The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 900 - Demonic Leftists Scream And Spit In Defense Of Child Sex Changes

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, crazed LGBT activists at a Texas university go insane 0.94

00:00:04.960 shouting, screaming, stomping, and spitting because a campus speaker said that we shouldn't 0.84

00:00:09.300 castrate little boys. This is the state of the university system in our country. We'll talk 1.00

00:00:13.900 about it and play some of the footage, which you have to see as well. Also, Ron DeSantis provokes

00:00:17.680 widespread media condemnation because he told some kids they don't have to wear a mask. He's

00:00:22.000 right, of course, as usual. Plus, a handful of Republicans refused to sign a congressional

00:00:25.780 resolution in support of Ukraine. We'll look at their reasoning and you can decide if they were

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00:01:51.720 today. American Financing, NMLS, 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Jeff Younger is a business owner in

00:01:59.600 Texas and now a candidate running for the Texas House of Representatives. You may recognize his name

00:02:04.580 if you follow a select few conservative media outlets anyway, because he's been locked in a years-long

00:02:10.220 custody battle with his wife, Ann Georgilis. Now, at the center of this dispute is their now nine-year-old

00:02:15.700 son, James. Ann says that James is really a girl and she wants to transition him. You know, she found out

00:02:23.160 that James really has a girl magically trapped inside him and so she wants to do the transition. In fact, she

00:02:29.020 has long since begun the so-called social transition, dressing him in girls' clothes, giving him a girl's name,

00:02:36.120 Luna. Now, Jeff fiercely opposes this plan, as any sane and loving parent would, and has been fighting

00:02:43.980 for custody so that he can prevent the further psychological and physical abuse of his boy.

00:02:48.940 Ultimately, Jeff lost the fight, tragically, and the courts handed custody over to Mami Munchausen.

00:02:55.660 So Jeff is now running for office because he realizes that the only way to save his son now is to see to it

00:03:00.960 that childhood gender transitions are legally outlawed completely. Now, to that end, as we talked

00:03:07.700 about last week, Texas has gone part of the way. The governor recently declared that the medical

00:03:12.820 transition of minors is child abuse under state law, under already existing state law, and any adult 0.57

00:03:18.700 participating in or facilitating the practice should be arrested and charged. Now, that's a good step,

00:03:23.980 and it's an important step, but as long as this barbarity is not officially and specifically

00:03:29.100 outlawed, it will still happen. The governor can only do so much on his own. The ACLU is sued to

00:03:35.360 block Abbott's directive from going into effect because, of course, the ACLU cares deeply about

00:03:39.740 protecting the right of adults to butcher, drug, and castrate children. What this means most likely

00:03:43.960 is that the whole matter will be tied up in the courts for the foreseeable future. The Texas

00:03:48.380 legislature has to act, and that's what Jeff Younger is calling for, and that's why he is running for

00:03:53.820 office. And it's also why he held an event at the University of North Texas last night

00:03:58.040 to discuss this issue and explain why, in his view, child transition should be criminalized.

00:04:04.480 Now, the event drew controversy from the moment it was announced, and when flyers started going up

00:04:09.480 around the campus last week, last week, the president of the university, Neil Smatresk,

00:04:15.360 responded to complaints over the flyers by condemning them, the flyers, not the complaints,

00:04:19.800 as intolerant. In a campus-wide email, he said, quote,

00:04:23.220 I know the last several days may have felt particularly difficult for the transgender

00:04:27.640 members of our community due to the intolerant views of a handful of campus members. We have

00:04:32.940 a variety of resources through our Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access to support

00:04:37.740 you during your time at UNT, and we hope to offer you a safe place to heal and grow your support system.

00:04:44.060 So, the president of the university, after scooping the LGBT complainers up in his arms, 1.00

00:04:48.960 patting them on the back, swaddling them, assuring them that everything will be okay, the poor babies,

00:04:54.080 he did finally affirm, though, the right of Jeff Younger to come and say his piece.

00:04:58.000 But he also accused Younger of, quote, challenging the very existence of trans people.

00:05:03.980 So, the stage was set. The irrational beliefs and attitudes of the radical LGBT leftists 1.00

00:05:09.600 had been affirmed and legitimized, and that led directly to what happened last night.

