The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 899 - The Left’s Ideological Colonization Of The Globe

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as war continues to rage in Ukraine, our media asks the important

00:00:04.360 question, how will this affect trans people? Also, Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union

00:00:08.960 speech. It was a pointless spectacle, aside from one significant moment that we will discuss today.

00:00:13.040 Plus, Russia is banned from the World Cup. That sounds fine to me, but didn't we just hold the 0.57

00:00:17.640 Olympics in China? There would seem to be some inconsistency here. Plus, in our daily cancellation,

00:00:21.500 the creator of the 1619 Project gets herself canceled again, and I'll explain why it's a

00:00:26.480 doozy. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:30.300 Biden's State of the Union address, mostly because the State of the Union address was, as always, 0.99

00:01:34.880 boring, pointless, and stupid. It's also grotesque to have to witness once a year the monarchic spectacle 0.99

00:01:40.840 of an alleged public servant parading down the aisle to unearned adulation, walking up the platform

00:01:46.860 only to deliver 90 minutes of propaganda interrupted by fits of scripted applause. The tradition ought to

00:01:52.660 be abolished, but it never will be, because the presidency only attracts narcissists and

00:01:58.060 megalomaniacs, because those are the only kinds of people who would want to be president to begin

00:02:01.300 with, and they're also the last sorts of people who would ever forego an opportunity like this.

00:02:06.140 So we're stuck with it forever. There are those who will defend the State of the Union, saying that,

00:02:10.900 well, it's good to hear the president address the nation and, you know, give an update on how things

00:02:14.980 are going. But these people have apparently not noticed that every State of the Union address

00:02:19.240 ever delivered has ended with an assurance that the State of the Union is strong. You've never heard

00:02:26.180 a State of the Union address where, at the end, the president says, in summation, we're screwed.

00:02:31.940 So what an incredible coincidence that literally, no matter what is happening in our country,

00:02:36.740 no matter what crises we're dealing with, the guy in charge always thinks that things are

00:02:41.460 basically going well. We know that's what he's going to say, it's what he always says, and it

00:02:46.140 politically is, he's required to say it, so there's no reason to say it or for us to listen to it.

00:02:51.400 There were, however, a couple of notable moments from the address, notable in the ways that were

00:02:55.360 not intended, however, and we'll talk about them a little bit later. Instead today, I want to begin

00:02:59.900 with a news item from CBS about the war in Ukraine. Only CBS is not focused on the aspects of the

00:03:06.940 Ukraine situation that most people would be concerned about. They've put aside minor distractions

00:03:12.320 like death, destruction, untold human misery, etc. and so forth, and they've zeroed in on what really

00:03:19.420 matters. Here's the headline. A war within a war. A transgender woman says transphobia and 0.83

00:03:25.480 discriminatory laws are keeping her hostage in Kiev during Russian invasion. Yes, we are lurching

00:03:31.640 towards a cataclysmic global war, and if you think that's bad already, imagine how transgender 1.00

00:03:36.420 people feel about it. Indeed, the worst thing about any potential nuclear holocaust is the

00:03:42.160 impact it would have on the transgender community. The CBS report is quite harrowing. It reveals how

00:03:47.820 the conflict in Ukraine has led to a misgendering crisis. It's like a genocide, but with pronouns.

00:03:56.040 Let's read some of the articles. It says, Zifamalu, that's the name that I'm sure I pronounced

00:04:01.880 correctly, was born and raised in Crimea, an area of Ukraine that was invaded and taken over by Russia

00:04:06.560 in 2014. Now the 31-year-old lives in Kiev, the capital city that has been under Russian siege for

00:04:11.080 nearly a week. She's running out of food and hasn't left her house for days as gunfire erupts outside,

00:04:16.280 and she says she can't leave. Zifamalu, who is transgender, said that transphobia is pervasive in

00:04:22.260 the city and neighboring countries, and fears that if she leaves, the tension of the ongoing conflict

00:04:26.300 will make her more susceptible to violence. Zifamalu was previously a popular contestant on the Ukraine 1.00

00:04:32.620 singing competition Star Factory, and Zifamalu doesn't know what to do. Even if she doesn't face

00:04:38.120 violence on her way to the border, she has no idea whether she'll even be allowed to leave the country.

00:04:42.260 Quote, there's no way Ukrainian border people can let me through, she said. There's no way. If she makes 0.88

00:04:48.560 it to the border of a neighboring country offering refuge, she's not even sure if they'll let her in,

00:04:53.020 as her passport indication, does not match her gender. Now, apparently the problem that Z faces

00:04:57.960 is that he wants to flee, but Ukraine is not allowing males to leave because they're needed

00:05:04.180 at home to fight and defend their country. But he doesn't want to do that. He wants to leave with

00:05:08.820 the women and children, but he's running into the problem that technically he is neither a woman nor

00:05:13.540 a child. The article continues, quote, for years, transgender people in Ukraine who want to be

00:05:18.720 legally recognized had a long list of steps they had to go through to do so. According to Human Rights

00:05:23.380 Watch, the government mandated that transgender people undergo extensive psychiatric observation

00:05:27.320 and undergo gender reassignment surgery to get legal documents that aligned with their gender.

00:05:33.000 Legislation was introduced in 2017 to lessen the process, but still would require that transgender 1.00

00:05:36.720 Ukrainians undergo outpatient psychiatric examinations. There is no indication that that

00:05:42.280 legislation was ever implemented. Quote, I don't want to go through that. This is like humiliating for the

00:05:47.460 world, Famalu said. I decided to keep my passport, keep mail in my passport, and now I cannot leave

00:05:52.520 the country. But we're told Ukraine was bad for trans people even before war broke out. In fact,

00:06:00.300 we're told it was hell. Listen. Sometimes we think it's just all a dream that we stuck inside some kind

00:06:10.540 of a video game because you just, you live in a quiet society and then you hear bombings and then you wake up

00:06:18.700 to the sound of bombings. I don't want to go outside. I'm literally scared for my life.

00:06:25.100 All my friends left the city. My neighbors left my floor and, I think, my building.

00:06:38.720 This is not a very rainbow-friendly place. So, lives for trans people are very bleak here. 1.00

00:07:01.620 If you have male gender in your passport, they will not let you go abroad. They will not let you 1.00

00:07:22.660 through. A world within a world. Truly. Truly.

00:07:34.260 Every noise from outside is a warning sign.

00:07:55.380 It was hell living as a trans person in Kiev, in Ukraine.

00:08:00.040 We feel invisible, truly.

00:08:03.260 Like we're not people, like we're not human.

00:08:06.560 It's truly how we feel.

00:08:08.480 You know, I wonder if a ship was sinking and women and children were allowed to evacuate

00:08:14.220 first and a man said he was a woman and tried to board one of the lifeboats out of turn,

00:08:21.900 would we pity him when he's caught and not allowed to get on the lifeboat?

00:08:26.300 Or would we condemn him as a coward?

00:08:28.780 These days I'm not so sure.

00:08:30.780 And there are a few takeaways from this bit of propaganda from CBS, and that's one of them.

