The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 902 - Another Spineless Republican Jellyfish Caves To The LGBT Lobby

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the governor of Utah competes for the title of biggest coward in the 0.91

00:00:04.060 Republican Party. Stiff competition for this, but his threatened veto of a bill meant to keep

00:00:08.540 men out of women's sports may mean that he wins the prize. We'll discuss also Netflix, along with

00:00:13.080 Visa, MasterCard, and several other major companies have suspended operations in Russia. Are these

00:00:17.840 kinds of measures more likely to help or hurt in the long run? And the White House is poised to

00:00:22.080 extend the pause on student loan payments. For what reason and where do they have the authority

00:00:26.980 to do this? Not that they're worried about that. We'll talk about that. Plus, the mayor of New York

00:00:30.440 keeps his priorities in order by launching a war against chocolate milk in schools. And our daily

00:00:35.920 cancellation, we'll talk about the trucker convoy, which officially arrived in D.C., well, around D.C.

00:00:40.740 anyway, this weekend to, I guess, protest COVID restrictions, which are mostly all lifted anyway.

00:00:46.640 So we'll talk about that and everything else today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:18.100 So it wasn't all bad news from the Republican Party last week, we have to admit. Late in the week,

00:02:24.280 on Thursday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill which prohibits males from participating in

00:02:30.700 female sports in the state. According to the media, if you're dumb enough to trust the headlines, 0.96

00:02:35.200 Iowa banned trans people from female sports or from sports in general. That's the way the headlines 0.99

00:02:41.100 are being written. But this is not what the legislation accomplished at all, in fact. In fact,

00:02:46.340 the neat thing about being literate, if you are, is that you can actually go and read the bill for

00:02:51.540 yourself. And if you do that, you'll see that the word transgender actually doesn't appear in the

00:02:57.220 legislation at all. It's not mentioned anywhere. That, by the way, is true of every state that has

00:03:02.760 passed bills protecting women's sports. And I think there are eight or nine of them now.

00:03:06.160 Um, none of them mention trans people. There are, there are no laws actually banning trans people

00:03:11.880 from sports. Nobody anywhere at any point has even advocated such an idea. Instead, the bill

00:03:17.040 getting to the crux of it says this, and I'll read from the bill. It says, quote,

00:03:20.840 only female students based on their sex may participate in any team sport, team sport, 1.00

00:03:26.040 or athletic event designated as being for females, women, or girls. So that's, that's it. That's

00:03:31.180 basically all it says. Uh, the bill does not target trans people any more than laws against

00:03:37.500 stealing targets, kleptomaniacs. Now, just because one group may feel a special compulsion 1.00

00:03:43.940 to violate a law, that doesn't mean the law itself victimizes or oppresses them specifically,

00:03:50.560 because as long as the law applies to everyone equally. Now, if there's a law that says only these

00:03:56.860 sorts of people aren't allowed to do this particular thing, but everybody else is allowed

00:04:01.000 to do it. Now that is an unequal law. Okay. That's, that's unconstitutional. You can't do that.

00:04:06.280 But in this case, all people are required to play on sports teams consistent with their biological sex.

00:04:12.300 It's a, it's a law that applies to everyone. If I moved to Iowa and I wanted to compete in a

00:04:19.280 women's basketball league, I would not be able to do it even though I'm not trans. You know,

00:04:23.220 I would be no more permitted to play on the girls team than any man who, who identifies as trans. 0.93

00:04:28.320 That's what we call equality under the law, where we are all, uh, forbidden from doing the same exact

00:04:34.720 thing, which is exactly, by the way, equality under the law is exactly the thing that the left

00:04:40.680 fights against all the time while pretending to fight for it. Now, in any case, um, so there's

00:04:47.080 some sanity in, in Iowa, Governor Reynolds should be commended. Move to the West a little bit though,

00:04:52.540 and the story is a very, very different. The AP reports quote, Utah governor Spencer Cox said that

00:04:58.940 he plans to veto legislation past Friday that would ban transgender student athletes from competing in

00:05:05.040 girls sports. Without his support, Utah is unlikely to join the 11 states or it's actually 11 states,

00:05:10.340 all Republican led that have recently enacted bans on transgender girls wanting to compete in school

00:05:14.960 sports leagues that correspond with their gender identity. Vowing to veto the bill Cox directly addressed

00:05:20.620 transgender student athletes who he said found themselves on the subject of political debate

00:05:24.780 through no fault of their own. I just want them to know that it's going to be okay. We're going to

00:05:29.760 work through this. Cox said the governor had for months engaged in behind the scenes negotiations to

00:05:34.260 broker a compromise between LGBTQ advocates and social conservatives. After throwing a support behind

00:05:39.880 a proposal to create a first of its kind commission of experts in Utah to make decisions on individual

00:05:44.800 transgender student athletes aiming to participate, Cox said he was stunned on Friday night as lawmakers

00:05:49.780 advanced and ultimately passed an amended proposal that included an outright ban on transgender student

00:05:55.540 athletes competing in girls league. Now that's the AP report. A number of problems with it. We can't

00:06:01.500 break down all of it. I mean, pretty much every sentence there's something wrong with it and there's

00:06:04.600 there's propaganda in there. Including the claim that this is a, this is a, you know, there's a need

00:06:13.660 for a compromise between quote LGBTQ advocates and social conservatives. Now it might be true 1.00

00:06:18.980 that social conservatives tend to be against men competing in women's sports. That's only because social

00:06:27.440 conservatives tend to be sane and rational people. You don't need to be a quote social conservative to

00:06:32.320 have that view. You just need to have some basic common sense. Um, and also there is no compromise