00:05:14.420 Younger came to give his talk, as scheduled, and all hell broke loose, in quite a literal sense,

00:05:22.340 in fact, as many of the protesters appeared to be demonically possessed. Outside of the event,

00:05:27.900 an enormous pitchfork mob assembled demanding that the event be shut down. We have some of that

00:05:33.240 footage. Let's watch that.

00:05:50.040 Okay, so you see a pretty good crowd there. But they didn't settle for remaining outside.

00:05:59.360 If they had just done that, then, you know, whatever. But they flooded into the room and

00:06:05.180 shut the event down themselves inside, preventing Younger from presenting his case. And they did

00:06:09.940 that by chanting and screaming at him the entire time. Listen to this.

00:06:13.140 You can practically smell that room from here. Truly a collection of the greasiest and foulest,

00:06:41.960 ugliest humans you're likely to ever come across. And they weren't satisfied to keep their tantrum 0.98

00:06:47.540 purely verbal. At one point, in response to Younger misgendering someone in the audience,

00:06:52.980 i.e. gendering them accurately, somebody stood up on the desk and spat on him. Watch.

00:06:58.120 I just hope Jeff got his rabies shot. That's all I can say. Now, when I watch all this on

00:07:28.100 unfold, a few things come immediately to mind. First of all, modern college leftists are

00:07:34.920 apparently going to barbers who use weed whackers and chainsaws. They go to, like, the landscaper to

00:07:39.620 get their haircut. The worst haircuts I've ever seen, all in one room. More importantly, I may have

00:07:45.800 to pay a visit to this school. You know, bullies like this should not get what they want. What they

00:07:50.400 want is to make sure that nobody who opposes them ever shows up on their campus again. They're trying

00:07:54.780 to send a message. What they ought to get instead, then, is, you know, me. If you're affiliated with

00:08:00.520 the conservative group on campus there, please reach out to me. Maybe we can set something up.

00:08:04.080 Most importantly of all, though, I think are three points. Now, first of all, to echo something that

00:08:09.420 our very own God King Jeremy Boring posted this morning in response to this, you are a fool if you 1.00

00:08:14.520 pay to send your kids to college. You are paying, paying exorbitant back-breaking sums to have your 1.00

00:08:21.480 children turned into that. You're paying to have them brainwashed. You are sending them into the

00:08:27.940 most expensive cult commune in history where their mind and soul will be eaten, and inside the shell 0.99

00:08:34.180 that was once your child will be placed a blue-haired lunatic beholden to a worldview so irrational and

00:08:39.840 fragile that he'll melt into a puddle of somebody even so much as mentions in his presence that men have 1.00

00:08:45.700 penises and women have vaginas. You are paying for that. You are asking for that to happen. You are 1.00

00:08:52.180 going into debt to make that happen to your kid. Now, sure, there are some exceptions. There are a few

00:09:00.280 good schools left in the country, a few, and there are plenty of kids who go into these environments

00:09:05.980 and they come out with their minds and souls somehow still intact. I meet students like that all the time

00:09:11.700 at my events, but the odds are stacked against them, and most are destroyed by the experience.

00:09:19.120 It's just not worth the risk. It's not close to worth it. It's definitely not worth paying $100,000 for.

00:09:28.360 Two, notice that when I outline the horrors of the modern university system,

00:09:33.220 I do not say that the kids who graduate from these institutions can't get jobs.

00:09:38.740 That's not one of the things that I list. Now, it's true that a lot of them indeed cannot get jobs,

00:09:43.660 but we make a mistake when we point to all the tantruming gender studies majors in that room 1.00

00:09:49.500 and scoff and just assure ourselves that, well, the real world will catch up with them.

00:09:55.040 They're going to be unemployed, living in their mom's basements, rejected by society.

00:09:59.740 Certainly, that will be the case for some of them. Certainly, it should be the case for all of them,

00:10:04.000 but it's not the case for all of them, not even most of them. The scary thing is that, in fact,

00:10:09.560 they do get jobs. The real world will not catch up with them. I hate to say it, because they're going

00:10:18.280 out and redefining the real world. We are living in a culture and a country increasingly shaped by

00:10:25.420 people like that. Those kids in that room, that's your next generation of teachers.

