The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 901 - Lia Thomas Is Going To The Women’s Swimming Championships And So Am I

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, in the lead-up to the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships,

00:00:04.360 where a man named Leah Thomas is expected to dominate and break records,

00:00:07.760 Sports Illustrated has run a fawning cover story, hailing his courage and athletic prowess.

00:00:12.340 I have a few thoughts to offer on that, and also an announcement that you're going to want to hear.

00:00:16.800 That's coming up. Stick around for that. Also, the leftist meltdown at University of North Texas

00:00:20.640 was even worse than we thought. More video and information has emerged. We'll talk about it. Plus,

00:00:24.940 some lawmakers in D.C. seem dead-set on getting us involved in a world war,

00:00:28.700 and some of them also desecrated an American flag to prove their loyalty to Ukraine.

00:00:33.180 So we'll talk about that as well. And in some churches across the country,

00:00:36.100 Ash Wednesday has apparently been replaced with Glitter Ash Wednesday. What is that,

00:00:40.640 and is it as heretical as it sounds? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:09.500 most every day trying to convince the public and themselves that they are more important than they

00:02:13.980 really are. Not satisfied to just report and analyze sports. They've deluded themselves into thinking

00:02:19.580 that the world needs to hear their insights into all the major social and political issues of the

00:02:23.620 day. And they're mistaken about that. And this mistake is why people have increasingly turned

00:02:27.900 off sports media and sports in general, because people just don't want that. But their inflated

00:02:33.140 sense of importance and their suicidal determination to inject themselves into every issue just makes 0.64

00:02:39.820 their cowardice all the more shameful and embarrassing. Because there's actually one relevant social issue

00:02:45.460 where the voices of the sports world are needed. There is at least one supposedly controversial topic

00:02:52.080 that they should be speaking about. They should be filling their airwaves with. And that's exactly the

00:02:58.240 one that most of them refuse to discuss. The one social issue that crosses over into their alleged area

00:03:04.480 of interest and expertise is precisely the one that they're not going to touch with a 10-foot pole.

00:03:08.940 Or else, even worse, they do acknowledge it, but only to bow in submission to the woke mob.

00:03:15.720 The issue, of course, that we're talking about is the destruction of women's sports through the 1.00

00:03:20.040 intrusion and sabotage of biological males. And when it comes to the latter option of bowing in

00:03:25.760 submission, Sports Illustrated, I think, wins the gold for the most shameful and obsequious display we've

00:03:31.620 seen yet. Yesterday, Sports Illustrated published its big cover story written by Robert Sanchez,

00:03:37.020 titled, I Am Leah, The Trans Swimmer Dividing America Tells Her Story. 0.86

00:03:43.680 Now, the article could have been written by Thomas' publicist, and I'm sure he has one.

00:03:47.600 And it probably was basically written by a publicist. But to begin, there's a short video

00:03:52.220 kind of setting the stage, and we'll watch some of that.

00:03:55.240 Leah Thomas is the most controversial athlete in America today. 1.00

00:04:01.100 The University of Pennsylvania swimmer has set pool, school, and Ivy League records this season,

00:04:07.020 en route to becoming the nation's most dominant female collegiate swimmer.

00:04:10.900 She also is a trans woman who has faced bigotry and criticism from those who don't think she should

00:04:15.680 be allowed to swim with or against female competition. The issue reached its peak this swim season, 0.82

00:04:20.860 as Thomas put herself on track to dominate the NCAA championships this month in Atlanta, Georgia. 0.97

00:04:26.800 In addition to being a favorite in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events,

00:04:30.900 she also could break long-standing NCAA records held by Olympic stars Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin. 0.84

00:04:37.380 It's hardly been an easy road for Thomas, who began hormone replacement therapy in May 2019

00:04:42.180 after years of gender dysphoria. The shy, quiet swimmer from Austin, Texas,

00:04:47.240 began feeling relief almost immediately after beginning her treatments. She took the 2020-2021

00:04:53.060 academic year off to ensure she would be able to swim as a member of the Penn women's team

00:04:57.440 and as her authentic self. This swim season, Thomas has faced criticisms, even from within her own team.

00:05:05.380 They say her previous puberty gives her an advantage over her competition, 0.99

00:05:09.060 that she is denigrating women's sports, that she has treated her competition as a joke.

00:05:13.480 But she insists she isn't thinking about records. She says she simply wants to race against women. 0.91

00:05:19.940 She wants to swim as Leah Thomas.

00:05:23.620 Now, notice once again how Thomas is labeled not only a woman athlete, but also female, 0.97

00:05:29.980 because the sex and gender distinction proves itself to be, as always, a sleight-of-hand trick.

00:05:36.560 We're expected to see Thomas as not only a self-identified woman, his gender, allegedly,

00:05:43.000 but also as a biological female. And this male-female is about to topple female college records. 1.00

00:05:49.680 Are we allowed to have a problem with that? No, as Sports Illustrated makes abundantly clear.

00:05:55.220 The puff piece begins by establishing that Leah Thomas as a shy and unassuming college student 1.00

00:05:59.740 somehow caught up in a controversy, not at all of his own making, of course.

00:06:04.480 Here's what it says. Quote,

00:06:07.100 First off, fresh off her final practice of the week, the most controversial athlete in America 0.98

00:06:11.680 sat in the corner of a nearly empty Philadelphia coffeehouse with her back to the wall.

00:06:16.540 Leah Thomas had done some of her best work this season while feeling cornered.

00:06:20.700 On this January evening, her long torso was wrapped in a University of Pennsylvania swim and dive jacket.

00:06:26.460 Her hair still damp from a swim, roughly three miles, staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool.

00:06:32.040 Well, she looked exhausted. As college students across the country were digging into their Friday nights,

00:06:37.340 Thomas was thinking about her weekend plans, sleeping, studying, and another grueling swim practice.

00:06:42.340 This has been a season unlike any in her 22 years and unlike any in the history of her sport.

00:06:47.080 The shy senior economics major from Austin became one of the most dominant college athletes in the country

00:06:52.500 and, as a result, the center of a national debate, a living, breathing, real-time Rorschach test

00:06:58.080 for how society views those who challenge conventions.

00:07:02.600 Right. Well, that's, yeah, that's why he became controversial is because he was dominant.

