Ep. 900 - Demonic Leftists Scream And Spit In Defense Of Child Sex Changes
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Crazed LGBT activists at a Texas university go insane because a campus speaker said we shouldn t castrate gay men. Also, Ron DeSantis provokes widespread media condemnation because he told some kids they don t have to wear a mask. Plus, a handful of Republicans refuse to sign a congressional resolution in support of Ukraine. And Ukraine has found a way to deal with looters. In our daily cancellation, a Hollywood icon is in trouble with the mob because he didn t like Hollywood s latest gay western. We ll talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, crazed LGBT activists at a Texas university go insane
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shouting, screaming, stomping, and spitting because a campus speaker said that we shouldn't
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castrate little boys. This is the state of the university system in our country. We'll talk
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about it and play some of the footage, which you have to see as well. Also, Ron DeSantis provokes
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widespread media condemnation because he told some kids they don't have to wear a mask. He's
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right, of course, as usual. Plus, a handful of Republicans refused to sign a congressional
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resolution in support of Ukraine. We'll look at their reasoning and you can decide if they were
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right or wrong. And Ukraine has found a way to deal with looters. It's a strategy that I think
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we should probably think of adopting. In our daily cancellation, a Hollywood icon is in trouble with
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the mob because he didn't like Hollywood's latest gay Western. We'll talk about that and much more
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today. American Financing, NMLS, 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Jeff Younger is a business owner in
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Texas and now a candidate running for the Texas House of Representatives. You may recognize his name
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if you follow a select few conservative media outlets anyway, because he's been locked in a years-long
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custody battle with his wife, Ann Georgilis. Now, at the center of this dispute is their now nine-year-old
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son, James. Ann says that James is really a girl and she wants to transition him. You know, she found out
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that James really has a girl magically trapped inside him and so she wants to do the transition. In fact, she
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has long since begun the so-called social transition, dressing him in girls' clothes, giving him a girl's name,
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Luna. Now, Jeff fiercely opposes this plan, as any sane and loving parent would, and has been fighting
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for custody so that he can prevent the further psychological and physical abuse of his boy.
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Ultimately, Jeff lost the fight, tragically, and the courts handed custody over to Mami Munchausen.
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So Jeff is now running for office because he realizes that the only way to save his son now is to see to it
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that childhood gender transitions are legally outlawed completely. Now, to that end, as we talked
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about last week, Texas has gone part of the way. The governor recently declared that the medical
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transition of minors is child abuse under state law, under already existing state law, and any adult
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participating in or facilitating the practice should be arrested and charged. Now, that's a good step,
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and it's an important step, but as long as this barbarity is not officially and specifically
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outlawed, it will still happen. The governor can only do so much on his own. The ACLU is sued to
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block Abbott's directive from going into effect because, of course, the ACLU cares deeply about
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protecting the right of adults to butcher, drug, and castrate children. What this means most likely
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is that the whole matter will be tied up in the courts for the foreseeable future. The Texas
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legislature has to act, and that's what Jeff Younger is calling for, and that's why he is running for
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office. And it's also why he held an event at the University of North Texas last night
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to discuss this issue and explain why, in his view, child transition should be criminalized.
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Now, the event drew controversy from the moment it was announced, and when flyers started going up
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around the campus last week, last week, the president of the university, Neil Smatresk,
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responded to complaints over the flyers by condemning them, the flyers, not the complaints,
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as intolerant. In a campus-wide email, he said, quote,
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I know the last several days may have felt particularly difficult for the transgender
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members of our community due to the intolerant views of a handful of campus members. We have
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a variety of resources through our Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access to support
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you during your time at UNT, and we hope to offer you a safe place to heal and grow your support system.
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So, the president of the university, after scooping the LGBT complainers up in his arms,
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patting them on the back, swaddling them, assuring them that everything will be okay, the poor babies,
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he did finally affirm, though, the right of Jeff Younger to come and say his piece.
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But he also accused Younger of, quote, challenging the very existence of trans people.
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So, the stage was set. The irrational beliefs and attitudes of the radical LGBT leftists
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had been affirmed and legitimized, and that led directly to what happened last night.
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Younger came to give his talk, as scheduled, and all hell broke loose, in quite a literal sense,
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in fact, as many of the protesters appeared to be demonically possessed. Outside of the event,
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an enormous pitchfork mob assembled demanding that the event be shut down. We have some of that
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Okay, so you see a pretty good crowd there. But they didn't settle for remaining outside.
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If they had just done that, then, you know, whatever. But they flooded into the room and
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shut the event down themselves inside, preventing Younger from presenting his case. And they did
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that by chanting and screaming at him the entire time. Listen to this.
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You can practically smell that room from here. Truly a collection of the greasiest and foulest,
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ugliest humans you're likely to ever come across. And they weren't satisfied to keep their tantrum
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purely verbal. At one point, in response to Younger misgendering someone in the audience,
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i.e. gendering them accurately, somebody stood up on the desk and spat on him. Watch.
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I just hope Jeff got his rabies shot. That's all I can say. Now, when I watch all this on
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unfold, a few things come immediately to mind. First of all, modern college leftists are
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apparently going to barbers who use weed whackers and chainsaws. They go to, like, the landscaper to
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get their haircut. The worst haircuts I've ever seen, all in one room. More importantly, I may have
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to pay a visit to this school. You know, bullies like this should not get what they want. What they
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want is to make sure that nobody who opposes them ever shows up on their campus again. They're trying
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to send a message. What they ought to get instead, then, is, you know, me. If you're affiliated with
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the conservative group on campus there, please reach out to me. Maybe we can set something up.