00:06:38.240 available. There's no compromise between these two options. Either we say that men are men and women

00:06:44.440 are women. And, uh, if you're a man, you're not allowed to compete against women or not. I mean, 0.76

00:06:49.460 those are really the two options. There's no middle ground yet. Cox pretended that that's what he was

00:06:53.940 looking for. Some sort of middle ground. He was stunned when the ban passed and here he has a,

00:06:58.040 here he is at a press conference expressing his shock and outrage and emotional pain. Listen,

00:07:05.160 we have never discussed a ban. Um, I've never had a conversation about a ban with anyone, uh, this

00:07:10.780 session, uh, that was never, you know, there were hours and hours, days, months of, uh, of discussion

00:07:17.520 and trying to find that right balance. And that's really what we're, what we're seeking for. And,

00:07:22.880 and I was able to listen to some of the debate on the Senate floor. And the truth is that,

00:07:27.560 that everyone has a very valid point. We know the data and, and the, uh, the suicide rate amongst,

00:07:34.200 uh, uh, uh, our, our transgender community is, uh, significantly higher than, than anywhere else.

00:07:40.440 That's the one thing I know. Um, the other thing I know is that we don't have any transgender

00:07:44.960 athletes that are dominating any sports here in the state of Utah. In fact, we only have,

00:07:48.920 as mentioned three or four, um, and so, uh, so to, to, to, to, to go from all of this work and all of this

00:07:59.900 discussion and all of these negotiations to get to a point that was uncomfortable for everyone, but, but

00:08:05.420 that was a path forward and, and really represents the best of Utah to now on the last night of the

00:08:11.520 session out of nowhere, getting a complete ban that again, nobody's talked to me about, um, uh, is,

00:08:17.000 is, is, uh, incredibly disappointing. And there we go with the suicide talking point again. Here's a,

00:08:23.880 here's a question. And they always have to throw that in there. Um, for the majority of American

00:08:27.400 history, when males competed against males and females against females, which is how it worked

00:08:33.880 forever, how many men or boys committed suicide because they weren't able to cross over and

00:08:42.060 compete against women instead? Like how many count them up through the entirety of, of, of American 0.99

00:08:48.600 history up until like right now, has there been an epidemic of suicide because of this? No, of course

00:08:54.280 not. You know, in fact, if we're bringing suicide into it, it seems at least as likely to me that a

00:09:01.000 girl might commit suicide because a boy couldn't, um, because a boy came in and stole her opportunities. 0.98

00:09:06.740 It's at least as likely as that would happen as it is that a boy would commit suicide because he

00:09:10.900 couldn't compete against the girls. Though both seem very unlikely, which is why we shouldn't be

00:09:15.360 having this debate on these terms anyway. Now it's true that trans people have astronomically high 1.00

00:09:20.320 rates of suicide in general, but as I've clarified many times, those high rates remain high, no matter if

00:09:25.600 they're affirmed or not, no matter if they get surgery or not, no matter what, what sports teams they're

00:09:30.200 competing on because the underlying problem and source of despair is the disconnect between the

00:09:35.360 true self and the perception of the self. The solution is to bring those two things into harmony

00:09:40.680 with each other by treating the disordered mind, which has caused the disharmony. The solution is

00:09:47.440 not to encourage the delusion. Let's not let this distract from the primary point here as it relates

00:09:53.160 to what just happened in Utah. And that is that Spencer Cox is a timid, trembling, faint-hearted,

00:09:58.300 slammy little boneless slug slithering around. Now I don't mean to overstate the case here, 0.94

00:10:04.040 and I don't think I could anyway. Imagine just how cowardly you have to be to cave to the trans 1.00

00:10:11.560 lobby in Utah of all places. Now Salt Lake City, and people who live in Utah are quick to remind me of 0.93

00:10:19.020 this when I've talked about this, you know, Salt Lake City has its leftist elements like any city does,

00:10:23.520 sure. But Utah, broadly speaking, is not exactly the LGBT capital of the world. You know, if you're 1.00

00:10:31.360 going to take a stand like this, you should be able to take it anywhere in the country. But one of the

00:10:37.380 safest places to take it is in Utah. Yet the limp Cox curled up into the fetal position anyway. 0.75

00:10:43.880 Now, granted, he gets $250,000 from the pharmaceutical industry. You know, during his

00:10:51.100 last campaign, he got a quarter million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, which puts it

00:10:54.700 among his top donors. Big Pharma is all in on the trans agenda because there are billions of dollars 0.84

00:11:01.140 to be made and which are being made right now in fostering gender confusion in children. All of those

00:11:06.640 hormone pills and puberty blockers add up. And lots of Big Pharma executives are driving nicer

00:11:13.680 cars today because of all this. So I don't mean to suggest that Cox is just a coward. He's also a 0.80

00:11:19.220 money grubbing con artist as well. So let's not undersell the man. I mean, his resume is more 0.95

00:11:24.300 extensive than just being a cowardice. But leaving his financial motivations aside, it's worth really

00:11:29.920 reflecting on the extreme nature of Republican cowardice as displayed by so many of them, especially

00:11:36.060 Spencer Cox. Gender ideology is about as radical and extreme as it gets on the left. Now, it's also 0.91

00:11:43.840 mainstream, no doubt, but it is radical and extreme in the sense that it's just about the craziest and

00:11:49.300 least rational, least reasonable thing that the left is currently pushing. Not just about, it is.

00:11:55.480 So taking the issue of sports specifically, the leftist position is extraordinarily unpopular.