00:10:31.780 Those are university professors. Those are human resource managers at Fortune 500 companies.

00:10:39.940 Those are diversity consultants. They'll take their blue hair over to a nearby middle school 0.97

00:10:45.380 and help to keep this self-perpetuating cycle of crazy going. In other words, those kids become this

00:10:51.300 lady. Let's talk about gender roles and talking about them in the classroom. So, this last week,

00:10:59.080 as you all know, was Valentine's Day, and this is what my students discussed through the week.

00:11:04.400 Wow. It wasn't the first time they were talking about the gender binary. We already talked about

00:11:08.700 pronouns. We had talked about girl and boy stereotypes. We had named those stereotypes. Talking

00:11:13.960 about access. We've been talking about trans rights. Recently, we've been having discussions about

00:11:18.840 power and dynamics of power in our society, which leads right into social norms, which leads right

00:11:24.220 into the gender binary. And our discussions were amazing, y'all. This is my thing. Out of those

00:11:29.680 discussions, we ended up moving into self-love because I realized so many of my students were

00:11:34.480 already looking at themselves and at their bodies and even at their gender negatively. This to say that

00:11:40.240 the gender binary is constantly harming us day to day. Only a few people gain power from it. Everyone 1.00

00:11:45.840 else is trying to conform to the societal norms. This harm, as we're already seeing, starts at a young

00:11:51.320 age. I like to clarify. I said lady. I'm not exactly sure about that, actually. Now, that person ought to

00:12:01.980 be unemployed, clearly, but isn't. That person is teaching your kids. One more point. If it wasn't already

00:12:10.820 clear to you, hopefully that video, well, that video we just played and especially the clips of

00:12:15.620 the university wakes you up to the fact that there is no soft, soft peddling. You know, there's no

00:12:20.660 diplomatic, nice or polite way to engage with these people. What they need are bullies. They obviously 1.00

00:12:27.300 were not bullied nearly enough in grade school. Maybe if somebody had punched them in the mouth in 0.89

00:12:31.680 seventh grade, some of this could have been avoided, but instead they've been coddled their entire lives 0.79

00:12:36.620 while also being brainwashed. The only way to stand up to this and to respond to it is to be an even

00:12:43.780 bigger bully than they are. So if you're on the side of truth, of biology, of protecting children from

00:12:49.820 being butchered, castrated, and poisoned, you know, of basic moral decency, then you should project

00:12:55.620 unwavering confidence and strength. They're all in that room screaming hysterically because Jeff Younger

00:13:04.500 doesn't want to have his son castrated. Okay? They spit on him because he doesn't want to have his

00:13:11.660 son castrated. They are so upset about that that they want this guy dead. They hate him because he 0.99

00:13:22.140 doesn't want to have his son castrated. Their position, their worldview is the most twisted, evil, 0.99

00:13:27.300 insane thing any of us have ever come across in our lifetimes. That's how bad it is. That's how it 0.93

00:13:36.120 should be treated, with contempt and derision. If somebody is arguing for the right of plastic

00:13:43.720 surgeons to amputate a healthy 14-year-old girl's breasts, and you're treating that argument with even

00:13:49.460 a modicum of respect, you already lost. I remember something. When we engage with the crazies, we're

00:13:58.580 not just engaging with the crazies, or even primarily. We're really trying to reach all of

00:14:04.560 the basically sane people who are on the verge of getting caught up in this madness. You know,

00:14:10.620 they may lack the philosophical grounding, the mental toughness, the courage, whatever else,

00:14:14.660 to withstand the tidal wave of insanity that pummels them constantly. There's a lot of people in that

00:14:21.680 category. And our first job and our foremost job is to send a message to them that it's okay to be

00:14:29.340 sane. It's okay to be normal. And you don't do that by lending validity to insanity. I think what our

00:14:38.020 country needs now, desperately needs, is the truth. Told directly and loudly and without apology.

00:14:43.380 That's our only hope. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:58.880 All right. So by the way, this will give you an idea of just how boring I am. A couple of days ago,

00:16:03.740 I was talking to my daughter about Lent and she was telling me what she was giving up for Lent,

00:16:08.740 which I think she said candy. So we'll see about that. But then she asked me what I was giving up.

