The Matt Walsh Show - December 10, 2021


Ep. 855 - Jussie Smollett Should Be Charged With A Hate Crime


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

170.7004

Word Count

10,107

Sentence Count

618

Misogynist Sentences

33

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Jesse Smollett has been found guilty of committing a hate crime hoax, but I think that hate crime is a crime in itself, and should be charged as such. Plus, Simone Biles is named Athlete of the Year for quitting, and we ll talk about that and so much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Jesse Smollett has been found guilty of committing a hate crime hoax, but I think a hate crime hoax is a hate crime in itself and should be charged as such.
00:00:08.780 We'll talk about that today. Speaking of hate crimes, my best-selling LGBT children's book, Johnny the Walrus, has been removed from Amazon's LGBT list.
00:00:17.000 I'll have something to say about that today, and a fair warning, I might get a little emotional about it because I'm pretty upset.
00:00:22.320 Also, a male college swimmer is dominating female swimming. Outkick has an interview with one of his teammates, and she is not happy.
00:00:28.460 Plus, Simone Biles is named Athlete of the Year for quitting. We'll talk about that and so much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:02.760 It should not really be a surprise that con artist and now convicted felon Jussie Smollett was found guilty of committing a race hoax.
00:02:09.560 The evidence against him was overwhelming.
00:02:11.180 You know, they say that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but in the case of a hate crime hoax, that's often not true.
00:02:18.520 If Smollett was really accosted and assaulted by a roaming gang of militant, bleach-wielding white supremacists, there would have been lots of positive evidence to support that claim.
00:02:27.460 The fact that there was no such evidence was reason enough to conclude that the claim was a fabrication.
00:02:30.900 That along with the fact that the story was absurd and implausible and ludicrous on its face on every level.
00:02:36.900 Except in this case, there was not only absence of evidence to support his version of events, but positive evidence disproving it.
00:02:42.860 Since his co-conspirators admitted their role in the plot and produced documentation to show that there was a plot.
00:02:48.120 All of this to say, there should not have been any suspense.
00:02:51.640 A guilty verdict should have been a foregone conclusion.
00:02:53.820 But as the jury failed to reach a verdict somehow on the first day of deliberation, and the hours ticked by during the second day, it started to seem quite possible that they would maybe come back with an acquittal.
00:03:05.960 Jussie Smollett's defense team certainly didn't do anything to convince them of his innocence, but they played the victim card, constantly reminding the jury that Smollett is a gay black man.
00:03:15.220 That indeed was their whole defense, that he's a gay black man.
00:03:18.460 The victim card shouldn't be worth anything at all, especially in court, and especially when it's played by a wealthy actor.
00:03:26.080 But in our country today, it can unlock many doors and get you out of many jams.
00:03:31.760 And it could well have done that here.
00:03:33.620 Yet, it didn't.
00:03:34.720 The justice system actually worked, and not for the first time in recent weeks.
00:03:38.800 It's on a little bit of a streak, I guess.
00:03:41.300 And Jussie Smollett was convicted on five out of six counts yesterday.
00:03:44.420 He faces up to 20 years in prison, and should serve every day of it.
00:03:49.600 Although I expect he'll probably just be given a slap on the wrist, a few hours of community service.
00:03:53.620 And we'll get back to this issue of the appropriate punishment for his crime in just a moment.
00:03:57.680 But first, it's worth recalling what the left said about the Smollett case when the story was first reported by a credulous media.
00:04:07.380 Now, when I say the left, I mean not just random accounts on Twitter, but the most prominent and powerful individuals in that camp.
00:04:13.440 Joe Biden at the time tweeted,
00:04:16.020 What happened today to Jussie Smollett must never be tolerated in this country.
00:04:19.640 We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor.
00:04:24.100 That homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts.
00:04:27.800 We are with you, Jussie.
00:04:30.020 Notice there's no alleged, no words like claim or reportedly being used.
00:04:36.440 Just an outright acceptance of the story in its entirety without a hint of skepticism.
00:04:41.900 Same for Kamala Harris, who said at the time,
00:04:45.720 Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.
00:04:49.680 I'm praying for his quick recovery.
00:04:51.940 This was an attempted modern day lynching.
00:04:54.800 No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.
00:04:58.880 We must confront this hate.
00:05:01.940 An attempted modern day lynching.
00:05:03.740 It wasn't much of an attempt considering the assailant gently placed the rope around his neck
00:05:09.040 and then ran away 30 seconds later, according to him.
00:05:12.460 So that's like trying to shoot somebody by throwing the bullet at their head.
00:05:16.320 But that kind of critical thinking is not allowed when a member of a protected class makes a claim of this sort.
00:05:22.100 Which is why every major leftist in the country rallied around Jussie.
00:05:25.700 The Daily Mail takes us farther down memory lane.
00:05:29.020 They report, going back to 2019,
00:05:32.620 other liberal stars whose pro-Jussie tweets have now aged very poorly include
00:05:37.180 Democratic representatives and squad members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as Rashida Tlaib.
00:05:42.840 AOC at the time tweeted,
00:05:44.520 There is no such thing as racially charged.
00:05:46.740 This attack was not possibly homophobic.
00:05:48.960 It was a racist and homophobic attack.
00:05:51.340 If you don't like what is happening to our country, then work to change it.
00:05:56.320 It is no one's job to water down or sugarcoat the rise of hate crimes.
00:06:01.140 And then Tlaib said,
00:06:02.400 When one of the most famous black and gay men in America is not safe,
00:06:06.340 the message is clearer than it's ever been.
00:06:09.720 The dangerous lies spewing from the right wing is killing and hurting our people.
00:06:14.340 Thinking of you, Jussie Smollett and my LGBTQ neighbors.
00:06:17.320 Other top Democrats who rallied against the now-debunked beating include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
00:06:22.920 and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:06:26.380 Pelosi soapboxed,
00:06:27.840 The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is an affront to our humanity.
00:06:32.260 No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love.
00:06:36.380 She's right, though.
00:06:38.260 No one should.
00:06:39.580 And thankfully, no one was.
00:06:41.160 But out of all the famous leftists who used the Smollett hoax as an opportunity to prove their woke bona fides,
00:06:49.080 none could top Ellen Page, who, back when she was Ellen Page,
00:06:53.560 went on Stephen Colbert's late-night show and tearfully blamed Mike Pence
00:06:57.720 for the fact that Jussie Smollett attacked himself.
00:07:01.160 Now, in retrospect,
00:07:03.100 not even in retrospect, but even at the time,
00:07:05.220 this is maybe the funniest segment Stephen Colbert has ever aired.
00:07:08.720 And it was unintentionally funny.
00:07:11.300 Let's go back and watch a little bit of this again.
00:07:14.280 I'm, like, really fired up tonight, but...
00:07:16.700 I don't know. This is how...
00:07:17.480 You have to be fired up.
00:07:18.360 It feels impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and the vice president, Mike Pence,
00:07:23.520 who, like, wishes I couldn't be married.
00:07:25.360 Let's just be clear.
00:07:27.420 The vice president of America wishes I didn't have the love with my wife.
00:07:31.640 He wanted to ban that in Indiana.
00:07:35.960 He believes in conversion therapy.
00:07:41.160 He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the government of Indiana,
00:07:45.240 and I think the thing we need to know,
00:07:46.660 and I hope my show, Gaycation, did this,
00:07:48.940 in terms of connecting the dots,
00:07:50.440 in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie.
00:07:52.320 I don't know him personally.
00:07:53.500 I sent all of my love.
00:07:55.520 Connect the dots.
00:08:00.500 This is what happens.
00:08:02.060 If you are in a position of power,
00:08:04.000 and you hate people,
00:08:06.040 and you want to cause suffering to them,
00:08:09.060 you go through the trouble.
00:08:10.520 You spend your career trying to cause suffering.
00:08:13.760 What do you think is going to happen?
00:08:17.400 Kids are going to be abused,
00:08:19.040 and they're going to kill themselves,
00:08:20.640 and people are going to be beaten on the street.
00:08:25.520 I have traveled the world,
00:08:28.140 and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet.
00:08:32.280 I am lucky to have this time,
00:08:34.280 and the privilege to say this.
00:08:39.520 This needs to f***ing stop.
00:08:43.140 So powerful, so sincere.
00:08:44.900 I mean, she literally sounds like she's reading a script.
00:08:47.700 She's met the most marginalized people,
00:08:51.280 like, you know, Hollywood actors.
00:08:53.420 Very marginalized.
00:08:54.140 How does this work, by the way?
00:08:56.700 Because Ellen Page is a man now, she says,
00:08:58.840 so her relationship with her wife
00:09:00.120 is actually a heterosexual marriage.
00:09:03.760 You know, however that works, I don't know.
00:09:06.140 We know that Ellen Page
00:09:08.780 was a privileged white male
00:09:12.100 mansplaining about the Jussie Smollett case.
00:09:15.240 And, of course, everything she said was wrong.
00:09:17.480 What we have to understand about Ellen Page,
00:09:19.360 and Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris,
00:09:21.520 and all the rest of them,
00:09:22.300 is that they all, of course, knew that the hoax was a hoax.
00:09:25.400 At least they knew that it very well may have been.
00:09:28.100 But in their minds, even if it wasn't true,
00:09:31.080 it was still true on some deeper, more ambiguous level.
00:09:35.480 You know, if Jussie Smollett wasn't a victim
00:09:37.080 of two white guys in MAGA hats in Chicago
00:09:39.640 at 2 a.m. in January,
00:09:40.820 he was still a victim in general,
00:09:43.080 as far as they were concerned.
00:09:44.780 Not only that,
00:09:45.580 but he was, by virtue of his identity,
00:09:48.200 a victim of white guys in MAGA hats.
00:09:51.660 None of them have to actually attack him
00:09:53.620 or do anything to him
00:09:55.580 or even say anything to him
00:09:57.160 to victimize him.
00:09:59.060 They victimize him by existing,
00:10:01.320 and he is victimized,
00:10:02.680 and he is victimized by existing.
00:10:04.720 This is the tortured thought process of a leftist.
00:10:07.560 And it's how they justify
00:10:08.880 elevating and amplifying
00:10:10.240 and demanding that we believe
00:10:11.380 every race hoax that has ever been concocted.
00:10:13.800 Because even if it's not true,
00:10:16.940 it's still true.
00:10:18.640 What was that phrase from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
00:10:23.860 You know, something can be factually wrong,
00:10:25.780 but morally correct,
00:10:26.820 or something like that?
00:10:28.780 And that's how they look at it.
00:10:30.760 They've decided ahead of time
00:10:32.220 who the villains are
00:10:33.640 and who the heroes are.
00:10:35.040 The details of any individual case
00:10:37.100 are irrelevant.
00:10:38.300 And even if it ends up not being true,
00:10:40.260 technically speaking,
00:10:41.540 by amplifying it,
00:10:43.040 they still succeed
00:10:43.780 in reinforcing their victim narrative
00:10:45.400 and driving a wedge between the races,
00:10:47.500 which is their true intention.
00:10:49.400 That's also why,
00:10:50.260 going back to Jussie's punishment,
00:10:52.300 in a truly just country,
00:10:55.900 I know I said our justice system is working,
00:10:57.780 but maybe we could say
00:10:59.240 in these few cases,
00:11:00.180 it's worked as well as we can expect.
00:11:02.880 But if it really worked,
00:11:04.980 Jussie Smollett ought to be charged
00:11:06.500 with a hate crime himself.
00:11:07.960 You know,
00:11:10.340 just like if you falsely claim
00:11:12.700 that someone raped you
00:11:14.200 and it's proven that it was a false claim,
00:11:16.740 then you should get the penalty
00:11:18.740 that they would have gotten
00:11:20.480 had they been convicted
00:11:22.000 based on your false claims.