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Most importantly of all, though, I think are three points. Now, first of all, to echo something that
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our very own God King Jeremy Boring posted this morning in response to this, you are a fool if you
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pay to send your kids to college. You are paying, paying exorbitant back-breaking sums to have your
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children turned into that. You're paying to have them brainwashed. You are sending them into the
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most expensive cult commune in history where their mind and soul will be eaten, and inside the shell
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that was once your child will be placed a blue-haired lunatic beholden to a worldview so irrational and
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fragile that he'll melt into a puddle of somebody even so much as mentions in his presence that men have
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penises and women have vaginas. You are paying for that. You are asking for that to happen. You are
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going into debt to make that happen to your kid. Now, sure, there are some exceptions. There are a few
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good schools left in the country, a few, and there are plenty of kids who go into these environments
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and they come out with their minds and souls somehow still intact. I meet students like that all the time
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at my events, but the odds are stacked against them, and most are destroyed by the experience.
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It's just not worth the risk. It's not close to worth it. It's definitely not worth paying $100,000 for.
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Two, notice that when I outline the horrors of the modern university system,
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I do not say that the kids who graduate from these institutions can't get jobs.
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That's not one of the things that I list. Now, it's true that a lot of them indeed cannot get jobs,
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but we make a mistake when we point to all the tantruming gender studies majors in that room
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and scoff and just assure ourselves that, well, the real world will catch up with them.
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They're going to be unemployed, living in their mom's basements, rejected by society.
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Certainly, that will be the case for some of them. Certainly, it should be the case for all of them,
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but it's not the case for all of them, not even most of them. The scary thing is that, in fact,
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they do get jobs. The real world will not catch up with them. I hate to say it, because they're going
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out and redefining the real world. We are living in a culture and a country increasingly shaped by
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people like that. Those kids in that room, that's your next generation of teachers.
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Those are university professors. Those are human resource managers at Fortune 500 companies.
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Those are diversity consultants. They'll take their blue hair over to a nearby middle school
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and help to keep this self-perpetuating cycle of crazy going. In other words, those kids become this
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lady. Let's talk about gender roles and talking about them in the classroom. So, this last week,
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as you all know, was Valentine's Day, and this is what my students discussed through the week.
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Wow. It wasn't the first time they were talking about the gender binary. We already talked about
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pronouns. We had talked about girl and boy stereotypes. We had named those stereotypes. Talking
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about access. We've been talking about trans rights. Recently, we've been having discussions about
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power and dynamics of power in our society, which leads right into social norms, which leads right
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into the gender binary. And our discussions were amazing, y'all. This is my thing. Out of those
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discussions, we ended up moving into self-love because I realized so many of my students were
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already looking at themselves and at their bodies and even at their gender negatively. This to say that
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the gender binary is constantly harming us day to day. Only a few people gain power from it. Everyone
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else is trying to conform to the societal norms. This harm, as we're already seeing, starts at a young
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age. I like to clarify. I said lady. I'm not exactly sure about that, actually. Now, that person ought to
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be unemployed, clearly, but isn't. That person is teaching your kids. One more point. If it wasn't already
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clear to you, hopefully that video, well, that video we just played and especially the clips of
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the university wakes you up to the fact that there is no soft, soft peddling. You know, there's no
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diplomatic, nice or polite way to engage with these people. What they need are bullies. They obviously
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were not bullied nearly enough in grade school. Maybe if somebody had punched them in the mouth in
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seventh grade, some of this could have been avoided, but instead they've been coddled their entire lives
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while also being brainwashed. The only way to stand up to this and to respond to it is to be an even
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bigger bully than they are. So if you're on the side of truth, of biology, of protecting children from
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being butchered, castrated, and poisoned, you know, of basic moral decency, then you should project
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unwavering confidence and strength. They're all in that room screaming hysterically because Jeff Younger
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doesn't want to have his son castrated. Okay? They spit on him because he doesn't want to have his
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son castrated. They are so upset about that that they want this guy dead. They hate him because he
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doesn't want to have his son castrated. Their position, their worldview is the most twisted, evil,
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insane thing any of us have ever come across in our lifetimes. That's how bad it is. That's how it
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should be treated, with contempt and derision. If somebody is arguing for the right of plastic
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surgeons to amputate a healthy 14-year-old girl's breasts, and you're treating that argument with even
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a modicum of respect, you already lost. I remember something. When we engage with the crazies, we're
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not just engaging with the crazies, or even primarily. We're really trying to reach all of
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the basically sane people who are on the verge of getting caught up in this madness. You know,
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they may lack the philosophical grounding, the mental toughness, the courage, whatever else,
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to withstand the tidal wave of insanity that pummels them constantly. There's a lot of people in that
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category. And our first job and our foremost job is to send a message to them that it's okay to be
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sane. It's okay to be normal. And you don't do that by lending validity to insanity. I think what our
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country needs now, desperately needs, is the truth. Told directly and loudly and without apology.
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That's our only hope. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right. So by the way, this will give you an idea of just how boring I am. A couple of days ago,
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I was talking to my daughter about Lent and she was telling me what she was giving up for Lent,
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which I think she said candy. So we'll see about that. But then she asked me what I was giving up.
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And I said, at the time, I still hadn't decided yet. I was trying to decide. And she said,
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I know what you can give up, daddy. You could give up buying socks. You love buying socks.
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And this is how my kids see me. And as I, as I head into middle age, this is how I'm seen.