00:16:14.140 And I said, at the time, I still hadn't decided yet. I was trying to decide. And she said,

00:16:18.720 I know what you can give up, daddy. You could give up buying socks. You love buying socks.

00:16:25.680 And this is how my kids see me. And as I, as I head into middle age, this is how I'm seen.

00:16:32.200 My greatest passion in life in their eyes. The thing that they define me by is that I like to

00:16:37.520 buy socks. And you know, the even sadder thing is that she's right. And also I realized that I,

00:16:44.620 I can't give that up because it'd be too hard. That's a cross I can't bear. I mean,

00:16:50.500 I'd have to cancel my monthly sock subscription first of all, because I do have a monthly sock

00:16:54.460 subscription. I can't do that. And the idea of just wearing old socks for a month and a half is

00:17:00.080 just horrifying to me. Let this cup pass for me. The sacrifice is too hard, too great.

00:17:06.720 Okay. The, something interesting happened last night. The media briefly moved away from Ukraine

00:17:12.620 because they had bigger fish to fry. And that would be Ron DeSantis. Apparently they say Ron DeSantis

00:17:17.920 was, was mean to somebody about masks. God forbid. He, he bullied some students because they were wearing

00:17:26.860 masks. That's, that's the claim anyway. Now he was speaking at a school and they were standing

00:17:31.020 behind the podium in masks and he bullied them. That's, that's how it's being reported. And it's

00:17:37.100 big news. I mean this for, for a moment anyway, this even knocked Ukraine out of the, out of the,

00:17:43.160 the top of the news cycle, but that's the way it's being reported. Let's watch the actual footage

00:17:48.540 and, uh, you can decide for yourself. Let's see it. You do not have to wear those masks. I mean,

00:17:53.940 please take it. Honestly, it's not doing anything and we got to stop with this COVID theater. So you

00:17:59.480 want to wear it fine, but this is a, this is ridiculous. All right. Well, it's good to be at USF. 0.75

00:18:08.500 I don't know. I listened to that and what I heard, maybe I'm hallucinating, but I'm pretty sure I heard

00:18:14.460 him say, if you want to wear it fine. So the way that this is being reported is that he forced the

00:18:20.880 kids. He said, you can't wear the mask. He ripped it off of their faces and littered on fire right in

00:18:25.320 front of them. Now I would have liked it even more if he had done that, but he didn't. He actually said,

00:18:30.940 it's fine if you want to wear it, but you don't have to. Um, and he was exactly right to do that.

00:18:38.040 He was exactly right. And we'll talk more about why he was right in his, uh, in the way he approached

00:18:43.000 this in a second, but before we get there. So as I said, the media latched onto this and, uh,

00:18:48.360 before you know it, we had, um, the local NBC affiliate, they were outside of this event and

00:18:54.040 they were pulling parents aside, the parents of the poor victims, the children who were told they

00:18:58.340 didn't have to wear masks. Um, they were pulling the parents aside. The parents were lining up

00:19:01.760 to, you know, use this to get some attention and to make themselves the victim, to make their kids 0.93

00:19:07.100 the victim, but primarily themselves. And so here's one mother and you'll notice, uh, uh, there's a,

00:19:12.480 certain disparity here. It's not exactly symmetrical because you'll notice a mother

00:19:16.940 and one of the kids standing here and the kids wearing a mask. The mother is not, not wearing a

00:19:23.580 mask. And yet she's very, very upset that her son was told that he didn't have to wear one. Let's

00:19:28.820 watch this. I'm responsible for him. And I told him to wear that mask and governor DeSantis. And he's

00:19:36.680 looking at this adult authority and he's telling him, Oh, you didn't have to wear the mask.

00:19:40.340 What was your reaction when you heard the governor tell you and your classmates, remove

00:19:43.940 your masks? Um, a bit of surprise and shock more of, okay, this authority, this authority

00:19:52.340 figure is asking me to do something that I know is probably going to end up being controversial.

00:19:57.800 So I took mine off. Did you feel pressured by the governor to do that?

00:20:08.000 Um, a little, it was more of a pressure of an adult figure asking me to do something. And it's

00:20:16.340 just like, all right, why not? It's just shocking that the governor told these kids,

00:20:23.000 take off your mask. He pretty much said, take off your mask is stupid and take off your mask. 1.00

00:20:27.760 Your parents don't matter. Even though I'm, I'm telling you parents matter. And he's telling my 1.00

00:20:32.860 minor child to take off his mask. He's putting us at risk. So, Oh yeah. So I was upset. Very upset.