00:12:02.280 I mean, almost nobody agrees with it in reality. Even on the left, they don't agree with it

00:12:13.020 themselves. Now, they might pretend to, but most of them don't. And I know that because most people

00:12:19.880 generally are sane. I mean, most people are not insane. And you have to be insane to take the

00:12:24.880 position that there's no real difference between men and women. And so you can just compete, you can,

00:12:28.140 you can combine and it won't make a difference. Like you have to be actually an insane person to

00:12:32.200 believe that. And most people aren't insane, despite appearances. A poll was conducted on this

00:12:37.280 issue as it happens in Utah last year. And it found that 61%, this is what the poll says, I think a

00:12:42.860 Rasmussen poll. And it found that 61% believe that trans women, quote unquote, should not compete on

00:12:48.660 women's teams. Now, 61% is already a significant majority, meaning that even if we just take that 61%,

00:12:55.140 Cox caved to the minority. But keep in mind that the actual number is much higher than 61%.

00:13:00.820 Because 61%, that doesn't account for the sizable portion of respondents who are too afraid to say

00:13:06.780 what they really think, even to a random pollster on the phone. That's the kind of fear this issue

00:13:13.940 generates in people, that they're too afraid to say it out loud to almost anyone, unless it's just a

00:13:19.000 family member in their living room. And even then they might be too afraid. And also the poll said

00:13:23.720 trans women rather than biological men. The actual question was, should transgender women

00:13:29.100 be allowed to compete in high school and college women's sports? Now, plenty of people don't even 1.00

00:13:33.020 know what the phrase trans women means. Lots of them think that a trans woman is a woman, a female,

00:13:37.820 who identifies as trans. Now, rephrase that poll to make it more accurate and clearer.

00:13:43.800 Ask people if biological males, don't say anything about trans, should biological males be allowed to 1.00

00:13:49.980 compete against women. If you ask that question, just like that, the no's are going to reach into 0.95

00:13:56.460 the 90th percentile. All of this to say, the Republican governor of Utah stood against the

00:14:03.300 majority, took the less popular stance out of fear of the noisy minority. This is the type of gutlessness

00:14:10.460 that plagues the Republican Party and sadly, conservatism generally. It's only through this

00:14:17.580 sort of compliance and submissiveness that the left has been able to seize hold of our culture and

00:14:24.020 make their most radical ideas mainstream in the first place. So if we have any hope of reclaiming

00:14:29.580 the culture, it has to start by identifying the cowards and the turncoats and the traitors and 0.99

00:14:34.900 exiling them. And we can start with Spencer Cox. Now let's get to our five headlines. 0.91

00:14:40.260 All right, so we'll start from the Daily Wire. It says,

00:14:49.640 Netflix and TikTok announced on Sunday that they have suspended their services inside Russia following

00:14:55.640 Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine. Netflix said in a statement,

00:14:59.580 given the circumstances on the ground, we've decided to suspend our service in Russia.

00:15:04.340 The Verge added, last week Netflix said it wouldn't comply with a new Russia law that requires large

00:15:09.080 streamers to host 20 Russian propaganda channels such as NTV and the state-backed Channel One.

00:15:15.220 The state-backed Channel One is what it's called. The streaming giant later announced that it's halting

00:15:19.100 all productions and acquisitions in Russia. Netflix had been working on four Russian originals at the

00:15:23.660 time. Netflix currently has around 1 million subscribers in Russia, so all of them are out of

00:15:29.020 luck now. And TikTok announced on Sunday that it was also suspending its services inside Russia for safety

00:15:33.360 reasons. They said TikTok is an outlet for creativity and entertainment that can provide a source

00:15:39.060 of relief and human connection during a time of war when people are facing immense tragedy and

00:15:44.280 isolation. According to the company in a statement. However, our highest priority is the safety of our

00:15:48.440 employees and our users. And in light of Russia's new fake news law, we have no choice but to suspend

00:15:53.680 live streaming and new content to our video service in Russia while we review the safety implications of

00:15:58.640 this law. Now, the first thing that you think is, okay, they got rid of Netflix. They don't have

00:16:05.040 TikTok. This is actually in many ways the best thing that could happen to the Russian people in a lot of ways. 1.00

00:16:11.900 Next thing you know, like McDonald's and all the fast food giants are going to boycott Russia as well.

00:16:17.820 And that's when it really backfires because now Russia becomes the strongest and healthiest country in the

00:16:23.640 entire world because this is the only country these companies won't go into. But it also raises the

00:16:29.040 question of, okay, Netflix is suspending its service in Russia. First of all, how does that punish Putin

00:16:40.620 exactly? So I guess that means Putin can't go on and binge watch Tiger King. But something tells me he's not

00:16:47.560 worried about doing that right now. So if it punishes anybody, it punishes the people in Russia 0.94

00:16:52.960 and nobody else. And if we're doing that, if we are punishing the people in a country because of what

00:17:00.280 their governments are doing, and if these major corporations are taking this kind of stand,

00:17:08.060 then what about Netflix service in China? What about TikTok in China? Well, Chinese government

00:17:15.960 essentially runs TikTok. So we certainly know that they still have TikTok in China. What about that?

00:17:23.260 And if you really want to extend this logic as far as it will go, when you're punishing the people for

00:17:29.060 what their governments are doing, I don't know if any of us are going to be safe at the end of that.