00:08:34.120 The trans agenda, as always, is intensely obsessively self-centered. 1.00

00:08:39.060 Cities in Ukraine are in the process of being shelled and razed to the ground.

00:08:42.200 And this person is not only trying to leave rather than defend his home,

00:08:46.020 but is also taking the opportunity to complain that there's not enough tolerance for his gender identity.

00:08:50.420 Next, perhaps, we'll hear complaints that the Ukrainian government is failing to supply free hormone replacement therapy.

00:08:57.680 You know, people also can't get food or other provisions because their cities are under siege.

00:09:01.860 But let's keep our priorities straight, you know.

00:09:05.160 But this alleged lack of tolerance for trans people in Ukraine raises a larger point, I think.

00:09:10.560 Ukraine, according to this report anyway, does not really accept transgenderism.

00:09:15.260 Their culture rejects the philosophical notion that a person can change their gender simply by declaration.

00:09:22.360 They'll still let you be recognized as a different sex if you undergo the operation and submit to psychological evaluation.

00:09:28.660 A concession that goes farther than I would go if it were up to me.

00:09:32.020 But generally speaking, they do not have the same attitude about gender that we have in this country.

00:09:37.300 And our media wants you to be shocked by that.

00:09:41.840 But what they don't want you to realize or think about is that the vast majority of the world doesn't look at gender the way that people do in our society.

00:09:50.880 We are the outlier, not Ukraine.

00:09:54.220 Venture outside of Western culture and you'll encounter a whole world that still believes males are men and females are women.

00:10:01.400 The lion's share of the world's 8 billion people currently on Earth right now all live under this assumption.

00:10:06.460 And have always lived that way.

00:10:10.000 Leftist gender ideology, just like CRT, which we'll discuss more later, is an incredibly insular, specifically Western, uniquely modern phenomenon.

00:10:20.880 Until about 60 years ago, it didn't exist at all, anywhere, here or elsewhere.

00:10:24.980 Now it exists in our culture, has taken over our culture.

00:10:28.180 But most of the world has continued to see gender as it had always seen it.

00:10:31.860 This is especially true, by the way, of non-white parts of the world. 0.98

00:10:35.500 Ukraine is one thing.

00:10:37.620 Go down into, say, Africa, and you'll find many places where transgenderism is truly invisible because it doesn't exist at all.

00:10:46.300 We should stipulate then that gender ideology is insular, Western, modern, and mostly white.

00:10:53.140 So here's the great irony.

00:10:56.320 The left spends so much of its time militating against everything it perceives to be uniquely white and Western, and yet in reality, it is trying to spread those exact things across the world.

00:11:07.820 Leftists in the West have been conducting their own invasion for many years, all across the world, attempting to export their half-baked and incoherent ideas to every corner of the globe into countries and regions that don't understand it, don't want it, don't need it.

00:11:23.920 The CBS report is a call, basically, to extend that campaign into Ukraine.

00:11:30.100 If the country survives the Russian invasion, it will now have to endure an invasion of a different sort, a philosophical one, a kind of ideological colonization, which will lead to a different kind of destruction, but nonetheless very real. 0.63

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00:13:01.060 Okay, now we will begrudgingly head over to the State of the Union Address, and the big controversy today about the State of the Union Address is not anything that happened on stage, as it were,

00:13:17.020 but it's that there was an interruption, apparently by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, Congresswoman, who shouted something during the speech.

00:13:27.540 They kind of heckled Joe Biden, and they shouted something specifically about the, I believe, the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in Afghanistan.

00:13:38.620 And they died because of the ham-fisted way, the ham-fisted incompetent way that Joe Biden handled the pullout from Afghanistan.

00:13:49.960 And this is supposed to be a big, you know, big controversy.

00:13:54.120 What a horrible thing for them to desecrate this sacred event by interrupting the president.

00:14:00.280 Two things about that before we get to the speech itself.

00:14:04.780 Number one, you know, I'm glad that somebody brought up those service members who were killed, because Joe Biden wasn't going to talk about it.

00:14:14.400 And, you know, someone had to bring it up.

00:14:17.460 And number two, the State of the Union is not some kind, despite all of the pageantry that goes into it, it is not a sacred, holy event.

00:14:26.240 Who cares if they interrupted it?

00:14:27.760 I wish it was interrupted more.

00:14:30.420 You know, that would at least make it more entertaining.

00:14:32.740 I wish that there were people shouting the entire time.

00:14:37.080 We get the interruptions of scripted, canned applause.

00:14:42.000 You know, every once in a while there's a boo, but, yeah, I wish that there were people shouting the entire, and I say that, I don't care if it's a Republican or Democrat.

00:14:51.320 Because every year you get a dumb controversy like this, where, you know, there's always, there's one person in the audience who interrupts, who says something.

00:15:01.580 And it's true that oftentimes if it's a Republican president who gets interrupted, then you're going to have outrage the next day from a lot of conservatives and say, how dare you? 0.70

00:15:10.540 I don't care.

00:15:12.200 This event deserves no, you know, it does not deserve our attention at all.

00:15:19.240 It doesn't deserve our reverence.

00:15:23.200 This is how politicians ought to be treating each other, I think.

00:15:28.060 This kind of faux, putting aside even the issue of all the pageantry and the kind of, the way that this is all a holdover from a kind of monarchy perspective.

00:15:39.680 It's also the faux unity.

00:15:43.900 Let's get everybody in a room together and we'll hear the president talk about how we're all united as one.

00:15:49.240 We're not enemies of each other.

00:15:51.140 He said that too.

00:15:52.460 He said that at one point.

00:15:53.280 We have to stop treating each other as enemies.

00:15:55.100 Which is an interesting quote coming from the guy who had just a few months ago said that PTA moms are domestic terrorists.

00:16:05.000 And now he's saying we're not enemies.

00:16:07.880 So the whole thing is a show.

00:16:09.100 It doesn't mean anything.

00:16:09.980 It's totally empty.

00:16:13.440 I wish, I wish you should just be shouting the entire time, interrupting it.

00:16:16.520 Because that's the level of respect that it deserves.

00:16:21.540 And also, again, it would make it a lot more entertaining for the rest of us.

00:16:25.700 So, we'll move on to this.

00:16:27.620 There was one moment of real honesty, I thought, in the speech itself.

00:16:31.680 And let's play clip 22. 0.63

00:16:33.300 We are also ready with antiviral treatments.

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00:16:43.300 I've ordered more pills than anyone in the world has.

00:16:49.000 Pfizer's working overtime to get us a million pills this month and more than double that next month.

00:16:55.740 I've ordered more pills than anyone in the world has.

00:16:58.100 That, I believe.

00:16:59.880 He forgets to mention that they're mostly for him and his own medicine cabinet.

00:17:04.520 So that part, I'll believe.

00:17:05.780 A little bit of honesty there.

00:17:06.900 This part was less honest.

00:17:08.180 As we got towards the end of the speech, Joe Biden finally threw in the radical leftist stuff.

