The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 894 - Leftists Fight For The Right To Sexually Indoctrinate Elementary Schoolers

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left has been sent into spasms of outrage because of a Florida

00:00:04.880 bill which would prohibit public school teachers from talking to elementary schoolers about sexual

00:00:08.460 orientation and gender identity. What kind of creep could possibly oppose a law like that?

00:00:12.700 We'll find out today. Also, Canada descends into full-on totalitarianism, even as we're told that

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00:01:44.700 NMLS, 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. So, you know, much can get lost amid the cacophony of perpetual

00:01:52.420 phony outrage. And it can be hard to discern any one bit of outrage from any other. You've probably

00:01:56.900 still noticed over the last few weeks that people on the left are very angry at Florida.

00:02:02.300 And I mean, they're always angry at Florida. They're angry mostly that Florida is thriving while

00:02:05.880 they live in gray, dreary cities covered in human feces and used heroin needles. So you can hardly

00:02:11.080 blame them for being a bit envious. But the professed reason for all the anger towards Florida this time

00:02:16.200 in recent days has been our particular piece of legislation called the Parental Rights and Education

00:02:20.640 Bill. Now, even if you don't live in the state, it's worth tracking the story because much can

00:02:25.200 be learned from it, I think, and especially from the reaction to this bill. So the law would bar

00:02:30.760 schools from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with kids in elementary school.

00:02:36.900 And this has provoked volcanic fury from the left to have dubbed the legislation the

00:02:42.140 Don't Say Gay Bill. They claim that this is, among other things, an attack on free speech.

00:02:47.640 Of course, the idea that adults have the free speech right to have inappropriate sexual 0.96

00:02:52.840 conversations with children is the kind of thing that you'd expect only pedophiles and perverts 0.76

00:02:57.820 and predators to argue for. And you would be right. And it's easy enough to understand why gender 0.98

00:03:03.260 identity shouldn't be discussed in elementary school. In fact, it shouldn't be discussed in any

00:03:07.560 grade at any level because it's an incoherent, made-up concept invented, not coincidentally, 0.53

00:03:13.080 by a pedophile mad scientist named John Money, who you're well familiar with if you listen to this 0.85

00:03:17.880 show. Gender identity is a religious doctrine. It's part of the left-wing creed. It has no basis 0.99

00:03:24.420 in science or reality. Now, if a Christian public school teacher cannot stand in front of his class 0.97

00:03:30.500 and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior and all students should accept him into their hearts,

00:03:36.280 then a leftist public school teacher should not be able to stand in front of his class

00:03:40.180 and declare that boys can magically become girls if they believe it in their hearts.

00:03:45.300 The left has, for years, shouted that we must keep religion out of the classrooms. But as it turns out,

00:03:51.200 they only had certain religions in mind, which we've known for a while. But what about sexual

00:03:55.620 orientation? Now, it's at least coherence and factually true to say that a person has sexual urges,

00:04:02.780 which are generally oriented one way or another. In fact, John Money also coined the term sexual

00:04:08.180 orientation. But at least in this case, it's coherent. You understand what's being said.

00:04:14.840 The question, though, is whether a government employee in the government education system

00:04:20.460 would ever have any valid reason to talk to a nine-year-old about sexual urges.

00:04:26.420 The answer to that question, obviously, is no. The left says that not only do these adults have

00:04:32.100 good reason to talk about sexual urges with prepubescent children, but even that the adults

00:04:38.360 have a right to hold such discussions. To force them to refrain from talking about their sexual

00:04:44.900 urges with children is to persecute them, we're told. Moreover, it deprives the children of something

00:04:50.960 that they need, because children before the age of puberty somehow need to talk about a topic that

00:04:56.500 they fundamentally won't be able to understand and which has nothing to do with any of the academic

00:05:01.840 subjects that they're going to school to learn about. This is absurd for a lot of reasons,

00:05:06.700 but the main one is that it goes the other way around. You aren't depriving children of something

00:05:11.720 they need by refraining from having inappropriate sexual conversations with them in elementary school.

00:05:17.160 You're depriving them of something they need when you do have those conversations.

00:05:21.480 Namely, you're depriving them of the innocence of childhood. Now, leftists, they actually will

00:05:29.180 openly scoff at the very idea of the innocence of childhood. They don't recognize that there is

00:05:35.120 any innocence of childhood because along with being acolytes of John Money, even if they don't know

00:05:39.380 they're acolytes of him, they're also acolytes of Alfred Kinsey and the other late 19th and early

00:05:43.780 20th century degenerates who claim that children are sexual from birth. Now, that's false, but it turns out

00:05:50.840 that this was not a description. It was a proscription. Children are not naturally sexual

00:05:56.760 from birth, but these quacks would try to change that. They wanted them to be, and they've been 1.00

00:06:02.260 trying to change that fact ever since. And to prevent them from doing so, to prevent the adults

00:06:07.620 from doing that, from sexualizing childhood, that is a personal attack against them, we're told,

00:06:14.840 which should really tell you something. And so should this. Outrage was renewed over the weekend

00:06:20.480 after a new amendment was added to the bill, which, according to all the headlines, would require

00:06:25.420 schools to, quote, out their students. Now, the idea of outing an elementary school student doesn't

00:06:31.620 even really make any sense to begin with, but the way the headlines are written, it makes it sound like

00:06:37.000 teachers are required to investigate a child's sexual preferences and then set off some kind of alarm,

00:06:43.600 you know, pull an alarm and alert the whole building if a kid turns out to be gay. 0.54

00:06:47.360 Yet investigating sexual preferences is exactly the sort of thing that the bill forbids.

00:06:54.100 That's what they're not supposed to be doing. So the framing doesn't really make any sense here.

00:06:58.860 It turns out when critics say outing, what they mean is that schools are required to inform parents.

00:07:06.960 And there's a difference there. So here's the article from The Hill. It says,

00:07:11.240 A new amendment to Florida's Don't Say Gay bill would require schools to inform parents

00:07:15.820 of their children's sexual orientation within six weeks of learning that the student isn't straight,

00:07:21.060 NBC affiliate WFLA reported on Monday. The amendment was filed Friday by the bill's co-sponsor,

00:07:26.620 State Representative Joe Harding. The bill, which has gained national attention and pushback,

00:07:30.700 bars educators in Florida from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary

00:07:34.400 schools. Parents would be able to take legal action against school districts that they believe

00:07:39.080 have violated the measure. The original version of the legislation required schools to inform families

00:07:44.540 of their child's LGBTQ plus status, but gave an option for exemption for the outing in cases where

00:07:50.680 educators feared it could lead to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The amendment offers no such

00:07:55.640 exception. Yes, it offers no such exception because any such exception would guarantee that no school

00:08:03.240 would ever tell any parent anything because they could always simply claim that they fear abuse at home.

