The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 896 - Putin Planned His Invasion While Biden Focused On Diversity And Inclusion

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden was already having the worst presidential term

00:00:03.760 in American history, and that was before Russia invaded Ukraine, bringing us closer to World War

00:00:07.680 III. And it's not a coincidence that this has happened after Biden spent his first year in

00:00:11.740 office focusing primarily on wokeness and intentionally making our military weaker

00:00:15.960 and more feminine. So we'll talk about that today. Also, Canada proposes legislation that

00:00:19.700 will allow people to report hate speech before it happens. So Brave New World meets the minority 1.00

00:00:25.260 report in Canada. Plus, a trucker convoy heads to DC. I have my reservations about this one,

00:00:30.100 and I'll explain. Also, a writer for New York Magazine says that parents who insist on parental

00:00:34.580 rights are actually household tyrants. And finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll look at the fat

00:00:38.700 acceptance activist who says that dieting is a form of conversion therapy. Yes, all of that and

00:00:44.120 more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:52.000 NMLS, 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Well, on second thought, maybe it wasn't such a good idea

00:02:00.040 to make a dementia patient president. It wasn't a good idea on first thought either, but here we are. 0.97

00:02:05.140 With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the war drums beating louder than ever in the West,

00:02:09.420 potentially inching us closer to a third world war, we can definitively say, though we could have said it

00:02:14.440 before this point, that no president in American history has done this much damage this quickly.

00:02:20.140 Now, we live in an age of hyperbole when every bad thing is the worst thing ever, and every bad

00:02:25.020 person is literally Hitler, and every politician we don't like is the worst politician ever, and 0.70

00:02:30.080 also literally Hitler. One of the consequences of all this exaggeration is that we have no way

00:02:34.740 to sufficiently describe people and things that really are historically bad. And in this case,

00:02:40.900 it actually is true that Joe Biden is, so far, the worst president in American history,

00:02:46.820 and the competition isn't very close. I mean, the gap between second and third worst is much

00:02:52.140 smaller than the gap between second worst and Joe Biden, worst of all. He has been a disaster on every

00:02:57.760 front in every way from every conceivable angle. And the worst thing about him being the worst

00:03:05.340 is that it was all totally foreseeable. We knew that he's an elderly man losing control of his

00:03:11.800 mental faculties. We knew that his handlers are far left ideologues and slimy soulless grifters and 0.98

00:03:17.500 con artists. We knew that his administration would put wokeness before all else. He's done mostly what 0.96

00:03:24.160 he said he would do, even if he doesn't remember saying it. And it's as bad as we knew it would be

00:03:29.100 or should have known. Today, some of those things loom, especially large, like the fact that,

00:03:34.120 for example, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline and destroyed any hope of American

00:03:38.600 energy independence. In fact, the whole Western world abandoned that goal over the last couple

00:03:43.400 of years, largely because an annoying little Swedish girl yelled at us about it. So we said,

00:03:48.660 okay, well, never mind. Forget about energy. Now we import 20 million barrels of oil from Russia

00:03:53.920 every month with no plan in place to replace that production. Once the spigot is turned off,

00:03:59.940 Biden made sure that we were dependent upon our adversaries for survival while also making sure

00:04:07.020 that our adversaries won't respect or fear us a lethal combination. As we're seeing this morning,

00:04:14.300 I've been thinking a lot about one of Biden's very first acts while in office, one of the very first

00:04:19.880 things he did. He shut down Keystone. But even before that, one of the first things he did was

00:04:26.080 to invite a flamboyant social media influencer to the White House to film a TikTok skit. Let's go back

00:04:32.380 and relive that one together. One sec. Democracy's calling. See you, daddy. Bye. Hi, my name is Cooper,

00:04:39.920 and this is a day in my life as a White House intern. We did it, Joe. Hey, everyone. Vote.

00:04:49.020 Usually I start off with a big coffee. Sorry, they're like really strict in here. Hey, Jenny,

00:04:54.600 I booked you a nail appointment, love. Yeah, I didn't tell you to do that. It's called initiative.

00:04:58.120 Hi, White House. This is Cooper. I don't think so. Oh, doesn't matter. This is actually the entrance

00:05:05.800 to the West Wing. This is so fun, and it's really prestigious. Hey, POTUS. Is Olivia Rodrigo

00:05:11.540 still here? No. We've come a long way in our fight against this virus. We've vaccinated 160

00:05:18.240 million Americans. Are you getting this all down? Don't worry, queen. It's all right here. Cooper.

00:05:24.000 Sorry, Miss Jen. Hey, Jen, don't forget to have fun. Spirit fingers, mama. We need to get shots 1.00

00:05:29.480 in the arms of every single American. I'm heading to a haircut. Comment if you want me to make more of 0.99

00:05:34.740 these. Russia and China are not exactly quaking in their boots when they see that, except from 0.56

00:05:42.020 hysterical laughter. Not the kind of laughter you want. Worse, this administration has woke-ified our

00:05:48.240 national defense apparatus and bragged about doing it. I mean, who can forget the CIA ads trying to

00:05:53.540 entice new recruits by promising gay acceptance and rainbow flags? Or what about the army recruits

00:05:59.220 recruitment ad that looked like an actual Disney princess movie, complete with singing and all

00:06:05.400 of that? Or the recruitment ad, again, aimed at women, but featuring a female gay rights activist

00:06:11.240 with two moms? Let's go back today and watch that one again. Although I had a fairly typical childhood,

00:06:19.560 took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality. I like to think I've been defending

00:06:27.240 freedom from an early age. When I was six years old, one of my moms had an accident that left her

00:06:35.020 paralyzed. Doctors said she might never walk again. But she tapped into my family's pride to get back on 0.97

00:06:41.880 her feet, eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom. With such powerful role models, 1.00

00:06:48.960 I finished high school at the top of my class, and then attended UC Davis, where I joined a sorority

00:06:55.600 full of other strong women. But as graduation approached, I began feeling like I'd been handed

00:07:02.200 so much in life, a sorority girl stereotype. Sure, I'd spent my life around inspiring women, 0.99

00:07:09.520 but what had I really achieved on my own? One of my sorority sisters was studying abroad in Italy.

00:07:15.620 Another was climbing Mount Everest. I needed my own adventures, my own challenge.

00:07:23.940 And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it.

00:07:28.700 You notice there, of course, that the army is presented not as something that you join to defend

00:07:34.140 your country and kill bad guys, but as an opportunity for self-discovery. You know, just like along the

00:07:42.020 lines of a sorority girl studying abroad in Italy or climbing Mount Everest. I mean, how could Putin

00:07:49.280 do what he's doing right now? Doesn't he know that Western countries have the most diverse,

00:07:55.320 equitable, tolerant, and trans-inclusive militaries in the history of the world? And he's still messing 1.00

00:08:00.500 with us? Wow. I mean, it's almost like we're nothing but a joke at this point.