00:17:19.340 And with Democrats and State Union addresses, this is what they always do.

00:17:25.300 You know, maybe, God forbid, one day when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is president or something, 0.98

00:17:29.500 then we're going to get the full woke experience for the entire 90 minutes.

00:17:33.160 But that's not typically what Democrats do.

00:17:36.500 They'll throw it in there, but it's in a very euphemistic way.

00:17:39.200 And they just mention it and they move on because they know how actually unpopular these ideas are.

00:17:45.620 Especially if you talk about them in any kind of explicit way.

00:17:49.520 So towards the very end, he threw in a bit about abortion.

00:17:54.000 And listen to the way that he talks about this.

00:17:56.940 Listen.

00:17:57.100 If you want to go forward, not backwards, we must protect access to health care.

00:18:02.360 Preserve a woman's right to choose. 0.99

00:18:04.480 And continue to advance maternal health care for all Americans.

00:18:13.860 Maternal health care for all Americans.

00:18:16.820 Let's just stop and think about that for a minute.

00:18:18.640 Now, a lot of euphemisms surrounding the abortion issue.

00:18:23.160 Because, as I said, they can't talk about it honestly.

00:18:25.300 They can't talk about it explicitly.

00:18:26.400 They can't say what it really is.

00:18:29.560 Which is that you are destroying a life.

00:18:33.180 And that's not my opinion or my perspective.

00:18:35.760 There's nothing subjective about that.

00:18:37.380 That is what you are doing.

00:18:39.400 That's why the women go and pay $400 to the abortionist. 1.00

00:18:43.220 That's what the procedure is for.

00:18:45.420 It's to end a life.

00:18:48.680 Because if it was not, if there was no life to end, then you wouldn't need the abortion.

00:18:52.720 And it is violent and it is bloody and it is painful for everybody involved, especially the child who's being killed.

00:19:00.920 Because, of course, in the abortion, we don't recognize the child as being a human being.

00:19:08.600 So, there's not even going to be any steps taken to make sure that the execution is painless for the child.

00:19:13.940 Because if you take any of those kinds of steps, then you're acknowledging that there's a life there.

00:19:17.760 That there's a person.

00:19:19.900 You can't do that.

00:19:20.520 So, it is brutal and painful and awful and it's barbaric.

00:19:25.580 So, they're always covering in euphemisms and we hear a lot about the reproductive rights.

00:19:29.920 This is about reproductive rights, reproductive health.

00:19:32.180 As I always say about that, this has nothing to do with reproductive rights or reproductive health.

00:19:38.300 Because abortion does not stop reproduction.

00:19:43.760 Abortion kills the child after the child has already been produced.

00:19:48.660 So, it's too late now to talk about reproduction.

00:19:51.860 That's already happened.

00:19:54.200 The reproductive act, the moment of reproduction is at conception.

00:20:01.240 You're not going to find any doctor or scientist who will tell you that birth is reproduction.

00:20:06.740 So, that's usually what you hear.

00:20:10.440 But now, Joe Biden calls it maternal health care.

00:20:16.620 Which is just perverse and grisly.

00:20:20.680 I mean, this is pretty grim stuff.

00:20:24.300 Maternal health care?

00:20:27.120 Because you're acknowledging that the woman is a mother.

00:20:31.760 You're acknowledging that the child exists and that she's the mother and this is a maternal health care procedure.

00:20:42.740 So, in a way, that is a little bit more honest.

00:20:47.500 Actually.

00:20:48.440 Because at least you're acknowledging that this woman is a mother.

00:20:51.720 And when she gets the abortion, she's not going to, this isn't, you're not turning back the clock.

00:20:59.120 You're not reversing anything.

00:21:02.760 You're killing the child. 0.94

00:21:03.920 Now she's the mother of a dead child. 0.92

00:21:08.360 So, in a way, I guess I would prefer, now that I think about it,

00:21:12.280 I'd prefer for them to use that euphemism of maternal health care than to call it reproductive rights. 0.99

00:21:17.240 Because now, at least, you're, even if you don't mean to, you're admitting that abortion is not a health care decision.

00:21:27.320 It's not a medical decision.

00:21:29.620 It's a, it's really a parenting decision. 0.99

00:21:33.360 You're making a decision as a parent to kill your child. 0.52

00:21:40.460 And then there was, I think, what this was probably the biggest moment of the speech. 0.97

00:21:44.860 A moment of defeat.

00:21:46.260 This is the moment, and it's really pretty incredible when you keep in mind what's happened over the last two years.

00:21:53.460 This is the moment when the defund the police movement officially died.

00:21:57.820 Listen.

00:21:59.320 We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police.

00:22:03.100 It's to fund the police.

00:22:06.840 Fund them.

00:22:09.480 Fund them.

00:22:10.160 Fund them.

00:22:16.260 Fund them with resources and training.

00:22:21.220 Resources and training they need to protect our communities.

00:22:25.300 I ask Democrats and Republicans alike to pass my budget and keep our neighborhoods safe.

00:22:32.400 Fund the police is now the applause line.

00:22:35.040 And almost every Democrat in the auditorium there is, every Democrat in the audience is applauding, funding the police.

00:22:44.040 With the exception of the squad members, they did sit on their hands and they didn't applaud.

00:22:47.540 But everybody else, they were on their feet saying, let's fund the police.

00:22:53.120 Now, just for fun, let's go back and remember, this is a compilation that's floating around on Twitter now, and it's actually about seven minutes long.

00:23:01.880 We won't play the entire seven minutes.

00:23:03.140 But here's a good 90 seconds of one Democrat after another talking about defunding the police.

00:23:09.400 This is what the Democrats were saying, pretty much all of them, for the last two years.

00:23:13.020 Listen.

00:23:13.140 So we've been talking about defunding the police.

00:23:16.880 There's some issues that we ask police to do, like mental health issues or policing in schools and all the rest, that perhaps we can shuffle some of that money around. 0.97

00:23:26.200 Suck it up. 0.94

00:23:26.760 Defunding the police has to happen. 1.00

00:23:28.780 We need to defund the police.

00:23:30.340 Mayor Eric Garcetti saying, take some of the money from policing, about $150 million.

00:23:34.740 I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done.

00:23:37.400 Not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. 0.97

00:23:45.940 So yes, defund your butts. 1.00

00:23:47.820 Defund you. 0.97

00:23:48.520 Yes, I support the reallocation of resources from NYPD.

00:23:53.640 We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.

00:23:59.480 They are talking about reducing the allocation of resources to that department.

00:24:03.980 And I think every single city in this country ought to be thinking about the same thing.

00:24:09.140 Yes, I support the defund movement.

00:24:11.020 I'm for responsible reallocation of resources.

00:24:14.860 And defund the police.

00:24:15.920 I think you do all those other things.

00:24:17.280 You don't need all the money that's going to the police department.

00:24:19.600 So yeah, I mean, the spirit of it, I do support them.

00:24:22.860 Yeah, and you know, a lot of us were asked if we could imagine a future without police back in 2017 when we were running for office.

00:24:29.520 And I answered yes to that question.