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My greatest passion in life in their eyes. The thing that they define me by is that I like to
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buy socks. And you know, the even sadder thing is that she's right. And also I realized that I,
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I can't give that up because it'd be too hard. That's a cross I can't bear. I mean,
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I'd have to cancel my monthly sock subscription first of all, because I do have a monthly sock
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subscription. I can't do that. And the idea of just wearing old socks for a month and a half is
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just horrifying to me. Let this cup pass for me. The sacrifice is too hard, too great.
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Okay. The, something interesting happened last night. The media briefly moved away from Ukraine
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because they had bigger fish to fry. And that would be Ron DeSantis. Apparently they say Ron DeSantis
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was, was mean to somebody about masks. God forbid. He, he bullied some students because they were wearing
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masks. That's, that's the claim anyway. Now he was speaking at a school and they were standing
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behind the podium in masks and he bullied them. That's, that's how it's being reported. And it's
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big news. I mean this for, for a moment anyway, this even knocked Ukraine out of the, out of the,
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the top of the news cycle, but that's the way it's being reported. Let's watch the actual footage
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and, uh, you can decide for yourself. Let's see it. You do not have to wear those masks. I mean,
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please take it. Honestly, it's not doing anything and we got to stop with this COVID theater. So you
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want to wear it fine, but this is a, this is ridiculous. All right. Well, it's good to be at USF.
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I don't know. I listened to that and what I heard, maybe I'm hallucinating, but I'm pretty sure I heard
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him say, if you want to wear it fine. So the way that this is being reported is that he forced the
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kids. He said, you can't wear the mask. He ripped it off of their faces and littered on fire right in
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front of them. Now I would have liked it even more if he had done that, but he didn't. He actually said,
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it's fine if you want to wear it, but you don't have to. Um, and he was exactly right to do that.
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He was exactly right. And we'll talk more about why he was right in his, uh, in the way he approached
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this in a second, but before we get there. So as I said, the media latched onto this and, uh,
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before you know it, we had, um, the local NBC affiliate, they were outside of this event and
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they were pulling parents aside, the parents of the poor victims, the children who were told they
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didn't have to wear masks. Um, they were pulling the parents aside. The parents were lining up
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to, you know, use this to get some attention and to make themselves the victim, to make their kids
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the victim, but primarily themselves. And so here's one mother and you'll notice, uh, uh, there's a,
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certain disparity here. It's not exactly symmetrical because you'll notice a mother
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and one of the kids standing here and the kids wearing a mask. The mother is not, not wearing a
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mask. And yet she's very, very upset that her son was told that he didn't have to wear one. Let's
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watch this. I'm responsible for him. And I told him to wear that mask and governor DeSantis. And he's
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looking at this adult authority and he's telling him, Oh, you didn't have to wear the mask.
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What was your reaction when you heard the governor tell you and your classmates, remove
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your masks? Um, a bit of surprise and shock more of, okay, this authority, this authority
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figure is asking me to do something that I know is probably going to end up being controversial.
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So I took mine off. Did you feel pressured by the governor to do that?
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Um, a little, it was more of a pressure of an adult figure asking me to do something. And it's
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just like, all right, why not? It's just shocking that the governor told these kids,
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take off your mask. He pretty much said, take off your mask is stupid and take off your mask.
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Your parents don't matter. Even though I'm, I'm telling you parents matter. And he's telling my
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minor child to take off his mask. He's putting us at risk. So, Oh yeah. So I was upset. Very upset.
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Putting you at risk. Huh? What a terrible mother. This, this woman is. She's just a terrible person
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and mother. Terrible. Putting you, you're parading your kid up there as some kind of political props
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so you can get attention. Claiming she's, he's putting us at risk. You're not even wearing a mask
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yourself. You're the one who is, if anyone is most at risk of COVID, it's you. You're older.
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You appear to be, uh, you know, overweight. And so that puts you in a higher risk category.
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Your kid's at almost no risk at all. You got him wearing a mask.
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He's the governor's putting us at risk. She says, without a mask on.
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But that's just a great, uh, what a, what a, I could not have scripted it any better.
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If I wanted to demonstrate and illustrate the insanity of the way that we've approached COVID
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and especially as, as, as it pertains to kids, I couldn't have scripted it any better
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because she's not wearing a mask while she screams about how we're putting be put at risk.
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He's wearing a mask. And on top of it, she's using all these words. Like it was shocking,
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horrifying. My kid was traumatized. And then you go over to the kid and he says, well, you know,
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did you feel pressure? Um, a little, but he didn't care at all. You can see in the video,
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that kid is, is one of the ones you see in the video, taking the mask off and he smiles when he
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takes it off. He's happy to have the thing off his face. He's only wearing it because his mom is
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forcing him to. Speaking of Munchausen by proxy, we got another, another Munchausen mommy here.
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Only reason he's wearing it. He was, he was thanking God that he, uh, could take it off.
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And you notice what he said. It was actually, it was actually very interesting.