00:11:24.460 And so if you claim a hate crime
00:11:26.660 and it didn't happen,
00:11:28.700 then you should be charged
00:11:30.560 with a hate crime yourself.
00:11:31.600 Now, the hate crime category
00:11:34.440 is intentionally vague
00:11:36.780 and arbitrary
00:11:37.580 and shouldn't exist.
00:11:39.460 I mean, you could argue
00:11:40.000 that almost all crime
00:11:41.040 is motivated by hate
00:11:42.060 on some level,
00:11:43.560 or most of it,
00:11:45.000 or worse,
00:11:46.100 by indifference.
00:11:48.080 I mean, who's to say
00:11:48.740 that crimes driven by hate
00:11:50.400 are worse than crimes
00:11:51.660 driven by indifference
00:11:52.740 to human life?
00:11:53.760 Most school shootings
00:11:54.700 fall into this latter category.
00:11:57.120 Maybe not so much hate
00:11:58.320 as just total indifference
00:11:59.820 to human life.
00:12:00.400 Much of the violence
00:12:02.440 that we see in our cities
00:12:03.360 is motivated by
00:12:05.060 total indifference
00:12:06.220 to human life.
00:12:08.820 Is that better
00:12:10.400 than being motivated by hate?
00:12:12.880 And who's to say
00:12:13.820 which sort of hate
00:12:14.880 is worse than other kinds of hate?
00:12:17.340 The whole category, again,
00:12:18.660 should not exist,
00:12:19.360 but since it does,
00:12:21.020 it ought to be used here
00:12:22.260 against Jussie Smollett.
00:12:24.440 Because we should be clear
00:12:25.560 about what this was.
00:12:27.580 It was not just a hoax
00:12:29.220 or a scam.
00:12:30.400 I mean, it was both
00:12:31.000 of those things.
00:12:32.520 But it was also
00:12:33.380 an anti-white hate crime.
00:12:35.480 Now remember,
00:12:36.220 hate crimes do not need
00:12:37.200 to be targeted
00:12:37.840 at any individual
00:12:38.880 single person.
00:12:40.500 So if you hang a noose
00:12:41.760 on a tree
00:12:42.220 as a threat
00:12:42.700 to black people in general,
00:12:44.020 you'll be charged
00:12:44.940 with a hate crime.
00:12:45.840 Of course, as it happens,
00:12:46.960 every noose on a tree story
00:12:48.320 ends up being a hoax
00:12:49.320 or somebody misinterpreted
00:12:51.200 a tire swing or something.
00:12:52.800 But if ever there is
00:12:54.640 a real case,
00:12:55.520 if that ever actually happens,
00:12:56.840 it will be a hate crime
00:12:58.620 and be charged that way
00:13:00.360 even if there is
00:13:01.120 no one specific
00:13:02.240 individual victim.
00:13:04.700 So Jussie Smollett's hoax
00:13:05.840 was an attack
00:13:06.660 on white people
00:13:07.740 in general,
00:13:09.600 white conservatives
00:13:10.240 especially.
00:13:11.240 It was meant to stir up
00:13:12.500 hatred and resentment
00:13:13.440 towards that group.
00:13:14.440 He had other motivations
00:13:15.140 as well.
00:13:17.220 You know,
00:13:17.360 this was also a ploy
00:13:19.000 in contract negotiations.
00:13:20.340 As it turns out,
00:13:23.020 you know,
00:13:23.200 maybe the worst
00:13:24.100 contract negotiating technique
00:13:27.120 ever employed
00:13:27.940 by anybody.
00:13:29.460 But on top of that,
00:13:31.180 he had ideological
00:13:32.000 and other kinds
00:13:33.700 of motivations.
00:13:35.720 And one of them
00:13:36.740 was anti-white.
00:13:39.720 It was meant to reinforce
00:13:41.140 the worst stereotypes
00:13:42.660 about white people,
00:13:44.560 white men,
00:13:45.100 white conservatives.
00:13:46.840 And I have no doubt,
00:13:48.280 you know,
00:13:48.580 that if two random
00:13:50.160 white saps
00:13:51.160 had made the
00:13:52.140 unfortunate mistake
00:13:53.020 of walking somewhere
00:13:54.280 nearby on that night
00:13:55.640 in Chicago
00:13:56.120 and the police
00:13:57.620 suspected them
00:13:58.360 of the crime
00:13:58.800 because they happened
00:13:59.820 to be caught
00:14:00.200 on security cameras
00:14:00.980 walking nearby
00:14:01.660 or something,
00:14:02.600 Smollett would have
00:14:03.120 had no problem
00:14:04.060 sending them to prison
00:14:05.660 for 40 years
00:14:06.340 to pay for a crime
00:14:07.120 that he made up.
00:14:08.640 I have no doubt
00:14:09.580 about that.
00:14:10.780 That's the other thing
00:14:11.280 about a hoax hate crime
00:14:12.560 is that you're
00:14:15.480 throwing this out there,
00:14:17.600 this grenade,
00:14:18.660 you're pulling the pin
00:14:19.280 on the grenade
00:14:19.620 and throwing it out there
00:14:20.440 and if it explodes
00:14:22.000 and takes some
00:14:22.580 innocent person out,
00:14:23.940 that's your fault
00:14:25.580 and you apparently
00:14:26.420 have no problem
00:14:27.100 with that.
00:14:28.280 That's why you're
00:14:29.000 doing it.
00:14:31.620 So if there was
00:14:32.740 real justice
00:14:33.480 in this country,
00:14:34.620 you know,
00:14:36.000 if someone had
00:14:36.580 actually done that
00:14:37.460 to Jussie Smollett
00:14:38.260 and it wasn't
00:14:40.880 his Nigerian friends,
00:14:43.040 but if there were two,
00:14:44.360 if that story
00:14:45.200 somehow
00:14:45.620 in some bizarro world
00:14:46.900 was true,
00:14:48.220 what penalty
00:14:50.240 would those
00:14:50.860 attackers
00:14:52.040 be facing?
00:14:54.120 I'm thinking
00:14:54.680 40 to 50 years
00:14:55.640 in prison probably,
00:14:56.480 if not more.
00:14:58.020 That's what Jussie Smollett
00:14:58.980 should do
00:14:59.360 because this was
00:15:01.700 a hate crime
00:15:02.280 itself.
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00:16:28.340 Let's begin
00:16:29.600 with a report
00:16:30.380 from Outkick
00:16:31.020 about the trans
00:16:32.300 swimmer
00:16:33.000 at University of
00:16:33.820 Pennsylvania,
00:16:34.560 a dude who
00:16:35.360 raced against
00:16:35.940 other dudes
00:16:36.520 for three years
00:16:37.180 and then decided
00:16:38.020 in his fourth
00:16:39.100 year that he's
00:16:40.900 a woman.
00:16:42.560 And Outkick
00:16:43.000 was able to
00:16:43.540 speak anonymously
00:16:44.520 because she didn't,
00:16:45.280 you know,
00:16:45.480 for probably obvious
00:16:46.660 reasons,
00:16:47.200 she didn't want to
00:16:47.560 be identified.
00:16:48.540 They were able to
00:16:49.320 speak anonymously
00:16:49.840 to one of his,
00:16:50.500 one of this guy's
00:16:51.240 now teammates,
00:16:52.300 female teammates,
00:16:53.060 and she is not
00:16:55.400 happy and she says
00:16:56.620 that nobody on
00:16:57.560 the team is happy
00:16:58.180 but they can't
00:16:59.840 say that out loud.
00:17:01.480 So let's read now
00:17:02.440 from Outkick.
00:17:03.080 It says,
00:17:03.580 first a little bit
00:17:05.620 of the context.
00:17:06.300 While University of
00:17:06.780 Pennsylvania
00:17:07.200 transgender swimmer
00:17:08.540 Leah Thomas,
00:17:09.400 who spent three years
00:17:10.240 at the Ivy League
00:17:10.880 school swimming as
00:17:12.120 a male,
00:17:12.580 has been busy
00:17:13.120 smashing female
00:17:14.180 pool records,
00:17:15.480 friction has been
00:17:16.000 building within the
00:17:16.580 team,
00:17:16.920 according to a Penn
00:17:17.660 female swimmer
00:17:18.540 who said that she
00:17:19.580 feared for her
00:17:20.120 ability to find
00:17:20.780 employment after
00:17:21.380 graduating from
00:17:21.940 college for sharing
00:17:22.920 her honest opinion
00:17:23.820 about a transgender
00:17:24.500 teammate.
00:17:25.520 For that reason,
00:17:26.000 Outkick is granting
00:17:26.640 her anonymity to
00:17:27.940 speak out.
00:17:29.320 By the way,
00:17:29.760 this is written by
00:17:30.360 Joe Kinsey at
00:17:30.920 Outkick.
00:17:31.760 Thomas's latest
00:17:32.740 round of a
00:17:33.640 swimming record
00:17:34.240 destruction came
00:17:35.600 at a three-day
00:17:36.160 meet in Akron,
00:17:37.280 Ohio,
00:17:37.800 where numerous
00:17:38.640 pool meet and
00:17:39.320 program records
00:17:39.960 weren't just
00:17:40.460 destroyed but
00:17:41.220 lowered to a
00:17:41.860 point where
00:17:42.660 they may never
00:17:43.420 be broken.
00:17:45.580 And that means,
00:17:46.640 of course,
00:17:46.940 that after
00:17:48.160 Leah,
00:17:49.960 quote-unquote,
00:17:50.560 Thomas,
00:17:51.000 is long
00:17:52.740 gone,
00:17:53.660 these records
00:17:54.920 are going to
00:17:55.420 stand there
00:17:56.020 and there's
00:17:56.940 not going to
00:17:57.480 be,
00:17:57.740 now there
00:17:57.960 should be
00:17:58.200 an asterisk
00:17:58.660 at least,
00:18:00.240 saying,
00:18:00.660 oh,
00:18:00.760 by the way,
00:18:01.200 this was a
00:18:01.620 dude.
00:18:02.840 And so that
00:18:03.240 way future
00:18:04.000 female swimmers,
00:18:06.640 if they want to
00:18:07.800 go for the
00:18:08.180 record,
00:18:08.560 they know which
00:18:09.020 record they
00:18:09.480 have to beat.
00:18:10.780 But now he's
00:18:11.420 setting these
00:18:11.760 records that
00:18:12.300 this is not
00:18:13.020 just victimizing
00:18:14.780 the women that
00:18:15.720 he's racing
00:18:16.480 against in the
00:18:17.180 moment,
00:18:18.100 all future
00:18:18.900 women.
00:18:19.200 Because now
00:18:20.420 he's taking
00:18:21.060 these records
00:18:21.540 and he's
00:18:21.900 putting them
00:18:22.220 out of
00:18:22.540 reach.
00:18:24.920 Because he
00:18:25.540 has a whole
00:18:26.360 collection of
00:18:26.940 biological advantages
00:18:27.860 that none of
00:18:28.800 these other
00:18:29.100 women have.
00:18:31.300 And it's not
00:18:32.040 going to be on
00:18:32.660 the record book.
00:18:33.440 There's not
00:18:33.940 going to be
00:18:34.180 anything
00:18:34.620 signifying this.
00:18:40.280 Continues
00:18:40.680 here,
00:18:41.120 in the
00:18:43.520 1650
00:18:44.840 freestyle
00:18:46.220 final,
00:18:46.840 Thomas didn't
00:18:47.280 just win and
00:18:47.940 set new
00:18:48.260 program pool
00:18:48.760 of meat
00:18:48.980 records.