00:24:31.240 We are going to reduce funding in the police department and redirect that money.

00:24:35.940 There's no reason the police budget should just keep growing and growing and growing. 0.97

00:24:40.360 I'm sorry, did Corey Bush say defund your butts? 0.92

00:24:43.460 Did I hear that correctly? 0.84

00:24:45.380 I mean, that I agree with. 0.68

00:24:46.600 If anyone's butt is being funded by the government, I very much would want to see that funding reduced at a minimum. 0.93

00:24:54.740 But that's the Democrats. 0.97

00:24:55.900 And those are, again, that goes on for seven minutes.

00:24:58.280 And that is not just the squad.

00:25:00.060 I mean, the squad might be at the forefront of it.

00:25:02.440 They're the ones leading this movement.

00:25:03.860 And the rest of the Democrat Party, the establishment of the Democrat Party, filed in behind them and let them lead.

00:25:09.960 But these were the most prominent Democrats in the country, including Nancy Pelosi, both on the federal level, on the state level, local level.

00:25:19.020 You know, mayors, governors, senators, congresswomen.

00:25:23.400 This is, they were all saying, defund the police.

00:25:27.400 And what do you know?

00:25:28.820 It was a total disaster.

00:25:30.500 Because it's not just that they, it's not just that they tried to actually defund the police for the last two years.

00:25:35.820 They really did it.

00:25:36.820 They actually implemented this policy in many cities.

00:25:42.660 And we saw immediately the exact result that any rational person would expect.

00:25:48.000 When you put fewer resources into enforcing the law, then you're going to have more anarchy, more chaos, more lawbreaking, more people committing crimes.

00:26:00.600 That's the equation.

00:26:03.460 It's not a very complicated one.

00:26:04.740 This isn't calculus.

00:26:07.200 But of course, rather than stand up there, there was no chance that Joe Biden, who allegedly is this decent and honest man, but the decent and honest Joe Biden, there was no chance that he would stand up there and say, hey, listen, we thought that defunding the police would work.

00:26:24.060 It didn't.

00:26:25.400 And we're sorry about that.

00:26:26.840 And now we're going to go back to putting some resources into these police departments.

00:26:32.520 He's not going to do that.

00:26:33.560 Instead, it's just an applause line.

00:26:37.640 Through one applause line, one applause line, Joe Biden erases the last two years of total disaster.

00:26:46.220 And he's able to do it because he has the media on his side.

00:26:48.780 All right, before we move on, in the run-up to the State of the Union, Kamala Harris appeared on a radio show.

00:26:55.980 And I just wanted to play this for you if you haven't heard it yet.

00:26:58.260 She appeared on a radio show called The Morning Hustle.

00:27:01.240 And she was asked to explain the Ukraine situation in layman's terms.

00:27:05.800 Now, that is an important context here.

00:27:08.680 In fairness, she was asked to explain it in layman's terms.

00:27:13.160 And she apparently thinks that the average layman is in preschool.

00:27:16.640 If you're watching any level of news, even social media, you're seeing everything that's going on right now in the Ukraine.

00:27:24.380 Break it down in layman's terms for people who don't understand what's going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States?

00:27:30.520 So, Ukraine is a country in Europe.

00:27:35.440 It exists next to another country called Russia.

00:27:39.080 Russia is a bigger country.

00:27:40.880 Russia is a powerful country.

00:27:42.460 Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.

00:27:46.220 So, basically, that's wrong.

00:27:50.540 Russia is a big country.

00:27:53.240 Ukraine is a little country.

00:27:55.400 They're on a planet called Earth.

00:27:58.340 Earth goes around the sun.

00:28:02.040 The sun is hot.

00:28:04.260 The sun is also really big.

00:28:07.160 You can't touch the sun.

00:28:08.920 It will burn.

00:28:10.880 Thank you, Camilla Harris.

00:28:12.720 That is her breaking it down in layman's terms. 0.52

00:28:15.280 That's also as deep as her own analysis and her own understanding of the issue goes.

00:28:19.780 So, let's make no mistake about that. 1.00

00:28:22.000 It's not just her patronizing and thinking that Americans are all a bunch of morons. 0.99

00:28:26.520 I mean, she does think that, but this is also—she can't—listen to her on Meet the Press or something, and it's going to be a very similar analysis as that. 0.99

00:28:36.120 Okay, moving on.

00:28:37.260 We'll go over to Ukraine.

00:28:39.140 Starting here, actually, with our energy situation.

00:28:41.660 Pete Buttigieg.

00:28:42.320 I want to play this for you, and speaking of euphemisms, you've got to be able to sift through all of that to get to what's really being said here, because Buttigieg has asked about the fact that, well, we're dependent on foreign oil.

00:28:56.940 We're dependent on Russia. 0.65

00:28:58.600 We import 600,000 barrels a day.

00:29:03.640 Other European countries, especially dependent on Russia.

00:29:07.640 So, what can we do about that?

00:29:09.320 And Buttigieg, his real answer, once you get through all the talking points and the lingo and everything and the buzzwords, his real answer is that we should continue to intentionally weaken American oil in response to this.

00:29:21.280 Let's listen to that.

00:29:22.920 Drill more, open up more U.S. land to drilling.

00:29:27.140 What's the administration's response to that idea?

00:29:29.520 Well, look, the president has laid out and taken a number of steps, including addressing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, including diplomatic efforts to increase global oil production and other ideas that have been raised that are on the table because everything deserves to be considered.

00:29:47.540 But let's also be clear that we are in the middle of a long-term transformation that is already fast underway, especially when it comes to vehicles.

00:29:56.500 Making electric vehicles more affordable for Americans, something that the president has proposed and is hoping Congress will pass.

00:30:03.760 For example, under the president's proposal, those pickup trucks that started about $40,000 would have their prices actually down to the high 20s with the tax incentives we're proposing.

00:30:13.800 It would allow more Americans to capture the fuel savings that you get.

00:30:17.480 We don't know from year to year what will happen in the ups and downs of the global oil markets, but we do know that you are better off financially and less subject to maintenance and repair issues.

00:30:28.040 If you own one of these vehicles, we want them to be American-made electric vehicles, creating American jobs on American soil.

00:30:35.060 And that's going to continue to be a policy priority for this department and administration, even as we're acting to provide more short-term relief.

00:30:42.140 Okay. All right. It's probably more of that than we needed.

00:30:44.480 On second thought, because there's really only one word that you need to hear, putting everything else aside, peel all that away.

00:30:51.180 The only word that matters there is the word transformation.

00:30:54.020 And that's what you always have to look out for.

00:30:57.300 He's saying, well, this is a transformation.

00:31:00.200 And this is what the left always does, Democrats always do.

00:31:02.700 They're always looking for a moment of crisis in order to use it to help transform America.

00:31:12.280 And that's always their mission.

00:31:15.140 It's never about preserving anything.

00:31:17.380 It's never about saving.

00:31:18.580 It's always about transforming and changing it, right, in their image.

00:31:25.300 Mutating, maybe a better word.