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He said that, um, he was hesitant to take it off, not because he thought that he would die if he took
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it off or, or that it was unsafe. He said that it would be controversial to take it off. That was
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his reason. You know? Um, so this kid is not stupid. Unlike a lot of those kids we saw in the
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video at the Texas university, very stupid. This, this kid isn't. So he, he, it's pretty clear from
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what he said. He knows that he's not at any great risk here, but it's controversial just in the sense of
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the way people will react to it. And he knows, and what he didn't say, but you could kind of fill
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in the blanks cause you see his mom there. It's, it's controversial for him at home. If he takes
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the mask off, I mean, there's only two ways of looking at this with that mom. Either she knows
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that the mask, um, is not necessary and forces him to wear it anyway, just as a virtue signal,
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using her kid as a prop, or she thinks the mask is necessary for her own safety, but she doesn't
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want to make the sacrifice of wearing it because it's uncomfortable and all of that. And so she forces
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him to do it for her. Either way, no matter how you slice it, this is a terrible mom. Uh, I think
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we've got another video of a, of a, of a parent complaining. Let's, uh, this one at least is
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wearing a mask for, uh, he he's, he's put in the effort to put on a show here. He puts the mask on
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and here's what this parent says. I would tell him to stop bullying kids. Um, it's fine if you
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don't want to wear a mask, but encourage others to do what they feel is safe and, and leave it at
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that. I was just thinking, I don't know if I should take it off or leave it on cause the governor,
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he asked to take it off. But I thought about it and it's my right to have my mask on.
00:24:12.200
His mother tells him to wear the mask. I tell him it's his choice. So he made that choice and
00:24:18.060
the governor has no right to tell no kid or no one who they can or can't wear a mask.
00:24:23.320
He doesn't have that right. He didn't tell him they can't. He didn't say that.
00:24:30.280
I mean, am I, am I losing my mind that I, again, am I hallucinating?
00:24:33.800
He didn't say you have to take it off. And, but there's another kid who doesn't care,
00:24:38.980
doesn't care about this, but, uh, his parents are forcing him to pretend that he cares.
00:24:46.100
You know, next there's going to be the lawsuit or something. We're going to get, uh, who's that,
00:24:50.440
that the lawyer, um, who repels down, you know, after any kind of police, Ben Crump,
00:24:57.300
Ben Crump's going to be on the scene. I guarantee you that guy's going to be there
00:25:00.020
and there's going to be some kind of a lawsuit or something. That's what's happening next.
00:25:06.600
But Ron DeSantis, um, he was exactly right to, to do what he did.
00:25:13.060
And I would even say, I would encourage anybody out there. Um, this is, we should,
00:25:17.660
we should all take Ron DeSantis' lead and, uh, and do the same thing. Um, if you see a child
00:25:25.340
wearing a mask, you should go up to that child and say, you don't need to wear that. There's no
00:25:31.620
reason for you to be wearing that. Your parents are maybe forcing you to wear that. Uh, they
00:25:36.480
shouldn't, they're wrong because all of these kids are victims of Munchausen by proxy. They're,
00:25:41.680
they are victims of abuse. And, uh, what they need is some sane adult to tell them that, no,
00:25:48.880
this, the air is not toxic. You're not going to die. If you take it off, people are not toxic.
00:25:52.880
It's okay to show your face. Not only okay, you should, you know, you have a right to show your
00:25:58.860
face. You have a right to see other people's faces. None of the adults around you are wearing
00:26:03.360
them. You can take that off and you'll be fine. So you should say that to, to, to every kid you
00:26:08.140
see wearing a mask. Absolutely. For their sake, because they're being abused. Um, and as for adults
00:26:17.380
who still wear masks, you should just point at them and laugh and mock them mercilessly because
00:26:22.880
that's what they deserve. You know, you see an adult wearing a mask, you, you paranoid freaks.
00:26:31.780
You look ridiculous in the mask, you idiots. That's the appropriate response to adults,
00:26:36.220
but the kids who again are, are being abused and being forced into this. Um, that's not what you
00:26:40.840
should say. You should, you should respond just like Ron DeSantis did. I thought there was a lot of,
00:26:45.160
uh, generosity of, of, of heart and spirit and the way that Ron DeSantis went about that
00:26:49.320
because he's concerned for those kids and the way they're being abused.
00:26:54.500
All right. Um, let's go to this from PBS says the U S house has overwhelmingly approved a
00:27:02.300
resolution steadfastly, staunchly, proudly, and fervently in support of Ukraine. Lawmakers said
00:27:07.360
Wednesday that history was watching the way the world responds as Ukrainians fight to save their
00:27:11.720
Western style style democracy from invasion by Russia with intensifying urgency. Many in Congress
00:27:16.540
said more must be done to help Ukraine and cut off Russian president Vladimir Putin's ability to
00:27:20.560
wage war. Uh, in the Senate, Lindsey Graham was also introducing a resolution that would back
00:27:24.960
Ukraine's claim in international court that Putin and his cronies have committed war crimes.
00:27:29.380
And so they all signed this resolution, um, or almost all of them did. And this is a day after,
00:27:34.520
uh, many of them, Republicans and Democrats, as Tucker Carlson pointed out in his monologue last
00:27:39.960
night, which was excellent. You know, Republicans and Democrats showed up to the state of the union
00:27:44.140
with their, you know, draped basically in Ukrainian flags with their Ukrainian lapels and, you know,
00:27:50.460
all the different kinds of, uh, Ukrainian apparel, um, and accessories. But what you notice is that
00:27:58.860
many of them actually took off their American flag lapels and put the Ukrainian flag on. Now there
00:28:05.800
were some of these Congress members who had both, um, but many of them again, including plenty of
00:28:12.040
Republicans. They were, they hadn't, they were not wearing any American flag at all. They took it
00:28:15.600
off to put the Ukrainian flag on instead. This is something you will not see in any non-Western
00:28:24.920
country. Okay. You go outside of the West and you, you, you free yourself from this, from this unique
00:28:31.220
particular sickness that, that, that, that many people in this country suffer from where they think
00:28:38.300
that, that, uh, you know, patriotism for our country is wrong, but we can be patriotic for
00:28:43.800
other people's countries. Go outside of that. You're not going to find, you know, uh, politicians
00:28:49.600
of other countries taking their own country's flag off and, and wearing another country's flag.