00:07:08.680 Well, how did that happen? I mean, how did this shy student become a dominant college athlete?

00:07:15.660 Prior to this past year, he was ranked, I think, in the 400s, mediocre on his best day.

00:07:20.600 So how did that happen? Well, in his fourth year at school, he grew his hair out and became a woman. 0.67

00:07:26.280 Presto chango, just like that. Continuing, it says, quoting now from Leah Thomas,

00:07:30.400 I'm a woman, just like anybody else on the team, Thomas says.

00:07:33.420 I've always viewed myself as just a swimmer. It's what I've done for so long. It's what I love.

00:07:38.220 She's not thinking about wins or records, she insists.

00:07:40.300 I get into the water every day and do my best. Being trans, Thomas says, is an amazing and

00:07:46.120 beautiful experience. I've been reinvigorated. I've been swimming for 17 years, but for only a

00:07:51.840 short part of that time have I felt fully engaged. She's forever grateful for the kindness people

00:07:56.480 closest to her showed during such a stressful time. She says she continues to appreciate the

00:08:00.640 support of those people, how that love gives her hope for the life she'll someday make for

00:08:04.740 herself. Quote, after coming out and being my authentic self, I can really start to see a future,

00:08:10.040 she says. Before I came out, I couldn't visualize a future. Now, of course, the article presents

00:08:16.120 Thomas as not only a courageous female athlete, but a martyr as well. We're told all about the

00:08:20.900 hate mail and angry comments Thomas has received. All of this is chalked up to bigotry, though if it's

00:08:27.220 bigotry against anything, it's against cheaters. And it seems, by the way, nearly certain that the

00:08:33.520 writer of this article, Robert Sanchez, knows that this is all nonsense, because there's just no way

00:08:39.880 that anyone has actually been convinced by the arguments in favor of allowing males and female

00:08:45.120 sports, because there are no arguments in favor of it. The emperor has no clothes, or in this case,

00:08:50.000 the emperor is a dude in women's clothes, and everybody can see it. But few will speak out against 0.98

00:08:56.420 it. And next, Thomas will go to Georgia Tech for the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships,

00:09:00.220 steal medals and records. And we already know that an audience there watching will applaud

00:09:06.560 dutifully, even though they know that it's all a joke. And it's sickening. And that's why I will

00:09:13.060 be showing up to Georgia Tech also. On March 14th, the same week as the championships, I'll be holding

00:09:18.480 an event on campus to explain why men don't belong in women's sports, and why Leah Thomas is 0.95

00:09:25.160 personally and specifically a cheater. Now, Thomas may be confused about his gender,

00:09:31.500 but he still knows what he's doing. He is choosing to put his own feelings and desires and self-esteem

00:09:38.060 above every woman on his team and every other team. You notice in this whole article,

00:09:45.140 all the me's and I's, it's all about him. The other people on his team, they don't even factor

00:09:51.180 into the equation. He's not worried about them at all because he's an entitled narcissist and he

00:09:57.140 deserves all the condemnation that he gets. And in fact, he should be getting a lot more of it.

00:10:01.520 So I'll deliver some of that on March 14th. One other note about this. After I announced this event

00:10:07.040 yesterday, I was greeted with some familiar criticism. You know, the critics ask, well,

00:10:13.900 why am I getting involved in this issue? Why am I pretending to care about women's sports? 0.99

00:10:18.300 You know, is anyone supposed to believe that I actually care about women's sports this much?

00:10:24.120 Well, I'll answer that question. I've been quite clear that my primary concern is not women's 1.00

00:10:29.160 sports itself. Never pretended that it was. I don't watch women's sports and no, prior to men 1.00

00:10:35.360 intruding into it, I didn't care that much about it. But I do care about the truth. And women's sports 1.00

00:10:42.540 has become, not because I want it to be, but because the trans agenda made it so, an important

00:10:48.820 battleground in the war for truth. I also care about justice. And it's not just, it's not fair

00:10:55.520 for women to be treated this way, to be deprived of victories that they've rightfully earned. 1.00

00:11:01.200 It's not fair. It's not just. That's why I care. But even so, should I be the one holding this event?

00:11:07.720 I mean, should I be one of the loudest voices about this issue?

00:11:13.960 Should I be one of the loudest people defending women's sports? No, I shouldn't. It would be best

00:11:20.060 if some prominent athlete were to show up and stage this protest. Michael Phelps should be there

00:11:24.980 speaking out. Think about how powerful that would be. That'd be much better. If Michael Phelps

00:11:30.020 volunteered, I would say, oh, forget my event. I'll go to his. Or maybe one of those female Olympians 0.54

00:11:36.480 whose records are about to be broken by a man. Maybe one of them. Think about how powerful they,

00:11:41.120 that would be. If one of them showed up on campus the same week and held an event, calling this out,

00:11:48.200 calling it what it is, which is cheating. That would be great. There's, and again, if someone

00:11:54.960 were to do that, I would say, forget my event. I'll, everyone go, I'll go and attend it myself.

00:11:58.520 I'll attend this one. There's a whole list of people who would be more powerful voices on this

00:12:04.240 than me. The problem is they're not saying anything. They're silent. They're staying as

00:12:11.020 far away from this as they can. And so I have to go. If you don't like it, don't blame me.

00:12:17.700 Blame the cowards who should be standing up there, but aren't. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:23.240 Okay. So another campus that I want to, that I'd like to make an appearance on, we're trying,

00:12:38.140 we're still trying to, trying to set it up if we can as University of North Texas. And we talked

00:12:42.260 about that yesterday to start the show, the total satanic meltdown that ensued at University of North

00:12:49.380 Texas. Um, because somebody showed up on campus and gave a talk about why children should not be

00:12:57.660 castrated. Um, why it's, you know, why we shouldn't be butchering gender confused children. And it just 1.00

00:13:03.600 so happens that the guy that was giving the talk, Jeff Younger, uh, is a father who's, who has been

00:13:08.800 trying to rescue his own son from this barbarity and, but has been, has been prevented from doing that

00:13:15.620 by the courts who have given, uh, custody over to the mom because the mom is gender affirming,

00:13:20.340 which is to say the mom is going to go along with her kid being, being, um, abused and mutilated. 0.87