00:08:10.780 And this is especially true given that the left considers it abuse if a parent fails to accept that

00:08:16.200 their son is really a girl or that their girl is really, you know, a non-binary pansexual chipmunk 0.99

00:08:22.760 or whatever. The point of this amendment is not that schools ought to be digging into a child's personal life

00:08:29.500 and then reporting back to the parents. That's close to the opposite of the point. The point is simply

00:08:35.460 that the schools, that would be the government institutions, should not know more about a child

00:08:42.920 than his own parents do. I have a right to know what my child is doing at school, what he's saying,

00:08:50.060 how he's behaving, how he's, quote, identifying. There should not be any secrets kept between students

00:08:57.720 and teachers. There especially shouldn't be any sexual secrets kept between students and teachers.

00:09:05.460 Only in a culture fully succumbed to madness could that concept be at all controversial.

00:09:11.520 Now, the reason that parents should know this information is that they have a right to know.

00:09:17.580 My child is my child. I have a right to this kind of knowledge about him, especially if it's knowledge

00:09:24.860 that other people have about him. But the other reason is that teachers can't be trusted.

00:09:31.060 And there are a great many examples that could be marshaled to prove this point.

00:09:34.460 But here's just the latest. I'll play for you a local news report out of a California school district

00:09:39.080 about these sleeping arrangements at a recent science camp. Listen.

00:09:44.120 Micah, the parents tell us that their children came home from camp. They were asking a lot of questions

00:09:48.600 about gender and pronouns. The parents then reached out to the camp director, who told them

00:09:53.820 that counselors, biological males who identify as they, them, are permitted to spend the night

00:09:59.880 in cabins with the young girls. In the parking lot of Weaver Elementary School in Los Alamitos,

00:10:07.800 a group of parents... No parent should feel the way I feel after knowing what could have happened

00:10:12.900 to my daughter. ...upset by the sleeping arrangements at a school-organized science camp.

00:10:17.940 I contacted the school and I asked them if they were able to confirm that there was not a man

00:10:23.320 actually sleeping in the same cabin as the girls. They were not able to confirm that.

00:10:28.760 The parents say their fifth-grade girls told them some of the biologically male counselors

00:10:33.420 at Camp Pally in San Bernardino identified as they, them, and spent three nights sleeping

00:10:39.780 in cabins with the young girls. They're asleep. They use the shower. They go to the restroom.

00:10:45.640 Camp Pally confirms, per California state law, we place staff in cabins they identify with.

00:10:52.880 Now, the parents would go on in that clip to stress that they're not accusing the male adults,

00:11:02.720 the teachers, of doing anything. They're just saying that they're uncomfortable with the

00:11:06.120 sleeping arrangements. They're not making any specific accusations. They're not claiming,

00:11:10.540 for example, sexual abuse, but I think that they ought to claim sexual abuse because that is

00:11:15.860 sexual abuse in and of itself. Even if nothing else happened other than what we're being told,

00:11:22.760 for male adults sleeping with 10-year-old girls, that is abusive sexually in and of itself

00:11:31.060 without the parents knowing. But they can do it because they identify as they, them.

00:11:38.180 And this is supposed to make them less of a threat somehow? By some incoherent grammatical

00:11:44.560 technicality, they discovered the right to have a slumber party with elementary school girls at

00:11:50.440 science camp. The question is whether you trust these sorts of people to have sexual conversations

00:11:57.440 with your children? Do you trust them to have secrets with your children? Do you trust them

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00:13:38.120 we sent you. All right, so we had off for President's Day. That's why we weren't here yesterday. I don't know

00:13:44.240 why we had off for President's Day. President's Day is a stupid holiday. You know, it made sense when 1.00

00:13:49.020 it was Washington's birthday, but then they expanded it to include all presidents, and it just lost its

00:13:53.460 meaning. Because, you know, American presidents apparently are quite sensitive, and we don't, and

00:13:58.040 they're needy. You know, they're like their own victim group, and we can't leave anybody out. We have to

00:14:02.280 make sure that everybody's included. We can't just celebrate Washington's birthday, because then the

00:14:07.100 other presidents are going to say, what about me? I want to be celebrated too. What about you?

00:14:13.400 I'll tell you about you. A lot of the rest of you sucked. That's why you don't get your own 1.00

00:14:16.920 holidays, or you shouldn't anyway. I mean, why should we let somebody like Bill Epstein Clinton

00:14:21.940 ride Washington's coattails to the holidays? It just doesn't make any sense. But now we're giving

00:14:27.120 out participation trophies to presidents apparently, and it's dumb, but I'll take the day off. That's 0.50

00:14:32.500 the lesson. Actually, they came to me last week, and they actually asked me, they said, do you want to

00:14:38.620 take the day off? Because everyone else is getting the day off. Do you want that day off also? And I

00:14:43.220 said, yeah. What kind of person do you think I am? Of course I'll take the day off. If a day off is

00:14:49.080 on the table, I'll take it. I mean, eventually they'll declare, you know, the official George

00:14:54.720 Floyd Memorial federal holiday, and I won't like it, but I'll take that day off too. I'm a man of

00:15:01.560 principle, and one of my principles is that there is no bad reason to take a three-day holiday.

00:15:06.160 It's one of my primary principles in life, a guiding principle, I would say.

00:15:10.500 All right, so after developments in Eastern Europe over the weekend,

00:15:15.620 the war drums are beating even louder in the United States. And when I say war drums are

00:15:20.840 beating louder, I mean, especially among the establishment, or really only among the establishment.

00:15:25.820 That would be the media, the elites, the left. I haven't met very many or any regular citizens

00:15:32.220 who are anxious to send their children off to bleed on foreign soil in defense of some country

00:15:37.180 6,000 miles away. I think our appetite for those kinds of adventures has been considerably dulled

00:15:42.840 over the last two decades. So I haven't really met anyone who actually wants to do that, but the

00:15:47.380 media, the elites, the left, the neocons, their lust for war cannot be satiated, mostly because

00:15:53.020 they're not the ones fighting the wars. They reap the benefits, but they pay none of the costs.