00:31:27.080 And so that's really his answer, is that this is our opportunity to transform energy, which, in other words, means to make American oil weaker, to destroy the industry, and, again, reshape society in their image.

00:31:44.420 Now let's go to this from Yahoo.

00:31:45.460 It says, Russia will be barred from the 2022 Men's World Cup and other international sports competitions after FIFA and the International Olympic Committee levied extraordinary sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

00:31:57.860 FIFA, soccer's global governing body, and UEFA, the sports European governing body, announced Monday that they have banned all Russian national teams and clubs from all competitions until further notice.

00:32:09.860 The suspension will likely remove Russia from March's World Cup qualifying playoffs and end its hopes of earning a berth of the most prestigious tournament in the international sport.

00:32:19.780 Now, if you want to ban Russia from the World Cup, fine with me.

00:32:25.560 Where it works for me, sounds good.

00:32:27.820 In fact, you could go even farther than that.

00:32:30.600 And how about ban all countries from the World Cup and ban everybody from soccer and just get rid of soccer entirely?

00:32:36.660 I think that's probably the best thing that we could possibly do.

00:32:38.780 But if you're not going to do that, you want to ban Russia, great. 1.00

00:32:42.160 I'm all for it.

00:32:43.900 But I can't help but notice that this is happening only, what, two weeks after the conclusion of the Olympics?

00:32:53.040 The Olympics, which were held in China?

00:32:56.560 China, which is a country that is certainly guilty of, not only guilty of its own rampant human rights abuses, 0.80

00:33:02.460 but also there's the little detail about the fact that China unleashed, created, it seems, and unleashed a virus on the world that killed 5 million people.

00:33:11.280 And so after China has unleashed a virus onto the globe, infected the globe with a virus that killed 5 million people, 0.98

00:33:22.200 it not only was allowed to attend the Olympics, but it hosted the Olympics.

00:33:28.220 And every other country showed up.

00:33:31.980 And we all played games together and had fun.

00:33:35.200 Oh, but there was a diplomatic boycott.

00:33:38.860 So some of the American diplomats, they didn't show up.

00:33:41.960 And I'm sure that their presence was sorely missed.

00:33:45.640 And China, they really had their feelings hurt about that, I'm sure.

00:33:48.120 But we still showed up there.

00:33:52.920 So, once again, you know, we're getting tough with Russia when it comes to some of these things anyway.

00:33:59.700 Still not all that tough because we're, you know, we're still importing all the oil.

00:34:04.520 We're going to dump the vodka down the drain but still import the oil.

00:34:07.680 But in spite of that, when it comes to China, still hosting the Olympics, we went to the Olympics.

00:34:14.280 And there was almost no discussion about it.

00:34:16.220 That's what blew my mind the entire time.

00:34:18.340 There was some discussion about the human rights issue, which is good.

00:34:23.840 There was at least discussion about the fact that China commits all these human rights abuses.

00:34:28.880 But that, to me, was like the less relevant point compared to the fact that they created this virus in a laboratory

00:34:36.380 and let it go into the world and killed 5 million people.

00:34:40.920 And that detail, when it comes to the Olympics, wasn't even talked about. 0.88

00:34:44.340 Just absolute hypocrisy and moral inconsistency.

00:34:52.060 All right. 0.77

00:34:53.260 Let's go to this.

00:34:54.620 This is a local news report in Seattle.

00:34:57.280 We go from China, Russia, Ukraine.

00:34:59.660 Let's go back to the United States where there are some things happening here that I think deserve our attention.

00:35:04.600 A local news reporter in Seattle took a drive downtown over the weekend to show what a typical evening in Seattle looks like.

00:35:11.640 We have that.

00:35:13.520 This is Seattle.

00:35:14.860 And this is not the set of a zombie apocalypse film.

00:35:20.340 This is not The Walking Dead.

00:35:23.080 This is actually an American city.

00:35:25.260 And you just see trash, garbage littered everywhere.

00:35:32.020 People using drugs in the middle of the street.

00:35:37.040 People hunched over like zombies under the influence of drugs.

00:35:45.400 Look at that.

00:35:46.420 I mean, this is what American cities look like right now.

00:35:48.640 This is not just, oh, that's one street in one city.

00:35:53.320 That is one street in one city.

00:35:54.920 But many streets in many cities look exactly like this, if not worse.

00:36:01.840 This is what is happening in America.

00:36:05.540 What you're watching is the full-scale collapse of American cities.

00:36:11.320 And American civilization as well.

00:36:12.880 So, at a certain point, maybe we should have some concern about that.

00:36:17.520 Maybe we should start talking about that.

00:36:19.920 Maybe we should actually try to fix that.

00:36:23.920 You know, I was watching the State of the Union last night, and I saw all these lawmakers,

00:36:30.080 both Republicans and Democrats, were carrying Ukrainian flags.

00:36:36.440 And some of them were decked out, you know, it's like they were at a soccer match or something.

00:36:40.340 And they were decked out on even more than that.

00:36:42.260 There was like, I think I saw some people face paint or something.

00:36:44.620 And just, they had the pins and everything for Ukraine, showing their support for Ukraine.

00:36:52.460 Which, all right.

00:36:55.820 But you just don't see that kind of concern and patriotism for our own country.

00:37:05.080 Just like our politicians are very, very concerned about the borders of Ukraine,

00:37:08.660 protecting the borders of Ukraine.

00:37:10.340 Those same politicians have basically no concern at all for our own borders.

00:37:18.600 This is one of the reasons why we can't get sucked into conflicts across the globe.

00:37:24.360 There are a lot of reasons.

00:37:25.140 One of them is that it will result in thousands, if not millions, of American deaths.

00:37:28.860 But the other is, we just can't afford it in any way.

00:37:36.160 We are not in a position, unfortunately, to go solve the world's problems.

00:37:41.940 I wish that we were.

00:37:42.980 I wish that that was possible.

00:37:44.120 I wish that we were doing so well that we could afford to do that.

00:37:47.680 But we're not.

00:37:49.140 Because what you just saw that, that's what our cities look like right now.

00:37:51.720 They're collapsing.

00:37:55.080 And we think we can fix the whole world?

00:37:57.020 We can't even fix Seattle.

00:38:00.280 Maybe that's where our focus should be.

00:38:02.140 Before we get to the comment section, I wanted to read this.

00:38:04.380 This is from Gulf News.

00:38:05.400 It says, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Museum of the Future, which is being called the most beautiful building on earth.

00:38:20.500 Dubai's new iconic landmark officially opened its doors to the world with a new message of hope for all mankind.

00:38:25.400 Now, this is being hailed, at least in Dubai, as the most beautiful building on earth.

00:38:30.400 Let's take a look at this.

00:38:31.660 There it is.

00:38:32.200 That is, that's the most beautiful building in the world.

00:38:37.960 It looks like a giant misshapen donut.

00:38:42.420 Or maybe like a very large piece of playground equipment.

00:38:47.300 My kids would love to climb that thing.

00:38:49.240 I think that's one thing I can say for it.