00:28:56.400
So after that bit of virtue signaling, they put this, um, this declaration together and they came
00:29:04.680
out in support of Ukraine. Now a few Republicans did not sign. I think there were three Republicans
00:29:08.940
who said, I'm not going to sign it. One of them was Thomas Massey and Thomas Massey is, you hear me
00:29:15.700
mention him kind of frequently on the show because he's one of the good ones in, in Congress among
00:29:20.140
Republicans, one of the only good ones. Um, and he's intelligent and also has moral and intellectual
00:29:26.400
courage. And that is in very short supply among our leaders. And so he didn't sign it. Is it because
00:29:32.700
he supports Putin? He's a, he's a stooge of Putin. He's a, he's a secret Russian agent sent here by
00:29:39.600
Putin. Is it that, or does he have reasons, intelligent reasons to not sign something like
00:29:45.940
this? You don't have to agree with those reasons by the way, but I'll read, he put a Twitter thread
00:29:51.220
out there where he explained his reasons. You don't have to agree with them. But if you, after I read
00:29:57.860
this to you, if your takeaway is that he's a stooge of Putin, then you're just a very stupid person.
00:30:04.060
And it's not worth talking to you because whether you agree or disagree, you have to at least admit
00:30:09.020
if you're an intelligent, rational person, that his reasoning is reasonable. So here's what he says.
00:30:16.840
I fully support the right of the people of Ukraine to self-determination. However, there are many reasons
00:30:21.800
I could not vote for the seven page resolution that passed the house of representatives today.
00:30:25.240
The resolution contains an open-ended call for additional and immediate defensive security
00:30:29.980
assistance. This term is so broad that it could invite, that it could include American boots on
00:30:34.080
the ground, or as some of my colleagues have already requested, U.S. enforcement of a no-fly zone.
00:30:39.980
It expands the geographic scope of the U.S. commitment to the conflict in Ukraine by condemning the
00:30:44.920
country of Belarus. We should not be seeking to name new enemies or committing to overturning other
00:30:49.580
governments. It calls for fully isolating Russia economically. This would hurt low-income U.S.
00:30:55.240
citizens who are already reeling from inflation. Innocent people in Russia, many of whom oppose
00:30:59.520
Putin's aggression, would suffer under crippling sanctions, possibly turning them against us.
00:31:03.860
Crippling sanctions could also drive Putin to become more desperate, inciting him to resort to
00:31:07.620
drastic measures such as escalating the weapons employed or the people targeted. The resolution
00:31:12.100
contains a gratuitous statement that Ukraine and NATO will determine the relationship between the
00:31:16.140
two of them. Of course, this is true, but why should Congress assert this now when the goal is to
00:31:20.920
de-escalate the conflict? And finally, it calls for continuing support as long as the Russian
00:31:28.460
Federation continues to violate Ukraine's sovereignty. Depending on the definition of violate, this could
00:31:33.860
be a U.S. commitment to forever be actively engaged in a conflict with another nuclear country.
00:31:38.660
Those are his reasons. Sounds perfectly rational to me. And I happen to agree with them. And again, I'm not
00:31:48.660
saying that every person who hears it has to agree with it. Maybe you could nitpick here and there.
00:31:55.680
But at least what Thomas Massey did is he read the resolution, which is a step that I guarantee you most of these
00:32:03.480
people didn't even do. So he actually read the language and he thought about, what does this mean?
00:32:10.840
Do I actually support everything in this? And what about the implications?
00:32:18.360
I mean, he knew that the political calculation is because of all the war fever and everything right
00:32:22.700
now and all in the propaganda and people are kind of caught up in it. The smartest thing politically is
00:32:30.060
just to sign the damn thing. But instead he thought, well, what does it actually say? What are the
00:32:35.160
implications? Do I really support it? Yes, I support Ukraine defending itself, obviously. No, I'm not a
00:32:40.920
fan of Putin, obviously. But do I support everything, all the language in this particular resolution? And he
00:32:45.720
said no. Agree or disagree? You got to at least respect that. I mean, anytime a politician, even if I don't
00:32:54.600
agree with them, anytime a politician is willing to take some kind of stand that's going to be
00:33:00.680
politically unpopular, but because they're trying to, you know, do what they actually think is the
00:33:08.020
right thing to do, I'm always going to be impressed with that. I'm also impressed with this. Meanwhile,
00:33:14.360
over in Ukraine, this is reported by The Blaze. Ukrainian citizens have allegedly taken to publicly
00:33:19.300
shaming those who decide to take advantage of the war-caused chaos to do a bit of looting. According
00:33:24.520
to Ukraine's correspondent, one enterprising citizen who decided to take advantage of an understaffed
00:33:29.340
store chose to buy something there without money. The looter was unlucky. He was seen by local
00:33:33.900
residents. They called the police to the place. The arriving patrol found the marauder without pants
00:33:38.580
and taped to a pole. So, okay, here's the guy. That's the looter. I guess other citizens saw this
00:33:45.560
guy looting, and so they taped him to a pole, and they pulled his pants out and taped him to a pole,
00:33:50.880
just kind of like a public shaming thing. This is also sort of the Spider-Man strategy of, you know,
00:33:56.220
you don't have the webs, the indestructible webs, but he kind of, you know, ties them to a pole,
00:34:02.700
let the police show up. So that's what the Ukrainians did here. I think there are other,
00:34:05.840
do we have other photos as well? There's another guy taped to a pole, public shaming. He's got a sign
00:34:12.080
on. I assume that says looter or something like that. And then here's these guys. Okay,
00:34:17.540
these guys were stripped naked, and they had, I assume, something like looter written across their
00:34:23.180
bodies, blindfolded and paraded through the street by concerned citizens. Those people are tied to
00:34:31.960
poles with their pants down. So now for me, look, this is still a little bit too lenient for me.