00:18:49.380 It was
00:18:49.520 total
00:18:49.840 annihilation.
00:18:52.760 Penn's
00:18:53.280 Anna
00:18:53.640 Calendazzi
00:18:54.820 finished in
00:18:55.560 second place
00:18:56.200 38 seconds
00:18:57.480 behind Thomas.
00:19:00.060 Now,
00:19:00.400 I don't know
00:19:00.880 if I need to
00:19:01.280 tell you this,
00:19:01.720 but 38
00:19:02.220 seconds
00:19:02.800 in a race
00:19:04.920 of this
00:19:05.240 kind is
00:19:06.400 an enormous
00:19:07.180 gap.
00:19:07.900 Enormous.
00:19:08.300 During a
00:19:10.680 phone interview,
00:19:11.340 a female
00:19:12.000 Penn swimmer,
00:19:12.880 we don't
00:19:13.100 know her
00:19:13.420 name,
00:19:13.940 says,
00:19:14.240 pretty much
00:19:14.540 everyone
00:19:14.900 individually
00:19:15.440 has spoken
00:19:15.860 to our
00:19:16.140 coaches about
00:19:16.620 not liking
00:19:17.160 this.
00:19:17.540 Our
00:19:17.660 coach,
00:19:18.620 his name
00:19:18.840 is Mike
00:19:19.140 Schnur,
00:19:19.880 just really
00:19:20.420 likes winning.
00:19:21.720 He's like
00:19:22.060 most coaches.
00:19:22.900 I think
00:19:23.120 secretly just
00:19:23.880 knows it's
00:19:24.500 the wrong
00:19:24.920 thing to do.
00:19:26.600 Now,
00:19:26.800 I can't get
00:19:27.100 inside of
00:19:27.560 Mike Schnur's
00:19:28.360 head,
00:19:28.980 but I'm
00:19:30.020 guessing that
00:19:30.880 his motivation
00:19:31.540 for allowing
00:19:32.100 this to
00:19:33.080 happen,
00:19:33.660 for going
00:19:34.280 along with
00:19:34.700 this farce,
00:19:35.840 it might be
00:19:36.280 partly that he
00:19:36.820 likes winning,
00:19:37.420 but I think
00:19:37.880 it's even
00:19:38.220 more cowardice.
00:19:44.680 I think
00:19:45.600 she does
00:19:46.000 him a
00:19:46.320 favor by
00:19:47.080 saying that
00:19:48.100 the coach
00:19:48.800 is going
00:19:49.100 along with
00:19:49.600 this because
00:19:50.040 of this
00:19:51.160 over-competitiveness
00:19:52.900 or something,
00:19:54.720 because he
00:19:55.200 wants to
00:19:55.720 win too
00:19:56.260 much.
00:19:58.120 That would
00:19:58.740 be bad
00:19:59.080 enough,
00:19:59.460 but that's
00:19:59.840 not as
00:20:00.480 bad as
00:20:01.000 the reality,
00:20:01.780 which is
00:20:02.200 that Mike
00:20:03.340 Schnur is
00:20:03.920 almost
00:20:04.600 certainly
00:20:05.240 humiliated and
00:20:06.740 embarrassed by
00:20:07.520 all of
00:20:07.820 this.
00:20:09.280 Does he
00:20:09.940 actually want
00:20:10.600 to win
00:20:11.020 like this
00:20:12.500 with a
00:20:14.520 dude racing
00:20:15.080 against girls?
00:20:16.820 I would
00:20:17.460 say almost
00:20:17.880 certainly
00:20:18.200 no,
00:20:19.480 but he's
00:20:20.680 too afraid
00:20:21.000 to say
00:20:21.260 anything.
00:20:23.200 She continues,
00:20:24.280 when the whole
00:20:24.600 team is
00:20:24.900 together,
00:20:25.280 we have to
00:20:25.660 be like,
00:20:26.060 oh my
00:20:26.340 gosh,
00:20:26.780 go Leah,
00:20:27.360 that's
00:20:27.600 great,
00:20:27.880 you're
00:20:28.000 amazing,
00:20:28.600 it's very
00:20:28.980 fake.
00:20:29.380 and then
00:20:33.580 she continues
00:20:34.060 talking about
00:20:34.740 how nobody
00:20:38.360 likes this
00:20:38.800 on the
00:20:39.040 team,
00:20:39.520 but they
00:20:40.660 feel like
00:20:41.040 they can't
00:20:41.400 say anything,
00:20:42.620 and they
00:20:43.160 think that
00:20:43.480 if they
00:20:43.680 say something,
00:20:44.420 they're going
00:20:44.760 to be
00:20:45.280 cast as
00:20:47.160 transphobes
00:20:47.940 and bigots,
00:20:48.480 and this
00:20:48.700 is going
00:20:48.960 to affect
00:20:49.360 them not
00:20:49.720 just in
00:20:50.140 their social
00:20:50.540 life,
00:20:50.860 not just
00:20:51.140 at school,
00:20:51.720 but going
00:20:52.300 forward in
00:20:53.060 their professional
00:20:54.900 lives as
00:20:55.340 well.
00:20:55.940 And they're
00:20:56.580 probably right.
00:20:58.660 Now,
00:20:59.260 one of the
00:20:59.540 ways that
00:20:59.780 this is
00:21:00.020 being
00:21:00.200 justified
00:21:00.680 is that
00:21:01.580 Thomas
00:21:04.380 has started
00:21:06.480 taking
00:21:06.960 hormone
00:21:07.600 pills.
00:21:08.420 He started
00:21:09.440 the transition,
00:21:11.180 and so his
00:21:11.540 testosterone levels
00:21:12.480 have dropped.
00:21:14.180 And so that's
00:21:14.580 supposed to
00:21:14.900 mean that it's
00:21:15.360 perfectly fair
00:21:16.600 for him to
00:21:17.000 race against
00:21:17.380 the girls
00:21:17.720 in that
00:21:17.940 case.
00:21:18.940 But Outkick
00:21:19.700 does a good
00:21:20.140 job of
00:21:20.960 not just
00:21:22.100 comparing
00:21:22.660 this guy's
00:21:24.140 times to
00:21:24.840 the other
00:21:25.120 girls,
00:21:25.500 and when
00:21:25.720 you do
00:21:25.980 that,
00:21:26.260 you see
00:21:26.500 what an
00:21:26.760 absolute,
00:21:27.240 again,
00:21:27.400 what a
00:21:27.600 farce this
00:21:28.040 is,
00:21:28.720 that he's
00:21:29.040 just
00:21:29.300 destroying
00:21:30.020 them.
00:21:31.280 They have
00:21:31.880 no chance,
00:21:33.020 but also
00:21:34.660 they compare
00:21:35.420 his times
00:21:36.440 racing against
00:21:38.600 the women
00:21:38.960 to his
00:21:40.140 times in
00:21:40.940 his first
00:21:41.380 three years
00:21:42.080 racing against
00:21:43.060 men.
00:21:45.420 And if
00:21:46.020 the testosterone
00:21:47.240 suppression and
00:21:48.060 all that kind
00:21:48.380 of stuff,
00:21:48.680 the pills that
00:21:49.140 he's taking,
00:21:50.100 if it made
00:21:51.000 that big of
00:21:51.740 a difference,
00:21:52.100 you should
00:21:52.400 see it in
00:21:52.900 his times.
00:21:53.300 And what
00:21:53.460 you find
00:21:53.840 instead,
00:21:54.720 like for
00:21:55.040 example,
00:21:55.380 the 200
00:21:55.740 freestyle,
00:21:56.420 200 meter
00:21:56.820 freestyle,
00:21:58.220 against the
00:21:59.020 women,
00:21:59.820 he swims
00:22:00.860 a 140,
00:22:02.760 basically
00:22:03.100 142,
00:22:04.320 just about
00:22:04.660 142.
00:22:06.340 And when
00:22:07.260 he was
00:22:07.440 racing against
00:22:07.940 the men,
00:22:08.700 before he
00:22:09.140 started taking
00:22:09.600 the pills and
00:22:10.220 when he had
00:22:10.560 more testosterone
00:22:11.520 coursing through
00:22:12.500 him,
00:22:13.360 he was at
00:22:14.320 a 139.3.
00:22:15.840 So he
00:22:17.180 goes from
00:22:17.420 a 139.3
00:22:18.440 to a
00:22:18.720 141.9.
00:22:20.700 That's a
00:22:21.220 difference.
00:22:21.920 Every second
00:22:22.500 counts.
00:22:24.460 But that
00:22:25.040 still puts
00:22:25.600 him far
00:22:27.300 above most
00:22:28.100 other women.
00:22:30.020 It makes
00:22:30.700 a small
00:22:31.360 difference.
00:22:32.840 Not a
00:22:33.380 very big
00:22:33.700 one.
00:22:33.900 And why
00:22:34.120 doesn't it
00:22:34.620 make a
00:22:34.840 very big
00:22:35.220 difference?
00:22:35.620 Well,
00:22:35.760 because
00:22:36.000 testosterone
00:22:36.900 is not
00:22:37.740 the only
00:22:38.240 advantage
00:22:38.840 that men
00:22:39.700 have.
00:22:40.200 this is
00:22:42.620 the total
00:22:43.340 absurdity
00:22:44.120 that the
00:22:45.840 pro-trans
00:22:46.300 people engage
00:22:46.980 in,
00:22:47.220 where they
00:22:47.540 pretend
00:22:48.100 that the
00:22:49.780 only difference
00:22:50.500 between men
00:22:50.940 and women
00:22:51.160 is testosterone.
00:22:53.160 But of
00:22:53.420 course,
00:22:53.620 even if that
00:22:54.000 was true,
00:22:55.080 by admitting
00:22:56.000 that,
00:22:57.880 you are
00:22:59.100 admitting
00:22:59.360 there's a
00:22:59.720 difference.
00:23:01.600 Pretending
00:23:02.040 that that's
00:23:02.380 the only
00:23:02.740 difference
00:23:03.080 still means
00:23:03.540 that there
00:23:03.860 is a
00:23:04.180 biological
00:23:04.580 difference
00:23:05.120 between
00:23:05.320 the two.
00:23:05.940 If trans
00:23:06.600 women are
00:23:07.100 women,
00:23:08.260 if there's
00:23:08.740 no difference
00:23:09.500 between
00:23:09.920 them,
00:23:11.240 then why
00:23:11.980 does the
00:23:12.320 trans woman
00:23:12.980 have to
00:23:13.320 take any
00:23:13.700 pills at
00:23:14.080 all?
00:23:16.520 If they're
00:23:17.120 exactly the
00:23:17.780 same,
00:23:20.000 the quote-unquote
00:23:21.100 trans woman
00:23:21.760 shouldn't have
00:23:22.180 to take
00:23:22.420 pills.
00:23:25.340 So,
00:23:25.880 they're
00:23:26.200 reducing all
00:23:27.060 of the
00:23:27.280 differences
00:23:27.540 between men
00:23:27.920 and women.
00:23:28.200 They're
00:23:28.280 reducing it
00:23:28.660 down to
00:23:28.980 this one
00:23:29.520 thing,
00:23:30.280 hormones,
00:23:31.200 and by
00:23:32.440 doing that,
00:23:33.160 they're still
00:23:33.640 admitting that
00:23:35.360 their whole
00:23:35.680 position is
00:23:36.180 nonsensical
00:23:36.680 and wrong.