00:08:06.140 Just this month, a couple of weeks ago, actually, this month, the Defense Department official website

00:08:12.180 ran this article. This again was this month. Diversity, equity, inclusion are necessities

00:08:20.140 in the U.S. military. That's the headline. And it says in part, diversity, equity, inclusion in the

00:08:24.540 military are necessities for the United States. Bishop Garrison, the senior advisor to the Secretary

00:08:28.720 of Defense for Human Capital and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion said. Garrison spoke to the Center for a

00:08:34.100 New American Security today about the progress being made by the department and what still needs

00:08:38.160 to happen. Some 41% of the military identify as members of minority groups, and that number will 1.00

00:08:43.260 grow larger, Garrison said. The military must be able to attract, train, and retain them for the

00:08:49.200 services to retain competitive edges, he said. Garrison said, the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:08:54.720 to be consideration or a part of all decisions in the military. Diversity, equity, inclusion have to be a

00:09:00.660 part of all decisions in the military. There is a direct line connecting this kind of madness

00:09:07.480 with what we're witnessing overseas right now. We advertised weakness. We bragged about it.

00:09:14.620 We announced to the world repeatedly that we are now a theocratic state, but our religion is wokeness,

00:09:21.820 and it's less a religion than a death cult, a suicide pact. We give up our own energy production

00:09:28.000 for its sake. We weaken our defenses for it. We will take institutions that were once killing

00:09:34.620 machines and repurpose them to prioritize equity and inclusion. Did we think that Putin wouldn't

00:09:41.600 notice that? Now, blame Putin for invading Ukraine, sure. He's the one doing it. But once you're done

00:09:49.060 pointing that finger and you feel a little better, get it out of your system. I think it's time to

00:09:55.100 conduct a much more painful and necessary investigation of ourselves and our country

00:09:59.740 and our government. Because war and conquest have been the way of the world since the dawn of man.

00:10:05.520 That will always be the case. If you thought you were living in a day and age where that's behind

00:10:10.360 us and it doesn't happen anymore, then you're a fool. You're just like the people who were shocked 1.00

00:10:16.640 when a pandemic hit. It's, oh, I didn't know this kind of thing still happens. Of course it happens.

00:10:20.200 It's always going to happen. There are diseases in the world. Sometimes there'll be one particular

00:10:24.980 disease that lots of people get at the same time. So we've, we've had two things in the last few

00:10:30.900 years that we were shocked by, even though there's no excuse to be shocked because these things

00:10:38.560 happening, it just puts us right in line with everybody else who's ever lived on earth.

00:10:42.280 Now, it doesn't make it good or right. Certainly doesn't make it fun or enjoyable. It just makes

00:10:49.260 it what, what is, it makes it reality. We can choose to operate within reality or without,

00:10:56.520 you know, on the outside of it. Biden and the left choose to be outside of reality

00:11:01.460 in a place where there is no more war and nobody wants to conquer anything and everybody gets along. 0.98

00:11:07.200 And so we can set out to fill our military with lesbians who can't do three pushups. 1.00

00:11:12.100 Why not? This is also the world where climate change is the greatest threat we face. So we can 0.82

00:11:17.880 shut down our oil pipelines pipelines because a 15 year old environmentalist made us feel bad

00:11:22.700 and no negative consequences will come of it. We think that's the world the left wants to pretend

00:11:29.060 we live in until the real world comes crashing through the barrier, the sort of wall of delusion

00:11:35.060 they've erected around themselves. And when that happens, what do they do? They start pointing the

00:11:41.100 blame everywhere and at everything and everybody but themselves. And they also, as they've been doing,

00:11:46.920 especially over the past couple of days, call for us to unite and come together. So just today,

00:11:51.960 Senator Brian Schatz, who has a last name that I'll never not find funny, tweeted this. He says,

00:11:57.880 it is more essential than ever that we rally around our president as he leads the free world in

00:12:02.720 response. If your instinct is to try to turn this into a partisan political advantage or a viral

00:12:08.040 tweet, step off the stage. Rally around Joe Biden? That can't happen because though we've listed lots

00:12:17.720 of the bad things Biden has done, we haven't mentioned the worst one of all. He has intentionally cast his

00:12:24.100 own people as the enemy. He has set his sights on chasing down and punishing right wingers and those who

00:12:31.360 disagree with him. He's labeled parents at school board meetings, domestic terrorists.

00:12:36.680 And now the domestic terrorists are supposed to rally around him. We're the enemy, right? That's

00:12:43.280 what he said. We were scum. We were the greatest threat to the safety of this country. And yet now he 1.00

00:12:47.680 needs our support. Now that he needs us, we're Americans, but when he doesn't need us anymore,

00:12:52.800 we go back to being rabid dogs that have to be caged or put down. You know, the left is a lot like a

00:12:59.980 drunken, abusive husband who sobers up for three hours and expects affection and cheerfulness from

00:13:03.960 his wife. Hey, honey, I haven't beat you in three hours. What's the big deal? Now we say of women who 0.99

00:13:11.160 go along with that, that they have battered wife syndrome. What the left wants from us now is a sort

00:13:16.800 of political battered wife syndrome. But that's not how this works. You said that we're the enemy.

00:13:23.740 You hate us. We're Nazis and terrorists. You shouldn't want our help or support. 0.99

00:13:30.580 And anyway, you won't have it. Biden made this bed and now he'll have to lay in it on his own.

00:13:39.760 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:55.080 today. So last night, you can imagine how fun this was for me. We had a dog trainer come to the

00:15:02.120 house to help us figure out why the dog hates me and barks at me all the time. Because it's always

00:15:08.220 a mystery. How could anybody hate me? But especially the dog. Why is the dog such an ungrateful brat

00:15:15.120 that he eats my food, lives under my roof while barking and growling at me like any other entitled

00:15:21.960 member of Generation Z? That was the question. So we had the trainer come. She was great. She was 0.75

00:15:26.800 very competent, very friendly, very professional, very good at what she was doing. Knew what she was

00:15:31.420 doing. But it was like an hour and a half. And mostly we were talking to her the whole time

00:15:36.980 because she was trying to find out about the dog and figure all this stuff out. And so it's like this

00:15:43.460 long interview process about the dog. And it's the longest I've ever spent talking about a dog in my

00:15:49.260 entire life. And most of the conversation consisted of us describing the dog's behavior and then giving our

00:15:56.580 interpretation of that behavior. And then her politely explaining that we're totally wrong in

00:16:01.520 our interpretation. So like, for example, my wife does this thing that she thinks is very cute where

00:16:07.660 she'll start singing. And then the dog will run into the room and kind of like jump up on her as

00:16:13.620 she's singing. And she has interpreted this as the dog wants to dance with her. And I was always

00:16:20.200 skeptical of that interpretation. I didn't have the heart to say anything. So she told this to the

00:16:24.060 trainer and the trainer had no compunction about it. She said, oh, no, no, that's, you know,

00:16:28.140 he probably just doesn't like it when you sing. He's trying to tell you to stop.

