35.200 which I think is why you could certainly make an argument that it is the worst thing to ever happen to Western civilization.

00:31:41.380 There has never been an ideology or a movement that has been more deadly than feminism with 60 million dead human beings.

00:31:49.720 They're also upset about my criticism of gender theory. 0.99

00:31:52.040 As I say in my petition, you know, I believe that women don't have penises and that only women give birth. 0.99

00:31:57.300 So we would be really we would really be understating the problem if we said that keeping me off of campus is simply an attack on the diversity of ideas. 0.98

00:32:09.600 It's it's not simply that.

00:32:11.440 They want to keep me off of campus because I believe that only women can give birth. 1.00

00:32:18.900 These are college students.

00:32:22.140 Who want to be protected from basic biological truths and basic moral truths.

00:32:30.120 That's what makes this so absurd and insane and outrageous and why you absolutely cannot cave to it.

00:32:35.200 All right.

00:32:39.020 Next from CNN, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has granted clemency to Julius Jones commuting Jones's death sentence just hours before he was scheduled to be executed for a 1999 murder that he says he did not commit.

00:32:53.260 Jones's sentence will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

00:32:56.500 Well, the Republican governor came to the decision following prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of the case.

00:33:04.820 This had become a major cause.

00:33:08.500 Kim Kardashian got involved and said that, you know, we can't execute Julius Jones.

00:33:14.440 And there was there was there was really people on the left and right.

00:33:17.460 I think CPAC also interceded on behalf of Julius Jones.

00:33:21.620 And finally, the Republican governor caved to it and said, all right, we're not going to execute him.

00:33:24.720 A couple of things here.

00:33:26.900 First of all, despite what you may have heard about this case, there is DNA evidence.

00:33:32.920 Eyewitness testimony.

00:33:34.680 And a murder weapon.

00:33:36.840 All convicting him.

00:33:39.060 If that's not beyond a reasonable doubt, then then what is?

00:33:42.680 I mean, how can you ever find anybody guilty of anything if that's not enough?

00:33:46.700 Eyewitness testimony, DNA and a murder weapon.

00:33:49.660 If they were missing one of those three, then you could always say, all right, well.

00:33:53.080 Well, maybe there's some reasonable doubt here.

00:33:57.060 There's at least you have you have something to hang your hat on, at least when it comes to a reasonable doubt.

00:34:02.320 In this case, you don't.

00:34:04.040 You've got the big three.

00:34:05.500 Eyewitness, DNA and murder weapon.

00:34:07.380 They found the murder weapon in his home.

00:34:08.820 So this is beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty.

00:34:14.560 And in fact, the fact that he's not being let out, I mean, he's not being pardoned.

00:34:20.240 He's not having his whole his entire sentence commuted.

00:34:22.600 He's he's he's it's just being converted to rather than execution life without the possibility of parole.

00:34:28.640 And that means that the governor doesn't think he's innocent.

00:34:32.300 So then why change the punishment?

00:34:34.960 Also, why why should a public pressure campaign?

00:34:38.440 Why should activism convince you?

00:34:40.980 Either you think the evidence is solid and he's guilty or you don't.

00:34:44.640 You know, if you think that he was falsely convicted, then he should be out of prison.

00:34:50.760 I mean, if this is a this is a matter of he might actually be innocent of these charges.

00:34:55.760 If you think there's reason to believe that, then why are you giving him life without the possibility of parole?

00:35:01.460 He should be out on the street right now.

00:35:03.960 But if he was convicted legitimately, which he was.

00:35:07.540 Then he murdered a man in cold blood in front of his child and should face the consequences.

00:35:14.640 You know, compassion for killers should not override justice.

00:35:19.860 And what is justice?

00:35:21.200 Justice is giving people what they are due.

00:35:24.960 It is not just despite what some of these students on SLU campus think.

00:35:29.180 It is not just to kill babies in the womb because they are not due that treatment.

00:35:34.060 They don't deserve that. 0.87

00:35:35.260 They don't warrant it.

00:35:36.840 And when you think about it in those terms, there's just no way to justify abortion.

00:35:40.280 That's why pro-aborts, they ignore the baby's existence entirely in their arguments about abortion.