00:17:34.040 Certainly, we've got to take Netflix out of Canada as well, just to start with. But it doesn't end

00:17:39.480 there. Going back to the Daily Wire report, it says, numerous financial service companies announced over

00:17:43.940 the weekend that they were suspending operations in Russia as well due to the invasion. American

00:17:48.500 Express announced on Sunday that they were suspending all operations in Russia. And then

00:17:53.380 it was Visa pulled out, MasterCard. All of these companies are saying, we're not going to operate

00:18:01.460 in Russia anymore. As far as I know, this is the first time we've seen anything like this with all of

00:18:07.660 these major companies all at once, suspending operations in an entire country in revenge,

00:18:14.940 out of vengeance for what that government is doing. And the follow-up to the story, by the way,

00:18:21.280 of all the financial organizations pulling out of Russia is that, as I was just reading a different

00:18:27.580 headline, is that now Russia is turning to China to make up for all of this. So you can't have Visa,

00:18:33.400 so you can't have MasterCard. Now they're going to go to, for all their banking needs and all their

00:18:37.460 financial needs, now they're going to rely on China even more than they did before.

00:18:41.820 How does that help us? How does that help the West in the long run? To send Russia and Russians 1.00

00:18:47.560 fleeing even more into the arms of China. So when we start punishing the people of Russia, 0.53

00:18:54.620 I know how that can hurt. I can imagine all the ways that that will hurt. Strengthening the bond

00:19:01.460 between Russia and China, which we don't want. Turning Russians against the West even more. 0.93

00:19:08.960 When they already, it seems, there's a strong anti-war contingent and feeling among Russians,

00:19:15.780 at least based on what we're being told by Western media, that this war is unpopular in Russia as it is.

00:19:23.400 So you could flip that sentiment against you. That's the bad thing that can happen, okay? That's the

00:19:30.600 negative. That's the loss. But what's the win? What's the advantage? What do we gain from this,

00:19:36.980 is my question. And I can't help but keep going back to this point here that after 9-11,

00:19:47.900 we were constantly warned, like the very next day, one of the first priorities, one of the number one

00:19:56.720 priorities after 9-11 was to make sure that there was no Islamophobia. In fact, prior to 9-11, I'm not

00:20:03.820 sure I even ever heard the phrase Islamophobia. After 9-11 is when it became mainstream. And we kept 1.00

00:20:11.280 hearing about this problem of Islamophobia. So we were very, in our country, there was this intense

00:20:16.860 focus on making sure that regular Muslim people are not held responsible for what some Muslims did.

00:20:28.320 And then you fast forward a little bit, and China invents a virus in a lab, unleashes it on the world 0.97

00:20:36.200 one way or another, kills 5 million people. And again, what's one of the first things we hear?

00:20:40.980 That we can't have, anti-Asian hate has to stop. You know, there's a plague of anti-Asian hate,

00:20:47.860 which is an even bigger epidemic, even bigger plague than COVID itself. To so much as call

00:20:53.640 the coronavirus the China virus is itself an act. It's a hate crime against Asians. 1.00

00:21:00.320 And yet with Russia, now all of a sudden it's, yeah, hold them all accountable. Punish all Russian 1.00

00:21:10.440 people. Go and vandalize. If there's Russian restaurants and stores here, vandalize them. No big deal. 1.00

00:21:18.860 Why is that? It would almost seem as though the idea is that because Russian people are perceived as

00:21:26.440 white, even though a great many of them really are not, but they're perceived as white. And so

00:21:31.420 therefore it's bigotry against them and punishing them for what their government is doing is okay.

00:21:36.980 Whereas you could never do that against the Chinese people because they're not white.

00:21:41.640 Now, speaking of Ukraine, I wanted to play this clip for you. Bryce Mitchell is a star in the UFC.

00:21:47.800 And usually I'm not a big fan when athletes are at press conferences and they're supposed to be

00:21:53.440 talking about their sport, but they're asked a question about, you know, some political issue or

00:21:58.000 geopolitical issue, even worse. But that happened here. For whatever reason, they stopped this guy

00:22:03.100 at his press conference and they asked him, what do you think of Russia and Ukraine? And this is one of

00:22:08.820 the most cogent analyses I think I've heard on the entire issue coming from a guy in the UFC who begins

00:22:17.100 by saying, I don't know a lot about it, but what, what follows from there is far more sensible and

00:22:23.540 rational than most of what you hear on cable news. Listen to this. Well, I just wanted to get your

00:22:27.420 thoughts on the whole Russia and Ukraine situation. You know, um, here's my first thought is I'm not

00:22:34.840 going nowhere to fight none of these wars for these politicians. I'm staying at home. And when the war

00:22:39.340 comes to Arkansas, I will dig my boots in the ground and I will die for everything I love. And I will not

00:22:44.920 retreat. If this country's invaded and everybody's saying, well, we gotta, we gotta evacuate. We gotta

00:22:50.980 leave. We got, I will not, I will dig my boots in the Arkansas soil and I will fight for the people

00:22:56.320 that I love, for the land that I love and the way of life that I love. But I'm not going overseas to

00:23:01.280 fight. I don't know what's going on. To be honest, brother, I really don't. There's so much stuff and I

00:23:06.640 don't think nobody knows what's going on fully. There's been so much political corruption in that area.

00:23:11.560 You got Biden and his son making a ton of money off of, um, and using our tax dollars to bribe

00:23:18.920 their people. That's treasonous in my opinion. Uh, so you got Hunter Biden and his son using our

00:23:24.520 tax dollars. Hey, if, if Ukrainian government, if you don't do this, we're taking your tax dollars.