00:16:32.260 So anyway, what we learned after the dog whisperer conducted her pet psychic seance is that the dog

00:16:38.160 lacks confidence and he has a self-esteem issue. And can you imagine, again, just imagine me sitting

00:16:43.800 there for an hour and a half listening to this about a dog's self-esteem issues. And we have to build

00:16:48.140 up his self-esteem. And of course, I'm sitting there thinking like, why is that my problem?

00:16:53.640 Why can't the dog just suck it up? What does he want from me? Oh, you have a self-esteem

00:16:57.540 problem, dog? Join the club. We all do. You don't see me barking at people because of it.

00:17:05.280 I guess I sort of do in my own way, but still. But here's the upshot. Good news. According to the

00:17:11.360 trainer, because the dog lacks confidence around me, especially, and is getting adjusted to us and

00:17:18.240 he's getting settled in. What that means is that for the foreseeable future, I've been instructed

00:17:22.420 to ignore the dog. Like don't pet him. Don't, don't, don't be the one feeding him. Don't take

00:17:28.040 him out for any walks. Don't take him out at night like I had been doing. So don't do any chores

00:17:32.260 related to the dog. That's what she said. That is what she said. I have to give the dog space.

00:17:37.180 That's my instruction. And so as hard as it will be for me to do nothing at all, that's what I'll

00:17:43.940 do. You know, I have to do nothing and have my wife do everything as far as the dog's concerned. 1.00

00:17:48.980 It's what she recommends. You know, it's not what I want. It's what she said. And I, for one,

00:17:52.860 think we need to take our recommendations very seriously. And I kind of explained to my wife

00:17:57.100 after the trainer left, I said, you know, I think this woman knows what she's talking about.

00:18:02.540 She really seemed to have it together. She said, I shouldn't do anything. And I, you know,

00:18:05.720 it pains me because of how much I love the dog and I want to bond with the dog and I want to help

00:18:10.000 you, but I just, I can't, I have to do nothing. And I also explained that, you know, I probably

00:18:14.780 should, again, just because I'm concerned about the dog. I mean, things like she wanted me to take

00:18:20.380 the trash out after the trainer left. And I said, I probably shouldn't do that because that means

00:18:24.460 that I'm leaving and coming back in. It always upsets the dog when I walk in the door and it hurts

00:18:28.960 his confidence, his self-esteem. I don't want to do that. You know, putting the kids down for bed at night,

00:18:33.480 I probably should just not, I probably should just sit on the couch and watch TV. I probably

00:18:36.360 shouldn't be doing that. I'm moving around too much. So, you know, it's, it's all about the dog

00:18:42.720 and I am here to help the dog by doing nothing for him at all. Okay. Let's start here from the

00:18:50.140 post-millennial, by the way, one other point about that. I have, I have mentioned these dog problems on

00:18:56.440 the show a few times and I've gotten a lot of advice in the comment section and, you know,

00:19:03.400 I'm not saying who's right and who's wrong, but I will tell you, I didn't say where I got, I didn't

00:19:07.860 tell the trainer that I got that prior to this, I'd been doing things that I learned from YouTube

00:19:11.660 comments, but the trainer did say, I don't mean to throw you guys under the bus, but she, she did say 0.50

00:19:16.920 that all of that advice was terrible. So, and I agree because most of the other advice involved me

00:19:22.760 doing things. So that's from the post-millennial says proposed hate speech legislation in Canada

00:19:27.400 would allow people to take others to court. If they suspect that someone will post content

00:19:33.000 deemed hateful online will post bill C36 states that a person may with the attorney general's consent

00:19:40.540 lay an information before a provincial court judge. If the person fears on reasonable grounds

00:19:44.680 that another person will commit an offense under section 318 or subsection 3, 319, which is about

00:19:52.100 inciting or promoting hate or promoting hatred. It also covers quote, an offense motivated by bias,

00:19:58.000 prejudice, or hate based on race, national, or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age,

00:20:04.880 mental, or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, or any other similar

00:20:10.400 factor. So those are the reasons that you're, you're, you're not allowed to hate someone for any of

00:20:15.760 those reasons, but you, you can still hate them and you can even say that you hate them. It's just,

00:20:21.400 there are specific reasons why you're not. So there, there's a category of reasons that are

00:20:26.340 not acceptable for hating somebody. And then there's a category that still is acceptable. So

00:20:30.340 you can, um, hate someone just because of who they are. And this is something I've never quite

00:20:38.160 understood. Like if I'm going to be hated by another person and you might argue that perhaps there are a

00:20:45.920 few people, a few people out there who do hate me. And if I could choose between being hated because

00:20:53.380 of my skin color or my gender or something, or being hated because of just who I am at a deep and

00:20:59.140 personal level, I think I would, I would prefer the skin color and gender-based hatred because it 1.00

00:21:05.480 doesn't go as deep. Right? So if anything, that, that would, that to me, that's not as insulting,

00:21:12.380 not nearly as insulting because then I'm just getting lumped in with everybody else who shares

00:21:16.780 this feature. It's not my fault that I have this characteristic. And so if you hate me for that

00:21:20.620 reason, that's kind of like your problem. But if you say, no, I, I, it's not because of that. I just

00:21:25.900 hate who you are. I hate, I hate everything about you down to your soul. That's what it is. 1.00

00:21:29.460 That to me, that's going to hurt a little bit more. So I've never quite understood why that's

00:21:35.540 the kind of hatred. That's the kind of bigotry that's acceptable. You could say, oh, I really

00:21:41.780 hate you. Oh, do you hate me because of my, is it because of my skin color? No. Is it because of my 0.89

00:21:46.060 gender? No. Oh, it's fine then. That I don't get. I'm going back to the article. It says diversity 0.94

00:21:52.060 minister Ahmed Hussain reintroduced the legislation after events that transpired in Ottawa in which a very

00:21:57.460 small number of individuals at the Freedom Convoy protest allegedly carried hateful symbols,

00:22:02.520 including swastikos. Ahmed called the symbols reprehensible and said that the government would

00:22:08.320 reintroduce the bill that died when the election was called last year. He said, seeing symbols of

00:22:13.700 hate right across the doorstep of our parliament is unbelievable and should be condemned. Now,

00:22:19.440 this does raise another question. Well, many questions are raised. Like another one is,

00:22:25.260 and it actually is not explained. How could you report this stuff before it happens?