00:23:39.500 But as
00:23:40.740 always with
00:23:41.140 the left,
00:23:41.560 when they're
00:23:41.800 trying to
00:23:42.340 justify,
00:23:42.780 especially when
00:23:43.260 it comes to
00:23:43.600 gender ideology,
00:23:45.160 everything they
00:23:46.340 say is so
00:23:47.440 wrong,
00:23:47.900 and there are
00:23:48.220 so many
00:23:48.620 levels of
00:23:49.320 wrongness that
00:23:50.500 you don't
00:23:51.000 even know
00:23:51.340 where to
00:23:51.640 start.
00:23:53.660 And sometimes
00:23:54.040 it's almost
00:23:55.140 overwhelming and
00:23:56.060 intimidating.
00:23:56.800 Maybe this is
00:23:57.640 one of the
00:23:57.840 reasons why
00:23:58.120 people stay
00:23:58.900 away from
00:23:59.700 this issue.
00:24:00.500 The big
00:24:00.840 reason is
00:24:01.220 that they're
00:24:01.500 afraid.
00:24:03.740 But also,
00:24:04.420 it's just so
00:24:05.200 incredibly wrong
00:24:06.580 that, again,
00:24:07.940 you don't
00:24:08.400 know where
00:24:08.740 the access
00:24:09.220 point is.
00:24:10.660 And if you
00:24:11.040 make one
00:24:11.540 argument against
00:24:13.880 this, then
00:24:14.640 you're neglecting,
00:24:15.560 there are 50
00:24:16.200 other really
00:24:16.740 good arguments
00:24:17.220 you're neglecting.
00:24:20.320 That's what the
00:24:20.940 left does.
00:24:21.360 They overwhelm
00:24:22.320 you with
00:24:22.580 wrongness.
00:24:23.820 They just
00:24:24.600 drown you in
00:24:25.280 it.
00:24:26.060 Speaking of
00:24:26.660 swimming.
00:24:29.100 So, you
00:24:31.280 know, that's
00:24:31.620 why even if
00:24:32.700 hormones were
00:24:33.140 the only
00:24:33.420 difference,
00:24:34.760 that still is
00:24:35.520 a difference,
00:24:36.180 which proves
00:24:36.660 that these
00:24:37.320 are biologically
00:24:38.180 distinct categories
00:24:39.300 of people,
00:24:39.920 right?
00:24:41.200 And putting
00:24:41.940 all of that
00:24:42.540 aside, it's
00:24:44.420 still wrong to
00:24:45.900 have the males
00:24:46.660 race against
00:24:47.140 the females
00:24:47.660 because males
00:24:48.580 are not
00:24:48.880 females.
00:24:51.420 Okay, if
00:24:52.500 Leah Thomas
00:24:53.180 was in the
00:24:54.480 middle of the
00:24:54.880 pack against
00:24:55.820 the females
00:24:56.440 or even
00:24:58.120 losing, does
00:25:00.480 that make it
00:25:00.900 right?
00:25:01.820 No, because
00:25:03.220 she's not a
00:25:03.620 female.
00:25:06.180 Okay, that
00:25:06.520 would just
00:25:06.740 make him
00:25:07.080 a really,
00:25:07.580 really bad
00:25:08.140 swimmer as
00:25:08.740 a male.
00:25:11.620 But we
00:25:12.160 should also
00:25:12.600 note that
00:25:13.320 hormones are
00:25:14.080 not the
00:25:14.860 only difference
00:25:15.380 between men
00:25:15.740 and women.
00:25:17.060 And this
00:25:17.660 comes through
00:25:18.040 especially in
00:25:18.860 swimming.
00:25:21.500 You know,
00:25:22.220 the differences
00:25:23.040 are every
00:25:24.720 part of us.
00:25:26.820 I mean,
00:25:27.020 literally, if
00:25:27.760 you are a
00:25:28.280 male, every
00:25:29.200 part of you
00:25:30.180 is male,
00:25:30.980 right down to
00:25:32.260 your DNA,
00:25:32.800 which is
00:25:33.300 why when
00:25:34.580 you're dead
00:25:35.440 and gone
00:25:36.020 and only
00:25:37.340 a rotted
00:25:38.440 corpse
00:25:38.860 remains and
00:25:41.320 they're not
00:25:41.600 able to,
00:25:42.200 you know,
00:25:44.060 test testosterone
00:25:45.260 levels on
00:25:45.980 you, they'll
00:25:47.540 still be able
00:25:48.340 to tell that
00:25:49.360 you are a
00:25:49.780 male.
00:25:51.060 If only a
00:25:52.100 piece of you
00:25:52.760 remains a
00:25:53.320 hundred years
00:25:53.900 hence and
00:25:55.080 they dig you
00:25:55.640 up, they'll be
00:25:56.100 able to tell
00:25:56.500 you're a male
00:25:56.900 because you
00:25:57.300 are a male
00:25:57.900 down to your
00:25:58.520 bones, down
00:25:59.660 to your cells,
00:26:00.500 down to your
00:26:00.900 DNA.
00:26:01.280 And many
00:26:05.680 of those
00:26:06.020 differences, I
00:26:06.520 mean, there
00:26:06.740 are dozens
00:26:07.460 and dozens
00:26:08.060 and dozens
00:26:08.740 of biological
00:26:09.400 differences that,
00:26:10.740 I mean, really
00:26:11.180 there are
00:26:11.540 thousands of
00:26:12.200 biological
00:26:12.520 differences
00:26:12.840 between men
00:26:13.160 and women
00:26:13.360 because, again,
00:26:14.420 it goes right
00:26:14.740 down to the
00:26:15.100 cells, but
00:26:16.320 there are at
00:26:16.800 least dozens
00:26:17.480 of differences
00:26:18.040 that specifically
00:26:19.020 give you an
00:26:19.680 advantage in
00:26:20.340 something like
00:26:20.760 swimming.
00:26:24.020 But these,
00:26:25.060 even the one
00:26:26.000 girl who will
00:26:26.920 speak out
00:26:27.340 anonymously,
00:26:28.580 she'll only do
00:26:29.060 it anonymously.
00:26:31.280 And I can
00:26:32.840 understand that,
00:26:34.060 by the way,
00:26:35.280 and it is
00:26:36.180 easy for me
00:26:36.940 to say,
00:26:37.580 sitting here,
00:26:38.240 especially as
00:26:38.780 someone who
00:26:39.100 gets paid to
00:26:39.680 talk about
00:26:40.060 these issues
00:26:40.540 and to say
00:26:40.980 quote-unquote
00:26:41.360 controversial
00:26:41.800 things,
00:26:43.240 so I'm not
00:26:44.020 in the position
00:26:44.580 that these
00:26:44.960 girls are in.
00:26:48.260 But even
00:26:49.000 so, there
00:26:49.700 is no hope
00:26:51.220 for any of
00:26:53.040 this unless we
00:26:53.720 are going to
00:26:54.180 be courageous
00:26:54.740 and start
00:26:55.700 speaking the
00:26:57.020 truth.
00:26:57.320 emperor has
00:27:00.580 no clothes.
00:27:01.180 You need at
00:27:02.200 least one
00:27:02.820 person in
00:27:03.640 the crowd
00:27:04.120 to stand
00:27:04.620 up and
00:27:04.920 say, he
00:27:06.120 has no
00:27:06.420 clothes.
00:27:07.960 And the
00:27:08.460 whole point
00:27:08.920 of that
00:27:09.300 parable is
00:27:10.140 that it's
00:27:10.560 an emperor.
00:27:12.840 And this
00:27:13.060 is just some
00:27:13.500 random citizen
00:27:14.260 pointing that
00:27:14.980 out.
00:27:15.960 Not in a
00:27:16.580 position of
00:27:17.020 power.
00:27:18.100 Very much
00:27:18.900 susceptible
00:27:19.820 and vulnerable.
00:27:21.160 Could be
00:27:21.760 punished in
00:27:22.260 many different
00:27:23.620 ways for
00:27:25.340 embarrassing the
00:27:25.940 emperor, but
00:27:26.340 someone's got to
00:27:26.900 do it.
00:27:27.320 And the
00:27:31.820 thing is, the
00:27:33.400 male intrusion
00:27:34.080 into female
00:27:34.680 sports, that
00:27:35.860 could be
00:27:36.180 stopped tomorrow.
00:27:38.220 I mean, that
00:27:38.460 could be stopped
00:27:38.840 today.
00:27:39.160 That could be
00:27:39.400 stopped immediately
00:27:40.120 if the girls
00:27:41.900 on these teams
00:27:42.860 refused to
00:27:43.740 participate and
00:27:46.180 said, we're
00:27:46.640 not going to
00:27:47.860 any matches,
00:27:48.680 we're not going
00:27:49.200 to any meets,
00:27:49.740 we're not going
00:27:50.080 to any games,
00:27:50.660 whatever the
00:27:50.940 sport is.
00:27:53.160 We're not
00:27:53.700 going to
00:27:53.900 participate anymore
00:27:54.840 until the
00:27:55.340 males are gone.
00:27:55.940 if all the
00:27:59.240 girls said
00:27:59.640 that, or
00:28:00.080 even half
00:28:01.000 of them, or
00:28:02.180 even a
00:28:02.500 sizable
00:28:02.880 minority said
00:28:03.600 that, this
00:28:04.160 is over, this
00:28:04.900 is done.
00:28:08.480 So in fact, we
00:28:09.440 do have a lot
00:28:10.020 of power as
00:28:10.980 the sane
00:28:11.400 people in
00:28:12.060 this country,
00:28:12.540 but we have
00:28:13.280 to use it.
00:28:14.100 that's what
00:28:16.620 makes it so
00:28:17.000 frustrating and
00:28:17.720 tragic, is
00:28:19.620 that in fact
00:28:20.080 what's going
00:28:21.280 on, especially
00:28:21.720 with gender
00:28:22.380 ideology, almost
00:28:24.160 everyone knows
00:28:24.840 that it's
00:28:25.100 wrong, almost
00:28:27.020 everyone recognizes
00:28:27.900 how ridiculous
00:28:28.480 it is and how
00:28:29.120 harmful it is
00:28:29.800 and how unfair
00:28:30.600 it is, almost
00:28:31.040 everyone does.
00:28:35.220 And we have
00:28:35.840 the power to
00:28:36.340 stop it because
00:28:36.920 we have numbers,
00:28:37.740 but we don't
00:28:38.180 use the power
00:28:38.640 that we have.
00:28:39.060 All right, Fox
00:28:42.000 News is getting
00:28:42.620 made fun of
00:28:43.140 because of
00:28:43.480 their reaction
00:28:44.000 to their
00:28:44.460 tree being
00:28:45.020 burned, which
00:28:45.980 happened a few
00:28:46.340 days ago, their
00:28:47.000 big Christmas
00:28:47.600 tree outside
00:28:48.680 in Times
00:28:51.320 Square, burned
00:28:52.320 by a homeless
00:28:52.820 guy who was
00:28:53.660 immediately released
00:28:54.520 on no bail, by
00:28:55.560 the way, despite
00:28:56.080 starting a massive
00:28:56.920 fire in the
00:28:58.120 middle of a city
00:28:58.780 and I think the
00:29:00.760 tree was worth
00:29:01.260 like half a
00:29:01.680 million dollars.
00:29:03.340 But the left
00:29:04.000 is accusing Fox
00:29:04.780 of kind of
00:29:05.180 milking the story,
00:29:06.000 I guess.
00:29:06.360 Here's how Fox
00:29:07.140 and Friends
00:29:07.580 addressed it a
00:29:08.560 couple days ago.
00:29:10.020 Here's the thing.
00:29:10.960 In New York, under
00:29:12.020 the new liberal
00:29:13.560 policies of bail
00:29:14.480 reform, arson is
00:29:15.780 only a felony.