00:13:27.440 And this was enough for the, for the people on campus to, for the kids on campus and the

00:13:31.700 LGBT activists to lose their mind. I mean, it really did watching some of the footage and we

00:13:36.640 played some of it yesterday. I have another clip we'll play again. We'll play here, but watching the

00:13:41.000 footage, it really does remind you as I'm so often reminded when I see these kinds of temper tantrums

00:13:46.420 from the left, um, it does kind of harken back to, to the exorcist. It's like this demonic, you almost

00:13:53.000 expect to see their heads turning around 360 degrees, start vomiting green slime all over the

00:13:59.440 place, levitating. Like you expect to see that because they're just filled with satanic rage

00:14:05.580 at the idea that anybody would try to protect kids from being butchered. So before we have, um,

00:14:13.300 an update here from the daily wire, here's one clip we didn't play yesterday. Um, and this is one,

00:14:19.360 when it comes to liberal meltdowns, I think this is one that will, that will live in infamy. This

00:14:23.500 is almost as good. You know, the, the, the most famous liberal meltdown of course, is that right

00:14:28.080 after Trump was elected in DC, the, the, the infamous footage of the woman falling to her knees and

00:14:33.080 shouting no up into the sky. Um, this is almost as good as that. Watch this.

00:14:36.960 I don't know. What else can you do but laugh?

00:15:06.960 You know, you see that it's, it's easy enough to see that and think, well, look, mental illness

00:15:11.120 is a real problem in this country. And, uh, clearly this is someone who's mentally deranged 0.96

00:15:15.740 and, and, and yes, that's, that's true. I'm not denying that. Um, these are not mentally stable 0.92

00:15:23.520 people, but we have to realize that the, the mental illness, um, is not, you know, they,

00:15:30.640 they weren't born with it. Um, this is something that has been, they've been conditioned into it.

00:15:35.620 It's been implanted in their minds and through the, the conditioning, through the, you know,

00:15:41.960 the, the gender theory, gender ideology conditioning, but also through, through this sense of

00:15:47.320 entitlement that they've been, you know, conditioned into that they've, that they've grown up with.

00:15:55.000 They've, they've, these kids have been coddled to such an extent that for even one person

00:16:03.360 to say something they disagree with, it isn't, it's, they, they can't handle it. They don't know

00:16:10.160 how to handle it. They don't know how to handle someone disagreeing with them, but they could have

00:16:18.040 done, I mean, that whole room was full of people on the other side of it. It was full of people

00:16:24.040 disagreeing with Jeff Younger. So what they could have done is just not showed up and gone about

00:16:32.460 their lives. And from the looks of it, you know, Jeff Younger would have been talking to an empty

00:16:36.680 room mostly, but to eat the knowledge to, to know that there is someone in their vicinity

00:16:46.360 saying things, expressing views that are not their own. Just the, the knowledge of that, they,

00:16:53.620 they can't handle it. They're compelled to show up and they don't have any arguments to present.

00:16:59.940 Obviously, all they can do is just scream in infantile rage at the idea that anyone is allowed

00:17:10.500 to disagree with them. And as I said yesterday, you know, we, we like to comfort ourselves on the

00:17:16.460 right. We've been comforting ourselves far too often. Speaking of being coddled, we've kind of

00:17:20.820 tried to coddle ourselves a little bit and comfort ourselves by, by saying that, uh, you know, they'll,

00:17:25.760 uh, these kids, they'll, they're in for a, for a rude awakening when they, you know, go out into the

00:17:31.900 world and, um, they're going to encounter the real world and they're, they're going to, they're going

00:17:36.560 to get over this pretty quickly. That's not the case, unfortunately, because they're going out into a

00:17:43.780 world that they are also shaping. I mean, this is the next generation. They're, they're taking over. 0.98

00:17:50.600 And so that sense of entitlement, all of it, it's, it's not going anywhere. It's just going to

00:17:58.720 metastasize. Maybe for some of them, I hope there'll be, there'll be an awakening of sorts,

00:18:05.200 but it's not going to be a necessary awakening. There's nothing about the quote real world right

00:18:10.960 now that would require them to, um, awake from this stupor, from this self-centered narcissistic

00:18:20.280 stupor. In fact, our entire culture is designed now to continue to coddle these people.

00:18:29.120 That's a scary thought. Uh, it's a scary thought for a lot of reasons. One of them is that, um,

00:18:34.140 you know, those, the kids in that, in that room there, if somebody had just gone up and shot Jeff

00:18:40.260 Younger in the head, how do you think the kids would have responded? You think they would have been

00:18:45.180 upset to see that? No, that kind of rage, it's because they want you dead. I mean, 0.99

00:18:50.700 they think that you should be dead. And, and oftentimes they're, they're quite clear about

00:18:54.580 that. They think that you should be dead for disagreeing with them. That's how they, they

00:19:01.940 think that's what they believe. And they are taking that belief with them into the greater,

00:19:05.760 into the outside world. All right. Um, speaking of which, this is from the daily wire. It says black cat,

00:19:13.560 black clad protesters screamed and heckled at a college student and Jeff Younger, the father of 0.50

00:19:18.140 a child, the center of a national disputes over transgenderism, um, forcing police to rush the

00:19:23.740 student and Younger to safety. So this is the part that we, we didn't actually see in the clip that

00:19:27.080 we played. We had them screaming, they were spitting and everything. Um, and then at some point,

00:19:31.680 apparently the police intervene. And, um, this is the exclusive report from the daily wire. It says

00:19:36.780 purportedly spurred on by anger over Texas's new transgender directive, which we know about, um,

00:19:41.760 at least 70 black clad protesters milled into the young conservatives of Texas Wednesday evening

00:19:47.980 event at the university of North Texas. Um, during the event, police suddenly entered the room and

00:19:52.880 ordered student Kelly Knightert, who's was one of the people up there on, on, uh, you know, in front

00:19:58.280 of the crowd trying to present her case. Um, and also Younger to evacuate the student described tense

00:20:04.560 moments following the evacuation in which she hid in a janitor's closet with a policeman as screaming

00:20:10.140 protesters ran through the halls of the building, searching for her. Knightert and Younger, who is 0.97

00:20:15.200 the father of James Younger, um, say that, uh, said that the members of the university of North

00:20:21.380 Texas police department, the Texas department of public safety and the Denton police department were

00:20:25.560 present on Wednesday night. None of these organizations responded to the daily wires request for comments.