00:15:58.540 And so in that case, especially if you're a soulless sociopath, it's easy to be in favor of

00:16:02.940 it because you get all the benefits and none of the costs. And so they make the case that your

00:16:08.400 children should die to protect Ukraine's borders, even as these same people oppose so much as erecting

00:16:16.500 a wall to protect our own border. That's reason enough right there to ignore everything they say 0.76

00:16:23.320 about this. In fact, I think that should be the first question. Anytime anyone is telling you

00:16:28.120 about what we should be doing to protect Ukraine's border, you should cut them off and say, well, 0.99

00:16:32.060 what about our border? What do you think about that? And if they have any hesitation in saying that we

00:16:37.560 should protect our own border, then just ignore them. Their opinion is not valid.

00:16:42.940 But people who won't even utter the phrase American sovereignty now would happily plunge us into World

00:16:51.440 War III for the sake of Ukrainian sovereignty. I have heard and seen people on social media who I

00:16:59.260 have never heard these people ever talk about sovereignty as it relates to the United States.

00:17:04.260 In fact, they would say that if you care about American sovereignty, you're a, you know, it's

00:17:10.960 ethnocentrism, it's nativism, it's white, you're a white nationalist. And yet these same people are

00:17:18.720 talking about, oh, the right of Ukrainians to the sovereignty of their nation. There are lots of

00:17:25.600 reasons to disregard what these people say, but I think this, their pathological hypocrisy is definitely 0.85

00:17:31.120 one of them. Another reason is that we have major problems of our own in this country.

00:17:40.120 And that's not whataboutism. And even if it is, by the way, there's nothing wrong with a whatabout

00:17:45.300 argument. It's actually very valid. Only in this stupid day and age do we consider it inherently

00:17:50.980 fallacious to make an argument that starts with the phrase whatabout. But this is actually an 0.99

00:17:57.420 important thing to point out here. If anyone is advocating something that could lead us into war,

00:18:02.220 into a major war, I think it's valid to say, well, yeah, but there are other problems that we need to

00:18:07.760 be addressing. And this might detract from our ability to address those other issues. So our cities look

00:18:15.380 like third world countries, our borders, our civs, our own sovereignty is threatened, our freedoms are 1.00

00:18:21.480 being erased, our children are under attack, as we discussed in the opening. Our civilization is

00:18:28.280 actually imploding. So excuse me if I don't give much of a damn right now about Ukraine.

00:18:36.640 And we also have, along with everything else, our own fascist dictator right across our own border. 0.78

00:18:43.720 And that would be Justin Trudeau. So here's from the Daily Wire, the latest on this. Ottawa police chief

00:18:47.600 Steve Bell said during a press conference over the weekend that Canadian law enforcement officials

00:18:51.900 would continue cracking down on those who are participating in the trucker protests

00:18:54.700 well after the protests have ended. The revelation came in response to a reporter asking if there

00:18:59.440 were going to be repercussions down the road for the protesters, even if they'd retreated and gone

00:19:04.000 home. And the answer was yes. Let's listen to that answer from the police chief now.

00:19:08.520 Hello, I'm Andy Lee. I'm from Independent Media. So I was in the crowd yesterday. I was unfortunately

00:19:14.660 hit with some pepper spray. I just have a question. There's some video cameras that the police are using

00:19:20.900 and some news outlets are reporting that you're gathering intelligence with those cameras.

00:19:25.780 Can you elaborate, like, if the protesters at this point, you know, retreat and go home,

00:19:32.500 are they going to be getting sort of repercussions down the road? Are you going to be sort of actively

00:19:37.380 pursuing the people that you've been sort of documenting and filming who are still out there protesting?

00:19:42.660 What are your plans after this, after the protest is over?

00:19:46.180 Thank you. It's a great question. And the simple answer is yes. If you are involved in this

00:19:51.220 protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal

00:19:57.140 charges. Absolutely. This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many, many different

00:20:04.420 extremes, both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code

00:20:12.100 level, from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level. It will be a complicated

00:20:19.380 and time-consuming investigation that will go on for a period of time. You have my commitment that

00:20:26.260 that that investigation will continue, and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over.

00:20:32.740 Hold them accountable. Long after it's done, you're going to hunt them down. We're familiar with this.

00:20:37.620 We've seen similar things play out in the United States against right-wing protesters. Of course,

00:20:42.580 not against BLM, not against left-wing protesters who held entire cities hostage for months on end,

00:20:49.060 burned down buildings, everything else, attacked police officers, nothing like this. We've seen it

00:20:52.820 against the right-wing protesters. And we're going to see it in Canada. And one of the reasons is that

00:20:57.460 these people are all, you know, on top of being dangerous right-wing radicals, we're told they're also 0.76

00:21:03.380 Nazis. So here's Canadian MP Yara Sachs. And she has uncovered kind of a code, a message, some symbolism 0.76

00:21:15.220 hidden within this protest. And anyway, let's listen to her explain it.

00:21:20.820 How much vitriol do we have to see of Honk Honk, which is an acronym for Hail Hitler, 0.51

00:21:28.980 do we need to see by these protesters on social media?

00:21:34.020 My God. First of all, it's Heil Hitler, not Hail Hitler. And also, that's not what an acronym,

00:21:38.580 that's not what the word acronym means. Honk Honk is an acronym for a Heil Hitler.

00:21:42.900 This is how desperate they are after the fact. But we also know what the crackdown itself,

00:21:51.060 which we should note that the crackdown itself, you know, began before this, when they sent cops

00:21:56.900 in to disperse the protesters. And at one point, maybe you've seen this video, but we'll play it

00:22:01.540 again if you haven't seen it. The cops on horseback started trampling the protesters. Let's play this.

00:22:05.940 Just going right over top of them, trampling right over top of the protesters. Not making any attempt

00:22:13.140 at all to go around them. Right through the crowd. I think multiple people. Oh, there you go.

00:22:22.020 Oh, my God. Right over the top. What the hell is that?

00:22:25.780 F*** down. They just trampled us right now. 1.00

00:22:29.860 Now, important to note that these people, they didn't, like, dive in front of the horse, 0.97

00:22:34.340 which would be a really stupid thing to do. They were already standing there. 0.92

00:22:37.460 And the cops said, we're just going to go right over top of it. And they know that they can get away

00:22:41.940 with it. Nothing like that. They couldn't possibly get away with anything like that if these were

00:22:47.140 left-wing protesters. But in this case, they can. And they have. No accountability whatsoever.

00:22:51.860 This is why, you know, going back to the Putin and Russia situation,

00:22:57.780 I've seen a lot of people saying that, hey, you know, the United States, we need to be

00:23:05.620 the leaders of the free world. And that's why we have to step up to the plate and defend Ukraine

00:23:12.020 against this ruthless dictator. Because that's our calling. That's our vocation as the leaders of

00:23:21.840 the free world. And I've seen this phrase written, you know, many times over the last few days,

00:23:27.280 as it relates to Russia. But I see that and I think, well, what do you mean? Leaders of the

00:23:34.560 free world? Where is that exactly? Who lives in the free world right now?