00:34:38.240
I would like it if I, you know, maybe, and I understand that the resources and everything are
00:34:43.600
not, maybe don't allow for this, but in an ideal world, you would do this, and then you would also
00:34:50.220
have a supply of like tomatoes and rotten eggs, which again, you know, war-torn country, they're
00:34:55.200
not going to have that. But if we were to adopt this here, then, you know, you tie them to a pole,
00:34:59.760
put the sign on them, looter, and then you have, you know, crates of rotten eggs and tomatoes and
00:35:06.600
things. And people could come by, just have fun throwing them, and you keep them attached to that
00:35:11.260
pole for, you know, a day, two days or so. I think that's a great strategy. I really appreciate that.
00:35:19.120
So well done, Ukraine. Imagine if we were to adopt something like that in San Francisco.
00:35:27.040
Maybe not San Francisco. Now, I think, you know, the problem is in San Francisco, if you make them
00:35:30.940
march through the street naked, they might like it too much. So some kind of public shaming mechanism
00:35:37.020
is the appropriate response. And a lot of times that could be even better than, yeah,
00:35:44.820
if you can send them to prison, that's also good. But public shaming is a real tool that societies have
00:35:53.340
in their belt that these days we don't use anymore because we have this idea that you should never shame
00:35:58.040
anyone. It's always bad to make people feel ashamed. Well, no. Actually, the equation is
00:36:03.060
pretty simple. You should not shame people for doing things that are not shameful. Okay? And this
00:36:10.480
is what we get wrong. This is what cancel culture gets wrong much of the time, is that people are
00:36:14.960
getting shamed for doing things that aren't shameful, or shamed for doing things that don't really matter.
00:36:20.520
You know? But if someone is doing something that is shameful, like looting is a shameful activity,
00:36:26.240
to do it while your country is under siege, and people are dying, and you're taking advantage of
00:36:32.420
that, that's shameful. In some ways, it's even more shameful, because at least in that case,
00:36:39.880
you can claim that you were desperate, you had no choice. I don't buy it, but you could claim that.
00:36:43.740
It's even more shameful to do it in our country when we're not under any official military siege.
00:36:47.900
And you're taking advantage of the fact that the police aren't enforcing the law.
00:36:53.660
And you are victimizing and exploiting your fellow community members, the people who run these shops.
00:37:00.700
These aren't millionaires living in mansions 50 miles away. These are people in your community
00:37:06.800
that you're victimizing. And yes, you should be shamed for that. It's a good tool that we should be
00:37:13.300
using more often. Let's get down to the comment section. Let's see. Steve Jobs says,
00:37:28.640
yes, Matt, I'm an African. And yes, we still have common sense in this part of the world.
00:37:33.220
We still can distinguish between man and woman without any difficulty. We still believe in the
00:37:38.120
existence of absolutes. I personally think that the West has lost its mind. Well, that's good to hear,
00:37:42.420
but you might want to, you might want to keep it down a little bit because the more, the more that
00:37:48.160
you point this out, the more that the ideological colonizers among the left here in the West are
00:37:54.060
going to say, well, we got to get down to Africa and change that. Oh, they still believe in men and
00:37:57.680
women down there. We got, we got to change that. And of course I'm being facetious because the leftists
00:38:02.500
already know that. And this project of ideological colonization is well underway in Africa and all
00:38:07.840
across the world. It's just that they run into, they run into problems because, you know, when you
00:38:16.860
go to other parts of the world and you're talking to people who have not been brought up in our culture
00:38:22.700
and don't at all have the same kind of framework that we have, and you go to them and you say
00:38:28.120
something like, Hey, you know that if a man feels like he's a woman, then he's really a woman. That just
00:38:32.600
doesn't mean anything at all to them. And so you have a lot of, you know, there's a lot of groundwork
00:38:37.360
that the left has to lay in these other parts of the world and they're trying to do it.
00:38:42.980
And if they're not opposed and opposed passionately, then, then eventually they'll succeed.
00:38:49.920
Cool Papa J magic says, Matt, I absolutely understand your point about trans being a white
00:38:55.120
Western thing specifically, but pointing out the hypocrisy of the regime does nothing.
00:38:58.980
They don't mind being hypocritical and or contradictory. They literally have no problem
00:39:03.700
with it. Uh, yeah, I agree with you. I don't think that just by pointing out hypocrisy, you're
00:39:08.480
going to, I don't think that when someone's being a hypocrite and you say you're being a hypocrite,
00:39:12.880
they're going to say, Oh yeah, no, you're, you're right. Uh, nevermind. I changed my mind.
00:39:15.600
That's not what's happening. Um, but there's still a value in pointing out intellectual inconsistencies,
00:39:23.620
logical inconsistencies. And also, again, I go to what I said at the start.