00:22:33.500 I mean, it's bad enough to have hate speech laws on the books. How are you reporting it before it

00:22:37.340 happens? Is this minority report? Do you have psychics that you, that you have hooked up to tubes

00:22:43.220 in some kind of weird petroleum jelly? Am I thinking of the right movie? Yeah, that's that movie,

00:22:48.400 which never made a lot of sense to me, by the way, because it's like set in the future and they have

00:22:51.680 this technology. You'd think they have technology to read the future or to know what's going to

00:22:56.740 happen in the future, but instead they have these psychics that they've, they don't really explain

00:23:01.020 that. But anyway, is that, is that how you're finding out that someone's going to post hate speech

00:23:06.920 in the future? That really isn't explained. And the other question is, well, how do you,

00:23:11.740 how do you define hate? How do you determine it? Because hatred is a motivation that is based

00:23:20.960 within a person's heart, right? It's, it's deep within them. So how could you possibly know

00:23:25.480 whether someone is hateful or not? Well, it does say this. It doesn't provide a clear cut definition

00:23:30.340 of what hate is, but instead says that, quote, hatred means the emotion that involves detestation

00:23:36.560 or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or disdain. Oh, I mean, silly me. I thought disdain 0.93

00:23:44.940 and hatred were kind of the, you know, synonyms, loathing someone, disdaining them, hating them. I

00:23:52.620 kind of thought that was sort of the same thing, but no, it's, it's one step above disdain or dislike

00:23:59.080 or even strong dislike. So does that mean that according to the law, you can strongly dislike someone

00:24:05.740 for their sexual orientation, gender or race. You just can't hate them. Does that become a valid

00:24:12.680 defense in the court of law when you're bringing in a, you know, a perpetrator of alleged hate speech?

00:24:19.260 Can he defend himself by saying, no, I don't, I don't hate this person because of the race. I just

00:24:23.540 strongly dislike it. This is the total absurdity that you immediately descend into when you try to

00:24:33.240 have laws against hate of, of any kind, for any reason. There's no way to know what's going on

00:24:43.420 inside someone's heart. Um, and, and also there's, there's no reason why hatred should be considered

00:24:51.400 the worst thing. I mean, so we take, um, what about a hate crime? You know, Canada has more hate speech

00:24:58.960 laws than we have, but we both have this category of hate crime. And if you commit a hate crime,

00:25:04.700 then that's a, that's an, that's a federal charge. And now that's going to be a worse sentence that

00:25:09.020 you get. Um, now the things that are done, you know, if you kill someone and it's allegedly a hate

00:25:17.080 crime, well, obviously the, the murder, if you're murdering an innocent person, you should go to jail

00:25:21.200 for that. But we've decided quite arbitrarily that the worst reason to kill somebody is because you

00:25:29.660 hate them. And so there should be sometimes a quite significant extra sentence. It's a whole extra

00:25:36.140 crime that you get charged for if you murder them for hate. But why is that the case? Because for one

00:25:42.900 thing, if you kill someone, they're just as dead, no matter the reason for it. Um, but also probably

00:25:51.840 the majority of murders, the murders that, that, that happen, you know, between strangers,

00:25:58.280 majority of murders and kind of violence happen in domestic disputes and that sort of thing. But, um,

00:26:04.120 if we're talking about a stranger murdering somebody else, you know, many of those murders

00:26:11.000 are not grounded in hate. They're grounded in just basic indifference to human life.

00:26:18.860 So if you read of a case in the city where someone gets shot in the head, uh, for the $5 in their

00:26:26.000 wallet, well, that's, that's not a hate crime because the reason that they were killed was for

00:26:31.480 the $5, not because of the person's race. And so our emphasis on hate crimes in our system of law

00:26:38.060 will say that, well, that's, that's bad, but it's not as bad as it could have been.

00:26:45.380 Well, I would say it's, it's at least as bad, you know, killing someone because you want to take 0.97

00:26:50.720 $5 from them and killing them because you don't like the way they look. I would put them at least 0.99

00:26:56.760 on par. And if anything, uh, the former is, is maybe even worse murder out of pure indifference.

00:27:07.580 I don't even care about you enough to hate you. I'm going to kill you for the $5 because your life 1.00

00:27:13.840 just means nothing to me. I don't even, I don't have the energy to hate you. That's a step up from 1.00

00:27:22.400 how I feel about you. You, you are, you are just nothing to me. You're dirt. So many murders,

00:27:29.120 especially in the, uh, the inner cities are motivated by that total indifference to human

00:27:33.040 life. So why shouldn't we have a special category for that? Make that its own federal charge. It just

00:27:40.180 becomes absurd. Um, but again, it also requires in order to, to, to parse all these things. Well,

00:27:48.280 was it a total indifference to human life? Was it hatred? Was it dislike? Was it disdain?

00:27:53.900 It requires you to peer inside somebody's soul and make these determinations, which you just can't do.

00:28:01.400 All right. This is from USA Today. It says as many as 700 national guard members are prepared to take

00:28:05.840 posts across the nation's capital amid planned trucker protest convoys that organizers say could

00:28:10.960 paralyze the city without entering it. Um, Bob Bolas, a Pennsylvania truck driver says he's leading the

00:28:16.800 freedom convoy of trucks from Pennsylvania to Washington on Wednesday. But, um, he told NBC4TV

00:28:22.260 in Washington that he has backed off immediate plans to gridlock the Capitol Beltway. Um, and,

00:28:28.140 uh, he says for right now, they're not shutting the traffic down, but he says, quote, if we don't

00:28:34.260 have a resolution from the government to the rights that they're taking from us, I will predict in the

00:28:37.500 future it will get shut down. So the convoy is, is headed to a DC and it's, they want to arrive

00:28:44.940 right in time basically for the state of the union. And that's an interview with one of the

00:28:50.540 organizers, but we have here a clip. This is a, someone else who also identifies themselves as

00:28:55.620 one of the leaders and organizers of the, um, of this trucker convoy that's coming to DC.

00:29:02.300 And here he is explaining, you know, what it is. And I guess, cause one question I have when I,

00:29:06.780 when I first heard about a trucker convoy being organized in the United States to go to DC,

00:29:10.920 I was like, is like, well, okay, what, what are they trying to accomplish? We know about the

00:29:15.520 truckers in Canada and why that convoy happened and what, what their demands were, right? What they

00:29:21.320 were, um, rallying for, but why the trucker protest here? Well, let's listen to what this guy

00:29:28.480 says. Maybe he'll explain it. This message is for the president of the United States of America.

00:29:33.560 My name is Kyle Sepchik of the Freedom Convoy USA 2022. And our routes meet here in DC on March 1st

00:29:40.460 in time for your state of the union address. We are very organized and our routes are public.

00:29:45.740 I even pulled a permit for the national mall to be respectful. I just want to be as transparent

00:29:49.920 as possible from the start. So there's no confusion. We are coming peacefully and we're

00:29:54.080 going to do this lawfully and constitutionally. I want the rest of the world to know our plans

00:29:58.380 so that there's no twisting and lying about who and what we are. I'm coming to you as a father,

00:30:03.720 a small business owner who's unaffiliated to any parties. We just want government overreach to end.

00:30:09.860 On behalf of Freedom Convoy USA 2022, we are asking you to end the state of emergency and the

00:30:18.560 mandates once and for all. Sir, the world is watching us because they know that if what's

00:30:24.300 happening in Canada happens to us here in the land of the free, then freedom as we know it is gone.