00:20:30.800 Um, and so the Knightert talks about hiding in this closet as there are these black clad, 1.00

00:20:39.040 call them protesters, but this is something more than that, patrolling the hallways, searching for

00:20:44.420 her. What were they going to do if they found her? Remember what I said, they want you dead.

00:20:50.360 They really do. She told the daily wire quote, initially when we were first let out of the

00:20:55.680 building to evacuate, I felt like everything was going to be under control. But after I was chased

00:20:59.700 into the building with a police officer, when we were in this janitor's closet, I honestly was very

00:21:03.920 scared, uh, for good reason. This stuff has never really seemed scary to me. I guess I don't really

00:21:11.640 care about the backlash I received, but when I was literally hiding in a janitor's closet with a police

00:21:15.780 officer and the lights off with these people running in the hallway screaming, I mean, at this point I

00:21:20.500 was pretty scared for my life. Yeah. For, for good reason. You know, these, um, the, the lawmakers on

00:21:29.240 January 6th were supposed to feel a great amount of sympathy for them. I mean, they, they're all

00:21:35.140 martyrs. They're survivors. None of them have a tale as harrowing as this. And she was also totally

00:21:43.180 outnumbered. Um, and they're patrolling the hallways looking for her. Again, what were they going to do if

00:21:49.220 they found her? You know, they want you dead for disagreeing with them. But the other thing is 0.80

00:21:55.680 they've been told repeatedly, and this is part of the conditioning. They've been told that,

00:22:01.280 you know, opposing viewpoints are violent, are a threat to their very existence. We hear this all

00:22:08.900 the time. And this is especially true when it comes to anything related to LGBT, trans.

00:22:17.060 If you're at all critical of the trans agenda, then you are, your viewpoints are a threat to the very

00:22:22.960 existence of trans people. And these kids have been told that their whole lives.

00:22:30.200 Now they've never stopped to think about it. They've never stopped and actually asked themselves,

00:22:34.060 well, how is my existence threatened? Because this guy disagrees with me.

00:22:38.500 They just believe it. And that alone justifies violence. They could go and kill you and say,

00:22:45.400 well, self-defense, you were threatening my existence. 0.97

00:22:47.020 That's how the stage is being set and very intentionally so. All right. Let's move over

00:22:54.800 to this. Nancy Pelosi sent out a tweet a couple of days ago that didn't attract a lot of attention

00:23:01.040 when she first posted it, but we'll put this up. It says, the Congress remains unwavering and

00:23:05.980 resolute in our support for the people of Ukraine. We are committed to providing humanitarian and

00:23:10.320 security assistance to Ukraine as Russia wages unprovoked and premeditated war.

00:23:14.440 So, okay, that's pretty standard talking points there. But then you zoom in and you see all the

00:23:22.200 lawmakers, you know, dozens of them anyway, standing on the steps of the Capitol and they're holding a

00:23:29.480 flag. And then you get the zoom in and you see there, it is a, an American flag and a Ukrainian flag,

00:23:36.300 which has been combined. And so part of the American flag has been colored, you know, yellow and blue

00:23:43.440 and adorned with Ukrainian symbols. In other words, the flag has been desecrated.

00:23:50.900 So we are now at the point where we are desecrating the American flag to own Putin.

00:23:56.980 That's, that's what that is. That's, that's the desecration of the flag.

00:24:00.180 And all these smiling and you see Dan Crenshaw, he's there smiling along.

00:24:08.600 What is this supposed to prove exactly?

00:24:12.400 The day before this, they were taking their American flags off to go to the state of the

00:24:17.580 union, putting on the Ukrainian lapels. And now they're desecrating a flag, an American flag.

00:24:23.660 So this, this is, and this is all part of the, this is all part of the hype and the, and the,

00:24:30.820 the war fever, which is only getting worse, by the way, because desecrating the flag is pretty bad.

00:24:37.940 That's a pretty bad tweet. Not as bad as this though. This is a Lindsey Graham yesterday tweeted

00:24:42.880 this. And I think he also went on Sean Hannity and, and, and made this case. So he's very,

00:24:47.200 he's very proud of this. This wasn't something that he said in the heat of the moment or something

00:24:50.220 and regret saying now. He put this out there. He says, is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a

00:24:56.140 more successful Colonel Stoffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody

00:25:01.240 in Russia to take this guy out, meaning Putin, of course, you would be doing your country and the

00:25:06.280 world a great service. Okay. So no big deal there. Just one of our most prominent elected officials

00:25:14.960 openly and publicly calling for the assassination of the leader of a, a, a nuclear armed country.

00:25:25.420 Now there, there are two issues here. Okay. The first is that assassinating Putin would actually

00:25:33.400 probably be a terrible idea because then you end up with a power vacuum. You end up with a power

00:25:39.560 vacuum, um, in this, again, nuclear armed superpower country. And who, who, who steps in there? Who

00:25:47.880 takes his place? Someone's going in, whoever, however, whoever steps in and sees his power. Are they

00:25:55.580 likely to be, uh, more pro America and pro West after we've just called for the assassination of, of,

00:26:03.640 of, uh, of, of Putin? I mean, we we've seen this play out over the last many decades that when we

00:26:13.560 create power vac vac vacuums, somebody steps into it. And most of the time it's somebody worse.

00:26:23.480 Yeah. We saw that in, we we've, we've seen that in the middle East and, and it's hard for me to see,

00:26:28.500 especially right now of all times, how creating that kind of instability, destabilizing Russia.

00:26:36.400 It's hard for me to see how that makes the world safer, but even if it did, like, even if you could

00:26:43.300 argue that taking Putin out would be the best move, you know, you don't say it publicly. You don't

00:26:50.660 tweet it out. What's that supposed to accomplish? All that does is, I mean, the, the, the people,

00:26:58.500 of, of, of Russia from, as far as we can tell, not that we're getting a lot of, you know, this is not

00:27:02.240 information that Russia's eager to publicize, but for what we've seen, this war is not popular in

00:27:08.180 Russia. You know, the, the, the very first day that it broke out, uh, there were mass demonstrations

00:27:14.360 in Russia against it. So the people are largely on our side when it comes to this war anyway.