00:38:51.480 But is this the most beautiful building in the world?

00:38:54.880 If we're talking about modern buildings, like buildings that have been built in the last 20 or 30 years,

00:39:00.320 then it's in the running only because modern buildings are almost always hideous.

00:39:05.100 Because at some point we decided, this is part of the collapse of our civilization, we decided to stop building beautiful things.

00:39:10.420 Especially beautiful buildings.

00:39:12.240 And it didn't used to be that way.

00:39:13.560 You know, we used to strive to make every building beautiful.

00:39:17.360 We used to strive to make everything beautiful that we could.

00:39:19.340 Have you ever been inside like a post office that was built 85 years ago?

00:39:25.020 Even just standard government buildings before modern times were beautiful.

00:39:32.140 Until modern times.

00:39:34.220 That's not the case anymore.

00:39:35.440 But before that, I mean, buildings either had grandeur and majesty and a certain kind of drama to them.

00:39:41.740 Or else they were quaint and they had character.

00:39:44.820 These days everything is bland and workmanlike.

00:39:47.320 And when someone goes out of their way to build something with visual appeal like that, whatever that monstrosity is,

00:39:52.700 it ends up being something like that.

00:39:54.580 Like a giant Krispy Kreme donut.

00:39:57.060 Because we've given up on beauty.

00:39:59.040 You know, when you give up on beauty, that means you're also giving up on truth.

00:40:02.580 And I think we're experiencing that in our culture as well.

00:40:04.860 Now let's get to our comment section.

00:40:06.500 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:40:12.700 Who's to blame?

00:40:15.680 It's the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:40:19.840 Okay, I have to mention this to give some credit to a member of the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:40:26.520 You know, I mentioned on the show a couple days ago how I am not the most talented athlete,

00:40:36.220 but I am at least very good at beating my kids in basketball.

00:40:41.740 Like I can, I probably can't measure up against anybody else.

00:40:45.400 But when it comes to squaring off against my eight-year-old kids, I'm a champion.

00:40:52.000 And I think we have that clip just to remind ourselves of that.

00:40:54.200 Let's play that.

00:40:55.440 You know, I'll go outside to my driveway and I'll play basketball against my kids,

00:40:59.540 but I can't derive any real meaning out of the fact that I win.

00:41:03.880 And I do always win because I never let that win.

00:41:06.620 No one's going to give me a trophy for being undefeated against eight-year-olds in one-on-one 0.99

00:41:10.640 basketball.

00:41:11.640 I'd take that trophy if someone gave it to me because it'd be hilarious, but no one

00:41:14.900 is offering it.

00:41:16.220 Well, I thought no one was offering it, but as it happens, a member of the Sweet Baby Gang

00:41:20.880 actually went and made me a trophy.

00:41:25.220 Matt Walsh, basketball champion of eight-year-olds.

00:41:29.660 Someone made this trophy for me, delivered it to the office.

00:41:32.520 And so there it is.

00:41:34.100 And I'd have to tell you, and this will be proudly displayed in my office, you know,

00:41:40.020 every other trophy that I own is a participation trophy from Little League.

00:41:44.720 And I have like nine of them because I participated in Little League nine times, if you can believe

00:41:49.540 it.

00:41:50.320 And I, of course, still proudly display those as well.

00:41:52.920 But this trophy is actually the most meaningful award that I've ever received.

00:41:56.840 It actually is.

00:41:58.500 It's the first one I've really earned, which tells you something about how incredibly pitiful 0.64

00:42:03.300 my life has been and what a mediocre, sad sap I am.

00:42:08.040 Still, you take the accolades wherever you can get them.

00:42:10.160 And the fact remains that I am undefeated against my kids in basketball.

00:42:13.540 And that includes, by the way, one-on-one, around the world, horse.

00:42:18.020 I've never lost.

00:42:20.520 Check back in like two years, and we'll see if that still is the case.

00:42:24.800 Let's see.

00:42:26.880 Austin says, of both of Matt's talents, both, his best by far is his commitment to mispronouncing

00:42:33.180 names of people he doesn't respect.

00:42:35.860 Well, thank you.

00:42:36.800 Thank you for noticing.

00:42:37.920 That is, well, that's my talent.

00:42:40.600 And my other one is defeating eight-year-olds in basketball.

00:42:42.580 So I need a trophy for that as well.

00:42:44.900 Commenter McCommentface says, Zelensky is the new Andrew Cuomo for March 2020.

00:42:49.360 A bunch of resistance wine moms cheering for nuclear annihilation because Zelensky is cute

00:42:53.400 and they hate Trump.

00:42:54.820 Supposed Putin lover. 1.00

00:42:56.880 So stupid. 1.00

00:42:58.640 Yeah, you know, here's the thing with the reaction to Zelensky. 1.00

00:43:01.020 I obviously, Zelensky is defending his homeland, as he should.

00:43:06.740 But it does really rub me the wrong way, the way that people are, a lot of people in this

00:43:12.220 country are watching this unfold and engaging it.

00:43:16.380 It's like they think they're watching an actual movie.

00:43:19.040 They think it's a reality show.

00:43:20.260 There were some, I just saw some New York Post article about, and it said that fans have

00:43:27.200 been debating which Hollywood actor should play Zelensky when they make a movie about

00:43:31.600 him.

00:43:32.080 Fans.

00:43:33.560 Fans of what?

00:43:34.700 A war?

00:43:35.640 War has fans now?

00:43:37.340 So that's what I find so disgusting and inappropriate.

00:43:45.940 And also, look, Zelensky, I mean, he's been out there trying to push the rest of the world,

00:43:52.080 the Western world, to get involved on his behalf, on the behalf of Ukraine.

00:43:56.120 He wants the no-fly zone.

00:43:57.300 I mean, yesterday he sent out a tweet where he was comparing it to, you know, he was evoking

00:44:01.520 the Holocaust and said that, hey, Western countries, you said never again, but where

00:44:06.280 are you now?

00:44:07.620 And once again, I understand why he would do that.

00:44:11.680 I mean, if I was in this position, I would do the same thing.

00:44:13.420 I would be trying to get the rest of the world to come help because I care about protecting

00:44:16.960 my own country.

00:44:20.140 But he's thinking about Ukraine.

00:44:21.980 He cares about Ukraine, not America.

00:44:26.900 And if it were up to him, we would get sucked into this thing, even if it results in thousands

00:44:30.980 or millions of American deaths.

00:44:34.300 And that's another reason for us to keep our head on straight when we're watching this

00:44:39.880 and we're analyzing it.

00:44:41.580 Not to get swept up in emotion, get caught up in war fever, start looking at this like

00:44:46.540 it's a movie or something.

00:44:50.700 Because the rest of the people involved in this, they have their own interests, as they

00:44:54.860 should.

00:44:56.620 Okay?

00:44:57.280 And that's what they're concerned about.

00:44:58.520 People in Ukraine, they're concerned about Ukraine, which is why we in America, we need 0.96

00:45:04.540 to keep our interests in mind also.

00:45:07.220 Because nobody else is going to.