00:20:41.600 Putting you at risk. Huh? What a terrible mother. This, this woman is. She's just a terrible person 0.94

00:20:46.100 and mother. Terrible. Putting you, you're parading your kid up there as some kind of political props 1.00

00:20:52.460 so you can get attention. Claiming she's, he's putting us at risk. You're not even wearing a mask

00:20:57.480 yourself. You're the one who is, if anyone is most at risk of COVID, it's you. You're older.

00:21:05.560 You appear to be, uh, you know, overweight. And so that puts you in a higher risk category.

00:21:10.920 Your kid's at almost no risk at all. You got him wearing a mask.

00:21:13.460 He's the governor's putting us at risk. She says, without a mask on.

00:21:20.200 But that's just a great, uh, what a, what a, I could not have scripted it any better.

00:21:25.860 If I wanted to demonstrate and illustrate the insanity of the way that we've approached COVID

00:21:30.080 and especially as, as, as it pertains to kids, I couldn't have scripted it any better

00:21:33.720 because she's not wearing a mask while she screams about how we're putting be put at risk. 0.91

00:21:39.100 He's wearing a mask. And on top of it, she's using all these words. Like it was shocking,

00:21:45.680 horrifying. My kid was traumatized. And then you go over to the kid and he says, well, you know,

00:21:51.460 did you feel pressure? Um, a little, but he didn't care at all. You can see in the video,

00:21:59.900 that kid is, is one of the ones you see in the video, taking the mask off and he smiles when he

00:22:03.420 takes it off. He's happy to have the thing off his face. He's only wearing it because his mom is

00:22:08.680 forcing him to. Speaking of Munchausen by proxy, we got another, another Munchausen mommy here. 1.00

00:22:13.640 Only reason he's wearing it. He was, he was thanking God that he, uh, could take it off.

00:22:19.460 And you notice what he said. It was actually, it was actually very interesting.

00:22:23.180 He said that, um, he was hesitant to take it off, not because he thought that he would die if he took

00:22:30.160 it off or, or that it was unsafe. He said that it would be controversial to take it off. That was

00:22:37.020 his reason. You know? Um, so this kid is not stupid. Unlike a lot of those kids we saw in the

00:22:44.840 video at the Texas university, very stupid. This, this kid isn't. So he, he, it's pretty clear from 1.00

00:22:51.180 what he said. He knows that he's not at any great risk here, but it's controversial just in the sense of

00:22:57.060 the way people will react to it. And he knows, and what he didn't say, but you could kind of fill

00:23:01.560 in the blanks cause you see his mom there. It's, it's controversial for him at home. If he takes

00:23:05.560 the mask off, I mean, there's only two ways of looking at this with that mom. Either she knows

00:23:14.980 that the mask, um, is not necessary and forces him to wear it anyway, just as a virtue signal,

00:23:24.640 using her kid as a prop, or she thinks the mask is necessary for her own safety, but she doesn't

00:23:33.040 want to make the sacrifice of wearing it because it's uncomfortable and all of that. And so she forces

00:23:37.160 him to do it for her. Either way, no matter how you slice it, this is a terrible mom. Uh, I think 0.66

00:23:43.940 we've got another video of a, of a, of a parent complaining. Let's, uh, this one at least is

00:23:47.240 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

00:23:51.620 and here's what this parent says. I would tell him to stop bullying kids. Um, it's fine if you

00:23:57.740 don't want to wear a mask, but encourage others to do what they feel is safe and, and leave it at

00:24:02.460 that. I was just thinking, I don't know if I should take it off or leave it on cause the governor,

00:24:06.420 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 0.83

00:26:22.880 that's what they deserve. You know, you see an adult wearing a mask, you, you paranoid freaks. 0.95

00:26:31.780 You look ridiculous in the mask, you idiots. That's the appropriate response to adults, 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.82

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. 1.00

00:30:04.060 And it's not worth talking to you because whether you agree or disagree, you have to at least admit 1.00

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 0.97

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 0.99

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, 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.73

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 1.00

00:38:55.120 Western thing specifically, but pointing out the hypocrisy of the regime does nothing. 0.95

00:38:58.980 They don't mind being hypocritical and or contradictory. They literally have no problem 0.84

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, 0.93

00:39:12.880 they're going to say, Oh yeah, no, you're, you're right. Uh, nevermind. I changed my mind. 0.98

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

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00:45:40.380 our daily cancellation.