00:27:23.240 If you're trying to think of ways to turn them against us and, and, and have them rally around

00:27:29.980 Putin, I think calling for the assassination of their political leaders is probably the way to do 0.92

00:27:35.420 it. So whether or not it would be a good idea and would be for the best for Putin to be taken out,

00:27:43.200 which I don't think it would be for the best, certainly saying it out loud is not the way to do

00:27:47.800 it. Is that also, isn't that, I'm pretty sure that's a violation of, uh, this is lower on the

00:27:55.020 list of priorities here, but isn't that also a violation of Twitter's terms of service? You can

00:28:00.980 actually call for a person's assassination on Twitter and you're not violating any, uh, any rules

00:28:05.800 there. These are the people we have leading us. I mean, for Lindsey Graham, this is, um, you know,

00:28:15.060 I asked the question, why did he, what was the point of, of, of posting that? However you feel

00:28:18.660 about assassinating Putin, what's the point of saying it? Well, the real point is that it's just,

00:28:23.480 uh, you know, it's, it's a way to get attention. It's a, it's like a very odd form of virtue signaling.

00:28:30.360 You can see where we've gotten to in our culture when, uh, calling for someone's assassination is a

00:28:35.100 virtue signal, but that's what it is. Desecrating the American flag is also a virtue signal.

00:28:39.900 And so for him, it's all, it's all just a joke. It's, it's nothing

00:28:45.620 because if we get into a world war, he's not going to be the one going over there to fight it.

00:28:54.020 Same for Adam Kinzinger who, uh, tweeted this yesterday. He said, this is a good moment to

00:29:00.280 renew my call for a no-fly zone at the invitation of the Ukraine government. Oh, well they invited us.

00:29:05.400 So, okay, well that's, that's all that matters. As long as they invite us, as long as Ukraine has 0.91

00:29:09.140 invited us to get it, to get ourselves involved in this and risk American lives and start a world

00:29:14.280 war, if they've invited us, well then we should certainly do it. He says, I fear if this continues,

00:29:18.740 we will have to intervene in a bigger way. Now, a no-fly zone, just to be very clear about this,

00:29:24.680 um, a no-fly zone is an act of war. Okay. You are, the moment you start shooting at

00:29:33.560 Russian planes or Russian, um, military, that's an act of war. So Kinzinger is calling for us to

00:29:41.960 get involved in this war. And I'll tell you, I, my position is very simple. I'm, I feel sorry for

00:29:52.700 Ukraine. Um, I think it's bad what's happening to them. I wish that it was not happening. Um,

00:30:01.360 I think that what Putin is doing is very wrong to invade the country this way and, and, and start,

00:30:06.940 um, shelling the cities and everything. I think that's all wrong, but I would rather Russia take 1.00

00:30:15.520 over Ukraine than see American lives lost in defense of Ukraine. I would rather that. Those 1.00

00:30:24.000 are two bad outcomes. No question about it. But for me as an American, the worst outcome

00:30:31.140 is that Americans end up losing their lives by the thousands or the millions potentially.

00:30:39.240 Given that we would be getting involved in a war with again, a nuclear superpower, 0.64

00:30:42.180 a country that has 6,000, I think nuclear weapons. All right. Here's something on a guest on CNN said

00:30:49.620 that I thought was kind of interesting. This is one of those moments when, you know, this isn't,

00:30:54.820 this isn't, this isn't CNN, but who can tell the difference anymore? Um, this is a, this is one of

00:30:59.140 those moments when someone on the left says something and it provokes, I get, you know, some outrage and

00:31:03.180 condemnation from the right, but, uh, but it's honest and I kind of prefer the honesty. So let's listen to

00:31:08.300 this. Now in your book, allow me to retort, you reframe politics and the constitution by kind of

00:31:15.840 breaking down how it all impacts voting rights, like you mentioned, uh, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights,

00:31:21.620 the list as you know, goes on and on. So are you arguing that the constitution needs to be scrapped

00:31:28.260 altogether? Sure. But I don't think that's going to happen. Like if we could throw that out and start

00:31:37.200 over with a new document that was more inclusive of everybody that was written by everybody at no

00:31:42.400 point have black people, brown people, or women had a say in actually writing the constitution or 0.99

00:31:48.400 the amendments to that constitution. If we could throw that out and have a delegation of all Americans 1.00

00:31:53.260 to write a new one, I would be all for that. That's what they did in South Africa. You know,

00:31:57.520 when they got, when they got rid of apartheid, they didn't like tax and amendments onto their

00:32:01.400 apartheid constitution. They threw their apartheid constitution out and they started over. I don't 0.89

00:32:05.820 think that's going to happen here. Um, and so instead of that, what I'm really advocating for is that we

00:32:10.860 interpret our constitution so that it, so that we extend justice and fairness and equality to all,

00:32:18.200 as opposed to whatever the heck we do now.

00:32:20.060 So he's in favor of just getting rid of the constitution and, uh, writing something else. And I am not in

00:32:28.600 favor of that. I don't agree with that, but I am quite happy to hear. I would prefer that the, that people

00:32:33.420 on the left make that argument and just come out and say it. Because one of the reasons why, um, our debates

00:32:41.580 never get anywhere is that people aren't really being honest about what they actually think. And pretty much

00:32:47.780 every debate has had in bad faith. And that's especially the case when we start talking about

00:32:53.600 constitutional issues where both sides, including the left, you know, usually pretend that what they

00:33:00.840 really care about is protecting the constitution and all that. It's, of course, completely bogus.

00:33:06.080 Yeah. You want to, you want to rip up the constitution. You want to burn it, throw it in the incinerator.

00:33:11.380 That's, that's very clear because everything about our country and its history, you hate everything.

00:33:17.420 Come out and say it. It's already obvious, but the more you say it, I think the better.

00:33:21.400 Um, all right, let's go here. So there was a, a protest, a pro mask protest in New York city.

00:33:28.080 These are people that gathered to protest in favor of masking. And let's, let's check in with that.