00:35:46.240 They just they try to make they make this argument about abortion while ignoring the baby.

00:35:51.080 But what what are we arguing about when it comes to abortion?

00:35:53.440 We're arguing about what we should do with this baby that exists.

00:35:56.600 And if you're saying that that the baby should be killed or terminated to yours, use your terminology.

00:36:08.880 Then I will ask, what why does the baby deserve that?

00:36:13.740 Why does the baby warrant that treatment?

00:36:15.800 And if you have no response to that, if you cannot tell me why a baby, let's put aside bodily autonomy and all these all the arguments about what's all the arguments about the woman.

00:36:29.660 Let's put that aside for a moment because there are two people involved here.

00:36:34.280 And let's focus on the baby for just a second.

00:36:38.620 You think the baby, the quote unquote fetus, should be terminated.

00:36:41.700 Does does does does the the human in the womb, does he warrant that treatment?

00:36:49.180 Is he do that treatment?

00:36:52.440 And if you cannot say yes to that.

00:36:56.120 Then there's no way that you can justify abortion.

00:36:58.460 Now, on the other hand, a man, a grown man who makes a decision to kill another man in cold blood.

00:37:10.620 Is he do execution?

00:37:13.580 Does he warrant that?

00:37:15.900 Has he done something that warrants that?

00:37:18.260 Is that justice?

00:37:20.560 I would say it is.

00:37:22.620 I mean, this is a choice that you made.

00:37:24.420 You made the decision that you don't want to be a part of human society anymore.

00:37:29.660 Babies in the womb, they haven't made that decision.

00:37:31.980 They're not given a choice.

00:37:35.120 But when you go out.

00:37:37.400 And you decide to commit this heinous crime, then that is a that is a statement you are making to society.

00:37:43.180 And what you're saying to society is, I don't want to be a part of you anymore.

00:37:46.440 I don't want to be a part of human society.

00:37:48.020 I don't want to live like a civilized human being.

00:37:49.680 And once you have made that decision, once you have selected that fate for yourself, then then it is just to give you what you what you quite literally asked for to give you what you do.

00:38:04.660 All right.

00:38:05.260 Next, we got Jen Psaki was asked about the 100,000 drug overdose deaths in a year in 2020 and why Biden isn't doing more to stop the drugs from coming across the board in the first place.

00:38:14.960 And she predictably did not have a very good answer.

00:38:16.980 But here she is.

00:38:17.500 Grim milestone this week, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the last year.

00:38:24.500 Experts say a lot of that is driven by fentanyl, which is coming across the southern border in record amounts.

00:38:30.500 So why is not why isn't the administration doing more to stop the drugs from coming in?

00:38:35.860 Well, first, I would say that the president is meeting with the president of Mexico today, as you know, and that we work with Mexico every day to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, which are responsible.

00:38:46.940 As you know, for the majority of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine entering the United States, as well as spreading violence and insecurity in Mexico.

00:38:54.220 So during the summit today, we certainly expect that discussing this topic, our joint goals to combat transnational crime and terrorism, the movement of of of of these type of drugs across the border will be part of the discussion.

00:39:07.980 And when it concludes, we'll provide a readout translation.

00:39:12.280 We aren't doing anything because we don't care about Americans.

00:39:15.840 You know, that that's the real translation.

00:39:17.420 And when we talk about the drug overdose epidemic, as we discussed yesterday, 100000 Americans in a year, it's unfathomable numbers that we're talking about.

00:39:29.780 How do we solve that problem?

00:39:31.240 Well, one of those ways.

00:39:33.020 Is, as mentioned there, to stop the drugs from coming coming across the border.

00:39:37.400 But also, I go back to something I mentioned yesterday.

00:39:42.040 You know, the pharmaceutical industry carries a lot of a lot of the blame because an increase in prescription pill overdoses is part of this story.

00:39:50.000 And this should really be a bipartisan issue.

00:39:55.400 You know, this this should this should be there.

00:39:57.220 There are not very many issues where there where there even could be bipartisan agreement.

00:40:00.900 But this is one where there ought to be.

00:40:04.680 Here's one thing that that we should all be able to rally around.

00:40:09.940 Banning direct to consumer pharmacy ads.