00:29:16.740 You can only be
00:29:17.340 held if it's a
00:29:18.020 felony, if the
00:29:19.320 suspect tries to
00:29:20.320 harm a person or
00:29:21.980 commits a hate
00:29:23.220 crime.
00:29:23.780 And apparently
00:29:24.540 lighting a
00:29:25.300 Christmas tree on
00:29:26.420 fire is not a
00:29:27.560 hate crime.
00:29:28.040 Even though a
00:29:28.860 lot of people
00:29:29.420 could have been
00:29:30.180 injured?
00:29:30.780 Yeah, but here's
00:29:32.040 the thing.
00:29:32.360 Who says it's not
00:29:32.800 a hate crime
00:29:33.200 against us, against
00:29:34.200 Fox News?
00:29:35.240 Here's the thing.
00:29:36.480 What we do know
00:29:37.220 for sure, and we
00:29:38.700 don't know the
00:29:39.100 guy's motivation.
00:29:40.080 But the judge
00:29:40.820 could ask and be
00:29:41.580 under suspicion and
00:29:42.500 keep him locked
00:29:43.040 up.
00:29:43.340 Well, he might
00:29:43.800 have.
00:29:44.060 But here's what we
00:29:45.160 do know.
00:29:45.820 According to the
00:29:46.500 New York Post, which
00:29:47.220 is co-owned with us,
00:29:48.400 that Christmas tree
00:29:49.260 was half a million
00:29:50.280 dollars.
00:29:50.560 I know.
00:29:51.220 So this guy
00:29:51.980 tortures a half a
00:29:53.320 million dollars worth
00:29:54.340 of property, and he
00:29:55.580 gets to walk?
00:29:56.460 So the left is having
00:29:58.860 fun with the fact that
00:29:59.460 Brian Kilmeade said
00:30:00.140 that it's a hate
00:30:00.760 crime against Fox
00:30:01.340 News.
00:30:01.600 Clearly, he was
00:30:01.980 half-kidding about
00:30:02.520 that.
00:30:03.660 But overall, Fox's
00:30:04.800 reaction to this has
00:30:05.700 been pretty reasonable,
00:30:07.340 I think, because I'm
00:30:08.020 just imagining.
00:30:09.500 Think about if this
00:30:10.400 happened to CNN.
00:30:12.580 If somebody set one
00:30:13.680 of their, you know, if
00:30:14.380 they had a tree or
00:30:14.880 something that was
00:30:15.260 set on fire, they
00:30:16.700 probably don't have a
00:30:17.260 Christmas tree because
00:30:17.840 they're heathens.
00:30:18.420 But, you know, if they
00:30:19.560 had something, and if
00:30:21.840 they put out a, if they
00:30:22.900 had a big, like, unity
00:30:24.100 diversity tree or something
00:30:25.440 in front of their
00:30:26.420 studios, and somebody
00:30:27.020 set that on fire, can
00:30:28.840 you think they would
00:30:29.440 never stop?
00:30:30.060 It'd be the only thing
00:30:30.600 they talked about for
00:30:31.140 the next six years.
00:30:33.460 We'd get all these,
00:30:34.260 like, tearful montages
00:30:35.340 of CNN anchors talking
00:30:36.920 about how journalism is
00:30:38.220 under attack.
00:30:41.580 This is why we are the
00:30:42.900 firefighters for truth.
00:30:44.580 Literally now, our tree
00:30:45.580 is aflame.
00:30:48.480 Can you imagine that?
00:30:50.840 The self-martyring that
00:30:52.020 would happen on CNN if
00:30:54.800 they were the targets of
00:30:55.980 an attack like this.
00:30:57.900 Speaking of CNN, in
00:31:00.140 fact, we don't have to
00:31:00.760 imagine how they are
00:31:01.700 responding to the Fox
00:31:03.540 News tree being set on
00:31:05.200 fire.
00:31:06.200 Here is how CNN has
00:31:07.720 responded to it.
00:31:08.200 Let's watch.
00:31:09.700 Obviously, it's
00:31:10.360 incredibly scary to feel
00:31:11.900 that your workplace is
00:31:12.880 under attack, unless
00:31:14.660 your workplace is the
00:31:21.960 Capitol.
00:31:22.320 Then, according to many,
00:31:23.720 many Fox hosts, it's not
00:31:25.460 such a big deal.
00:31:26.500 At Fox, when the target is
00:31:27.980 a Christmas tree at their
00:31:29.420 workplace, it is a
00:31:30.540 sacrilege.
00:31:31.440 But when the target is the
00:31:32.640 seat of American democracy,
00:31:34.300 it's not.
00:31:35.320 The whole of Congress, as
00:31:36.760 they certify a presidential
00:31:37.960 election that was fair and
00:31:39.140 secure.
00:31:39.900 When the perpetrators are
00:31:40.940 Trump supporters in the
00:31:41.920 thousands, four of whom
00:31:43.300 died that day.
00:31:44.680 When the victims are police
00:31:45.900 officers, 140 of whom were
00:31:47.700 injured.
00:31:48.380 And when five police officers
00:31:49.700 have died in the wake of the
00:31:50.940 attack, including four by
00:31:52.100 suicide, when Fox's own
00:31:54.360 colleagues had to take
00:31:55.900 cover inside the Capitol
00:31:57.320 complex on January 6th, Fox
00:31:59.820 downplays the attack.
00:32:01.960 Of course.
00:32:02.900 Bring it back to January 6th.
00:32:04.660 Somehow.
00:32:05.400 Somehow, a homeless guy
00:32:06.380 setting Fox News' tree on
00:32:07.560 fire, Christmas tree on fire,
00:32:09.080 is that we can relate that
00:32:10.700 back to January 6th.
00:32:12.200 Because everything goes back
00:32:13.200 to January 6th.
00:32:13.940 And by the way, what she
00:32:16.740 just said there about five
00:32:18.360 police officers died in the
00:32:19.780 wake of the attack, including
00:32:21.620 suicides.
00:32:23.920 This is the left.
00:32:25.120 They love doing this with
00:32:26.080 suicides, using suicides as
00:32:30.140 emotional blackmail.
00:32:32.540 And lying about them.
00:32:35.480 They do this on like every
00:32:37.160 issue, especially the gender
00:32:38.360 issue, trans issue.
00:32:39.100 And they'll straight up lie
00:32:41.680 and they'll say that, you
00:32:42.820 know, if you if you if you
00:32:44.340 dare suggest that only men
00:32:47.520 have penises, you are
00:32:48.480 directly causing people to
00:32:49.620 kill themselves.
00:32:51.620 And they have no problem
00:32:52.580 doing it because they're
00:32:53.060 totally soulless.
00:32:54.640 That's what they're doing
00:32:55.380 here.
00:32:55.640 I mean, yes, there have been
00:32:56.820 Capitol police officers who
00:32:58.160 have tragically committed
00:32:59.260 suicide since January 6th.
00:33:01.800 But to phrase it that way,
00:33:03.500 saying in the wake of the
00:33:05.160 Capitol riot, these officers
00:33:07.220 committed suicide.
00:33:07.840 She is drawing a direct
00:33:09.500 connection.
00:33:11.320 And claiming, implying, not
00:33:13.980 so subtly, that they
00:33:15.000 committed suicide because of
00:33:17.220 the January 6th riot, because
00:33:19.900 they were, you know,
00:33:20.540 traumatized by it or
00:33:21.400 something.
00:33:21.860 There is no evidence of
00:33:23.180 that.
00:33:23.420 There's no indication of
00:33:24.340 that.
00:33:26.100 Nobody has come out and
00:33:27.180 said that, you know, they
00:33:27.880 wrote a suicide note and
00:33:29.000 they indicated that or or
00:33:30.700 or even that in the lead
00:33:32.780 up to them committing
00:33:33.880 suicide, they were they
00:33:34.940 were traumatized by the
00:33:35.780 event.
00:33:35.980 We haven't heard anything
00:33:36.680 like that.
00:33:37.840 And it seems absence of
00:33:43.780 evidence, it's seen
00:33:44.760 absent of evidence.
00:33:45.560 It seems very unlikely
00:33:46.720 that these suicides would
00:33:49.740 have anything to do with
00:33:50.360 the January 6th riot,
00:33:51.220 because there were also
00:33:52.600 riots in 2020 all all
00:33:54.820 across the country.
00:33:57.540 And many of them went on
00:33:59.560 for far longer than the
00:34:00.800 January 6th riot did and
00:34:02.440 were far more violent.
00:34:03.440 And I imagine far scarier for
00:34:05.820 the police involved.
00:34:08.260 And there were no suicides
00:34:09.540 in any of those cases.
00:34:14.660 So, but she has no
00:34:16.540 problem doing it.
00:34:17.100 Just take a suicide, real
00:34:18.300 human suffering and use it,
00:34:20.980 present it as a pawn, a
00:34:23.220 prop.
00:34:23.480 And as far as being a hate
00:34:27.440 crime, I mean, going back to
00:34:28.420 what we just talked about
00:34:29.000 with hate crimes, why not
00:34:30.020 call it a hate crime?
00:34:30.860 Why can't it be?
00:34:32.900 A hate crime.
00:34:34.840 A crime motivated by hate.
00:34:37.560 Now, it seems in this case
00:34:38.680 that this was probably just a
00:34:40.040 crazy homeless guy who
00:34:41.140 doesn't know why he did it,
00:34:42.780 probably doesn't understand
00:34:43.580 any of his motivations behind
00:34:44.580 anything, much like much
00:34:46.600 like the current president
00:34:47.480 of the United States.
00:34:48.940 But if this was done by
00:34:51.280 someone who hates Fox News,
00:34:52.540 well, that's a crime
00:34:53.460 motivated by hate.
00:34:57.040 And so, but for the hate
00:34:58.100 crime designation, which is
00:34:59.060 why the hate crime
00:34:59.880 designation shouldn't exist,
00:35:01.680 the justice system has to
00:35:02.920 say, well, yeah, I mean,
00:35:04.660 it's a crime and this
00:35:07.240 person was hateful, but
00:35:08.320 it's not the kind of hate
00:35:10.220 that we're worried about.
00:35:12.440 It's completely absurd.
00:35:14.080 And as I said, arbitrary.
00:35:16.600 All right.
00:35:18.540 From the Daily Wire, it
00:35:19.580 says, Simone Biles has been
00:35:20.960 named the Times Athlete
00:35:22.980 of the Year, the same year
00:35:24.060 she won one individual
00:35:25.380 bronze medal at the
00:35:26.260 Tokyo Olympics.
00:35:27.420 It's been a tumultuous
00:35:28.160 year for Biles, who entered
00:35:29.500 the Summer Olympics,
00:35:30.300 expected to compete for
00:35:31.760 the gold medal in each of
00:35:32.660 the five individual events
00:35:33.740 she was scheduled to
00:35:34.300 participate in.
00:35:35.220 She managed to only
00:35:36.000 successfully complete,
00:35:37.500 rather compete, in the
00:35:38.400 balance beam.
00:35:40.420 Biles told Time, at that
00:35:42.540 point, it was no longer
00:35:43.500 about meddling, but about
00:35:44.580 getting back out there.
00:35:45.600 I wanted to compete at
00:35:47.560 the Olympics again and
00:35:48.380 have that experience that
00:35:49.300 I came for.
00:35:50.080 I didn't really care about
00:35:51.140 the outcome.
00:35:52.000 On that beam, it was for
00:35:53.580 me.
00:35:54.920 It was all for me, she
00:35:56.280 says.
00:35:57.280 Forget about team spirit.
00:35:59.900 Biles entered the games
00:36:00.820 with sky-high expectations
00:36:02.080 after winning four gold
00:36:02.980 medals in the previous
00:36:03.680 Olympics.