00:45:42.660 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, 0.85

00:46:47.240 hard-bitten Civil War general who agrees to usher a group of hapless foreigners through the wilderness 1.00

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, 1.00

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,

00:47:32.120 she and her Comanche lover kissed each other passionately while a tornado went right over top

00:47:36.520 them. Meanwhile, of course, in true woke fashion, every woman in this version of the West 0.97

00:47:40.080 is an independent, fierce, gun-toting badass. Even girls who had never held a gun before are still 1.00

00:47:46.140 able to take down bad guys with one shot while riding horseback with, you know, the reins between

00:47:50.980 their teeth. Perhaps worst of all, Sam Elliott's character devolved into a whiny wimp, constantly 0.97

00:47:57.860 crying about everything. He was crying in the very first scene because his whole family had just died 0.85

00:48:03.140 of smallpox. Now, I will allow an emotional display in that case. If your whole family dies of smallpox,

00:48:09.000 I'll put that on the list of approved reasons for a man to cry. I mean, I'll give you like 10 minutes

00:48:14.400 and then you got to wrap it up. But then he keeps crying throughout the entire thing. I was waiting

00:48:19.980 for a scene where Elliott's character would break down in tears in the midst of an intense firefight

00:48:23.880 only to have a 13-year-old female gunslinger come and save him, you know, carry him out,

00:48:29.100 carry him out of danger, cradling him like a baby. I stopped watching the show in the middle,

00:48:33.000 so perhaps that scene did eventually happen. I also stopped watching before they introduced a

00:48:36.520 genderqueer pansexual cowgirl character, cow-them character, I guess. But I'm assuming that happened 1.00

00:48:42.580 as well. All of that to say, Elliott shares some guilt when it comes to the destruction and

00:48:48.160 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 0.95

00:48:57.600 the Dog was, as he put it eloquently, a piece of ****. An artsy, progressive, boring attempt to

00:49:03.580 deconstruct the traditional Western genre. I can tell you that I tried to watch this movie myself

00:49:08.300 before I really knew what it was about because I'll automatically watch anything built as a

00:49:12.360 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

00:49:23.740 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

00:49:33.580 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

00:49:43.760 female eye, both about repression and control. And then, Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary in

00:49:50.220 this subversive and spellbinding Western exploring masculinity and its oppressive impact on society.

00:49:56.200 And Campion, the director, weaves the erotic, the gothic, and closeted homosexuality together 0.86

00:50:01.380 into a beautiful yet tragic mosaic about internal gay struggles.

00:50:07.280 I actually sat down to watch that movie, unbeknownst. So there you go. It is a Western

00:50:13.500 which seeks to deconstruct the genre by offering a subversive psychodrama about closeted homosexuality

00:50:20.020 and toxic masculinity. I think that gives some context to Elliot's criticism, which you can hear here.

00:50:26.120 There was a full-page ad out in the L.A. Times, and there was a review, not a review, but a clip.

00:50:38.320 Blurb?

00:50:38.680 A clip, yeah.

00:50:39.740 Yeah.

00:50:41.020 And it talked about the evisceration of the American myth.

00:50:46.840 Huh. 0.98

00:50:47.300 And I thought, what the f***? What the f***? 0.99

00:50:53.320 What does that mean? 0.98

00:50:53.880 This is the guy that's done Westerns forever.

00:50:56.320 For his whole life.

00:50:57.340 The evisceration of the American myth. I mean, they made it look like, what are all those dancers,

00:51:02.600 those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else?

00:51:06.800 Uh-huh.

00:51:07.320 Remember them from back in the day?

00:51:08.920 Oh, the Chippendales?

00:51:10.040 Yeah.