00:40:14.720 Because, like I said yesterday, with with the direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertisements, everything is being taken out of order here, because the way it's supposed to go is you have a symptom.

00:40:26.080 You go to the doctor.

00:40:27.360 You tell them your symptoms.

00:40:28.740 The doctor is, again, supposed to be the expert on this.

00:40:32.120 And and then they can recommend a treatment plan.

00:40:35.600 You don't go to the doctor.

00:40:37.740 With the diagnosis and treatment already in mind because you got it from TV.

00:40:43.220 But that's the next time you hear from any kind of drug ad on TV, you'll notice it's always the same.

00:40:49.240 They're always it's always the same script.

00:40:51.000 It's always do you have X symptoms?

00:40:53.080 Then you might have Y disease.

00:40:54.740 Good news.

00:40:55.380 There's pharma dose.

00:40:56.440 Talk to your doctor about pharma dose today.

00:40:59.180 And then a list of side effects that takes up 98 percent of the total runtime of the commercial.

00:41:03.620 So this is what this is actually one policy, actual substantive policy thing that could be done.

00:41:11.760 That would certainly not solve the drug overdose epidemic, but it would address it and it would make a dent in it in a very profound way.

00:41:19.160 And that is banning those kinds of ads.

00:41:23.280 You know, I don't care.

00:41:25.340 I know there are some people on the right.

00:41:26.700 Oh, we can't we can't do anything like that.

00:41:28.520 It's an attack on a free market.

00:41:30.120 The government also has responsibility to look out for the good of its citizens, the actual good of its citizens.

00:41:40.380 And when you have this multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry, which is selling disease.

00:41:48.480 To its citizens, then that's a time to step in.

00:41:52.900 And I think those advertisements ought to be banned.

00:41:54.660 All right.

00:41:54.920 Finally, let's check in with a conversation on the BBC.

00:41:57.960 I just I love this conversation for reasons that will become quite clear to you in a moment.

00:42:01.520 A discussion about trans issues where the question, the famous question is dropped.

00:42:08.880 Dropped when I say dropped, I mean dropped like a hot potato, dropped to avoid answering it.

00:42:13.380 But let's let's listen to that.

00:42:15.720 These are views expressed by Rosie that are held by many in society.

00:42:19.520 And yet they seem to be unacceptable to express, certainly in some forum.

00:42:25.320 Why?

00:42:26.400 Well, I think the first thing to say is that the majority of women actually do support transgender rights.

00:42:31.520 And they do say that, you know, a trans woman is a woman.

00:42:35.860 So actually, it may be held by some in society, but it's not the majority view.

00:42:40.520 And it's not the majority view of women. 0.98

00:42:42.700 So I think that's the first thing to say.

00:42:44.240 But what about the definition of woman as by your biological sex rather than your preferred gender identity?

00:42:52.540 You know, I actually don't know why some people are women and why some people are men. 0.98

00:42:57.040 No one on this panel does.

00:42:58.280 And anyone who claims to know the answer to that question is a liar.

00:43:02.200 All I care about is the principle of live and let live and showing one another respect.

00:43:08.160 So if a person says, yes, I was born a man, but I am a woman and this is how I live my life.

00:43:14.560 I want to respect that person for who they are because I don't think they're doing anything wrong.

00:43:19.020 And they're certainly not bothering me in any way.

00:43:21.120 So I think the ultimate important principle here that we should all share if we want a free and accepting society is live and let live.

00:43:28.440 Nobody, nobody knows if you say, you know, what makes a woman, a woman, then you're a liar. 0.93

00:43:35.320 This is, I mean, the entire, everyone in the, literally everybody in the world, in the entire history of the world forever knew the answer to this question up until 25 seconds ago.

00:43:47.820 But now it's, it's a mystery.

00:43:49.540 Nobody knows.

00:43:50.080 Nobody knows.

00:43:50.600 No one can answer.

00:43:53.060 Nobody can answer why a woman is a woman. 1.00

00:43:55.960 And this, this is a woman saying this.

00:43:58.560 I'm, I'm a woman, but I, I don't know why.

00:44:00.400 I don't know what makes me a woman.

00:44:03.820 Um, just a quick hint. 0.89

00:44:05.060 It's your, your female reproductive system, excess chromosomes. 1.00

00:44:07.960 That's, that's, that's what does it.