00:45:10.200 If we are not focused on protecting America, and if we are not focused on American interests,

00:45:15.420 then no one else is going to be focused on that.

00:45:19.980 If that's not our first priority, it won't be anybody's first priority.

00:45:23.140 And this is the kind of thing you don't need to say.

00:45:27.280 It's the kind of discussion that probably doesn't happen in most other countries across

00:45:31.760 the globe.

00:45:33.140 You wouldn't need to actually say that, hey, you know, we should prioritize our own country

00:45:36.560 first.

00:45:37.920 You wouldn't need to say because it's just obvious.

00:45:39.640 Well, of course we're going to do that.

00:45:42.860 Only in America and other Western countries is this even a discussion.

00:45:45.520 Let's see.

00:45:50.640 And finally, okay, Tony D.H. says, Matt, what book are you reading right now?

00:45:57.020 I'm reading In the Heart of the Sea.

00:45:58.340 It's called The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex is the subtitle.

00:46:02.720 It's actually the story that Moby Dick was based on, or at least that Melville was inspired

00:46:06.880 by.

00:46:07.880 And it's about a whaling ship in 1820 that leaves Nantucket, and it sails all the way

00:46:12.080 down around South America and ends up in the Pacific, and it's killing whales the whole

00:46:15.940 time.

00:46:16.740 And just that right there is, you know, enough fodder for a good book.

00:46:19.580 I mean, the life that a 19th century whaler lived, willingly lived, is extraordinary.

00:46:24.840 Exciting, bleak, brutal.

00:46:26.180 I mean, if you can imagine, like, trying to kill a whale in the middle of the ocean with

00:46:32.780 19th century technology, and you have to somehow tow the whale on board and harvest it for oil.

00:46:39.500 Just everything that went into that.

00:46:40.940 But, and then anyway, eventually when they're out in the ocean, they get attacked by a whale.

00:46:44.400 They're stranded out in the ocean.

00:46:45.800 They have to survive over thousands of miles.

00:46:48.000 It's a great book, and I would really recommend it.

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00:47:40.800 It's a true story of what really happened the night of the tragic Breonna Taylor shooting.

00:47:44.800 Mattingly, a 20-year police veteran, takes readers inside his department's response and

00:47:49.340 debunks the lies that have recklessly been shared with the public.

00:47:52.920 Check out the trailer here.

00:47:54.540 It was very chaotic.

00:47:55.760 It was very quick.

00:47:57.460 Instantly, I knew I was shot.

00:47:58.840 Breonna Taylor, she was caught in the crossfire of those bullets.

00:48:01.460 As soon as your brain's registering, it's already over.

00:48:05.240 The media got so many things wrong in this case, saying we had the wrong apartment.

00:48:09.400 Her name wasn't on the warrant.

00:48:10.860 She was shot and killed in her sleep in her bed.

00:48:13.380 These are lies.

00:48:14.380 This is not true.

00:48:15.600 And all the while, you're hearing all these outside influences from athletes and Oprah

00:48:20.680 and Ellen DeGeneres and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, all those people coming and attacking

00:48:26.120 you, putting your name on their account, saying he should be in prison.

00:48:29.140 All these things that they have no idea what they're talking about, but they have such

00:48:32.860 influence.

00:48:33.900 The more we attack police for doing their job, the less good qualified police you're going

00:48:38.700 to have.

00:48:40.480 When you read 12 Seconds in the Dark, you will find out the truth of what really happened

00:48:44.780 the night of the Breonna Taylor raid.

00:48:46.240 Now, in a world where voices like his are censored, this story is incredibly important, and we're

00:48:57.120 so grateful to have this brave truth teller on board.

00:48:59.380 The book releases March 15th, but it's available for pre-order now on Amazon or anywhere you

00:49:03.140 buy books online.

00:49:04.000 So go get your pre-ordered copy today, because I promise you, it will sell out and you don't

00:49:08.480 want to miss this book.

00:49:09.320 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:10.400 So this has been in my cancel pile for a few days.

00:49:17.640 I almost let it go because time had passed, but I can't, because there are things in life

00:49:21.660 which are destined for the daily cancellation.

00:49:23.400 This is one of them.

00:49:24.460 It also fits in a nice kind of symmetrical way with what we talked about to start the

00:49:27.480 show.

00:49:28.260 The left trying to interpret world events through their very narrow, insular lens.

00:49:33.740 That brings us to Miss Nicole Hannah-Jones, who's the New York Times journalist who brought

00:49:38.040 us the 1619 Project, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on that piece of thoroughly debunked

00:49:42.700 agitprop, because a Pulitzer these days is about as meaningful as a Teen Choice Award or

00:49:46.860 a Nobel Prize.

00:49:48.820 And maybe she'll win one of those awards, or all three, for her commentary on the Ukraine

00:49:51.760 crisis.

00:49:52.540 As far as that goes, Jones is in a little bit of a tough spot, because her mind is a vehicle 0.98

00:49:56.760 with only one gear.

00:49:58.000 It's a menu with just one option, a buffet where every dish is the same.

00:50:01.140 She has one setting, one lens for viewing the world, and it's the racialized lens of CRT. 0.82

00:50:05.860 The problem is that a war between Ukrainians and Russians would seem to fall outside of

00:50:11.760 the CRT framework.

00:50:13.660 These are two groups of Europeans fighting in a region of the world 6,000 miles away.

00:50:18.760 CRT has no insight to offer about such a conflict, because CRT is, among other things, incredibly

00:50:24.040 narrow and blinkered in its view of race and of the world.

00:50:28.660 In fact, it basically ignores the entire rest of the world and pretends that everywhere is

00:50:32.460 just like the modern United States.

00:50:33.840 This is how CRT disciples can, for example, claim that non-white people cannot be racist 0.99

00:50:40.500 because racism is power plus prejudice, and non-white people don't have institutional

00:50:45.680 power, which is obviously false even as it pertains to this country, but it's even more

00:50:51.260 false across much of the rest of the world, filled with countries where all of the institutional 0.52

00:50:56.480 power is held by non-white people. 0.89

00:50:58.880 There are no whites holding institutional power in China.

00:51:03.140 Does that mean there's no racism in China?

00:51:05.820 That would certainly come as a shock to anybody who's ever spent time in that country.

00:51:09.560 But these are the limitations of the modern American race hustler.

00:51:13.580 And it's why Jones had to struggle and stretch to find a way to make the Ukraine situation

00:51:18.160 fit into her preconceived mold.

00:51:20.600 And this was the best she could do.

00:51:23.140 So in a series of tweets last week, Jones made the case that the concern for Ukraine

00:51:28.160 in this country stems from anti-black racism.

00:51:31.580 She tweeted, quote,

00:51:32.540 Now, don't worry, it gets much better.

00:52:01.440 By that, I mean worse.

00:52:03.580 She says,

00:52:04.000 What if I told you Europe is not a continent by definition, but a geopolitical fiction to

00:52:09.500 separate it from Asia? 0.97

00:52:11.160 And so the alarm about a European or civilized or first world nation being invaded is a dog

00:52:16.100 whistle to tell us that we should care because they're like us.