00:51:10.380 Yeah. 0.97

00:51:11.020 That's what all these f***ing cowboys in that movie looked like. 0.98

00:51:13.940 Uh-huh. 0.98

00:51:14.540 They're all running around in chaps and no shirts. There's all these illusions of homosexuality 1.00

00:51:20.600 throughout the f***ing movie. 0.99

00:51:22.720 Yeah. I think that's what the movie's about. 0.96

00:51:25.660 Yeah. Well, what the f*** does this woman from... 1.00

00:51:28.820 Who, Jane Campion? 0.99

00:51:30.040 Yeah. She's a brilliant director, by the way. I love her work.

00:51:34.220 Right.

00:51:34.560 Previous work.

00:51:35.400 Sure. 0.98

00:51:35.660 But what the f*** does this woman from down there come... 1.00

00:51:40.180 Oh, New Zealand. 1.00

00:51:40.780 New Zealand.

00:51:41.420 Right.

00:51:42.160 ...know about the American West? And why in the f*** does she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? 0.98

00:51:49.800 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. 0.97

00:51:59.260 And he's been condemned as homophobic and bigoted and closed-minded and all the rest.

00:52:03.680 But it's a valid point, first and foremost, because it's his opinion, which he was asked for.

00:52:09.340 This is the game we play in our society now.

00:52:11.440 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.

00:52:17.760 You know, if you don't want to hear someone's actual opinion, don't ask for it.

00:52:23.200 Elliott was asked, unprompted, if he'd seen this film and what he thought of it.

00:52:26.740 Was it his moral obligation to lie, or was it his moral obligation to simply have a different opinion?

00:52:32.260 Is he required to like a homoerotic Western about the dangers of masculinity? 0.92

00:52:37.660 Yeah, that's really the point for the left, isn't it?

00:52:39.640 If somebody makes a movie with progressive themes, especially gay themes, 0.90

00:52:43.720 it is your responsibility to enjoy the film and say so when prompted.

00:52:48.900 You can't even pretend to like it.

00:52:50.380 You have to actually like it, or you're canceled.

00:52:55.060 But that's not how opinions work.

00:52:57.900 You know, it may surprise folks on the left to hear this, but

00:52:59.920 not everybody wants to see traditions deconstructed all the time.

00:53:04.180 Almost every Western these days is a deconstruction of traditional Westerns.

00:53:07.760 All aspects, really, of traditional American culture are constantly being deconstructed.

00:53:11.760 In fact, this is so common that now you might say that deconstruction is our culture,

00:53:17.820 our anti-culture.

00:53:19.100 So that by deconstructing culture, you're now simply participating in it.

00:53:23.180 So actually, the most subversive kind of Western these days would be a traditional one.

00:53:27.780 One where the good guy beats the bad guy and saves the woman.

00:53:31.680 A Western celebrating masculinity rather than eviscerating it would be truly subversive and traditional.

00:53:38.700 Subversive because it's traditional. 0.74

00:53:40.900 That's what Sam Elliott wants to see.

00:53:42.920 That's what many of us want to see.

00:53:44.620 There's nothing shameful about saying so.

00:53:46.720 Final point.

00:53:47.920 Elliott takes issue with the fact that a foreign woman is making a Western.

00:53:51.680 I mean, what does she know about the American West, he asks?

00:53:54.460 Well, you could point out that foreigners have been making Westerns for a long time. 0.97

00:53:58.180 That's where we get spaghetti Westerns from. 0.84

00:54:00.820 Yet, Elliott has a right to this complaint because isn't this exactly the sort of complaint

00:54:05.160 people on the left always make about films these days?

00:54:07.480 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

00:54:15.540 because you can't relate to their lived experience or whatever. 0.94

00:54:18.820 Now, I think this is a stupid criticism, which is why I also personally don't have a problem, 0.97

00:54:23.260 per se, with foreigners making movies about the American West. 0.98

00:54:26.060 But most of the people attacking Elliott for this point of view are in no position to attack him.

00:54:32.140 He's only applying their representation logic consistently.

00:54:35.340 He's making exactly the same kind of point about this film that they have made about so many others.

00:54:41.060 They are just allergic to logical consistency, which is why they're lashing out.

00:54:45.580 And it's why they, not Sam Elliott, are today canceled.

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Ep. 900 - Demonic Leftists Scream And Spit In Defense Of Child Sex Changes

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