00:23:29.340 He shouldn't be giving our tax dollars to that country. Anyway, we got veterans out here sleeping

00:23:33.320 on a street and you're going to give our fricking tax dollars to these Ukrainians. And I brother, 1.00

00:23:38.580 I don't know what's going on over there, but I'm not going over there and fighting and God bless

00:23:42.840 anybody that's over there is fighting. And I hope that this just gets solved. And man, I don't like

00:23:47.120 war. You know what I mean? I don't want people dying and all that stuff. I don't want to be,

00:23:51.740 but I don't know what's going on. There's so much stuff that I think that's corrupted that we just

00:23:56.540 don't know what's truly going on over there. An agent of Putin, obviously. I mean, when you hear

00:24:02.180 that, right, the only conclusion you can draw as a rational person is that he is, uh, that he is

00:24:08.840 being directly paid by Putin himself and he is pro Putin and he wants Ukraine to be invaded and all 0.95

00:24:16.080 Ukrainians to be killed in the massive genocide. That's, that's what we have to, I mean, at least 1.00

00:24:19.620 that's what we're told. If you're, if you waver from the established narrative on this at all,

00:24:26.140 then you're pro Putin. That's what we're told anyway. Or, you know, you can have some common

00:24:33.440 sense and realize that this is, you know, the reason why this is a cogent analysis is that it

00:24:39.220 starts number one by admitting how little you know about what's going on. And I wish that more people

00:24:47.560 had this kind of humility from the very beginning. Okay. Because as I said, before, you know, before the

00:24:54.540 invasion actually happened and we started hearing about, uh, the potential that it would happen,

00:24:58.680 but what is one of the first things I said on the show is that, is that in the coming days,

00:25:04.340 you're going to hear a lot of people talking about Ukraine and they're going to have, uh, very firm

00:25:09.120 opinions on Ukraine. And 99% of those people have never even thought about Ukraine prior to that moment

00:25:16.820 when it was in the news cycle. What's more, how many of them, this is what I want to know,

00:25:21.820 how many of all the people that have got Ukraine flags in their profiles right now,

00:25:26.660 how many of them could point to it on a map without cheating, without using Google? If I showed

00:25:30.280 them a map of, uh, of that part of Europe without any labels, how many of them could point to Ukraine?

00:25:38.280 Less than 50%, less than 25%. And that's, I mean, there is a woeful lack in geographic knowledge

00:25:46.680 among Americans. So it is a general problem. But the fact that most people haven't really thought

00:25:50.700 about Ukraine don't know a lot about the, uh, the, the historic tensions between Ukraine and

00:25:56.420 Russia, which by the way, didn't just start this past week. There's a history there.

00:26:02.580 And as much as we want to be told that it's a very clear good guy versus bad guy, uh, dynamic,

00:26:08.860 it's actually not quite that clear when you go through the history of it,

00:26:11.540 which is almost always the case when it comes to feuds and tensions between people and between

00:26:17.520 nations. So I've said this before about, uh, I said this before about, about marriages that fall

00:26:23.220 apart. And sometimes it's, it's really clear in a marriage, there's a bad guy and there's a good

00:26:28.440 guy. You know, sometimes that's the case. Sometimes someone's just a total monster and the other person

00:26:32.300 is, uh, practically a saint. And that, that happens sometimes, but most of the time you'll get that

00:26:37.000 impression when you hear just one person's side of the story. But if you go and hear the other person's

00:26:41.440 side, you're going to hear D now you might still, after hearing the other person's side,

00:26:44.280 be on the original person's side, but you're going to hear details that make you go, Oh,

00:26:48.180 I didn't know about that. That's interesting. So that's the case about when it comes to tensions

00:26:54.020 between people, especially when it comes to tensions between governments, there are no

00:26:58.200 saintly governments in the world. It doesn't mean that there are no bad guys and good guys when it

00:27:03.060 comes to individual conflicts. Russia is the bad guy here. They're the one invading. 0.95

00:27:08.200 But the point is there's a history, okay, that most people just don't know. And it's okay to not know

00:27:12.880 because we can't know everything. Uh, a lot of, a lot of us can't really, can't really know

00:27:17.440 anything at all. It seems like, but we certainly can't know everything. And you're going to be

00:27:21.240 focused primarily and, uh, justifiably on the things happening right around you in your own

00:27:26.280 country. But all that means is that when something starts to happen 6,000 miles away and the media

00:27:33.580 and you start, and there's, there's just sort of one version of events that you're hearing from the

00:27:38.020 media. And the media assigns you a position that you're supposed to have and says, anyone who does

00:27:45.040 not have this position, this exact position is whatever bad, terrible label they come up with.

00:27:51.160 The moment that happens, there should be some skepticism and you should stop and say, well,

00:27:55.240 you know, I don't really know a lot about this. I'm, I'm very far removed from it.

00:28:00.760 And all the information I'm getting right now is from the media and I don't, I don't really trust

00:28:05.900 them. And so that's when you take, um, the position that Bryce Mitchell took there, I think,

00:28:12.000 which is a very sensible position. All right. One other note here on, uh, Ukraine, George Sakai

00:28:17.420 tweeted this. I just want to show this to you. Um, he says, Americans, we can endure higher prices

00:28:22.940 for food and gas if it means putting the screws to Putin. Consider it a patriotic donation in the

00:28:28.840 fight for freedom over tyranny. George Sakai is, uh, obviously a hero willing to make a sacrifice

00:28:35.860 sacrifice. Yeah. We should be able to sacrifice. We should sacrifice, uh, for the sake of the people

00:28:41.260 of Ukraine. Now I'm, I'm going to take a different position. Uh, I'm going to say, no, I don't really

00:28:47.520 see why we as Americans should have to make any sacrifices necessarily because of this conflict

00:28:55.020 that's going on overseas. Um, and it's really easy to say, you know, I'm, I'm not looking at an

00:29:02.740 American family, right? Sitting around the dinner table and it's, I'm not sure I can make the pitch 1.00

00:29:07.640 to them that you should have to make sacrifices in your life, significant sacrifices because of

00:29:13.020 Ukraine and Russia. Now, George Sakai can, can take that position and it's an easy one for him to

00:29:19.160 take. And he can pretend to be that he's making a sacrifice and that he's, he's being so heroic and

00:29:22.600 selfless. But George Sakai is old as dirt, childless and rich. Rich, by the way, from doing nothing.