00:44:10.260 As far as the live and let live thing though.

00:44:13.540 I'm not going to get much into that because our daily cancellation, in fact, deals with this idea.

00:44:18.180 That's all they really want is just live and let live.

00:44:21.260 People do, let people do what they want.

00:44:24.540 That is not the case at all.

00:44:25.940 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:44:26.560 But first, the comment section.

00:44:28.720 Do you know their name?

00:44:32.120 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:36.520 User all the way left says, OMG, the right is saying that the left is freaking out over a cartoon depicting a member of our government killing another member of our government and calling their outrage over, calling their outrage over that theater.

00:44:47.820 But it was Matt, it was Matt freaking out and canceling Sesame Street, a children's show.

00:44:52.840 Let's just be clear about one thing.

00:44:53.880 The kids that watch Sesame Street can't go get a vaccine on their own.

00:44:56.920 They still need their parents' consent.

00:44:58.660 Now, if parents have said children want to get their kids vaccinated, then that is their right and none of Matt Walsh's business.

00:45:04.220 But back to the outrage over a cartoon by the left, it's a bad thing. 0.92

00:45:07.440 If it's a bad thing, then the outrage of the right over some Muppets is downright pathetic. 0.98

00:45:12.080 Okay. 0.95

00:45:12.280 Well, a couple of points here.

00:45:13.040 Not everything is the same, okay, first of all.

00:45:18.160 So it's possible to make a complaint about something related to a cartoon or a fictional show.

00:45:25.940 That doesn't mean that every complaint that anyone makes about cartoons is going to be legitimate.

00:45:31.160 Okay.

00:45:32.100 Also, I don't know if it's accurate to say that I freaked out over Sesame Street.

00:45:35.880 It's more that I used that issue as an opportunity and a platform to make jokes about New Jersey.

00:45:41.260 I think I squeezed about five of them in there.

00:45:42.640 So I don't know if you could call that freaking out necessarily.

00:45:45.840 And then the third thing also is that with the Sesame Street thing, this is stuff aimed at children.

00:45:54.020 And so whereas with the Paul Gosar meme that was on Twitter, that was making fun of, aimed at, whatever you want to say, an adult.

00:46:04.840 Okay.

00:46:05.080 And so I think as an adult, if somebody makes a mean cartoon about you, then it's your responsibility to just kind of deal with it like an adult.

00:46:14.500 And we don't need to have you crying, taking up time in the midst of all these crises in the country.

00:46:20.280 We don't need you standing in Congress as AOC did, taking up everybody's time, taking up taxpayer time, crying about them.

00:46:30.180 You're a grownup.

00:46:31.240 Get over it.

00:46:32.280 Okay.

00:46:32.660 I can say that to you as an adult. 0.99

00:46:34.540 Get the hell over it, you whiny baby. 1.00

00:46:37.100 But with kids, it's different. 0.96

00:46:39.960 They're kids.

00:46:40.420 They actually need to be protected and they need, if we as adults are not advocating for them, then nobody will because they can't advocate for themselves.

00:46:49.600 And so when I see the indoctrination of children who are susceptible and vulnerable, and that's to me an entirely different situation.

00:46:58.600 So do you see the distinction?

00:47:01.500 Kids versus adults? 0.84

00:47:04.900 Tetsu says, as a pretty hardcore Attack on Titan fan, Gosar making himself Aaron Yeager might not have been the best idea.

00:47:12.360 That dude has a very dark future.

00:47:14.880 I know, right?

00:47:15.380 I was just thinking that.

00:47:17.360 Wait, what's Attack on Titan?

00:47:19.060 Is that the thing from yesterday?

00:47:20.180 Oh, okay.

00:47:22.940 Nathan Zachary says, hey, Matt, love the show.

00:47:24.840 Do you believe in Bigfoot like you do aliens?

00:47:26.660 Please explain.

00:47:27.820 Keep up the good work.

00:47:28.760 I think we've talked about this before.

00:47:29.900 In fact, I'm sure that we have talked about the Bigfoot versus alien debate.

00:47:35.420 No, I don't put, I would love to think that Bigfoot exists.