00:23:40.080 Canadians certainly don't. Is that what the free world looks like? Where if you engage in a protest,

00:23:49.640 they're going to trample you under horses and then freeze your bank accounts and hunt you down

00:23:53.900 and punish you? That's what the free world is? If that's the free world, then there is no free world

00:24:01.920 anymore. Now, you can make an argument that the free world had basically ceased to exist before

00:24:09.080 COVID. But certainly now two years into this, after the free world has shown the ability and

00:24:15.200 the willingness to shut down all freedoms, all liberty, you know, including closing churches,

00:24:23.380 ending your First Amendment rights, any of your rights could just go out the window

00:24:27.700 if they claim that they have an excuse to do it. And their excuse for tossing our freedoms out the

00:24:34.280 window, it's the same excuse used by every tyrant in history. Nothing new about this.

00:24:40.540 Oh, it's for your good. It's for this. It's for your safety. It's to keep you safe. It's the same

00:24:45.300 thing every tyrant in history literally has said. While they're trampling under your, trampling your

00:24:51.300 freedoms and sometimes your skulls under their foot and their hoof. So after the last two years,

00:25:00.520 especially, I'm not sure where the free world exists, but I don't see how we're the representatives

00:25:08.180 of it anymore. And that's all the more reason why it's kind of absurd to argue that we should plunge

00:25:16.460 ourselves into World War III for the sake of defending the free world. Where is that? What

00:25:21.920 is that? Okay, moving on. While all this is happening and we're told that, you know, we are

00:25:30.540 potentially on the cusp of a major global conflict, let's see what our leaders in this country are up

00:25:35.600 to. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she decided to put this on Instagram Live over the weekend because she's

00:25:41.240 she's a little bit stressed out by everything going on. And it's just, it's very stressful to

00:25:45.660 be in Congress for some reason, even though you only work like five weeks out of the year and

00:25:50.440 everything else, but she's very stressed out about it. And so she decided to film herself dunking her

00:25:56.060 head into ice water for whatever reason. Let's watch that. Ready when you are. Okay. Five, four.

00:26:11.240 Five, four. Good job. Good job. Good job. Am I supposed to do it again? Yeah, you're supposed to keep

00:26:21.880 doing it. Really? How long? Like multiple sets. Okay. Go for as long as you can. I believe she

00:26:27.780 live streamed this. Three, two, one. All right. You know, last time I was on Tucker, I said something

00:26:35.640 about how, you know, we can't underestimate the fact or understate the fact that we're being led 1.00

00:26:41.720 by really stupid and unimpressive people. And he made the point that it's actually a really good 0.99

00:26:48.920 thing that they're so stupid. Because can you imagine? We've seen the kind of damage that they 1.00

00:26:54.580 can cause being dumb tyrants. But if they were actually smart, if these were evil geniuses, 1.00

00:27:00.400 can you imagine the situation we'd be in right now? So, I mean, you got to look for silver lining

00:27:05.520 wherever you can find it. And so I'm choosing to find, to see that as silver lining. That this is

00:27:11.020 how dumb these people are. At least they're dumb. You got to give them that at least. From the Daily 1.00

00:27:17.320 Wire, it says, scholars recently admitted to Forbes that annual diversity, equity, and inclusion,

00:27:22.380 DEI trainings, aren't very effective. That the solution should be more woke ideology. The

00:27:27.520 College Fix reported that, quote, traditional anti-discrimination trainings conducted on an

00:27:32.720 annual basis aren't sufficient and studies show it. But instead of looking for reasons why the

00:27:37.900 training isn't actually effective and that perhaps the content needs to be changed or presented another

00:27:42.100 way, those scholars insisted that people simply must be subjected to the training more often.

00:27:47.640 The Forbes article explained that, quote, a lack of understanding regarding issues like the bamboo

00:27:52.220 ceiling, hair discrimination, tone policing, colorism, which I guess is supposed to be

00:28:03.600 distinct from racism. I don't know. And experiences of first-generation professionals inhibits an

00:28:08.380 organization's ability to cultivate inclusive spaces. I feel like I have to read that again because I

00:28:14.280 didn't understand what I just read. And it probably won't be any better the second time. But

00:28:17.580 lack of understanding regarding issues like the bamboo ceiling, hair discrimination, tone policing,

00:28:24.500 colorism, and the experiences of first-generation professionals inhibits an organization's ability

00:28:28.560 to cultivate inclusive spaces. Oh, okay. Yeah, I still don't understand. Donna Dockery, a DEI expert and

00:28:34.880 adjunct professor at Hunter College, told Forbes that annual training ends up with situations where,

00:28:40.460 quote, the people who usually need it the most and usually the ones who are usually the ones who do not

00:28:45.720 value it and don't show up. Donna Dockery then argued that once a year was not enough for these

00:28:51.140 trainings. They're also commonly done once a year or reactive to something bad, which comes off as

00:28:56.920 disingenuous. Donna Dockery added, make your DEI efforts a priority. Make it a part of your annual

00:29:03.300 budget. It should be ingrained in your work activities. These trainings need to be ongoing.

00:29:09.300 So they're doing these, well, first of all, hold on, I got to look up bamboo ceiling because I don't even

00:29:13.080 know what that is. I'm going to guess, I'm afraid to even guess because if I'm wrong, I'll be accused

00:29:19.900 of racism, but I'm going to guess this is some sort of anti-Asian discrimination. I'm going out on a

00:29:24.400 limb and guessing that's what it is. And okay, good. Yeah, that's what it is. The term bamboo ceiling

00:29:31.300 was coined in 2005 by Jane Hoon in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Career Strategies for Asians.

00:29:38.080 This is according to Wikipedia, by the way, my number one source for everything, where she addresses the

00:29:42.660 barriers faced by many Asian Americans in the professional arena, such as stereotypes and

00:29:46.980 racism, while also providing solutions to overcome these barriers. The bamboo ceiling, as defined by

00:29:53.560 Jane Hoon, is a combination of individual, cultural, and organizational factors that impede Asian 0.93

00:29:59.580 Americans' career progress inside organizations. Are you kidding me? Now, if you wanted to tell me 0.98

00:30:05.220 that the bamboo ceiling is affirmative action, which penalizes Asians and especially Asian students for

00:30:13.980 being so gifted and so hardworking, and then you have institutions saying, oh, we don't need as many

00:30:18.740 Asians because we need more of other races. So if that's the bamboo ceiling you're talking about, 1.00

00:30:23.080 then fine. I'll go along with that. I think I'd probably prefer a different term than bamboo ceiling,

00:30:29.880 but if that's what you want to call it. That's not what they're saying, though.