00:30:29.640 Yeah. I got to, I got to be totally honest with you and I might be going out on a limb here. I'm not

00:30:33.240 sure how many of you will follow me on it. Um, I, I really don't, I don't love this idea of this

00:30:40.120 trucker convoy. It makes me uneasy. Um, especially now, right? I mean, Biden is in, and the Democrats

00:30:51.800 in general are tanking in the polls. They're only to go lower from here. You know, this is,

00:30:57.740 this is a game of limbo now. How low can you go? And they're going to go very, very low. Um,

00:31:02.440 and that's kind of from a, from a political standpoint and a protest is a, is a political,

00:31:08.300 it's a, it's a political statement. And so there should be some political calculation that goes

00:31:13.540 into any kind of protest. That's how you should be thinking about it. If you're not thinking of it

00:31:17.720 in those terms and you shouldn't be doing it. And so what exactly is the trucker protests going to

00:31:25.560 potentially accomplish other than turning the attention to you in a potentially very negative

00:31:31.360 way, depending on how it goes and what happens. I mean, all it would seem to, to potentially

00:31:37.960 accomplish is just distracting from, uh, you know, from, from Biden and what a terrible job he's doing.

00:31:44.780 And as far as mandates go, well, okay, this is a trucker convoy to end the mandates, but

00:31:51.940 so if you're doing it a year ago, then I understand, but, but what federal mandates are you even

00:31:57.680 protesting now? The vast majority of the mandates are gone. So what, what federal man mandates exactly

00:32:06.580 are they protesting? Cause they should be very specific. That's the other thing you need to be

00:32:10.480 in a protest is specific about what exactly you're protesting and, and what you would like to see

00:32:16.960 happen. So you have to, you have to have an idea in mind of what victory looks like. What does it

00:32:22.840 look like to win here? And I think very often there are protests and demonstrations where people don't

00:32:31.420 think about that ahead of time. They don't think about what does a win look like to me? And so they just

00:32:36.020 go and kind of do something and let the chips fall where they may. But, uh, that, that, as we have

00:32:41.360 seen is, is often not the best strategy. So most of the man federal mandates are gone or have been

00:32:48.660 defeated in court. Um, there's still the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which is a very

00:32:54.060 bad thing. I mean, is that what this is specifically about? Um, and there's the federal mandate for public

00:32:59.960 transportation. You have to wear masks on planes, which is also stupid. So is that, is that it? 1.00

00:33:05.160 But again, it does, it still raises the question of why, why now, why not a year ago?

00:33:11.780 We've already seen, so we saw the trucker convoy. It already happened. This feels like a rehash of

00:33:15.980 something that just happened. Um, when there's, uh, but, but with clear, with less clear goals in mind

00:33:25.860 and then you're going to DC and it's, well, we're not shutting down traffic, but we might,

00:33:31.460 maybe we'll create a massive gridlock. And we don't all even agree on like why we're doing this.

00:33:38.120 I'm telling you, that is a disaster. That is a disaster to go into DC around the state of the

00:33:45.780 union. And potentially maybe, I mean, there's, again, it's, it doesn't seem to, everyone doesn't

00:33:50.980 seem to be on the same page, but potentially create massive gridlock and a huge inconvenience for

00:33:55.800 everybody in the city without being able to, in a unified way, even explain why you're doing it

00:34:01.920 or what you want to see happen. That is a recipe to turn all the backlash against you,

00:34:12.420 distracting from Joe Biden and what a terrible job he's doing.

00:34:17.460 I mean, I don't think when I, when I think of the, uh, how Democrats in Congress and the

00:34:22.400 administration, how they're looking at this, I doubt that they're sitting there, you know,

00:34:28.300 uh, biting their fingernails, nervous and saying, Oh, I hope I wish they weren't coming. I think

00:34:34.920 they're probably pretty happy about this, that you're going to come and create a big distraction

00:34:40.100 and make it about you. That's sounds good to us. Gets the heat off us for a little bit

00:34:45.480 and always with the potential for things to go very, very bad.

00:34:53.580 I mean, we don't, we don't have to probably don't have to remind you of January 6th.

00:34:59.040 That was another massive demonstration where it was never exactly clear what the end goal was.

00:35:06.540 And the next thing you know, you had people going into the Capitol and certainly there was no idea.

00:35:10.940 They had no idea why they were doing it or, or, or what, what victory was supposed to look like here.

00:35:14.460 They just were kind of like doing something. And, uh, and I look at this and I think that makes me

00:35:21.960 uneasy for that reason. Also the potential, you have to think about these things for people to

00:35:29.140 infiltrate this and, you know, uh, kind of try to turn it against you from the inside.

00:35:36.100 The way to the ways that the, the, the, the, the people can kind of manipulate the optics of this

00:35:43.000 thing. I just, I don't like it. Here's what I would say. If you know, truckers are in a position

00:35:48.240 where they can make a huge difference. And the fact that they're willing to sacrifice and make a

00:35:55.760 difference. I have a lot of respect and admiration for that. So, um, I would say at this point, if you

00:36:00.940 have specific goals in mind, something that you want to see happen, something you're pushing for,

00:36:05.000 I think a trucker strike across the country would be much more effective because best case scenario

00:36:11.540 with another convoy, which I think most people are going to look at that and kind of yawn and say,

00:36:15.780 we just saw this. Right. Um, the best case scenario is that you're there and you kind of make a,

00:36:21.260 you make a stink for a little bit and, and then, but then you're dispersed and you go home.

00:36:24.440 That's like best case scenario and nothing terrible happens. Nothing is really achieved

00:36:30.320 though. Um, I think a strike on the other hand, now you really want to impose your will in a

00:36:37.320 peaceful way. Uh, that's how you do it. I would think. All right, let's go to this, uh, briefly.

00:36:46.040 Sarah Jones is a writer for New York magazine and, uh, she wrote an article titled household tyrants.

00:36:52.480 And, uh, she wrote in her caption to the article, I wrote about the parental rights push and its

00:36:58.040 relationship to the GOP's authoritarian view of power. And she says, conservatives imagine the

00:37:03.820 parent as a household tyrant. Their rights both supersede and are in conflict with the rights of

00:37:08.880 the child. Key to this is the parent's role as a local enforcer of the GOP's national agenda.

00:37:16.300 Okay. A couple of things here. Uh, first of all, obviously she's not worried about the rights of

00:37:21.340 the child at all. That is not her concern. Her concern is entirely the rights of the state,

00:37:27.320 the right of the government to interfere in the family. Her concern is the right of the, of the,

00:37:33.240 the state to come between the child and the parent. That's what she cares about.

00:37:39.560 Just give a damn about the rights of a child to begin with. If you're pro abortion, 0.93

00:37:44.500 you are in no position to ever talk about the rights of a child.