00:29:30.720 Like he was in Star Trek 85 years ago. And since then has done nothing at all. And, but it's just

00:29:37.220 made all the royalties and everything and merchandise and whatever else. Um, so he's just

00:29:40.780 sitting back doing nothing at all for the, for the last, uh, 60 years of his life. He's rich. He

00:29:45.720 doesn't, doesn't have any kids. He's not going to be around much longer. He's in his eighties.

00:29:50.280 And so it's easy for him to say, Oh yeah, we can endure these higher prices.

00:29:54.560 When you're worth $20 million and have no dependence. Sure. Higher prices for food,

00:29:59.560 you to barely even notice it. But for a lot, a lot of American families are, are not in that

00:30:05.380 position. All right. White house chief of staff, Ron Klain on Thursday signaled that the white house

00:30:13.020 would extend the freeze on student loan payments. Again, following no mention of student loans in the

00:30:17.820 state of union earlier in the week, uh, Klain was on the podcast pod save America. And he spoke about

00:30:24.200 this. And in fact, we have the video and, uh, let's play that now. The president's going to,

00:30:28.800 uh, look at what we should do on student debt, uh, before, uh, uh, the pause expires or he'll

00:30:36.580 extend the pause. Joe Biden right now is the only president in history where no one's paid on their

00:30:41.280 student loans for the entirety of his presidency. And so the question of whether or not there's some

00:30:45.800 executive action, student debt forgiveness, uh, when the payments resume, uh, is a decision we're

00:30:52.480 going to take before the payments resume. Uh, right now, um, people aren't, aren't having to pay on

00:30:58.080 their loans. And, um, and so I think dealing with the executive branch question, what we should do

00:31:03.140 about that, what his powers are, how much we should do on that. That's something we're going to deal with

00:31:07.100 later on. Yeah. The, the question that is not answered that we're going to look at, maybe we'll

00:31:11.920 pause the student loans. Um, a few questions. Number one is what, where, and I know that this

00:31:17.580 is such a moot point now because, you know, uh, the, the, the executive branch has long since become

00:31:25.940 this kind of monarchical, maybe has always been in a certain way, uh, institution, and it has claimed

00:31:31.440 for itself the power to do basically anything that it wants. Um, so we, we, we've lived in that world

00:31:37.780 for forever, basically. And then ever since COVID, it's only gotten worse. You know, when you have

00:31:42.680 the, um, when you have organizations or, or, you know, agencies in the federal government that can

00:31:49.640 say to landlords, just decree that you're not allowed to evict people who don't pay their rent,

00:31:56.800 you know, delinquent tenants, you're not allowed to evict them. Well, we'll let, we'll let you know

00:32:00.540 when you're allowed to, uh, to do that again. And there was, there was never any explanation of where

00:32:04.840 they derive that authority. And same thing here. Where, where exactly, where exactly does the

00:32:12.100 president find the authority to just put a pause on student loans? And, and also why,

00:32:20.240 why are we doing this exactly? Because they're talking about, there's, there's this, uh, obviously

00:32:27.900 this conflict here, this contradiction, because on one hand, they're bragging about the Biden

00:32:33.140 administration is bragging about the unemployment rate that's going down and people are getting back

00:32:37.500 to work and the economy is doing great, which what they don't mention by the way, when they,

00:32:42.740 when they're bragging about how the unemployment rate is going down is that they had for a long time

00:32:48.240 stopped people from working. They, they've locked people in a cage basically and said,

00:32:54.540 you're not allowed to work. And then they unlocked the cage and opened it and said,

00:32:58.340 look at all these people working. We've created jobs. No, you've just, you've just pulled back

00:33:04.380 from stopping them from doing something that they were doing before you stopped them from doing it.

00:33:08.980 But if the economy has roared back to life and we're doing, we're in great shape and Hey,

00:33:13.240 but don't look at the, uh, inflation. Don't check the gas prices. Don't look at the food prices,

00:33:17.140 but everything don't, don't look at that behind the curtain over there. Everything's doing great.

00:33:21.040 If that's, if that's the case, then why even more so, why are we extending the pause on student loans?

00:33:24.880 And also why student loans is the question I always ask about this is of all the bills and

00:33:31.660 debts that people have. Um, I have plenty, like anybody else, I have plenty of bills of my own

00:33:36.780 that I have to pay, um, debts that I have to pay, including my mortgage. Why are student loans

00:33:41.520 special? Exactly. Why do we, why, why do they get the kind of pride of place? Those questions never

00:33:48.400 answered obviously. This is from Politico says, Eric Adams has a problem with chocolate milk. New York's

00:33:53.380 first self-professed, self-professed vegan mayor was at the forefront of a movement to ban chocolate

00:33:58.720 milk from public schools before his time in city hall. Now equipped with the power to set policies

00:34:02.940 for the nation's largest school system. The evangelist for healthy living has again, turned

00:34:07.820 his attention to the lunchroom staple and registered concern with the state's powerful dairy industry.