00:33:33.680 Mask for loved ones. Mask for friends. It's not about you. Also not hard to do. Just because we're tired doesn't mean it's over. Mandate masks. That's our ass. Mask for seniors. Mask for kids. It's not about you. Also not like a clue. Just because we're tired doesn't mean it's over. Mandate masks. That's our ass.

00:34:00.900 That is, that is so sad. I think I prefer the screaming satanic ones over that. Uh, this, this somehow is an even more pathetic display. And what are they protesting for exactly? You know, they're, they're, uh, all of their signs and everything said, masking, masking for all. Well, go ahead and mask. No one's stopping you. There, there are no laws being put in place, especially not in New York city, saying that you can't wear the mask. 1.00

00:34:29.100 Outlawing it. Now, if it were up to me, I would probably put that law in place. I think actually there should be laws, um, against masking, not just taking the mandates away, but putting a mandate in the other direction.

00:34:43.320 That you can't just walk around in a mask all the time, unless you have a real reason. And one of the reasons for a law like that, by the way, is, um, it would put a, it would put a stop to a lot of the looting that we're seeing.

00:34:55.600 Because before everyone lost their minds with minds with COVID, it was generally understood that you can't have a bunch of people going into stores and establishments covering their faces.

00:35:09.220 When, when people walk around in anonymity every single day, bad things happen.

00:35:16.260 But that's, that, that's not happening, especially not happening in New York. So what are they protesting for? They can still wear the mask.

00:35:21.760 Well, because it's not good enough for them to wear it. They need everyone. So they're, they're protesting, asking for a mandate from the government, asking for the government to mandate them to do the thing they're already doing anyway.

00:35:34.700 Because it's not about them. It's about you. They also want to control what you do.

00:35:40.460 All right. Finally, I want to play this before we get to the comment section. A mom on, um, TikTok is getting ready to deliver her baby.

00:35:47.060 She's not going to deliver the baby on TikTok. At least I hope not, but you never know anymore.

00:35:50.560 And, uh, she's come up with a written list of rules, uh, about the birth and basically governing the way that her friends and family can behave and what they can do.

00:36:02.280 It's pretty extensive. We can't play the entire thing. It goes on for like three minutes. So she's listing like 50 rules, but let's, let's play some of this.

00:36:10.040 My husband and I made a list of guidelines for our friends and family for when I go into labor and we have our first daughter.

00:36:17.220 Our first baby is due March 14th. I'm currently 34 weeks pregnant.

00:36:20.560 So we, um, being first time parents and being a little extra, I decided to come up with this list called 2319 for people to kind of know what our expectations are and what we're comfortable with.

00:36:31.180 So the first guideline is that if we tell you I'm in labor, don't announce baby's arrival.

00:36:36.360 Don't post that I'm in labor until I've posted. I don't know if I'm going to want to post immediately that she's here or give it a whole week.

00:36:42.920 Um, so we're just asking that people don't do that. Um, also please don't inform other people unless we ask you to, because we don't want to be bombarded with texts.

00:36:51.260 Um, number two kind of goes off of that. When we tell you that we're in labor, we will be sending updates, but we're going to be sending updates that we're comfortable with.

00:36:59.760 And on our schedule, we won't be responding to requests for update updates outside of that.

00:37:05.600 So that way my husband doesn't have to juggle 30 people texting him. Okay. Hey, what's the latest news or whatever.

00:37:12.520 Number three is pretty simple. Don't post pictures of baby until we do. And please ask permission.

00:37:19.660 Okay. We can stop. We can stop that. So those are all her rules for, uh, for when, when she gives birth, you know, we've had four kids.

00:37:26.580 We didn't post any rules at all. Uh, we didn't, we didn't think to do that, but it's part of this trend now with, um, you know, people like they, they, they, they do something that billions of other people have already done in history.

00:37:41.260 But now when they do it, like in her mind, right, this is the first significant birth that's ever happened on earth.

00:37:49.620 Well, the second, because the first was her own and, um, and now, and now this billions of people have gone through this, have given birth, have been born.

00:38:02.060 They need any rules. They need to make a big, huge show out of it, but no, this is different because it's her now. 0.98

00:38:12.300 And it's the same thing. It's why people, you know, she, I guarantee she was the bride Zillow when she got married, assuming she is married, 0.55

00:38:19.360 which maybe I can't assume that, um, I think she did say husband. So same deal there. I'm sure. Can you imagine if this is, if this is the rule she's putting in place,

00:38:27.120 now she's acting when she gives birth, can you imagine what she put her, her friends and family through when she got married? 0.99

00:38:33.920 Because that's the other thing that people, you know, they get married and many people have, and getting married is a wonderful thing.

00:38:38.760 And, uh, I wish it happened more often. In fact, there should be more marriages, but, but still you're doing something that billions of people have already done.

00:38:44.300 But now that you're doing it, you think it needs to be, you need to be treated like royalty and you can pass, pass all these rules down. 0.98

00:38:49.360 And treat everybody around you like garbage. And yet she still has friends and family at the end of that, which is, uh, which is maybe the most impressive thing at all, of all.

00:38:57.340 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:39:08.360 All right. We will tepidly dip into some of these video comments, dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments.

00:39:16.640 I think I'm going to stop giving out that URL. Actually, let's go to clip 13.

00:39:24.360 You might get a kick out of it.

00:39:28.860 Of course.

00:39:32.760 You like it? 0.99

00:39:35.060 No, I think it's dumb. 0.99

00:39:36.920 Show it to the camera. 0.99

00:39:40.300 SBG for life.

00:39:41.440 And she threw it. 1.00

00:39:47.280 You know, I, I don't know if you, this is a, well, so this is a man giving a gift to the woman in his life.

00:39:52.560 I don't know if they're married or not.

00:39:54.860 And she, he, he gave her the sweet baby t-shirt, um, which is, uh, not only a beautiful gift, also kind of, frankly, kind of an expensive gift as well.

00:40:05.440 And, uh, and she, she throws it aside.

00:40:08.380 Look, I, I just said, I, I think marriage is a wonderful thing.

00:40:11.760 More people should get married. 1.00

00:40:13.380 Um, I would never recommend divorce, but there are exceptions to every rule.

00:40:22.400 That's all I'll say.

00:40:23.700 Let's go to clip 16.

00:40:25.060 Hey, I'm really disappointed in the, the horrible treatment of producer McKenna and dear, dear uncle Murray.