00:47:38.600 I want him to exist because that would be a lot of fun.

00:47:42.960 But my argument for aliens is that aliens live out in the universe, right?

00:47:49.360 And the universe is such an incomprehensibly vast place that it seems absurd to suggest that there isn't any other life out there.

00:47:57.400 On all those many billions and trillions of planets that exist just in our galaxy alone.

00:48:02.100 And then you add on the hundred billion galaxies that are in just the known universe, and it becomes even more absurd to suggest that we're alone.

00:48:07.880 Whereas with Bigfoot, you're talking about a theory where it's this, you know, I guess, mostly intelligent species of man-apes that live just like in the woods, basically in some guy's backyard in Alabama.

00:48:21.460 That, to me, you know, if they existed, we would have very, very firm evidence of it.

00:48:27.540 I can see why aliens, how aliens might exist, and we would have no evidence of it.

00:48:30.940 We could, you know, human civilization could come and go and destroy itself without ever finding any firm evidence of aliens because they're so far away.

00:48:39.280 But with Bigfoot, it's quite a different story.

00:48:42.240 All right.

00:48:43.560 Tomlin says, wow, that was some deadpan advertising.

00:48:47.380 It's like Matt's soul was being sucked out while he promoted those companies.

00:48:52.320 Yeah, sucked out of my body so that they can go buy those products, more like. 0.52

00:48:57.240 My soul literally left my body.

00:48:59.080 I had an out-of-body experience.

00:49:00.700 I was so excited about the products and services of my beloved sponsors.

00:49:04.500 Unfortunately, then, you're just left with the soulless husk to do the ad reads, and that's, I guess, what you're picking up on.

00:49:11.300 History is being made here at The Daily Wire.

00:49:13.020 As the first to file suit against the Biden administration for their unconstitutional vaccine mandates,

00:49:17.320 we're pleased to see that the Biden administration suspended their implementation and enforcement this week.

00:49:21.640 This is huge for the freedom of American workers to make their own medical decisions, as is the right,

00:49:26.300 without the government's authoritarian hand getting involved.

00:49:28.580 And we can't be happier to be at the forefront of this fight against Joe Biden's assault on our business,

00:49:33.500 on our bodies, on our private health decisions, on the Constitution, on everything, really.

00:49:38.280 However, there are plenty of businesses who are enforcing mandates, and our victory means nothing, really,

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00:51:29.740 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 1.00

00:51:35.640 So this was such a stupid week, 1.00

00:51:37.900 chock full of so much maniacal idiocy 1.00

00:51:39.660 that it was difficult to select only one candidate for the Friday cancellation. 0.99

00:51:43.160 In fact, I had other plans for this segment,

00:51:45.220 but at the last moment, in a dramatic finish,

00:51:47.080 today's cancelee surged ahead and crossed the finish line.

00:51:50.360 Kathy Hokule is the new governor of New York,

00:51:52.380 and she wins the honor today.

00:51:53.780 She'll be canceled by me today,

00:51:55.420 but it's nothing personal against her.

00:51:57.060 I actually appreciate how hard she's worked to prove me right.

00:52:00.640 Because I said during the Cuomo scandal,

00:52:03.040 once it became clear that the Democrats had abandoned him

00:52:05.640 and were ready to sell him up the river,

00:52:07.380 that they would not be taking that step

00:52:09.800 if they didn't have someone even more extreme waiting in the wings.

00:52:14.120 Little was known about Hokule at the time.

00:52:15.700 Her career has been marked only by mediocrity,

00:52:18.680 having made a living as a kind of full-time political default option.

00:52:21.880 She's the Kamala Harris of New York, in other words.

00:52:24.240 But despite knowing nothing about her,

00:52:26.220 the fact that she was the hitter on deck

00:52:28.260 while Cuomo was left to flail around helplessly in the batter's box

00:52:32.240 was enough to confirm that she is either a dyed-in-the-wool leftist

00:52:35.980 or enough of a hollowed-out shell of a human being

00:52:38.120 as to be reliably counted on to do the bidding of the radical left.

00:52:41.480 In her case, I suspect the second option gets closer to the truth.