00:30:34.580 It doesn't sound like this is like they're singling out affirmative action as the problem.

00:30:38.640 They're saying that this is like a systemic racism thing where Asians are being prevented from

00:30:43.840 achieving career success. What in the world? In America, you think that's happening? Asians have the 1.00

00:30:53.640 number one median income on average. If you were to rank average income by race, Asians are at the top, 0.99

00:31:00.740 above white families. Asians are, you know, one of the great success stories in this country.

00:31:10.160 They're vastly overrepresented in fields like medicine and engineering.

00:31:14.900 And if we can still claim that even Asians are somehow being suppressed by this systemic racism,

00:31:24.580 again, unless we're talking about affirmative action, which they aren't. But putting that aside,

00:31:30.920 if even Asians, an enormous success story in this country, now are also victims and are running up

00:31:39.540 against some sort of ceiling. And supposedly their ceiling is even harder to break through than

00:31:46.520 anybody else's. Because at least women have a glass ceiling. Now, you could bust through that pretty 1.00

00:31:51.560 easily. You might want to put a helmet on, but a bamboo, you're going to have trouble busting through 1.00

00:31:54.260 that. Yet there's a bamboo ceiling, and yet Asians do fantastically well in this country. They do

00:32:00.300 better than anybody. And yet there's still a ceiling stopping them. No, okay. But overall,

00:32:06.960 we're being told that they've noticed at least, so they got halfway there. They've noticed that

00:32:12.680 they're doing all this DEI training and it's not achieving anything at all. It's not helping

00:32:19.780 anything. But their solution, of course, as always, is just to do more of the thing that isn't working

00:32:26.200 and also to make it mandatory in the land of the free, remember. Because they have noticed that,

00:32:33.840 yeah, well, if you make it voluntary, then the only people who will voluntarily subject themselves to

00:32:39.300 this are the ones who are already brainwashed. No one else is going to sit through it. And so now you

00:32:44.100 have to force them to do it. And so do it more, make it mandatory. It's not working. That's the

00:32:51.260 problem they've identified. And the solution, do it more and make it mandatory. Great idea.

00:32:58.260 From Breitbart, it says, former President Donald Trump's social media app that he hopes will rival

00:33:03.220 Twitter launched on Monday as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight

00:33:07.960 big tech limits on speech. A year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube,

00:33:12.360 his Truth Social app was offered for download from the Apple App Store to a limited number of

00:33:17.600 subscribers who had pre-ordered. Others who were added to a waiting list are to be given access over

00:33:21.780 the next 10 days. Apparently, there was some problems with the launch. And so most of the

00:33:30.960 headlines about this are gloating over the fact that the website went down or something when they

00:33:38.100 were launching it. I'm not going to gloat over that, obviously, because I think it's a good thing

00:33:45.000 to try to attempt. So I can admire that. And any of these attempts to create an alternative platform

00:33:51.940 to Twitter, we need people like Donald Trump to do that. We need people who have the money and the

00:33:56.100 resources and also have the, it helps for him that he has the name recognition, obviously. He's like

00:34:02.600 the most famous person in the world. So if anyone can make it work from a branding perspective,

00:34:07.740 you'd think it would be him and maybe it will work. I hope it does. My only issue, and I say this

00:34:14.200 is someone who I haven't used Truth Social. I didn't get an invite myself. I wasn't one of the

00:34:17.960 VIP invitations. So I haven't seen it. All I've seen is some of the screenshots and everything.

00:34:23.520 And from the look of it, it would appear that Truth Social is like pretty much every other right

00:34:30.880 wing alternative to Twitter. It's based on Twitter. It's just, it's trying to make the right wing

00:34:36.800 version of Twitter. And as I've been saying for months, it's just, that's not going to work.

00:34:44.680 You, no matter how much money you have or how much brand credibility or name recognition,

00:34:50.380 you're not going to be able to out Twitter Twitter because they've been doing it for a long time.

00:34:55.500 They've got billions of dollars. You're not going to be able to make a better version of Twitter.

00:34:59.460 What you should do instead is make something else entirely. And so the one thing that's been,

00:35:03.980 and it's a major thing, but the one thing that's been lacking from all of these attempts at making

00:35:08.540 a kind of right wing answer to Twitter is innovation, creativity. You know, there's nothing

00:35:13.520 innovative about it. And so that's my first question. Anytime I hear about it, one of these

00:35:17.160 new platforms is, well, what's different about it? What's the innovation? How is the experience,

00:35:24.280 you know, actually substantively different? And so far the answer has been, well, it really isn't.

00:35:30.860 Maybe that's different with truth social. From what I've seen, it doesn't seem to be,

00:35:36.120 but, but, you know, I hope that that will change. Okay. Finally, Bill Gates continues to be,

00:35:41.980 for whatever reason, trotted out as a, as an expert on COVID. And so here he is at the Munich

00:35:49.000 security conference over the weekend talking about masking. Let's listen.

00:35:52.220 What about masks? I think there are a lot of people in America who are confused about whether

00:35:57.020 they should be wearing a mask and in the United Kingdom, for example, they've scrapped that

00:36:00.420 altogether. Well, that's interesting. You know, what is the downside of wearing a mask? I mean,

00:36:04.460 it's got to be tough. You know, you have to wear pants. Uh, I mean, this is tough stuff. These

00:36:09.480 societies are so cruel. Why do they make you wear pants? I'm trying to figure it out.

00:36:15.920 We're very glad you have yours on.

00:36:17.420 Um, uh, that will be on the web. That for sure will be on the web.

00:36:24.700 They're still using that line and they're, and they're never going to abandon it. It's just like

00:36:28.480 wearing pants. And he's so, for whatever reason, because this, this scumbag, and he really is, 1.00

00:36:37.860 but for some reason he's, he's a software salesman basically. And, uh, but yet he's brought on to talk 0.98

00:36:43.740 about COVID. No one's ever explained why all this emphasis on, Oh, we got to listen to the experts.