00:37:50.660 Because in your view, a child at a certain stage in development has zero rights and zero moral

00:37:56.900 worth has no, is, is, is, uh, owed no legal protection whatsoever in your view. And now you

00:38:04.740 want to talk about the rights of a child. So that's the first thing we always have to establish is that

00:38:10.600 this is a bad faith argument. It's a, it's a dishonest argument. She doesn't really care 0.83

00:38:14.980 about the rights of a child. Once we've established that we can also, uh, note the fact that, well,

00:38:21.760 you know, she's scandalized by the idea that the rights of the parent would come before the rights 1.00

00:38:26.400 of the child. But of course the rights of the parent supersede the rights of the child.

00:38:32.160 Obviously that's the case, um, legally in that adults have lots of legal rights that children

00:38:43.540 don't have. And it's also the, it's also the case, uh, in each individual family, if the family is

00:38:50.340 properly ordered in my home, you know, my home is not a democracy. You can't run a family that way.

00:38:59.680 That's a recipe for chaos in your family. And it's chaos that, um, will hurt the child most of all,

00:39:10.040 because what the child needs is a properly ordered family with, with peace and security at home

00:39:17.900 and stability. That's what the kid needs. And you don't achieve that by giving the child an equal

00:39:24.520 voice in the family. Everything you do, you put it up for a vote and the views and opinions of your

00:39:32.240 four-year-old, uh, weigh equally against your opinions as, as an adult and the person running the

00:39:38.440 family, the person who earns all the money and provides everything. Um, that's, that's, that's not a

00:39:46.600 recipe for, for anything good for the child. What you're doing there actually is you're setting,

00:39:54.260 and this is another, another one of the goals of, uh, of the left is they want to, they want the state

00:39:59.660 to come between the parent and the child, but they also want to set each individual family member

00:40:04.160 against each other sort of in, uh, in competition. And that's, that's what you're, you're doing here

00:40:09.860 when there's not, when there isn't a, a sense of proper order. Now it's just a constant competition

00:40:15.180 between, uh, the child and the father and, and, and, and father and mother also in competition and

00:40:22.500 everybody's sort of vying for power in this kind of Machiavellian way. Uh, but that's not how the, a family

00:40:28.860 is supposed to be run. So in my family, uh, no, my, my kids do not have equal say in, in what happens

00:40:35.800 in the house, far from it. Uh, they oftentimes, depending on what it is, have get no vote at all

00:40:41.860 very often. And my wife and I have the right to do lots of things that our kids cannot do.

00:40:51.740 Just one example, uh, we can stay up as late as we want. We might have, we might pay the price the

00:40:57.500 next day, but we can do my kids. They have a bedtime. And sometimes my kids will say to me,

00:41:02.340 that's not fair. Why do you get to step? Because we're the adults and you're the child.

00:41:05.800 And this is how it works. But along with having those rights, it also means that you have,

00:41:12.080 cause the flip side of the coin of the rights coin, when you flip the coin over, you find

00:41:17.040 responsibilities. Responsibilities always come tied with rights. When you try to remove the

00:41:21.740 responsibility dimension from rights, you get again, chaos, which is what we're seeing in our,

00:41:26.480 in our country. Um, so while we have many rights that the child, that our children don't,

00:41:32.380 we also have many responsibilities that they don't, which would be basically all of the,

00:41:38.520 all of the serious responsibilities ultimately fall to us.

00:41:44.040 So that's how a family is supposed to work. But this is also what you get when you have a lot of

00:41:47.460 childless people pontificating about the family and how families are supposed to operate when they

00:41:52.680 obviously have no experience with it and no idea. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:06.820 Dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. Let's go to clip eight.

00:42:12.100 Computer, what is a woman? 1.00

00:42:18.440 As a noun, woman can have a few meanings. One, the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.

00:42:26.960 Two, an adult female person. Three, a female attendant to a lady of rank. Four, a wife.

00:42:35.940 Computer, what is a human female? 1.00

00:42:39.780 According to Wikipedia, a woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood,

00:42:46.720 a female human is referred to as a girl. The plural women is sometimes used in certain phrases

00:42:52.080 such as women's rights to denote female humans, regardless of age. Typically, women have two 0.99

00:42:57.940 X chromosomes and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause.

00:43:03.560 Thank you.

00:43:06.160 Absolutely. Happy to help.

00:43:08.560 Computer.

00:43:09.780 I'm straight.

00:43:12.560 Thanks for telling me.

00:43:15.060 Computer.

00:43:16.560 I'm gay.

00:43:18.820 Thanks for telling me.

00:43:21.780 Wow.

00:43:23.820 Which one is that? Is that Alexa? 1.00

00:43:26.280 That's Alexa. Alexa is a transphobe. 1.00

00:43:29.860 That's very disturbing to find out. 0.99

00:43:34.240 And also homophobic.

00:43:35.640 I mean, you can come out to Alexa, which is obviously, you know, that's the first thing you should do when you're coming out first to let all your computer systems know.

00:43:48.100 Update them on the news.

00:43:50.480 And all she says is thanks for telling me dismissively.

00:43:55.640 Very disappointing.

00:43:56.640 Very disappointed in Alexa.

00:43:58.420 Okay.

00:43:58.800 Jay Stoss says, first, Matt said that narcissism was the biggest problem in our society.

00:44:02.760 Then he said it was cowardice that was the biggest problem.

00:44:04.720 So which is it?

00:44:05.480 Narcissism or cowardice?

00:44:07.640 The answer, Jay, is yes.

00:44:10.020 That's the answer.

00:44:10.680 Yes.

00:44:11.800 Charles says, Matt, I guess you never learned anything in history class because there are great examples in history of people like just like Vladimir Putin that people like you before World War II started that chose to ignore the problem.

00:44:22.820 It's almost like people like yourself are not going to be happy unless we do repeat our history.

00:44:28.160 Good luck with that effort.

00:44:29.320 By the way, Matt, war with Russia might just happen if you want it or not.

00:44:34.300 Well, I agree with your last statement anyway.

00:44:35.880 It might happen whether I want it or not, and I certainly don't.

00:44:38.880 The only thing I'll say is a couple things, Charles.

00:44:41.420 First of all, not everything in history is analogous.

00:44:45.520 Not everything that happens is analogous with World War II.

00:44:48.560 Okay.

00:44:48.780 I know that's what we learn on the Internet is that everything that occurs is just like World War II.

00:44:55.540 And if you're on, if you stand against the prevailing opinion about any situation or occurrence, then you are taking the side of the bad guys in World War II.

00:45:05.380 That's the lesson from the Internet, but it's not a lesson that we should take to heart because it's not true.

00:45:09.760 But also, there's this, here's what I'm trying to figure out, Charles.

00:45:12.560 Maybe you can help me out with this.

00:45:13.560 Because I'm being told, and I don't know if you would say this or not, but I have heard this bit about, oh, it's just like World War II.