00:39:27.040
Um, I'm not trying to primarily convince the regime, you know, I'm trying to reach all of
00:39:34.820
the same normal people out there who are feeling bewildered and are caught up in this storm and are
00:39:40.820
beginning to lose their sense of which way is up and which way is down. Those are the people that
00:39:45.000
I think we're primarily trying to reach. I did accidentally skip right over the, uh, the video
00:39:49.140
comments. So because I'm, I, uh, I've, I, I feel very nervous about the video comments now because
00:39:56.920
McKenna's ruined it for, for all of us, frankly, but, um, okay, we'll play some of the video
00:40:01.320
comments. Dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. Let's start with, um, this one that's on the
00:40:06.880
screen. Go ahead. So that is, that appears to be, uh, okay. Yeah. It says right there
00:40:23.740
on the screen. So my Dr. Phil episode is being played in some kind of school. So look, I, like
00:40:30.600
I said, not all schools are bad. Certainly not all teachers are bad. Um, there, there are
00:40:35.600
still some very good teachers out there and, uh, I, I don't know. I feel about the good
00:40:40.540
teachers the way that I feel about cops, like the good cops. I don't know. I don't know how
00:40:45.380
you do it in this environment, but, um, we need people to do it. So I have a lot of respect
00:40:49.200
for that. And, um, that's great. You know, you should play that episode. It is educational
00:40:53.660
because it's also, it's both sides of the argument being presented. I think that episode should
00:40:59.700
be played in every, um, in every classroom in the country. Um, because it's both sides
00:41:06.800
of the argument being presented and you can decide who wins. All right. I don't know why
00:41:10.600
I'm going to do this, but let's go to clip 15. Hey Matt, long time listener here. I look
00:41:14.700
forward to hearing your video comments every episode. And I have to say the one that your
00:41:18.960
producer McKenna picked out last week has to be one of my favorites, but I might be a little
00:41:24.520
biased. So I understand. I would like to start a new trend. McKenna's unite against Matt's video
00:41:31.060
comment selection cancellations. Sweet baby gang for life. Don't give me the sweet baby gang for
00:41:36.500
life after that. Don't do that to me. I don't believe you. First of all, I just don't believe
00:41:41.880
it that you actually thought that that was, this is a, this is a coordinated assault against me.
00:41:47.680
And this is what I get. I try to bring other voices into this show. So it's not just me
00:41:51.960
rambling the whole time. And I end up with this, with this conspiracy. It's outrageous.
00:41:59.180
But there is some good news. Scott says, Matt, please shave your beard for a 900th episode special.
00:42:04.960
No, that's not happening. And of course you're banned for even suggesting that, but it is indeed
00:42:08.100
the 900th episode. And I would be remiss for not mentioning we've done 900 of these things.
00:42:12.260
And I thought, you know, for real this time, this, this is, this is real. Okay. To honor the occasion.
00:42:16.720
Um, and I know I've, I've, I've, uh, joked about this before and all of that, and it's been kind
00:42:21.640
of anticlimactic, but to honor this occasion, because it's 900 episodes we've done, that's a
00:42:26.040
big deal. Um, and so many of you have stuck, stuck with us for, for so many have stuck with us through
00:42:31.700
all 900 episodes. I don't know why, but you have. And so to honor that and to honor you, I thought I
00:42:35.880
would actually play the banjo for real this time. Absolutely for real. It's here in the studio with me.
00:42:41.580
Um, and, um, so let me go get it. Oh, I can't, I forgot. Yeah, that's a sheet. It's fake. I don't
00:42:50.080
have a real studio. So I wanted to, I wanted to, but unfortunately the banjo does no longer exists.
00:42:55.860
It is now just a picture on a sheet, which is hanging behind me. Still 900 episodes. That's a
00:43:01.640
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So this segment is not always a time for attacking, demeaning, and insulting people.
00:45:51.380
Well, I guess it is, and really the whole show is that. But sometimes I do it in the context of
00:45:56.160
defending someone. And that will be the case today. Sam Elliott is a Hollywood film legend,
00:46:01.100
or as he's known to most people, the guy with the mustache and the deep voice. He's being canceled by
00:46:05.380
the left-wing mob for some negative comments he made about a recent and critically acclaimed
00:46:09.140
Western called Power of the Dog. Now, Elliott did not like the movie. He thought it was an insult to
00:46:14.880
the Western genre. But before we analyze his criticisms of the film, I think we have to
00:46:20.640
acknowledge sort of the elephant on the ranch here. Elliott is a veteran of the Western genre
00:46:25.140
and an expert on the subject. He's also the star of 1883, a Western TV series that just wrapped up its
00:46:30.860
first season. But you could accuse Elliott perhaps of throwing stones in a glass saloon. And I'm going
00:46:36.520
to keep with the Western puns and nobody can stop me. Sorry. Because 1883 is itself, as I mentioned
00:46:41.200
on the show before, an insult to the Western genre. And the show starts strong. Sam Elliott plays an old,
00:46:47.240
hard-bitten Civil War general who agrees to usher a group of hapless foreigners through the wilderness
00:46:52.080
to the West Coast. A perfect setup for a series. How could anyone find a way to botch it? Well,
00:46:57.440
botch it, they did. Within a few episodes, the show had devolved into a woke teenage soap opera.