00:34:13.860 Uh, he said, we're having a conversation about, should we have chocolate, high sugar milk in our

00:34:18.600 schools? Now I'm not going to become nanny mayor, but we do need to have our children. We do need to, 0.99

00:34:25.380 we do need to have our children have options. It means we need to have children to have options.

00:34:30.460 He doesn't want to be the nanny mayor. It goes on for a long time talking about this debate over

00:34:34.500 chocolate milk and I've already lost interest, so I can't read any more of it, but he doesn't want to

00:34:38.340 be the nanny mayor. And yet he's a very concerned about chocolate milk in schools. And if this annoys you,

00:34:45.860 what you have to remember as always is that, um, is that this is how the government looks at public

00:34:54.300 schools. You know, when you send your kid to public school, you are sending your kid into the care of

00:34:59.780 the government. These are government schools. As I've said that we should, rather than calling

00:35:04.740 them public schools, uh, I think a better word would just be government schools because it emphasizes

00:35:10.100 what you're actually doing. You're sending your kid into a government building to be taken,

00:35:13.920 to be cared for by government employees. And that means that the people at the top, people running

00:35:19.320 the government are going to feel like, you know, they're, they, they basically are the nannies.

00:35:27.160 And, um, so you're going to have these kinds of nanny state laws. And in some ways they're, 0.99

00:35:31.920 they're actually right because the government school system is one giant kind of free daycare,

00:35:38.800 not really free. Cause it actually costs a lot of money, but you don't have to pay up front for it.

00:35:42.260 Um, it's one giant daycare or sort of nanny system. And that's where you're going to get 0.96

00:35:48.420 rules like this. And I actually, I will say, I mean, I think it's, it's incredibly stupid for, 0.99

00:35:54.800 uh, the, the mayor of New York to be focused on chocolate milk in schools at all. 0.97

00:35:59.480 I mean, if you're the mayor of New York and you've got homeless people running rampant,

00:36:06.340 throwing, you know, down on the subway, throwing people in front of trains and all this kind of

00:36:09.600 stuff and crime and violence is, uh, is reaching record highs and spiking like it is in every other

00:36:14.700 major city, then that should be 100% of your focus basically. And you can get to chocolate milk

00:36:20.480 once you've solved all those problems, which you never will. So that means you're never going to get

00:36:23.820 to it. But all that being said, I do actually think, um, that you can have chocolate milk in

00:36:30.700 schools. It's fine. But it's, it's not a crazy thing to think about the diet that these kids are

00:36:36.100 being fed in schools, what kind of food they're being fed only because when they're in the government

00:36:42.560 school system, they're sitting at desks for like seven hours a day doing busy work,

00:36:49.600 which is already almost impossible for a lot of kids to do, especially boys. And that's why many

00:36:55.640 of them get diagnosed with ADHD and drugged. Um, but considering that very challenging environment,

00:37:03.220 you've put them in very unnatural environment, anything you feed them with artificial sugars or

00:37:08.840 anything like that, you're, you only make it all the, all the more difficult for them to sit still and,

00:37:13.420 and pay attention. So something else to think about as well. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:37:19.600 This is from, uh, Matthew do pluses says for a minute. I thought Matt was going to enter the

00:37:34.800 women's swimming championships. Got way too excited. Now that I think about it. Uh, well I could,

00:37:39.360 you know, beard and all, I could probably just jump in the pool and enter the competition. Um,

00:37:43.680 now, I mean, you could say that I'm not actually a student of any school, um, any NCAA school or any

00:37:50.780 other school, but then again, why does that matter? Maybe I identify as being a student. Um, I, even

00:37:56.040 though I'm a man, I wouldn't like my chances actually competing against the women in swimming 0.99

00:37:59.660 because, uh, because I, well, cause I, I can't swim. I'm a pretty good doggy paddler. That's my move.

00:38:04.220 And, uh, my wife, anytime we're in any kind of lake or pool or ocean, she can't stop laughing at

00:38:10.060 me, looking at me kind of like doggy paddling around, but that's, I'm not ever going to be in

00:38:15.580 a position where I need to actually swim. The doggy paddle is good enough for me, but I will be at,

00:38:20.700 uh, Georgia tech around the time when this, uh, when the NCAA women's swimming championships are

00:38:25.900 happening and Leah Thomas, the male will be competing against the females. And I'll be there

00:38:30.140 at Georgia tech to explain why that's wrong. And that'll be Monday, uh, March 14th at five 30

00:38:35.620 and stay tuned for more details on that as well. Okay. Doc holiday says any man that has called

00:38:41.120 Matt, sweet daddy, big daddy, or any form of the word daddy forfeits their man card forever. Uh,

00:38:48.600 under most circumstances, I would agree with you doc holiday, but I'm going to allow an exception

00:38:53.200 in this case. Troopy says, how has Matt managed to avoid the daily wires mid show subscribed

00:39:00.120 to continue viewing video cut? Whatever the reason, thanks for always having been there for

00:39:04.380 the DW freeloading crew. Actually wish I hadn't read this comment because I don't want to call

00:39:09.100 attention to the fact that we don't do that here. I don't know either is your question, but I let's

00:39:14.140 just move on. Um, let's see. Erica says the term authentic self has to be the most annoying phrase

00:39:21.860 ever uttered. Yeah, I don't, I agree that it's annoying because of how it's so often used.