00:52:44.260 And whichever is the case,

00:52:46.000 she has taken over for the disgraced grandma killer, 1.00

00:52:48.940 though somehow the grandma killing is not what makes him disgraced,

00:52:51.620 and set to work in stating the kind of woke-ified policies

00:52:54.820 that were even too far for Cuomo.

00:52:57.520 Case in point, this week,

00:52:58.640 Hakule signed a bill making it illegal for utility companies

00:53:02.480 to misgender or deadname trans people.

00:53:05.340 That is, the bill makes it illegal for employees of utility companies

00:53:08.920 to speak biological truths in reference to

00:53:11.860 or in the presence of gender-confused individuals.

00:53:15.560 The website Gay City News,

00:53:17.400 a trusted source of gay news for city dwellers,

00:53:19.440 has more on this.

00:53:20.760 It says,

00:53:20.920 the bill, quote,

00:53:22.340 requires utility waterworks and phone companies

00:53:24.420 to recognize the pronouns and names of customers.

00:53:27.100 Ex-governor Andrew Cuomo had faced pressure over the summer

00:53:29.600 from dozens of groups of LGBT people

00:53:31.900 who were pushing him to sign the bill,

00:53:33.640 known as the Affirming Gender Identity in Utilities Act.

00:53:37.120 Advocates had stressed that the bill would prevent customers

00:53:39.200 from being misgendered, deadnamed,

00:53:41.140 or otherwise targeted by traumatic forms of discrimination.

00:53:44.260 Furthermore, customers looking to update their names

00:53:46.340 and pronouns with companies

00:53:47.340 have encountered requirements to produce court orders

00:53:49.900 to show their information.

00:53:51.640 And that's gone too now because of the bill.

00:53:54.060 Now, given that utility bills

00:53:55.160 are one of the most common forms of identification

00:53:57.460 accepted by DMVs and other government agencies,

00:54:00.660 what could possibly go wrong

00:54:01.860 now that anybody can change their name and sex

00:54:04.020 without having to produce any documentation of any kind?

00:54:07.160 Well, quite a lot could go wrong,

00:54:08.240 but Kathy Hockill isn't worried about any of that.

00:54:10.420 She's worried about flashing her leftist credentials, 0.97

00:54:12.660 which for the modern Democrat

00:54:13.540 is the entire point and purpose of the office.

00:54:16.800 Governing is nothing but a succession of virtue signals.

00:54:19.900 It's also an opportunity to radically transform

00:54:22.020 and deform our nation and culture, 0.83

00:54:24.060 but that's more of a nice secondary bonus

00:54:25.780 for the empty shell types like Hockill.

00:54:28.440 But to hear her tell it,

00:54:30.560 she's been deeply invested

00:54:31.860 in the trans rights issue for many years.

00:54:34.600 Indeed, it is the cause nearest and dearest to her heart.

00:54:37.640 She wakes up every morning 0.99

00:54:38.700 with but one thought on her mind.

00:54:41.040 How can she cater to less than 1% of the population today 0.96

00:54:43.860 at the expense of the other 99%?

00:54:45.860 Well, here she is further explaining that

00:54:48.640 and her decision to sign the bill.

00:54:51.640 This is what we just call common sense legislation

00:54:55.360 that is long overdue.

00:54:57.360 For a transgender individual being misgendered,

00:55:00.360 it's traumatic.

00:55:01.980 These are people with feelings

00:55:03.260 and individuals who just deserve more than that.

00:55:06.180 And to know that this is going on

00:55:07.780 and causing them anguish,

00:55:09.360 therefore it causes me anguish.

00:55:11.220 This is how I feel so deeply and passionately

00:55:13.640 about the people of this state.

00:55:15.020 We have an opportunity

00:55:16.140 to bring back New York City, New York State.

00:55:20.260 We value individuals, we value people,

00:55:23.140 and we show love, respect, and dignity to all.

00:55:27.180 It's that simple and I know we can do this.

00:55:33.920 Yes, it causes the poor woman anguish 1.00

00:55:36.700 to think about the trauma suffered by a trans person

00:55:39.440 who's forced to hear their own name

00:55:40.840 or a biologically appropriate pronoun

00:55:42.680 repeated back to them.

00:55:44.320 You can look at Kathy's eyes

00:55:45.480 and see the pain in her soul,

00:55:47.080 or you would be able to see it if she had a soul.