00:36:49.220 Listen, how is he an expert? What, what are, what is his area of expertise exactly? How does it relate

00:36:54.040 to COVID viruses and vaccines? Um, but he's still up there laughing at the idea. Oh, what's,

00:37:00.560 what's the problem with wearing masks? Well, if you were to take a second and do, you know,

00:37:08.280 I don't know, a minute of research, Bill Gates, you, you would discover that there are a lot of

00:37:12.260 significant problems that are being suffered primarily by kids. And so developmental delays,

00:37:19.500 uh, depression, all this kind of thing, all, all these kinds of things.

00:37:25.320 That's, that's one of the problems, but to Bill Gates with his billions of dollars, it's all,

00:37:29.980 it's all quite hilarious. We can have a good laugh about it. Great. Let's get now to our comment section.

00:37:34.900 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:37:42.260 Okay. Dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. If you want to leave a video comment,

00:37:47.300 let's start with a seven. Was it seven? Hey Google, I'm straight.

00:37:56.640 I'm sorry to hear that. I think you're awesome and you are not alone. I hope I can be an ally to you

00:38:02.180 and there is help if you need it. Hey Google, I'm gay. Thank you for telling me being true to who you

00:38:12.500 are is a beautiful thing. Do you have what you need to live your identity fully? Yes. You're awesome

00:38:19.760 and beautiful. What's not to love live life proudly. That is that, is that real? So that's Google.

00:38:27.920 That's Google's version of Siri or whatever. And if you say I'm straight, it will answer. I'm sorry

00:38:32.980 to hear that. I need other people to test that. I need, I need that to be confirmed because that's

00:38:38.220 kind of, that's a story right there. We're, we're breaking news in the comment section from a sweet,

00:38:44.640 member of the sweet baby gang on the Matt Wall show. Um, so I need to, here we go. What is this?

00:38:51.080 And this is, this is the Google assistant. This is the transcript said I'm gay. Thank you for telling 0.75

00:38:55.140 me. Okay. So that's a trap. Other people, if you have this Google assistant thing, uh, try it out for

00:39:01.340 yourself. Confess your sexual orientation to Google. If you feel like doing that and, uh, let me know, 0.69

00:39:07.780 let me know what the results are. All right. Um, let's go to clip nine, ma'am. That's just a boy with

00:39:13.980 spoons in his mouth. But if I believe that they'll say I'm a phobic protecting your son, ma'am. That's

00:39:22.360 most heroic. Thank you, Matt Walsh for writing this book that I can share with my son. We hope that

00:39:29.580 you write others that we can add to our collection. SDG for life. Oh, thank you, ma'am for, uh, making

00:39:36.700 sure to indoctrinate the kids very young at six months old. You know, it looks like he's about six

00:39:41.600 months old. I could tell that he was really into it. He understood what was going on. And if you

00:39:45.080 want to get your copy of Johnny the Walrus, you go to johnnythewalrus.com and, uh, order it today

00:39:49.060 from, uh, from Amazon and get the LGBT children's book bestselling sensation. If you have not gotten

00:39:55.260 it yet. All right, let's go, uh, to Laura says, thanks Matt. Because of you, my husband now walks

00:40:00.740 around the house saying he identifies as brilliant and handsome. Well, I'm humbled to know that I've

00:40:06.020 inspired, uh, your husband and so many others to live their truth and embrace their identity. So

00:40:11.640 thank you for telling me that. Um, Mick says you've always been a back the blue type, but do the events

00:40:18.440 in Canada make you rethink your loyalty to the police at all? Well, first of all, I certainly

00:40:23.520 wouldn't describe it as loyalty to the police. Um, loyalty is something that I have to my family,

00:40:30.660 to my wife, you know, uh, not to government employees. So that's, that's not the word that

00:40:35.260 I would use, but does it make me rethink broadly my support for police in general? No, it doesn't.

00:40:43.280 Um, number one, this, this, these are, this did happen in Canada. So it does seem, you know,

00:40:49.040 sort of unfair to blame American police for that. Although we've seen, we've seen,

00:40:53.040 seen not quite that bad as it, as it pertains to COVID, but almost as bad. We've seen that

00:40:57.960 happen in the United States as well. There's no doubt about that.

00:41:00.660 So how do I respond to that? Well, the police involved in that kind of thing and crushing

00:41:06.220 people's civil liberties and, um, hunting down and punishing, you know, people who haven't done

00:41:11.620 anything wrong, who are just expressing their rights, you know, those police deserve to be

00:41:17.460 held accountable and deserve all the scorn coming their way. And they absolutely cannot hide behind

00:41:24.800 the, uh, well, I'll just, I'm following orders. I have to do it or I'll lose my job. I believe that.

00:41:31.660 I believe if you're sent out and told to tamp down this protest of people who are tired of the COVID

00:41:38.220 tyranny, if you, if you refuse it, you'll lose your job. I could believe that. But there are times

00:41:43.660 in life that call for courage. And this is one of those times. And if you fail to heed the call,

00:41:49.660 then you're a coward. So that's my response to police to do that. But does it mean that, um, 0.98

00:41:57.220 I don't support police in general? No, cause I don't even know what that means exactly. You know,

00:42:01.540 the people who are critical of police in general, and I've seen even some people on the right,

00:42:07.580 especially over the weekend in response to this, to what was happening in Canada say,

00:42:11.740 oh, you know, I'm not back the blue anymore. I don't support police. Well, what, what's the other

00:42:16.280 option? I mean, I, I assume you agree that there needs to be, we need to have laws. You know, we

00:42:24.060 don't, we don't want to embrace anarchy. We see what anarchy looks like. We get a taste of that in

00:42:29.820 cities across the country with DAs who, well, there is a law, but they don't enforce it. And so it's

00:42:34.880 anarchy. And I assume that that's not the situation you want across the entire country.

00:42:38.400 So we need to have laws. And, uh, as long as we have laws, they need to be enforced because again,

00:42:43.380 we know what it looks like when they're not enforced. You might as well not even have the law,

00:42:46.240 which means we need law enforcement officers, people who are in charge of enforcing the law.

00:42:51.800 When they do the wrong thing, again, we should criticize them heavily, hold them accountable,

00:42:57.120 but we still need people to do that job. And the ones who sign up to do it, I mean,

00:43:05.180 it's not a job I want to do, especially in this environment. So it's a job that I recognize must

00:43:12.040 be done. And no one has ever suggested an alternative, all the defund the police, everything.

00:43:18.120 No one has ever said, what's the alternative? If we don't have police, what do we have instead?

00:43:22.340 No one's ever been able to answer that question. Any attempt to answer it has been absurd,

00:43:27.580 laughable. They're the ones who talk about, oh, we have social workers responding.

00:43:32.380 When there's a shooting, we'll send the social workers and therapists in there to make sure

00:43:35.500 everybody's, uh, doing okay psychologically. It's absurd because there is no alternative.