00:40:38.620 Um, I am proposing that we say sweet McKenna for life until you have something nice to say about her and uncle Murray.

00:40:50.600 Uncle Murray has a great voice.

00:40:52.740 He should be, um, voicing, um, the Daily Wire's movies or, you know, uh, books, whatever.

00:41:00.700 He's got a great voice.

00:41:01.960 I love listening.

00:41:02.960 He's funny.

00:41:04.220 McKenna was right in picking that clip and, um, you were of course wrong.

00:41:09.600 So sweet McKenna for life until you have something nice to say about those two.

00:41:17.120 Okay.

00:41:17.700 I'm, I'm banning the video comments from the show.

00:41:19.680 I think we, we tried it.

00:41:21.280 It's just not working out.

00:41:23.560 And before you defend, and don't, okay.

00:41:25.060 You're trying to put this guy up on the screen.

00:41:26.380 Don't put it.

00:41:26.720 He's not, he's not, that's not happening.

00:41:30.120 Uncle Murray.

00:41:31.880 Uh, no, we're not putting him up before you go defending McKenna.

00:41:35.840 I should let you know something else.

00:41:37.340 Um, adding insult to injury to, to, you know, to my injury.

00:41:40.560 The other day, this is true.

00:41:41.660 Like two days ago, in fact, we were at, we were doing the backstage and it was during the state of the union.

00:41:48.000 And I, I asked McKenna, she was there.

00:41:49.580 I said, can you go run and get me a, some water because I'm on camera here.

00:41:53.820 Okay.

00:41:53.960 I'm the talent and I need some water so I can continue to speak and, and relay all my wisdom to the masses.

00:41:59.280 And then she told me that she can't go get me a water because she was in a cast and she had just severely sprained her ankle. 0.93

00:42:07.240 These are the kind of excuses that I have to deal with all the time.

00:42:11.240 Um, all right.

00:42:12.780 Let's see.

00:42:14.280 Here's some good news.

00:42:15.200 Greatness says, Hey Matt, Sweet Baby Gang is spreading rapidly.

00:42:17.580 I'm a 14 year old and I absolutely love your podcast.

00:42:20.260 At my dodgeball tournament, I convinced my team to be named Sweet Baby Gang and we got third place out of six teams.

00:42:26.060 So, well, each team has six players.

00:42:28.940 Glad to represent SBG for life.

00:42:32.260 That's, that's good news.

00:42:34.500 I mean, third place out of, you still beat three other teams.

00:42:36.600 So I'll give you credit for that.

00:42:37.680 Um, and, uh, Tevin says, was that a teacher clapping along with those animals?

00:42:43.640 Yeah.

00:42:44.040 So there's, I got that comment a lot, um, after the, after the show yesterday, we played the footage of, uh, what happened to the Jeff Younger event and they were, you know, cussing him out and screaming at him and chanting, you know, whatever they were chanting.

00:42:55.940 And you could see an adult standing up there and clapping along.

00:42:58.900 And a lot of people thought, Oh, is that, is that a teacher or professor clapping along with the, um, with the chanting animals?

00:43:05.080 And no, that was Jeff Younger himself, who was like chanting along with his own, with, he was like going along with the people jeering him and, and chanting along with it.

00:43:16.240 Um, which is not the best way to respond in a situation like that.

00:43:21.340 Um, but then again, I mean, what you have to keep in mind with, uh, especially with Jeff Younger is that, you know, he, it doesn't seem to me that this is a guy who ever wanted to be a public figure.

00:43:32.320 He just didn't want his son to be castrated.

00:43:37.360 He didn't want his son to be raised as a girl. 1.00

00:43:40.420 And, um, he's had no choice, but to take it, you know, he tried to stop it in court.

00:43:45.200 That didn't work.

00:43:46.640 Now he's running for office to try to stop it.

00:43:50.500 Now, I don't, I don't know anything really about Jeff Younger, but, um,

00:43:54.220 this is a, this is a father, at least who cares about protecting his son and will do anything to make it happen.

00:44:01.300 Um, even putting himself in a position like that.

00:44:03.360 So a lot of respect for that.

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00:44:16.600 It doesn't have some underlying political message.

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00:46:45.540 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:46:46.740 So a few days ago was Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, sacrifice, and repentance leading into Lent, a liturgical season of solemn and prayerful preparation before the holy celebration of Easter.

00:47:01.420 Ash Wednesday is, as you might expect, not quite as popular these days as what comes before it, which is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, which traditionally was a time of feasting before the period of fasting.

00:47:11.500 But in our culture, we prefer to take the feast without the fast.

00:47:15.740 You know, Fat Tuesday leads to Fat Wednesday, followed by Fat Thursday, and even Fatter Friday, and so on.

00:47:21.900 As Christianity declines in America, so too do our religious observances. 0.56

00:47:25.820 As for that decline, you know, there are many Christians who mourn the fact that our numbers are dwindling, and they are, and fewer people are taking part in our traditions.

00:47:34.760 The rise in religiously unaffiliated and atheist self-identifications is often lamented by believers.

00:47:40.840 And I lament it too, but I also much prefer that unbelievers declare themselves as such, declare themselves unaffiliated, renounce their faith openly, and align themselves with some other belief system. 0.88

00:47:53.760 I prefer that than the other approach, which is to continue identifying themselves as Christians, even while rejecting nearly every essential aspect of Christianity. 0.86

00:48:03.160 In other words, I'll take apostasy over heresy any day of the week.

00:48:06.800 Better to renounce your faith and leave than remain in it, destroying it from the inside. 0.89

00:48:13.020 But there are a lot of heretics in our society today. 1.00

00:48:15.180 We have one in the White House, actually.

00:48:17.180 Joe Biden calls himself a Catholic, a devout Catholic, in fact.

00:48:20.660 And yet his devotion to Catholicism does not include the fundamental moral teachings of Catholicism.

00:48:25.940 He's devoted to everything but that, which is like saying you're totally devoted to your wife, except when you're cheating on her.

00:48:31.500 That's the only thing.

00:48:33.100 Biden loves the church, but rejects nearly everything it says.

00:48:36.800 Just one example of many.