00:36:04.180 Biles was expected by many
00:36:05.540 to top her Rio 2016
00:36:07.140 numbers by becoming the
00:36:08.160 first American female
00:36:09.000 gymnast to win five golds
00:36:10.740 at a single Olympics.
00:36:12.540 But then, of course, as we
00:36:13.480 know, she quit on her team
00:36:14.680 and now she's been
00:36:17.480 awarded the Time Athlete
00:36:20.940 of the Year for quitting
00:36:22.220 because this is all about
00:36:27.340 mental health.
00:36:27.840 This is about her.
00:36:28.320 She says herself.
00:36:29.300 The one time when she
00:36:30.620 actually got up on the
00:36:31.500 balance beam and competed,
00:36:33.860 it wasn't even, she's not
00:36:34.660 saying that, oh, I had to
00:36:35.440 get out there for my
00:36:36.160 country.
00:36:37.220 It used to be what
00:36:37.780 Olympians said.
00:36:38.460 They were competing for
00:36:39.640 their country.
00:36:40.200 It's not about me.
00:36:41.180 It's about the country.
00:36:43.380 And in sports, that's
00:36:44.460 what you're, that's what
00:36:45.900 we expect and have gotten
00:36:46.920 used to athletes saying.
00:36:48.680 Although that's kind of
00:36:49.460 changing now.
00:36:51.600 But usually they talk
00:36:52.760 about, oh, no, it's not
00:36:54.440 about individual accolades
00:36:55.520 for me.
00:36:55.900 It's about the team.
00:36:56.640 It's about what I'm
00:36:57.140 representing.
00:36:59.520 You know, if it's, if
00:37:00.540 it's professional sports,
00:37:01.400 it's about my city.
00:37:03.160 In Olympics, it's supposed
00:37:04.100 to be about your country.
00:37:04.820 But that all changes
00:37:09.060 now.
00:37:09.520 And now we're supposed
00:37:10.140 to celebrate people.
00:37:11.360 It's a total, it's a
00:37:12.140 total inversion now.
00:37:13.440 Things have been flipped
00:37:15.320 on their head.
00:37:15.980 I mean, it used to be as
00:37:17.220 an athlete, if you were
00:37:19.360 obsessively, openly
00:37:20.680 focused on yourself and
00:37:22.860 your individual accolades,
00:37:24.560 then that was a shameful
00:37:28.200 thing.
00:37:28.540 Now we're supposed to
00:37:29.100 admire it.
00:37:29.720 Because we live in a
00:37:33.180 country now that's run
00:37:35.000 by, you know, leftist
00:37:36.080 principles and leftism
00:37:37.360 is the worship of the
00:37:38.320 self.
00:37:40.140 And so by quitting for
00:37:41.980 the sake of herself and
00:37:43.440 her own mental health or
00:37:44.340 whatever, then it becomes
00:37:45.420 an act of heroism,
00:37:47.240 according to this
00:37:47.860 religion.
00:37:49.440 All right, next.
00:37:50.080 Things have gotten so
00:37:50.720 bad in D.C. that these
00:37:52.300 are the kinds of news
00:37:53.200 reports you might hear if
00:37:55.100 you live in the city,
00:37:56.000 where they are actually
00:37:57.000 giving tips for
00:37:58.040 preventing carjacking.
00:37:59.460 Listen.
00:38:00.860 Here in Greenbelt, we
00:38:02.420 have seen a couple of
00:38:03.420 violent carjackings in
00:38:05.420 the past week or so.
00:38:07.340 Greenbelt police
00:38:08.120 responded to Breezewood
00:38:09.680 Court just the other
00:38:10.580 day.
00:38:11.160 Three men shot and
00:38:12.600 wound, or I should say
00:38:13.620 three men shot and
00:38:15.260 wounded a man and
00:38:16.860 carjacked another
00:38:17.680 person at gunpoint in
00:38:19.160 the middle of the
00:38:19.860 night in order to
00:38:20.940 prevent a carjacking.
00:38:22.660 Well, here's what we
00:38:23.560 should be doing.
00:38:24.180 Police say lock the
00:38:25.500 doors when driving and
00:38:26.980 when pumping gas.
00:38:27.940 In fact, stay in your
00:38:29.240 car if you can at the
00:38:31.460 gas station.
00:38:32.200 Always look around
00:38:33.440 before getting out of
00:38:34.600 your vehicle, and if
00:38:35.700 you are the victim of
00:38:37.460 a carjacking, give up
00:38:39.060 that car.
00:38:39.740 Your life is just not
00:38:41.080 worth it.
00:38:41.760 Equip your vehicle with
00:38:42.960 an anti-theft or GPS
00:38:44.240 tracking device and
00:38:45.800 allow yourself room and
00:38:47.100 traffic to move around
00:38:48.620 other cars.
00:38:49.660 Avoid getting boxed in,
00:38:50.940 if you will, and keep
00:38:52.180 your cell phone in your
00:38:53.560 pocket rather than
00:38:54.920 laying in your car.
00:38:56.340 For example, when you
00:38:58.520 go to a mall or a
00:38:59.500 shopping center, park in
00:39:01.140 a busy area.
00:39:02.400 Don't park behind a
00:39:03.980 large truck.
00:39:05.840 Park where you can be
00:39:06.620 seen.
00:39:07.620 What could you possibly
00:39:08.800 be getting out of a
00:39:09.720 city that would make
00:39:10.340 this worth it?
00:39:11.480 Where you have to
00:39:12.380 strategize like you're
00:39:13.700 in a war zone.
00:39:15.260 I can't get boxed in,
00:39:16.280 got to stay in my car.
00:39:19.020 What about city life
00:39:21.680 could make that worth
00:39:22.840 it?
00:39:23.020 This is a very real
00:39:25.340 concern you have to
00:39:26.080 have.
00:39:28.040 You have to have news
00:39:28.900 reports saying, hey,
00:39:29.700 if they come for it,
00:39:30.920 if they come for you,
00:39:32.080 just give up the car.
00:39:33.440 It's not worth it.
00:39:35.760 Get out of the city.
00:39:37.920 Protect yourself.
00:39:38.620 That's the big, you
00:39:39.100 know, here's my, here's
00:39:39.980 my tip for preventing
00:39:41.460 carjacking.
00:39:42.280 Here's my carjacking
00:39:43.600 prevention tip.
00:39:45.480 Get out of these kinds
00:39:46.440 of cities.
00:39:48.980 Especially any city run
00:39:50.400 by a Democrat, get
00:39:51.320 out.
00:39:51.700 And of course, almost
00:39:52.180 all of them are.
00:39:52.600 So get out of the city
00:39:53.460 and that's how you
00:39:54.080 prevent the carjacking.
00:39:55.160 Let's get now to the
00:39:55.920 comment section.
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00:41:11.340 George says,
00:41:12.720 Matt is a Monday day coach
00:41:15.560 about effects of COVID
00:41:16.940 policies.
00:41:18.100 Authorities make mistakes
00:41:19.120 and it's easy to condemn
00:41:20.400 them after the fact.
00:41:22.080 Monday coach,
00:41:22.760 you mean Monday morning
00:41:23.700 quarterback is what
00:41:24.200 you're going for?
00:41:26.700 About the effects of
00:41:27.680 COVID policies?
00:41:29.600 Yeah, one of the effects
00:41:30.600 like we talked about
00:41:31.060 yesterday, a 51% increase
00:41:32.680 in adolescent girls going
00:41:34.360 to emergency rooms after
00:41:35.340 suicide attempts.
00:41:36.500 In 2020, that was one
00:41:37.800 of the effects.
00:41:39.060 Am I just Monday morning
00:41:40.100 quarterbacking it?
00:41:40.920 You know, in retrospect,
00:41:42.120 after the fact,
00:41:43.080 hindsight is 20-20,
00:41:44.020 that kind of thing.
00:41:45.660 No, no, this is not a
00:41:47.280 Monday morning quarterback
00:41:47.960 situation, George,
00:41:48.780 because I had been,
00:41:49.940 I've been saying this
00:41:50.600 from the very beginning.
00:41:52.920 From the very beginning,
00:41:54.000 I've been saying,
00:41:54.980 you lock people in their
00:41:57.400 homes, you take away
00:41:58.560 their social life,
00:41:59.320 you take away all of that,
00:42:02.060 especially kids.
00:42:04.120 And you tell them,
00:42:05.100 we're going to migrate
00:42:05.860 all of that to the
00:42:06.640 internet.
00:42:07.500 And that will be your
00:42:08.340 entire life now.
00:42:10.920 I've been saying
00:42:11.420 from the very beginning
00:42:11.960 and not just me,
00:42:12.960 lots of us have been
00:42:13.760 saying that you are
00:42:16.240 going to see exactly
00:42:17.060 these effects.
00:42:19.640 So no, this is not
00:42:20.500 after the fact,
00:42:21.160 this is not hindsight,
00:42:21.840 it's 20-20.
00:42:24.000 Anyone with a brain
00:42:24.860 had 20-20 vision on this
00:42:26.160 from the beginning
00:42:26.820 because seen where it
00:42:27.660 was going.
00:42:29.280 And our leaders who
00:42:30.740 put these policies in
00:42:31.420 place, they knew also,
00:42:32.620 it's just they didn't
00:42:33.280 care is the point.
00:42:35.520 It was a trade-off.
00:42:36.860 It was always going to be
00:42:37.580 a trade-off.
00:42:38.700 That's not how they
00:42:39.400 sold it.
00:42:41.480 They sold it as sort of
00:42:42.480 a better safe than
00:42:43.360 sorry situation.
00:42:46.240 And how, you know,
00:42:47.860 staying home,
00:42:48.860 locking down,
00:42:49.440 shutting everything down,
00:42:50.380 at most it's just
00:42:51.540 an inconvenience.
00:42:53.020 Wearing masks at most
00:42:54.240 is just an inconvenience,
00:42:55.280 that's all it is.
00:42:56.540 A little bit of effort.
00:42:59.400 But that was always
00:43:00.340 clearly bogus.
00:43:01.700 There's a very real
00:43:03.480 trade-off happening here.
00:43:04.800 many trade-offs.
00:43:08.000 And one of them is
00:43:08.860 we are going to,
00:43:11.180 for the sake of
00:43:12.100 the physical safety
00:43:13.300 that these measures
00:43:15.500 supposedly afforded us,
00:43:17.140 supposedly,
00:43:18.960 we are going to
00:43:19.980 sacrifice the
00:43:21.000 psychological and
00:43:22.160 emotional well-being
00:43:23.080 of our kids.
00:43:24.760 That was the trade
00:43:25.720 that they intentionally
00:43:26.460 made.
00:43:27.600 And this is the result.
00:43:31.520 Guy Greens says,
00:43:33.220 Sorry, Matt,
00:43:33.860 but I like the
00:43:34.380 Hodge Twins children's
00:43:35.400 book better.
00:43:36.100 Walruses creep me out
00:43:37.260 with their weird eyes.
00:43:39.760 Well, what do you think
00:43:40.480 is going to happen
00:43:40.900 when you come to my
00:43:41.560 comments with this
00:43:42.960 kind of anti-walrusism?
00:43:44.760 Weird eyes?
00:43:45.620 They have beautiful
00:43:46.420 and innocent eyes.
00:43:48.740 And now I'm the bad guy
00:43:50.080 because I have to ban you.
00:43:51.740 Don't put me in that
00:43:52.520 position.
00:43:53.060 But you are banned.
00:43:57.560 Bad Mother says,
00:43:58.680 Matt Walsh making
00:43:59.400 small talk with people
00:44:00.480 in a jiffy lube
00:44:01.220 seems unlikely.