00:45:21.980 Putin is Hitler.

00:45:23.520 And if we ignore it, then it's like ignoring Hitler in the early going. 0.84

00:45:28.020 So I've heard that a lot.

00:45:29.620 But also, the same people saying that are the ones breathlessly insisting that, oh, they don't want to send any troops in.

00:45:39.880 Of course, they don't support sending troops in to fight Russia.

00:45:44.520 So wait a second, but which is it?

00:45:46.740 Because if this is just like World War II, and Putin is just like Hitler, and it's the same kind of thing, then wouldn't you support sending troops in? 0.64

00:45:56.400 I assume you supported sending troops into World War II.

00:45:59.620 So which is it?

00:46:02.320 On one hand, you are describing this in a way that would seem to justify sending troops in.

00:46:10.300 But then on the other hand, you're claiming that you don't want to send troops in.

00:46:13.220 This is what I don't understand.

00:46:14.420 And this also makes me uneasy.

00:46:19.660 Because you've got one side of this discussion where it does not seem to me that they're being honest.

00:46:25.900 What I would predict is that, you know, I'd give it two weeks, but it might be more like two days.

00:46:30.400 Sometime in the near future, all of the people, you could take screenshots of all the tweets and everything.

00:46:34.600 You see people saying, oh, of course, I'm not supporting sending troops in.

00:46:37.500 Almost all of them, in short order, will be saying, oh, yeah, let's send the troops in.

00:46:41.180 And if you listen to what they're saying, you put the denials aside right now and listen to everything else they're saying, especially these World War II and Hitler comparisons, it's obvious already that that's basically what they're calling for without saying it.

00:46:54.700 And maybe they don't want to say it yet because they know that it's just the ground has not been prepared for it quite yet.

00:47:02.100 So they want to prepare the ground and then they'll start sprinkling the seeds of, you know, actually getting involved in World War III.

00:47:11.440 But I am, I'm going to say consistent on this, you know, I, to get troops involved in this conflict for Ukraine would be, it would be disastrous for us on a scale that you, I don't even think we can imagine how bad it could get for us to do that.

00:47:36.160 But I am, I am sitting here anticipating, I know it's going to happen soon enough, mark my words, soon enough, you're going to start hearing these people explicitly saying, let's send the troops in.

00:47:49.400 And finally, Anthony says, hey Matt, what's your favorite Liam Neeson murder slash revenge movie?

00:47:55.840 I love them all because, because they're all like, like exactly the same.

00:47:59.980 And it's pretty much the same story over and over again.

00:48:03.620 And it's, it's always a family member that's, you know, either been kidnapped and has to be rescued or they've already been killed and now it's a revenge thing.

00:48:12.020 And so it's kind of like comfort food.

00:48:13.680 It's, it's why I like old fashioned Westerns and why I don't like a lot of the new Westerns because in the old Westerns, it's, it's basically, there's, there's like three basic Western stories and then you just get different versions of the same story.

00:48:28.600 And that's the appeal.

00:48:29.700 That's the charm.

00:48:31.480 And so same thing with Liam Neeson, but what's the best one?

00:48:34.200 I don't think there's any argument.

00:48:35.080 It's, it's obviously going to be the original Taken, which I think is not only the best Liam Neeson movie, but probably one of the best action movies of the last 30 years.

00:48:42.600 America supported Ukraine's move to hand over its nukes in 1994 under a promise for Russia not to evade.

00:48:48.620 And look what happened.

00:48:49.240 It seems that we're not to be trusted either.

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00:52:37.180 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:38.500 You know, we're quite used to hearing insane things from the body positivity camp.

00:52:47.400 But yesterday, a body positivity activist and fat acceptance activist named Monica Crete upped the ante considerably. 1.00

00:52:54.600 On her social media accounts, which have all now been set to private, Crete calls herself a writer, consultant, educator, fighting weight stigma in public health and medicine.

00:53:02.520 She also hosts seminars on the topic of being fat.

00:53:06.020 Unfortunately, you missed the most recent one, hosted alongside activist Mikey Mercedes, who is a woman, by the way.

00:53:12.040 Although I didn't have to tell you that she's a woman because the body positivity people are always women. 1.00

00:53:16.280 Can you remember the last time you saw a man's fatness celebrated?

00:53:20.600 When's the last time one of these body positivity fat people was a man?

00:53:23.800 It, like, never happens.

00:53:25.440 Because you're still allowed to fat shame men. 0.97

00:53:27.440 It's specifically women who have the right to balloon to whatever size they please, without any criticism from anybody. 1.00

00:53:33.960 So anyway, the seminar was titled Fat Phobia in Public Health.

00:53:38.080 And was specifically meant for weight-inclusive dieticians.

00:53:42.620 Of course, the term weight-inclusive dietician is a bit like the term cancer-inclusive oncologist or cockroach-inclusive pest control.

00:53:50.100 You can't include, that is, support and celebrate, the very thing your job requires you to treat and destroy.

00:53:59.260 So, there are many such contradictions in the world of the body positivity activists, many absurdities.

00:54:05.060 And they all culminate in this tweet from Monica.

00:54:07.660 She wrote, quote,

00:54:08.260 You heard that right.

00:54:22.320 Monica, the consultant and educator, says that dieting is a form of conversion therapy.

00:54:27.840 And moreover, that there is zero evidence that dieting actually makes anyone skinnier.

00:54:32.300 Monica believes, or wants you to believe anyway, that caloric intake actually has nothing at all to do with weight.

00:54:40.500 What about all the millions of people who have managed to drop weight by limiting calories?

00:54:44.480 Well, they're all mythological. They don't exist.

00:54:46.420 If you're one of those people, you don't exist.

00:54:48.380 I'm sorry to say. 0.76

00:54:49.360 Or else you're part of a grand fat-phobic conspiracy.

00:54:52.360 A conspiracy which includes almost every doctor and nutritionist in the world, by the way.

00:54:56.920 And what about the fact that starving people always tend to be very skinny?

00:55:00.780 So it's a coincidence.

00:55:02.880 And the fact that obesity is only common in Western countries where people eat a lot of food and hardly move.

00:55:08.460 What about the almost complete absence of obesity in the third world?

00:55:11.560 For that matter, what about the fact that our skeletons and internal organs literally were not made to carry the kind of weight

00:55:17.520 that Monica and her fellow fat activists are forcing their skeletons and organs to carry? 1.00

00:55:22.640 That's why fat people die young. 0.99

00:55:24.560 That's why there are no morbidly obese 85-year-olds.

00:55:26.780 Your body at that age just can't handle it.

00:55:31.920 It can't carry all that weight around anymore.

00:55:35.320 What about that?

00:55:36.960 Don't all of these facts point incontrovertibly to the notion that you get fat when you eat a lot

00:55:42.180 and get skinny when you eat less?

00:55:44.980 No, says Monica.

00:55:46.240 Don't ask her to explain herself either.