00:47:02.760
All of the interesting characters were relegated to the background as the plot increasingly revolved
00:47:06.960
around a teenage girl pursuing her various love interests across the Great Plains. Of course,
00:47:12.120
all the bad guys the group encounter are white. And when they finally run across some Comanches,
00:47:17.380
the infamously brutal warriors were friendly and became their saviors and rescued them from one jam
00:47:22.720
after another. Teenage girl promptly fell in love with one of them. Like 30 minutes after her
00:47:27.100
fiance had just been murdered, by the way. And in the ultimate jump the shark moment,
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she and her Comanche lover kissed each other passionately while a tornado went right over top
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them. Meanwhile, of course, in true woke fashion, every woman in this version of the West
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is an independent, fierce, gun-toting badass. Even girls who had never held a gun before are still
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able to take down bad guys with one shot while riding horseback with, you know, the reins between
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their teeth. Perhaps worst of all, Sam Elliott's character devolved into a whiny wimp, constantly
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crying about everything. He was crying in the very first scene because his whole family had just died
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of smallpox. Now, I will allow an emotional display in that case. If your whole family dies of smallpox,
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I'll put that on the list of approved reasons for a man to cry. I mean, I'll give you like 10 minutes
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and then you got to wrap it up. But then he keeps crying throughout the entire thing. I was waiting
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for a scene where Elliott's character would break down in tears in the midst of an intense firefight
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only to have a 13-year-old female gunslinger come and save him, you know, carry him out,
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carry him out of danger, cradling him like a baby. I stopped watching the show in the middle,
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so perhaps that scene did eventually happen. I also stopped watching before they introduced a
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genderqueer pansexual cowgirl character, cow-them character, I guess. But I'm assuming that happened
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as well. All of that to say, Elliott shares some guilt when it comes to the destruction and
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feminization of the Western genre. Yet, that does not make his criticisms illegitimate. As for those
00:48:53.560
criticisms, Sam Elliott is in a lot of trouble with the peanut gallery because he felt that Power of
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the Dog was, as he put it eloquently, a piece of ****. An artsy, progressive, boring attempt to
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deconstruct the traditional Western genre. I can tell you that I tried to watch this movie myself
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before I really knew what it was about because I'll automatically watch anything built as a
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Western. And I fell asleep 15 minutes in. So for all of its other faults, it was, in addition to
00:49:18.160
being a piece of ****, incredibly dull and boring. It's also massively critically acclaimed, which
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shows why nobody cares what critics think anymore. In fact, a quick snapshot of some of those reviews
00:49:28.200
can, I think, give you an idea of what this movie is all about. I just wish I'd read some of these
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before I wasted 15 minutes of my life on it. But reading some of the summaries compiled by Rotten
00:49:37.680
Tomatoes, it says, The Power of the Dog is a long-delayed contemplation on masculinity from the
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female eye, both about repression and control. And then, Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary in
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this subversive and spellbinding Western exploring masculinity and its oppressive impact on society.
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And Campion, the director, weaves the erotic, the gothic, and closeted homosexuality together
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into a beautiful yet tragic mosaic about internal gay struggles.
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I actually sat down to watch that movie, unbeknownst. So there you go. It is a Western
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which seeks to deconstruct the genre by offering a subversive psychodrama about closeted homosexuality
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and toxic masculinity. I think that gives some context to Elliot's criticism, which you can hear here.
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There was a full-page ad out in the L.A. Times, and there was a review, not a review, but a clip.
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And it talked about the evisceration of the American myth.
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The evisceration of the American myth. I mean, they made it look like, what are all those dancers,
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those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else?
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That's what all these f***ing cowboys in that movie looked like.
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They're all running around in chaps and no shirts. There's all these illusions of homosexuality
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Yeah. Well, what the f*** does this woman from...
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Yeah. She's a brilliant director, by the way. I love her work.
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But what the f*** does this woman from down there come...
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...know about the American West? And why in the f*** does she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana?
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Hmm. Now, leaving aside the fact that Sam Elliott seasons all of his sentences with a sprinkling of 14 f-bombs, his basic point is perfectly valid.
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And he's been condemned as homophobic and bigoted and closed-minded and all the rest.
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But it's a valid point, first and foremost, because it's his opinion, which he was asked for.
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Somebody has asked their opinion about a given topic, and they give their opinion honestly, and then they're condemned because it wasn't the right opinion.
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You know, if you don't want to hear someone's actual opinion, don't ask for it.
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Elliott was asked, unprompted, if he'd seen this film and what he thought of it.
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Was it his moral obligation to lie, or was it his moral obligation to simply have a different opinion?
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Is he required to like a homoerotic Western about the dangers of masculinity?
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Yeah, that's really the point for the left, isn't it?
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If somebody makes a movie with progressive themes, especially gay themes,
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it is your responsibility to enjoy the film and say so when prompted.
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You have to actually like it, or you're canceled.
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You know, it may surprise folks on the left to hear this, but
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not everybody wants to see traditions deconstructed all the time.
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Almost every Western these days is a deconstruction of traditional Westerns.
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All aspects, really, of traditional American culture are constantly being deconstructed.
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In fact, this is so common that now you might say that deconstruction is our culture,
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So that by deconstructing culture, you're now simply participating in it.
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So actually, the most subversive kind of Western these days would be a traditional one.
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One where the good guy beats the bad guy and saves the woman.
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A Western celebrating masculinity rather than eviscerating it would be truly subversive and traditional.
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Elliott takes issue with the fact that a foreign woman is making a Western.
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I mean, what does she know about the American West, he asks?
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Well, you could point out that foreigners have been making Westerns for a long time.
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Yet, Elliott has a right to this complaint because isn't this exactly the sort of complaint
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people on the left always make about films these days?
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They say that if you're white, you know, you can't play a non-white character.
00:54:11.940
If you're not in a particular group, you can't portray that group or make films about them
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because you can't relate to their lived experience or whatever.
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Now, I think this is a stupid criticism, which is why I also personally don't have a problem,
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per se, with foreigners making movies about the American West.
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But most of the people attacking Elliott for this point of view are in no position to attack him.
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He's only applying their representation logic consistently.
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He's making exactly the same kind of point about this film that they have made about so many others.
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They are just allergic to logical consistency, which is why they're lashing out.
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And it's why they, not Sam Elliott, are today canceled.
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