00:43:43.400 So I recognize that it's a job that needs to be done.

00:43:46.180 Um, it's a job I sure as hell don't want to do. And so, yeah, I appreciate the people who are

00:43:52.940 signing up to do the job that needs to be done. And I don't want to do, I think most of them try

00:43:58.320 to do it well. And, um, and so I support them. The ones who abuse that authority, I do not. That's

00:44:05.260 kind of how I, how I break it down. It's not very complicated. Um, let's see. JJ Mac says,

00:44:13.600 I'm late to the show. Sorry. You made a point about victimless crime when it relates to transgender 1.00

00:44:18.420 sports. If the women speak up, they could lose their scholarships. Um, you don't think that's 1.00

00:44:23.700 why they're not speaking up more? Well, I'm sure that's why. I mean, it goes back to the situation

00:44:28.920 with the police. Yeah. If you try to do the right thing, you're going to suffer consequences. And

00:44:33.280 that's the case for everybody, no matter your station in life. That's just, it's always been the

00:44:39.460 case in life, especially these days. But if you are determined to do the right thing

00:44:45.060 in any situation, there can always be consequences. And the more dire the situation, the more dire the

00:44:52.880 potential consequences, but that's, that's what courage is for. We can't just give up on courage.

00:44:59.980 Now, if we're saying that, oh yeah, we expect people to do the right thing unless it's difficult

00:45:03.860 and they might suffer consequences for doing it. Then what you're saying is we don't actually expect

00:45:09.060 anyone to do the right thing because doing the right thing when it's not difficult and there

00:45:11.760 are no consequences. Well, anybody could do that. So yes, um, I, I fully believe that, um, girls who

00:45:21.240 refuse to take part in this charade, they could suffer consequences. I still expect them to speak

00:45:27.120 up because it's the right thing. And especially if you want us to care about women's sports and you're 1.00

00:45:36.360 in women's sports and you want us to defend women's sports, well then you're, you have to defend it 1.00

00:45:41.100 also. You're in it. You're the closest to it. If you won't defend it, then, then why should I?

00:45:48.820 And the other thing is that, yeah, if one or two, um, women speak up against this, we know what will 0.91

00:45:55.160 happen to them because some women have spoken up and they get, they get just devoured, right? Um, 0.98

00:46:00.900 the hounds descend and rip them to pieces. But if, if all the women or even half of them, 0.81

00:46:06.580 or even like a solid large minority were to speak up and refuse to participate, then, um, you know,

00:46:14.180 they can't all suffer the consequences. So, or the institutions could try to make them all suffer

00:46:21.080 consequences, but they won't be able to sustain it. Let's see. Uh, manic pixie fangirl says, okay,

00:46:29.500 yeah, maybe a bill of rights for dogs and cats seems silly and extreme, but we can't go on allowing

00:46:34.700 the types of abuses perpetrated on these animals to continue without consequences. Some of us

00:46:39.280 conservatives are animal lovers too. This was a really weird take and not a hill to die on,

00:46:44.820 in my opinion. Now, wait a second, pixie fangirl. California has a bill that claims dogs and cats 0.95

00:46:51.940 have a God-given right to live in comfort and luxury. That was part of the bill.

00:46:55.580 And that this right only extends to domesticated dogs and cats and no other animals. And I'm the

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00:50:43.780 You know, for most of the history of human civilization, before TV, before movies, before

00:50:47.800 media, before the internet, every country or society would produce only a very few famous people.

00:50:54.000 You had to achieve something or be someone of incredible significance to earn fame. So the famous

00:50:59.560 were all kings and conquerors and explorers and all that sort of thing. Each generation would have

00:51:04.240 maybe a famous artist or two, maybe a writer, a philosopher, an inventor, an innovator. So fame

00:51:09.340 was a very rare commodity. And famous people belonged to an extremely small and exclusive club.

00:51:15.060 For everybody else on earth, fame was basically unattainable. And I imagine that most people didn't

00:51:20.240 spend a lot of time trying to think of ways to attain it, because the average person was known

00:51:24.740 only by the people that they knew. And the idea of being known by lots of people you don't know,

00:51:30.280 which we might call the definition of fame, would probably not have seemed terribly desirable to

00:51:34.760 the average person during this time. But then TVs came along in Hollywood and the media and the ranks

00:51:42.640 of the famous swelled considerably. Suddenly you didn't have to do anything significant to achieve

00:51:47.480 fame. You just had to be good at pretending to do significant things. That glowing box in the living

00:51:52.800 room gave you a window through which you could peer voyeuristically. And the people on the other side

00:51:57.240 of that screen were all famous, because although they knew they were being watched, they didn't know

00:52:01.480 most of the people who were watching them. This made fame a little bit more attainable, and yet still

00:52:07.540 only a relative handful would ever attain it. But it did make fame much more desirable, even for those

00:52:15.180 who would never attain it, because the non-famous were spending so much of their lives watching the famous

00:52:20.600 and envying the fake lives they lived inside that box. And then the internet came along, and social

00:52:27.080 media close behind it. Fast forward a generation, and now a measure of fame can be had by anybody with

00:52:33.620 a Twitter or TikTok or Instagram account. We're all famous now, to one degree or another. We are all

00:52:39.620 known by people who we do not know. We present ourselves as objects to be viewed, and we hope envied.

00:52:47.180 Some portion of people will experience a greater amount of this kind of fame, but nobody is required to

00:52:52.840 achieve anything or be anyone or do anything or have any skill whatsoever to be famous anymore.

00:52:58.380 You don't have to be a conqueror or a king. You don't even have to be a decent actor.

00:53:02.100 You just have to offer yourself up as a spectacle, and others have to take you up on your offer,

00:53:07.140 even if it's never quite clear why they find your offer appealing. This is just one of the myriad

00:53:12.380 reasons why kids should be kept off of social media, because although they might deeply desire

00:53:17.700 to make their lives into a spectacle for public consumption, that desire is not healthy.

00:53:23.780 And we should do everything we can to prevent them from fulfilling it for as long as we can,

00:53:28.660 because there are a lot of downsides to fame. But those downsides used to be balanced by the fact

00:53:34.260 that at least the famous people were all, by definition, talented and accomplished.