00:55:48.560 It makes her feel good to see the world the way she sees it.

00:55:50.860 And your job is to enforce whatever perception of the world and herself makes her feel good.

00:55:56.040 That's your sacred responsibility because she says so.

00:55:59.840 Now, as crazy as all of this is, the most revealing aspect is the way that she uses the term fat people and skinny people.

00:56:08.200 Now, she doesn't mean fat and skinny as a mere description of a transient physical trait.

00:56:12.520 Now, when she says fat people, she does not mean people who happen to have an unhealthy amount of lard on their bodies.

00:56:20.020 No, for her, fat is an immutable and defining characteristic.

00:56:23.300 It's an identity.

00:56:24.660 It's who she is deep inside. 1.00

00:56:26.380 Her very soul is fat. 1.00

00:56:29.200 Fatness is an identity.

00:56:31.760 I tell you, we're only months away since I'm making predictions today on the show.

00:56:34.660 I can also tell you this.

00:56:35.340 But we're only months away from somebody coming up with special pronouns for fat people, which will give a whole new meaning to the term trans fat.

00:56:42.960 And I'm not joking about the pronouns.

00:56:44.440 In our culture, the special pronoun, it's how you affirm and consecrate an identity.

00:56:48.940 It's like a baptism.

00:56:50.840 And the good thing is that the blessed pronouns, though they are supposed to have this mystical significance, can change any time.

00:56:57.060 So just for fun, let's look at another example of this phenomenon.

00:56:59.460 Dipping into the TikTok well with the help of our friend Libs of TikTok, who found this one.

00:57:04.840 Here's a woman announcing her new pronouns. 0.99

00:57:07.100 Listen to this.

00:57:08.760 Hey, guys.

00:57:09.340 I think it's finally time for an update on my gender series.

00:57:13.360 I'm not going to lie.

00:57:14.020 I have no idea what part this is, but let's go.

00:57:17.620 Okay, first off, I am now just going by K now.

00:57:21.580 I no longer like to be called Kayla unless it's for work, just because it's kind of confusing with the paperwork and stuff.

00:57:29.440 So, yeah.

00:57:30.480 I also am now using all pronouns instead of none.

00:57:34.320 Um, I don't regret not going by any pronouns before, but I do feel that I, it just makes, I don't know, it just, that's what's happening.

00:57:45.320 Another thing, though, I am still xenogender.

00:57:48.020 Um, I still, that is still my gender that I identify with, and I am still bisexual, so those things have not changed at all.

00:57:57.740 So, yeah.

00:57:58.200 It's just a little quick update, um, that I have for y'all, and, I don't know, just let me know if you have any questions.

00:58:05.140 I might love to answer them.

00:58:07.360 Okay, make sure to update your scoreboard, uh, now, uh, Kayla is now K.

00:58:13.500 She's still xenogender, whatever that is, but, um, she went from no pronouns to all pronouns. 0.63

00:58:20.360 That's, that's, that's the update.

00:58:22.360 Now, how could she have had no pronouns before?

00:58:25.200 Did she not exist?

00:58:26.800 Was she some kind of phantom or something?

00:58:28.840 And how could she go by all pronouns now?

00:58:31.080 What, does she really mean all pronouns?

00:58:32.820 Even like, it?

00:58:34.740 Can I call her an it?

00:58:37.080 I suppose so.

00:58:38.680 She is a man, a woman, a thing, a nothing, and everything. 1.00

00:58:42.100 She is all things and no things. 0.98

00:58:43.980 She transcends time and space.

00:58:45.680 She's like some sort of pantheistic deity. 0.99

00:58:48.760 And you better not so much as suggest otherwise, because your job, again, is to affirm.

00:58:51.980 As we've learned, to do anything less than affirm, to express even mild disagreement with a person's self-perception,

00:58:57.080 is to engage in conversion therapy.

00:58:59.220 And conversion therapy is the ultimate sin, because it's an attack on a person's self-identity, 0.96

00:59:04.060 which is to say that it's an attack on their entire world, on their reality.

00:59:07.540 Because they recognize no world or reality aside from the one they've created in their heads.

00:59:13.040 Now, I want to get a little bit more philosophical here.

00:59:16.440 So let's bring together fat acceptance stuff, pronouns, hysteria about conversion therapy, and all the rest of it.

00:59:24.720 What's, what's really going on?

00:59:25.760 I think what's happening is that, is that we are conscious beings to begin with.

00:59:30.960 We are aware of ourselves, aware of our own fragility and impermanence.

00:59:36.260 And as far as we know, we're the only creatures in the universe cursed with such an awareness.

00:59:40.800 So we find ourselves floating in this vast ocean of existence, wondering about the reason and the purpose for it all.

00:59:46.820 We came from non-existence.

00:59:50.060 And we'll fade back into the abyss from which we came, at least physically.

00:59:55.120 And we know all of that.

00:59:57.640 The only way to survive is to reach out for an anchor point, you know, something stable.

01:00:02.380 Try to find an island to rest on.

01:00:04.160 Because we can't be conscious beings floating along with no purpose and yet aware of it the whole time.

01:00:09.900 We can't do that indefinitely.

01:00:10.960 There's just no way to live.

01:00:11.840 You can't live that way.

01:00:13.540 People who try to live that way end up not living for very long.

01:00:16.080 The problem that we face in the West is that we had an anchor, we had an island, but we abandoned it.

01:00:25.240 We gave up on God, on religion, which was our source of identity, our sense of purpose, our solid ground.

01:00:31.220 We decided that it wasn't good enough for us, so we jumped back into the sea with no real idea of where else to go instead.

01:00:38.360 So now we're adrift, aimless and meandering, and totally susceptible to any storm that comes along.

01:00:43.820 We have no shelter from it, no escape from the crashing waves.

01:00:47.200 What we're witnessing with the proliferation of gender identities, the pronoun madness, the fat acceptance stuff, 1.00

01:00:51.620 are a bunch of drowning adrift people reaching out for anchors, for little islands, for some kind of stability and identity,

01:00:59.780 having traded in the one true source of stability and identity available to us.

01:01:04.200 But these anchors aren't really anchors because they're not anchored in anything.

01:01:08.260 They don't go all the way down to the seafloor.

01:01:10.760 The islands are just driftwood at best.

01:01:12.800 They don't provide the sense of purpose and belonging and worth that these people want from them,

01:01:18.020 which is why they're always trading them out for something else.

01:01:22.060 But really, they're still lost in the sea, hopeless and alone.

01:01:26.320 So I guess it's a good thing that fat people are more buoyant on second thought.

01:01:31.540 I had a good philosophical thing going there. 0.85

01:01:33.340 I ruined it with a fat joke.

01:01:34.980 I should have done that, but I did.

01:01:36.300 In any case, the point is, Monica Crete, the fat acceptance activist, is today canceled. 0.79

01:01:42.840 And we'll leave it there for today.

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