00:52:19.500 To be clear, we should care about Ukraine, but not because it's European or the people appear

00:52:24.120 white or that they're civilized and not impoverished. 0.55

00:52:27.180 All people deserve to be free and to be welcomed when their countries are at war.

00:52:31.620 Now, okay.

00:52:33.760 Let's first engage with this idea that Europe is not a continent.

00:52:37.020 She would later go on to explain that, quote,

00:52:39.280 The entire continent is either Asia or Eurasia, I suppose.

00:52:42.620 That's not up to me.

00:52:43.580 I'm just stating a fact about what defines a continent.

00:52:46.580 Yeah, just stating facts.

00:52:47.820 Sure.

00:52:48.320 The interesting thing about this fact is that it not only is not a fact, but even if it was

00:52:52.180 a fact, it would still be totally irrelevant.

00:52:55.340 Let's pretend for a moment that Europe isn't a continent.

00:52:57.680 A continent, okay, I mean, how does that at all impact one way or another the relevance

00:53:01.740 of the war in Ukraine?

00:53:03.960 But Europe is a continent because a continent by definition is, quote, any of the world's

00:53:09.060 main continuous expanses of land.

00:53:11.740 Europe is one of the Earth's main continuous expanses of land, and so it's a continent.

00:53:15.500 Now, perhaps she thinks that it's not a continent because it's connected to other continents.

00:53:20.820 But if that's the case, then the only pure continents in the world are, I guess, Australia

00:53:25.140 and Antarctica.

00:53:27.200 The rest of us exist in a giant muddled mass of connecting expanses of dirt and rock.

00:53:33.360 It's true that the lines distinguishing Europe from Asia were invented by human beings.

00:53:38.720 The lines are drawn on a map.

00:53:40.440 They aren't carved into the actual ground for the most part, but that doesn't make the

00:53:44.400 lines fictional.

00:53:46.200 I mean, dragons and unicorns are fictional.

00:53:48.480 Europe is real. 0.88

00:53:49.660 You can go visit it.

00:53:51.260 I mean, there are certain parts of it that I would avoid for now, but you could go.

00:53:55.300 Besides, if Europe is a fiction, then so is Africa. 0.60

00:53:58.940 That continent and all of its countries have also been defined by lines that human beings

00:54:02.920 have drawn.

00:54:04.460 In this sense, race is kind of a fiction too.

00:54:07.760 People have different skin colors in reality, but we as human beings are the ones who decided

00:54:13.460 to label those colors and imbue them with deeper significance.

00:54:17.980 Yet, Nicole Hannah-Jones and her CRT comrades would say that it's racist to try and erase 0.73

00:54:23.300 race in that way.

00:54:25.000 It used to be considered progressive and politically correct to say that you're colorblind and you

00:54:29.260 don't see race and race isn't real.

00:54:31.580 That used to be the progressive thing to say.

00:54:33.660 Now, that is itself a racist claim, according to the prophets of CRT.

00:54:39.620 This is the problem with the people who go around labeling everything a social construct.

00:54:45.060 They set the precedent that a thing is meaningless if it's a construct, but they're unwilling to

00:54:50.080 apply that precedent consistently.

00:54:52.240 So what about the rest of her claim?

00:54:54.240 She says that we only care about Ukraine because they're white. 0.90

00:54:57.520 Well, that's clearly absurd.

00:54:58.720 Just a few months ago, the big story was the situation in Afghanistan and the disaster that 0.97

00:55:03.740 unfolded because of the way that Joe Biden handled the pullout there.

00:55:06.780 People were quite concerned about the plight of Afghans who are not white.

00:55:10.320 Now, it's true that the concern didn't seem to last that long, but it won't last in Ukraine

00:55:16.920 either.

00:55:17.880 People are led by the media to care about one thing and then another, then another.

00:55:21.180 As the media jumps from one lily pad to the next, there's plenty to be said about this

00:55:26.040 pattern of intense yet fleeting focus on one thing at a time in rapid succession, but you

00:55:31.100 certainly can't call it racist.

00:55:33.280 Now, since we're on the subject of prejudice, I should mention that this past weekend in

00:55:37.980 D.C., a Russian restaurant called Russia House was vandalized and spray painted with

00:55:42.580 anti-Russia messages.

00:55:44.400 Meanwhile, people are dumping their vodka down the sink.

00:55:46.700 Prominent members of Congress, like Eric Swalwell, have actually proposed rounding up all the

00:55:52.080 Russian students in the United States and kicking them out.

00:55:54.760 Listen to this.

00:55:56.880 Congressman, you say pull from a menu of options, but we heard from former DNI Clapper less than

00:56:03.840 an hour ago.

00:56:04.480 It says the time for, and I'm paraphrasing here, proportionality, incrementalism is over.

00:56:09.780 We heard from the former defense secretary, William Cohen.

00:56:12.920 Dump all, the full gauntlet of potential sanctions on Putin.

00:56:17.320 Why not do that?

00:56:19.700 Everything we do has to be aligned with our allies.

00:56:22.940 And the fact that we were able to get the Germans to stop this pipeline, that's huge.

00:56:27.540 That's U.S. leadership on the international stage.

00:56:31.120 And so we want to move with our allies in NATO, but also countries like Japan, who can take

00:56:36.380 quite swift and severe actions against Russia.

00:56:40.360 But yes, on the table should be sanctioning Putin personally, completely taking them out

00:56:46.240 of the European and international banking system, which is known as SWIFT.

00:56:50.380 Frankly, I think closing their embassy in the United States, kicking every Russian student 1.00

00:56:55.760 out of the United States, those should all be on the table.

00:56:58.860 And Vladimir Putin needs to know every day that he is in Ukraine, there are more severe

00:57:03.940 options that could come.

00:57:06.340 Now, after 9-11, which was an attack on our actual country, we heard and have continued 0.97

00:57:13.100 hearing quite a lot of outcry about alleged Islamophobia.

00:57:17.040 After China unleashed a virus on the world that killed hundreds of thousands of our own 0.99

00:57:20.180 people, there was an outcry against anti-Asian hate.

00:57:24.440 Now, are we going to hear similar denouncements of anti-Russia hatred?

00:57:28.620 Will the media follow these kinds of stories with the same feverish interest?

00:57:32.300 Will people of Russian descent be granted victim class status?

00:57:37.860 The answer is no, of course.

00:57:40.060 How does that fit in with Nicole Hannah-Jones' theory?

00:57:42.980 According to her narrative, discrimination against white people ought to provoke the most

00:57:46.960 outrage, given that she says we only care about white people. 0.99

00:57:50.160 And yet the opposite proves true once again.

00:57:52.760 That's because her narrative is divorced from reality entirely.

00:57:56.340 She may not know much about geography, but we must admit that she is an expert on fiction.

00:58:00.360 And that's why today, Nicole Hannah-Jones is once again canceled.

00:58:05.020 And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 899 - The Left’s Ideological Colonization Of The Globe

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