00:44:02.200 Well, that is true.
00:44:03.800 I mean, you know,
00:44:04.580 without phones,
00:44:05.880 if I'm sitting in a
00:44:06.920 waiting room or something,
00:44:09.060 if we didn't have phones,
00:44:10.540 yeah, I wouldn't be
00:44:11.400 making small talk
00:44:12.660 with people.
00:44:13.540 But even so,
00:44:15.440 and if I'm saying this,
00:44:16.680 then you know
00:44:16.920 it's gotten really bad.
00:44:18.660 But even if I wouldn't
00:44:20.160 make small talk
00:44:20.700 with people,
00:44:21.620 I think it's still best
00:44:22.880 to just be present
00:44:23.960 sometimes in the room
00:44:25.440 where you're sitting.
00:44:28.160 Even if you're not
00:44:28.840 saying anything to anybody.
00:44:29.720 to be present
00:44:31.740 in the room
00:44:32.540 and not on your phone
00:44:33.480 and aware
00:44:35.100 that I am physically
00:44:36.320 in this room
00:44:37.200 with these people
00:44:38.180 and we are having
00:44:39.920 a shared experience.
00:44:41.180 Might not be a very
00:44:42.040 profound experience,
00:44:43.120 but that's what it is.
00:44:46.820 We don't have
00:44:47.560 those kinds of,
00:44:48.700 there's no presence
00:44:50.580 anymore,
00:44:51.860 anywhere,
00:44:52.620 because everybody's
00:44:53.140 on their phone
00:44:53.560 and there are really
00:44:54.620 no shared experiences
00:44:55.500 anymore.
00:44:57.340 Matthew Kelly says,
00:44:58.560 after watching
00:44:59.280 your last episode,
00:45:00.440 particularly the cancellation
00:45:01.360 of those involved
00:45:03.040 in civil asset forfeiture,
00:45:04.580 I must say that
00:45:05.240 I feel personally attacked.
00:45:06.560 I am actually a prosecutor
00:45:07.500 that handles all
00:45:08.340 of the civil asset
00:45:08.980 forfeiture cases
00:45:09.820 from my office
00:45:10.540 when I determine
00:45:11.600 whether we'll be moving
00:45:12.460 to take in a vehicle,
00:45:13.500 money, or even a house.
00:45:14.660 I carefully review
00:45:15.720 the initial reports
00:45:16.440 to see whether
00:45:16.960 the seized property
00:45:17.720 was either used
00:45:18.520 in furtherance
00:45:19.060 of criminal activity
00:45:19.820 or were proceeds
00:45:21.680 from criminal activity.
00:45:22.500 The main goal
00:45:23.520 is not to enrich
00:45:24.220 the state,
00:45:24.720 but rather take
00:45:25.320 money-slash-property
00:45:26.220 gained through
00:45:26.660 illicit means
00:45:27.380 so that it does not
00:45:28.540 return to the defendant,
00:45:29.560 permitting them a profit
00:45:30.420 from their criminal activity.
00:45:31.780 If it later turns out
00:45:32.520 that the criminal portion
00:45:33.180 of the case falls apart
00:45:34.080 and thus a civil forfeiture
00:45:35.100 action cannot survive,
00:45:36.440 I make arrangements
00:45:37.080 to have the money-property-slash-property
00:45:38.640 returned to the claimant-slash-defendant.
00:45:40.640 All property must be
00:45:41.600 substantiated.
00:45:42.580 I understand a layman's
00:45:43.520 gripe about the concept
00:45:44.260 of civil asset forfeiture,
00:45:45.700 but please understand
00:45:46.420 that there are legitimate
00:45:47.180 and good reasons
00:45:48.020 for the process.
00:45:50.780 Yeah,
00:45:51.380 so,
00:45:52.500 what I'm taking
00:45:53.620 from this,
00:45:55.220 Matthew,
00:45:55.680 is that
00:45:56.020 what I take from this
00:45:58.240 is that you are
00:45:59.080 a responsible
00:45:59.740 and honest person.
00:46:02.360 And as a responsible
00:46:03.820 and honest person,
00:46:04.940 you handle this power
00:46:07.200 that you've been given,
00:46:08.180 civil asset forfeiture,
00:46:09.660 responsibly and honestly,
00:46:10.940 which is nice
00:46:12.140 and that's a credit to you.
00:46:13.840 But it's still a power
00:46:15.060 you shouldn't have
00:46:16.060 because many prosecutors
00:46:17.840 are not responsible
00:46:18.860 and honest.
00:46:19.340 and our system
00:46:21.180 cannot assume
00:46:22.120 that they will be.
00:46:24.800 And that's what all
00:46:25.620 of the protections
00:46:26.160 in the Constitution
00:46:26.920 for defendants
00:46:29.740 or those accused,
00:46:31.200 all of those protections,
00:46:33.120 that's why they're there.
00:46:34.940 Because we can't simply
00:46:36.160 assume
00:46:38.420 that law enforcement
00:46:41.000 and DAs
00:46:42.440 and prosecutors
00:46:42.900 and everything,
00:46:43.280 they're all going to be
00:46:43.800 like Matthew Kelly.
00:46:44.620 They're all going to be honest.
00:46:45.320 I mean,
00:46:48.440 if we could assume that,
00:46:49.700 then we wouldn't need
00:46:50.480 due process,
00:46:51.260 we wouldn't need
00:46:51.620 any of this stuff.
00:46:53.400 The fact remains
00:46:54.140 of civil asset forfeiture,
00:46:56.020 I don't know how you,
00:46:57.160 you might do it
00:46:58.300 in your office differently,
00:47:00.100 but the laws
00:47:01.660 as they're written,
00:47:02.780 and we talked about
00:47:03.920 one real life case
00:47:05.300 that just happened
00:47:05.960 down in Dallas,
00:47:07.420 the laws as they're written
00:47:08.400 mean that this property
00:47:09.720 can be confiscated
00:47:11.420 without even,
00:47:13.120 without a crime
00:47:14.800 being charged
00:47:15.680 or without the person
00:47:17.600 who is the victim here
00:47:19.100 even being accused
00:47:20.100 of a crime.
00:47:24.400 So this is not,
00:47:25.340 the way you're putting
00:47:25.940 it forward here,
00:47:26.580 it sounds like,
00:47:27.260 well, there's a,
00:47:27.920 there's an evidentiary process,
00:47:29.500 you have to be charged
00:47:30.140 with a crime,
00:47:30.680 there's this whole thing.
00:47:31.540 That's not what happened
00:47:32.260 in the Dallas,
00:47:33.620 there was a Love Field airport.
00:47:36.060 Somebody tried to,
00:47:36.920 to go through the airport,
00:47:39.040 flying domestically,
00:47:40.740 okay,
00:47:40.900 so they weren't coming across
00:47:41.840 the border or anything like that,
00:47:43.120 tried to,
00:47:43.920 tried to,
00:47:44.700 they just flew from,
00:47:46.420 I think it was Chicago
00:47:47.060 to Dallas,
00:47:48.120 and they had a bunch of cash
00:47:50.340 in their luggage,
00:47:50.940 which is not a crime,
00:47:52.620 and the police took it
00:47:54.480 right there on the spot.
00:47:56.180 Didn't charge the other,
00:47:57.380 the person with a crime.
00:47:59.500 Not formally accusing them
00:48:00.920 of doing anything,
00:48:02.120 but they take the property anyway,
00:48:04.400 which I think is clearly
00:48:06.300 not acceptable,
00:48:08.840 and it is,
00:48:10.000 by definition,
00:48:10.940 a violation of the due process clause
00:48:14.380 of the Constitution.
00:48:15.340 We know that the Biden's,
00:48:16.520 the Biden administration's
00:48:17.660 unconstitutional vaccine mandate
00:48:18.980 is not doing well
00:48:20.140 in court so far.
00:48:21.360 Not only has the OSHA mandate
00:48:22.620 received a nationwide stay,
00:48:24.520 the U.S. Senate
00:48:25.120 has just voted 48 to 52
00:48:26.700 against Biden's federal mandate.
00:48:29.040 However,
00:48:29.760 the issue now goes
00:48:31.020 to the Democrat-led House,
00:48:32.540 who will likely push it through.
00:48:34.220 This is why we can't leave
00:48:35.440 such a contentious issue
00:48:36.340 up to those
00:48:36.940 in the highest echelons
00:48:38.080 of the government
00:48:38.540 and have taken matters
00:48:39.700 into our own hands.
00:48:41.300 The Daily Wire
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00:48:46.720 The onus is on us,
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00:48:49.380 when they try to force
00:48:50.480 our compliance,
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00:48:52.440 in our bodies
00:48:52.940 is not up to the government,
00:48:54.060 and neither is how
00:48:54.760 we spend our holidays,
00:48:56.100 which Biden's winter COVID plan
00:48:58.000 hinted at doing.
00:48:59.020 The plan includes
00:48:59.620 the extension
00:49:00.020 of the federal mask mandate
00:49:00.980 for public transportation,
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00:50:11.760 So go to johnnythewalrus.com.
00:50:13.700 Now let's get to
00:50:14.260 our daily cancellation.
00:50:15.160 Now you all know
00:50:20.560 that normally
00:50:21.020 I like to have
00:50:22.360 fun on this show.
00:50:24.440 As much fun
00:50:25.040 as I am
00:50:25.480 constitutionally capable
00:50:26.780 of having anyway,
00:50:27.620 which isn't much,
00:50:28.280 so never mind.
00:50:28.920 The point is that today
00:50:29.760 I have to get very serious
00:50:31.040 and
00:50:31.680 even a little emotional,
00:50:34.480 perhaps.
00:50:35.820 You probably remember
00:50:36.720 that I began this week
00:50:37.780 in a state of elation,
00:50:39.300 deeply proud of the fact
00:50:40.280 that my children's book,
00:50:41.340 Johnny the Walrus,
00:50:42.180 about a boy who identifies
00:50:43.200 as a walrus,
00:50:44.100 had not only become
00:50:44.920 one of the top five
00:50:45.860 best-selling books on Amazon,
00:50:47.300 but it also made it
00:50:48.140 onto Amazon's LGBT book list,
00:50:50.340 where it was number one.
00:50:52.240 My walrus novel
00:50:53.320 had only been on sale
00:50:54.760 for a few days,
00:50:55.320 but already it was
00:50:56.000 the most popular piece
00:50:56.960 of LGBT literature
00:50:58.280 in the world,
00:50:59.680 topping the list
00:51:00.380 and beating out
00:51:01.060 such LGBT titles
00:51:02.080 as Filthy Bromance
00:51:03.760 and Holigay
00:51:05.200 and Daddy's Little Christmas.
00:51:07.100 These are all real titles,
00:51:07.900 by the way.
00:51:08.580 It even bested the classic
00:51:10.300 Sexted by Santa,
00:51:12.120 Thrust into Love,
00:51:13.080 Book Four.
00:51:14.920 They probably should have
00:51:15.640 stuck with
00:51:16.020 Sexted by Santa trilogy.
00:51:17.580 You know,
00:51:17.780 the narrative really
00:51:18.480 lost its momentum
00:51:19.180 in the fourth installment,
00:51:20.460 some critics
00:51:20.960 are reporting anyway.
00:51:23.080 Kind of a naked cash grab
00:51:25.140 in more ways than one,
00:51:26.140 you might say.
00:51:26.840 But in any case,
00:51:27.800 I had suddenly become
00:51:29.100 the most prominent,
00:51:30.160 influential,
00:51:31.060 celebrated,
00:51:31.740 and revered LGBT voice
00:51:33.240 in the world
00:51:33.960 and possibly in all of history.