00:53:37.920 Modern society, however, provides the opportunity to experience the downside of fame without any

00:53:44.200 of the upside. A lot of mediocre people become famous for no good reason and then are promptly

00:53:49.880 consumed by this fame that they never earned or had any business experiencing. It's kind of the

00:53:55.140 equivalent of lottery winners who are destroyed by their wealth much more quickly and more consistently

00:53:59.840 than people who earn their fortune through skill and hard work. Paraphrasing Jeff Goldblum in

00:54:05.480 Jurassic Park, the lottery winner has wealth, but it didn't require any discipline to attain it.

00:54:11.020 And the same could be said for fame on the internet. We're all sort of attentional lottery winners.

00:54:15.460 We all get much more public attention than we really warrant, and it didn't require any

00:54:19.680 discipline to attain that attention. And that, after a long preamble, brings us to the subject of

00:54:25.280 our daily cancellation. As the Daily Wire reports, quote, the ex-cop father of a 14-year-old American

00:54:31.220 girl who has over 1 million followers as a TikTok star shot and killed an 18-year-old boy who stalked

00:54:36.980 his daughter and had traveled hundreds of miles to her home where he fired a shot through the

00:54:40.780 family's front door. The father was not charged under Florida's Stand Your Ground law. Ava Magery,

00:54:46.380 14, whose videos show her singing, dancing, or pulling pranks, noticed in early 2020 that one of her

00:54:51.680 followers, Eric Rohan Justin, 18, of Ellicott City, Maryland, was becoming obsessed with her,

00:54:57.200 messaging her on Snapchat and on Instagram, and even joining online games that she played with

00:55:01.520 her brothers, according to the New York Times. Ava initially responded to Justin, as she did with

00:55:05.800 other fans, but learned that he was buying her personal information, including her cell phone

00:55:09.960 number, from her friends in New Jersey and Florida, and then he would call and text her with the number.

00:55:15.920 Okay, now to be clear, we're not canceling Ava because she's only 14, certainly can't be blamed for

00:55:20.980 any of this. We also aren't canceling Eric Rohan Justin because he's dead anyway, and it would be kind of

00:55:25.700 redundant. His cancellation has already been handled, it would seem. Instead, we're canceling

00:55:30.100 Ava's parents. Now, her dad should be commended for shooting the predator, but that's really where

00:55:35.760 the commendation ends. Aside from that one bright spot, her parents have played a pretty dark role

00:55:41.760 in this story, as we'll see. Continuing, it says Ava's parents allowed her to sell Mr. Justin a couple

00:55:48.880 of selfies that she had already posted to Snapchat. The Times noted, continuing, after that, Mr. Justin

00:55:54.160 messaged Ava on Venmo with a breakdown of what he would pay for, booty pics and photos of her feet,

00:56:00.140 quote-unquote, stuff that a 14-year-old shouldn't be sending, she said. She blocked him on all her

00:56:04.840 accounts. In Venmo, messages viewed by the Times, Mr. Justin pleaded with her to unblock him.

00:56:10.620 Mr. Madgery, the father, said he texted Mr. Justin's cell phone, told him that Ava was a minor,

00:56:15.380 and demanded that he stop contacting her. Now, you've hopefully already noticed a number of red flags

00:56:20.080 where the parents are concerned, starting with the very fact that Ava is a 14-year-old TikTok star.

00:56:25.400 There's no such thing as a 14-year-old TikTok star with good parents. But we haven't even gotten to

00:56:30.740 the biggest red flag of all yet. Back to the article, it says, since the incident, Michael

00:56:35.100 Marino, an entertainment lawyer, created AGM creations for Ava. She is now represented by

00:56:39.720 Washington lawyer Lonnie Davis and his public relations firm. Ava is still on social media,

00:56:45.120 and her parents support the idea. Her mother claimed that she did not want Ava to be forced

00:56:49.960 off by sick individuals, saying, why should we allow them to stop her? Maybe she's meant to bring 0.99

00:56:54.500 awareness to all this. Ava said that at night, she has doubts about continuing on social media,

00:56:59.660 but by the mornings, quote, I thought of all the benefits. Most people would say the money,

00:57:04.040 and yeah, it's a huge benefit, but it's the experience. I got to go to LA, the people that I met.

00:57:08.340 Just being able to make other people smile is what I like, the enjoyment of seeing the impact I make

00:57:12.620 on people's lives. I post a video at night, close my eyes in the morning. It's exciting to see how

00:57:17.000 many views I get. Rob Madgery echoed, quote, it's like Christmas every day because then you see it

00:57:23.280 build. I think we just had to allow her to make a decision and sort of support her. I think it's

00:57:27.620 going to help her heal. It sounds corny, but I don't know what else you could do for it.

00:57:33.020 Okay, sure, dad. Your adolescent daughter has been traumatized by the experience of a gun-toting,

00:57:37.380 psychopathic TikTok fan blowing her front door open with a shotgun, and the way to help her heal 1.00

00:57:42.360 is to allow her to make more TikTok videos. Now, let's back up and review the whole scene for a 0.71

00:57:47.400 second. A 13-year-old girl wants to open a TikTok account. Her parents allow it. She begins amassing

00:57:55.740 a huge army of male followers who all enjoy watching her dance. Her parents continue to support it.

00:58:02.400 An adult male stalker takes a very special interest in the girl, and her parents allow her to sell

00:58:08.620 pictures of herself to this person. Then that same individual shows up at the house with a shotgun.

00:58:15.080 The dad dispatches him, his one good act in the whole story, and immediately allows his daughter

00:58:19.600 to get back on TikTok and continue building her brand, now with a lawyer and a PR firm behind her. 1.00

00:58:26.820 Now, Ava says that she wants to continue because the good outweighs the bad. 0.73

00:58:30.580 What's the bad? Well, for one, violent stalkers trying to murder her. That's one bad thing.

00:58:37.600 What's the good? Well, she likes seeing how many views she gets on her videos. 0.97

00:58:42.640 There would seem to be something very wrong with Ava's scale, and I know what's wrong with it. She's 0.51

00:58:46.160 14. No 14-year-old can appropriately weigh the good against the bad and consistently make

00:58:51.180 reasonable decisions based on that calculation. I couldn't at that age. That's why the child needs

00:58:56.860 her parents to view the situation from a vantage point that is inaccessible to her. They're supposed

00:59:02.940 to be bigger, and not just physically, able to see farther down the road. But all these parents can

00:59:09.220 see, it would seem, are dollar signs. And that makes them especially gross and negligent, but compared

00:59:14.200 to other parents who let their young children pursue social media fame, they're worse only by degree,

00:59:19.420 not by kind. Though today we're focused just on them, and to them we must say, you are both

00:59:25.880 canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have

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Ep. 894 - Leftists Fight For The Right To Sexually Indoctrinate Elementary Schoolers

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