00:48:38.380 The church says that abortion is murder, an atrocity, an intrinsic moral evil.

00:48:43.640 Biden says that it's maternal health care.

00:48:45.400 And he was asked about this particular, this disconnect on Wednesday, right after he emerged from church with the ashes on his forehead for Ash Wednesday.

00:48:54.080 And here's what he said.

00:48:56.140 And last night, you said you were roving away as a Catholic.

00:48:58.960 Why didn't you support abortion as a Catholic?

00:49:01.440 Why didn't you support church teaching?

00:49:02.860 Well, I tell you what.

00:49:04.940 I don't want to get in a debate with you on theology, but you know.

00:49:07.880 Well, anyway.

00:49:09.500 I'm not going to make a judgment for other people.

00:49:15.400 Oh, it's not for him to judge.

00:49:17.780 Now, that answer is nonsense for many reasons, not least because Biden clearly loves nothing more than to judge people.

00:49:23.560 He judges unvaccinated people, parents at school board meetings, Trump supporters, conservatives, anyone who disagrees with him about anything, anything.

00:49:30.440 Like any leftist, he's constantly making moral pronouncements and judgments.

00:49:35.520 Pretty much the only thing he will not judge is the murder of infants.

00:49:39.080 But we can judge that, and we should, because it is, as the church says, an intrinsic moral evil.

00:49:46.860 Contrary to popular belief, we as Christians are not, we're not only permitted to make judgments, but we're actually required to.

00:49:53.800 So, when you hear someone say, Christians shouldn't judge, that's simply someone who calls himself a Christian, and there are many of these, but has never actually picked up the Bible and opened it.

00:50:06.820 It would be, you know, of course we are supposed to make judgments.

00:50:10.540 It would be rather difficult to apply any of the moral teachings in the gospel if we aren't allowed to make any moral judgments to begin with.

00:50:17.320 Yeah, this kind of confusion is common now, largely due to the work of heretics like Biden. 0.57

00:50:22.660 Speaking of heretics, we go back to Ash Wednesday. 0.98

00:50:25.500 Remember that Ash Wednesday is supposed to be a time of repentance, of mourning for our sins, of remembering, as we're reminded when the ashes are applied, that we are dust, and to dust we shall return.

00:50:36.100 That's what Ash Wednesday has always been.

00:50:38.100 But in recent years, the heretics have been making some slight alterations to it. 0.96

00:50:41.640 This week across the country, a number of churches held services not for regular old Ash Wednesday, but for Glitter Ash Wednesday.

00:50:49.040 Glitter Ash Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, but with a little gay flair. 0.99

00:50:53.660 One of these demonic perversions of a previously solemn and sacred observance was held at Michigan State University.

00:51:00.600 And there was a local Fox reporter there who interviewed a female pastor, because of course it's a female pastor, from an Episcopal church, because of course.

00:51:09.360 And here's how she explained it.

00:51:11.640 So, on campus, Canterbury MSU, which is the Episcopal campus ministry, is once again, we did this right before COVID, we again are offering Glitter Ashes on campus.

00:51:25.600 So, this is a program that has come out of a national organization called Parody that seeks equality for LGBTQ plus folks.

00:51:35.080 And Glitter Ashes is a way to recognize the ways in which the church has too often failed to recognize, much less include, LGBTQ folks.

00:51:44.740 And so, for the Glitter Ashes, the traditional Ashes that we use, the same that we'll use the rest of the day on Ash Wednesday, get mixed with a little bit of glitter as a sign of reconciliation and love and inclusion.

00:51:58.340 Not just for LBGTQ folks, certainly for that, but also, of course, if we include anyone, we're widening the circle for everyone.

00:52:06.100 If you're someone who has felt excluded from the church, maybe your home church or maybe the church in general, and that's painful for you, and you're looking for a way to acknowledge that, to acknowledge maybe faith that you feel somewhat exiled from, this might be a way to do that.

00:52:23.320 And that would certainly be our hope, that anyone who has felt like the church has not made a place for them, that this is a sign that, in fact, there is a place for you.

00:52:32.020 And if the church has failed to say that, it's the church is failing, not yours.

00:52:36.600 So, Glitter Ash Wednesday is just like Ash Wednesday, except the exact opposite of it.

00:52:43.480 At Glitter Ash Wednesday, rather than being told that they are dust, and to dust they shall return, observers are told that they are special and wonderful in every way.

00:52:52.300 Rather than being called to humility, they're called explicitly to pride.

00:52:57.360 Rather than recalling the sins they've committed, they recall the alleged sins committed against them.

00:53:04.460 Rather than focusing on Christ, they're encouraged to focus on themselves.

00:53:08.420 This is not Christianity. This is Satanism. 0.97

00:53:11.240 It's the worship of self, which is what Satanism is.

00:53:14.820 So we see that, although Christianity may be losing ground in the West, it's not really being replaced by secularism.

00:53:21.500 So, here religion is not taking the place of religion.

00:53:25.080 Instead, a new religion is gaining ground.

00:53:26.980 We are still, really, a deeply religious culture, as we've always been.

00:53:31.680 But it's the religion of the self.

00:53:34.320 This religion makes its own supernatural claims, such as the claim that boys can magically become girls.

00:53:40.280 It has its own priests, some of them still masquerading as Christian priests.

00:53:44.000 It has its own observances, some of them inversions of Christian observances.

00:53:49.540 It has its own commandments, which are basically the Ten Commandments flipped on their head.

00:53:55.420 You are your own God. There shall be no God before you.

00:53:58.420 Hate your father and mother. 0.99

00:53:59.860 You shall steal. 1.00

00:54:01.340 You shall murder, especially your children. 1.00

00:54:03.760 You shall covet and attempt to be coveted. 0.99

00:54:06.360 These are the moral edicts of our religions, of our culture's dominant religion.

00:54:11.840 And the more it identifies itself as a separate religion, rather than trying to remain parasitically attached to Christianity, the better.

00:54:20.600 Go ahead and have your glittered observances.

00:54:23.340 Smear glitter on your face all you want, while reflecting on how special you think you are.

00:54:28.940 Just stop pretending that it has anything to do with the Christian faith while you're doing it.

00:54:33.220 And also, of course, we must say, you're canceled.

00:54:36.180 And we'll leave it there for today.

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