00:51:36.240 I didn't expect
00:51:37.140 to be put in that position,
00:51:38.220 but I was ready
00:51:38.720 to fulfill the responsibilities
00:51:39.980 of that office faithfully.
00:51:43.140 I had big plans
00:51:44.380 for the LGBT movement,
00:51:45.520 of which I was now
00:51:46.540 the sole and unquestioned leader.
00:51:48.820 Yes, it's true
00:51:49.440 that I am heterosexual,
00:51:51.120 but there's no reason
00:51:52.100 why that should exclude me
00:51:54.940 from holding this title.
00:51:56.640 I am a straight LGBT author
00:51:58.660 and leader
00:51:59.860 and walrus awareness advocate.
00:52:03.020 These are all parts
00:52:04.140 of my complex
00:52:05.620 and intersectional identity.
00:52:07.200 I am an enigma
00:52:08.160 even to myself.
00:52:10.280 My identity
00:52:10.820 is a vast mosaic
00:52:12.060 of different elements
00:52:13.400 and pieces
00:52:13.920 all adding up
00:52:14.680 to one beautiful
00:52:15.480 yet complicated whole
00:52:16.520 and from these mysterious depths
00:52:18.500 sprang forth
00:52:19.500 the work of tortured genius
00:52:20.960 known as Johnny the Walrus.
00:52:23.580 Does all this sound
00:52:24.640 extremely narcissistic
00:52:25.700 and nonsensical?
00:52:26.340 Perhaps.
00:52:27.600 But that only again
00:52:28.320 proves why I deserve
00:52:29.420 to be the voice
00:52:30.120 of the LGBT movement,
00:52:31.620 which is what I am.
00:52:34.240 Yet in an act of mutiny
00:52:35.860 and treason,
00:52:37.960 my fellow LGBT activists
00:52:39.420 turned on me.
00:52:40.940 They complained bitterly
00:52:42.300 about the fact
00:52:42.840 that my book
00:52:43.440 was on the LGBT charts.
00:52:45.520 They were envious.
00:52:47.300 Indeed,
00:52:47.660 they didn't want it
00:52:48.340 on any charts at all.
00:52:49.420 I reported yesterday
00:52:50.080 that Media Matters
00:52:50.820 had published a hit piece
00:52:51.940 accusing me
00:52:52.640 of transphobia
00:52:53.960 and other assorted
00:52:54.680 thought crimes.
00:52:55.620 Glad the Gay and Lesbian
00:52:56.680 Alliance Against Defamation
00:52:57.580 aligned itself
00:52:58.900 with my defamers
00:53:00.100 calling on Amazon
00:53:01.500 to remove the book
00:53:02.260 from the LGBT category.
00:53:04.140 Other activists chimed in,
00:53:05.420 some of them tagging
00:53:06.240 Jeff Bezos
00:53:06.940 calling on Amazon's founder
00:53:08.820 to address the matter
00:53:09.720 personally.
00:53:11.280 In the greatest act
00:53:12.500 of betrayal,
00:53:14.160 my favorite website,
00:53:16.080 the gay news site
00:53:16.840 Pink News,
00:53:17.780 published an article
00:53:18.400 with this title.
00:53:19.960 Right-wing pundit
00:53:20.820 gloats as Amazon
00:53:22.220 lists hateful,
00:53:23.100 transphobic book
00:53:23.920 as LGBT plus bestseller.
00:53:25.600 And the article explains,
00:53:27.980 Amazon has listed
00:53:28.720 a hateful,
00:53:29.300 transphobic children's book
00:53:30.480 by The Daily Wire's
00:53:31.200 Matt Walsh
00:53:31.640 as its number one
00:53:32.400 best-selling LGBT book.
00:53:34.440 Walsh,
00:53:34.740 a right-wing writer
00:53:35.560 who has compared
00:53:36.160 gender-affirming healthcare
00:53:37.140 to experimentation,
00:53:38.540 molestation,
00:53:39.220 abuse,
00:53:39.580 and rape,
00:53:40.540 recently announced
00:53:41.200 that he has written
00:53:41.640 a horrific,
00:53:42.600 horrific anti-trans
00:53:43.940 children's book,
00:53:44.980 Johnny the Walrus,
00:53:46.040 set to be published
00:53:46.640 in March.
00:53:47.480 The book began
00:53:48.340 taking pre-orders
00:53:49.020 this month on Amazon,
00:53:49.940 which has inexplicably
00:53:51.880 classed it as an LGBT book.
00:53:54.260 In a review,
00:53:55.360 the right-wing publication
00:53:56.400 The Blaze said,
00:53:57.520 Matt Walsh's work
00:53:58.200 is an effort
00:53:58.620 to push back
00:53:59.280 against radical
00:54:00.360 gender ideology,
00:54:01.360 which defies
00:54:02.100 biological reality.
00:54:03.800 But if anything
00:54:04.280 says ideology,
00:54:05.220 surely it's a book
00:54:05.920 that tells children
00:54:06.640 that expressing their gender
00:54:07.740 means being forced
00:54:08.580 to eat worms
00:54:09.260 and having their feet
00:54:10.400 cut off.
00:54:11.780 Johnny the Walrus,
00:54:12.460 supposedly aimed
00:54:13.100 at three- to five-year-olds,
00:54:14.300 tells the story
00:54:14.780 of a little boy
00:54:15.200 who pretends to be a walrus.
00:54:16.140 Johnny's mother
00:54:16.600 is pressured by the internet
00:54:17.640 to tell her child
00:54:18.520 that he is a walrus,
00:54:19.500 and protesters
00:54:20.080 are shown with signs
00:54:21.060 claiming human walruses
00:54:22.340 are real walruses.
00:54:23.220 The most twisted attack
00:54:24.820 on trans kids
00:54:25.520 is when Johnny's mom
00:54:26.840 takes him to the doctor
00:54:28.120 who tells him
00:54:29.000 he must only eat worms,
00:54:30.260 constantly wear
00:54:30.820 itchy gray makeup,
00:54:31.880 and have his feet
00:54:32.680 cut into fins.
00:54:35.380 Now, for the record,
00:54:36.620 if that part of the story
00:54:38.340 is an attack on anyone,
00:54:39.380 it would be an attack
00:54:40.020 on people who mutilate kids,
00:54:41.740 not on the kids themselves,
00:54:42.860 obviously.
00:54:43.620 This is like
00:54:44.020 if you're punching
00:54:44.480 somebody in the face
00:54:45.200 and I tell you to stop
00:54:46.240 and you accuse me
00:54:47.300 of attacking the person
00:54:48.160 that you were punching.
00:54:49.500 So you're the attacker
00:54:50.400 in that situation.
00:54:51.040 I am the intervener
00:54:52.000 in the attack.
00:54:52.960 That's how that
00:54:53.600 relationship works.
00:54:55.100 But anyway,
00:54:55.620 the greater point here
00:54:56.440 is that the very people
00:54:58.400 who ought to have been
00:54:59.200 coming to my aid
00:55:00.240 and defending me
00:55:01.420 as a straight gay icon
00:55:02.880 were instead focused
00:55:04.600 on marginalizing me.
00:55:06.880 And their campaign
00:55:07.900 of hate and bigotry,
00:55:09.100 I am sad to report,
00:55:10.420 has worked.
00:55:11.720 This morning,
00:55:12.460 I awoke to discover
00:55:13.300 that Johnny the Walrus,
00:55:15.220 the most courageous piece
00:55:16.400 of LGBT literature
00:55:17.600 ever written,
00:55:18.500 has been removed
00:55:19.360 from Amazon's
00:55:20.140 LGBT bestseller list.
00:55:21.700 They took it off.
00:55:22.880 No explanation.
00:55:24.360 They didn't ask me.
00:55:25.820 I didn't consent.
00:55:27.580 And it's not just
00:55:28.220 that there had been
00:55:29.040 a surge in sexted
00:55:30.040 by Santa sales
00:55:30.880 supplanting my book
00:55:31.780 as number one.
00:55:32.460 If that were the case,
00:55:33.220 I would tip my cap
00:55:34.060 to the sexting Santa
00:55:35.060 and accept defeat.
00:55:36.080 But that's not what happened.
00:55:37.560 I was removed
00:55:38.400 from the category entirely.
00:55:40.360 I have been literally erased.
00:55:43.720 I've been targeted
00:55:44.540 for violence,
00:55:45.280 not literal violence,
00:55:46.200 but literary violence.
00:55:47.340 Jussie Smollett
00:55:49.560 was not the victim
00:55:50.160 of an anti-gay hate crime,
00:55:51.440 but I am.
00:55:53.180 I'm also a better
00:55:54.000 fiction writer, incidentally.
00:55:56.160 This is an attack
00:55:57.060 not just on me,
00:55:59.440 but on the whole
00:56:00.680 LGBT community
00:56:01.520 and on the Walrus community.
00:56:04.680 I feel,
00:56:05.460 I have to say,
00:56:06.020 deeply afraid now.
00:56:09.340 Unsafe.
00:56:11.100 I mean,
00:56:11.580 if I cannot be safe
00:56:12.760 and secure
00:56:13.260 on the Amazon LGBT list,
00:56:14.960 then where can I turn?
00:56:17.740 Where am I safe?
00:56:19.800 I have represented
00:56:21.020 and defended
00:56:21.840 the LGBT community
00:56:23.140 faithfully
00:56:23.820 for these many hours.
00:56:26.740 Who will defend me now?
00:56:29.120 No one.
00:56:29.960 I feel alone
00:56:30.980 and cold
00:56:32.180 and abandoned.
00:56:36.140 But I have cried
00:56:37.100 all the tears
00:56:37.680 I can cry over this.
00:56:39.520 I'm sure there'll be
00:56:40.040 many tears in the future.
00:56:41.760 I have been
00:56:42.600 dehumanized,
00:56:43.460 delegitimized,
00:56:44.520 decertified,
00:56:45.440 vaporized,
00:56:46.240 but I'm not
00:56:47.660 going to back down.
00:56:49.100 I'm still going to
00:56:50.020 stand up
00:56:50.560 and be loud
00:56:51.260 and proud
00:56:51.720 and speak my truth.
00:56:53.720 A truth which is
00:56:54.680 grounded in my
00:56:55.400 lived experience
00:56:56.260 as an LGBT author
00:56:57.400 and Walrus advocate.
00:56:59.400 Amazon can't stop me.
00:57:01.040 Nobody can.
00:57:02.060 I'm not going to be
00:57:02.780 canceled.
00:57:03.140 Instead,
00:57:03.540 to GLAAD
00:57:04.020 and Pink News
00:57:05.200 and Amazon
00:57:05.780 and Media Matters
00:57:06.540 with all the strength
00:57:07.500 I can muster
00:57:08.060 as a best-selling
00:57:08.620 LGBT author,
00:57:09.200 a title I will
00:57:10.300 retain forever,
00:57:11.120 by the way,
00:57:11.980 I say that you all
00:57:13.360 are canceled.
00:57:15.780 Shame on you.
00:57:17.440 Shame on you.
00:57:21.080 I told you we'd get
00:57:21.840 a little bit emotional
00:57:22.480 to close out
00:57:23.760 of Friday,
00:57:24.680 but I had to
00:57:26.020 be vulnerable with you
00:57:27.280 and I hope
00:57:28.140 that's okay.
00:57:29.720 We'll leave it there
00:57:30.260 for today.
00:57:31.140 Thanks for watching.
00:57:32.260 Thanks for listening.
00:57:33.680 Make sure to buy my book,
00:57:34.480 johnnythewalrus.com.
00:57:36.060 Talk to you on Monday.
00:57:36.800 Godspeed.
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