00:55:49.120 She calls this common sense legislation

00:55:51.040 that will help bring back New York State.

00:55:54.060 Apparently the only thing holding New York back

00:55:55.660 are utility company employees

00:55:57.120 calling their non-binary pansexual customers 0.99

00:55:59.400 he and her instead of Z and Zer.

00:56:01.880 It's simply common sense to babble nonsensically

00:56:04.300 and deny physical reality

00:56:05.460 if somebody in the LGBT community

00:56:07.280 says that you should.

00:56:10.080 Life is one big game of Simon Says

00:56:12.240 and LGBT people are forever the Simons. 1.00

00:56:15.500 Common sense, you see.

00:56:17.300 Not only that, but it's respectful of their feelings.

00:56:20.780 Well, what about the feelings

00:56:21.600 of utility company workers

00:56:22.700 who now must endure the humiliation

00:56:24.320 of being forced to speak untruths

00:56:26.320 and use gibberish or else lose their job?

00:56:30.380 What about those who are being subjected

00:56:32.040 to a compelled speech mandate

00:56:33.620 but would quite prefer to retain

00:56:35.000 their First Amendment rights instead?

00:56:37.280 Do their feelings carry any weight?

00:56:39.880 If it would make you feel good

00:56:41.340 for me to participate in your delusion

00:56:43.120 that it would make me feel bad to participate

00:56:46.340 do we not need something other than feelings

00:56:48.760 to settle this dilemma?

00:56:50.780 In a world of sanity and justice, we would.

00:56:52.820 But then again, in such a world

00:56:53.740 we wouldn't need to have this conversation

00:56:54.900 in the first place.

00:56:55.760 In the real world, though,

00:56:56.860 the world we actually live in

00:56:58.020 the Democrat Party has decided

00:57:00.160 that strangers must be legally compelled 0.81

00:57:02.760 to affirm and reinforce

00:57:04.700 an individual's self-perception.

00:57:06.260 Now, there was a time

00:57:08.380 not all that long ago

00:57:09.300 like even, you know,

00:57:10.540 just like five minutes ago

00:57:11.460 we heard on BBC

00:57:12.240 when live and let live

00:57:14.000 was allegedly the motto.

00:57:16.020 But now it's not nearly enough

00:57:17.440 to let people live as they please.

00:57:19.000 You must actively participate

00:57:20.740 in their lifestyle choice.

00:57:23.700 You know, we went from

00:57:24.560 just let them be

00:57:26.040 to you must celebrate

00:57:27.880 and we've gone beyond that now.

00:57:30.040 Now you have to participate in it.

00:57:32.400 You must be an active participant.

00:57:36.680 Their self-identification

00:57:37.800 is your charge.

00:57:38.940 It's your warrant.

00:57:40.680 It is a fragile, delicate thing,

00:57:43.520 their identity,

00:57:44.220 which you are legally obligated

00:57:46.320 to protect and reinforce.

00:57:49.680 But if it's a real identity

00:57:51.060 and if they're sure of it,

00:57:52.760 why should it require

00:57:53.860 your involvement?

00:57:55.480 Why should there need 0.99

00:57:56.460 to be a literal gun to your head

00:57:58.160 forcing you to assent to it?

00:58:00.680 And anyway,

00:58:01.540 how does the government

00:58:02.240 have any right

00:58:03.140 to do any of this?

00:58:05.420 Where does it derive

00:58:06.100 the authority

00:58:06.660 to legally mandate

00:58:07.960 that one private individual

00:58:09.720 affirm the self-identification

00:58:11.280 of another private individual?

00:58:14.040 From the Democrats,

00:58:15.360 the answer to all of these questions

00:58:16.700 is, as always,

00:58:18.000 who cares?

00:58:19.060 We'll do what we want.

00:58:20.660 And that's Kathy Hockill's answer,

00:58:22.180 whether she says it or not.

00:58:23.720 And it's why I must say to her

00:58:25.100 finally today,

00:58:26.360 you're canceled.

00:58:27.440 And something tells me

00:58:28.280 not for the last time.

00:58:29.860 We'll leave it there

00:58:30.640 for today and for the week.

00:58:32.240 Have a great weekend.

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