00:39:28.320 And I think you're referring to, we talked about the, the sports illustrated cover fluff piece,

00:39:35.220 the cover piece about Leah Thomas. And he was talking about how now that he's grown his hair

00:39:40.600 out as pretending to be a woman that he's living his authentic self. And I agree that that's completely 0.52

00:39:46.040 absurd, obviously, because that's the exact opposite of what he's doing. He is rejecting his authentic

00:39:50.440 self and, um, any pain or discomfort that he's experiencing right now internally is, is, is

00:39:58.460 grounded in that, in that he has rejected his authentic self. Um, but that's exactly why the

00:40:04.120 phrase itself, I don't have a problem with because we do have a huge issue in our culture, a crisis level

00:40:11.360 problem. I think of people rejecting their authentic self, you know, because there's your authentic

00:40:18.260 self and then there's the, your, your self perception. And those are not necessarily the

00:40:24.980 same. And in fact, for, for, for probably everybody, they don't exactly line up, right? We all, you know,

00:40:32.760 for all of us, you are a certain type of person. You are a certain way. You look a certain way. You act

00:40:37.780 a certain way. You have a certain personality. Um, but your perception of who you are is probably not

00:40:43.800 100% accurate for better or worse. You might think you're uglier than you actually are. Uh, you might 0.93

00:40:51.140 think you're dumber than you actually are. I think for a lot of people, their self perception goes the 0.99

00:40:54.540 other way, unfortunately, though. So authentic self and self perception. I think those are two phrases that

00:41:00.560 we actually need. Don't take your frustrations out on the phrases themselves. Um, and this should be our

00:41:07.240 message to people that, you know, true harmony and, um, you know, happiness in life comes in part from

00:41:16.920 this alignment between your self perception and your authentic self. And you should try to line those

00:41:22.060 things up. Well, this is another big week at the daily wire. Why? Because this Thursday night,

00:41:27.000 March 10th, we're premiering yet another film and, uh, we cannot wait to share it with you. That film

00:41:32.200 is called the Hyperions and it's exactly what entertainment in Hollywood is often missing these

00:41:37.220 days. It's not woke. It has zero underlying political message and it's just, uh, well, it's an excellent

00:41:41.960 film because when it comes to entertainment, that's all that matters. If you don't believe me, check out

00:41:46.220 the trailer. Good day, Hyperion club members. We've come for one thing. Our Titan badges. This Titan badge

00:41:57.640 can grant an individual superhuman power. Perhaps it's time for someone else to take on the

00:42:03.080 responsibility. On my way. She's trying to destroy me. 1.00

00:42:16.220 So the Hyperions is a dysfunctional family film with throwback vibes, and it's 100% worth the

00:42:24.480 stream. We'll be streaming the film once on March 10th for all of YouTube to see. This is the last

00:42:28.980 time we're going to be, uh, giving the movie away to you freeloaders. After this, you have to be a

00:42:33.160 daily wire member, um, which means go to dailywire.com slash subscribe so that you don't miss any more

00:42:39.280 of, uh, all the content that we have coming your way. Also, you know, it's always time for new voices

00:42:44.560 to enter the transgender conversation because, as always, diversity is extremely important. And you know,

00:42:48.720 if you know anything about me, the first thing you know about me is that I value diversity and equity

00:42:54.360 and inclusion and tolerance most of all. That's why I authored the best-selling children's LGBTQ plus

00:43:00.060 book, um, Literary Sensation, the most influential LGBT, uh, piece of literature ever written,

00:43:06.980 Johnny the Walrus. And, um, as you know, I was invited on Dr. Phil to talk about it as well.

00:43:11.560 You can see those clips. Even more importantly, if you haven't picked up a copy of my best-selling

00:43:14.760 children's book, which is sitting so subtly behind me at this hotel, because I bring it with me on

00:43:19.840 trips. I, this is my reading material. I just read it over and over again on flights. I, I read it in

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00:43:29.860 additional things you didn't, you didn't see the first time. Um, so go to johnnythewalrus.com

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00:43:41.320 And it's always the one that agrees with the narrative they're pushing. That's why we've

00:43:44.820 taken it upon ourselves to start our own publishing wing called DW books. And, uh, of which I think

00:43:50.140 John the Walrus was the very first thing that we published with our new publishing imprint,

00:43:53.400 which is a point of pride, at least for me, I don't know about for anybody else. Um, but we've got a

00:43:58.040 lot more coming down the pike, including 12 seconds in the dark by Sergeant Mattingly. The book is the

00:44:04.220 true story of what really happened the night of the tragic Breonna Taylor shooting. Mattingly,

00:44:09.220 a 20 year police veteran takes readers inside his department's response and debunks the lies that

00:44:13.900 have recklessly been shared with the public. Check out the trailer. It was very chaotic. It was very

00:44:19.060 quick. Instantly, I knew I was shot. Breonna Taylor, she was caught in the crossfire of those bullets.

00:44:24.680 As soon as your brain's registering, it's already over. The media gets so many things wrong in this case

00:44:30.240 saying we had the wrong apartment. Her name wasn't on the warrant. She was shot

00:44:34.140 and killed in her sleep, in her bed. These are lies. This is not true. And all the while you're 0.91

00:44:39.260 hearing all these outside influences from athletes and Oprah and Ellen DeGeneres and Kamala Harris and

00:44:46.140 Joe Biden, all those people coming and attacking you, putting your name on their account saying he

00:44:51.260 should be in prison. All these things that they have no idea what they're talking about, but they

00:44:55.100 have such influence. The more we attack police for doing their job, the less good qualified police

00:45:01.260 you're going to have. When you read 12 seconds in the dark, you will find out the truth of what

00:45:07.060 really happened the night of the Breonna Taylor raid.

00:45:09.060 You know, in a world where voices like his are censored, this story is incredibly important and

00:45:20.960 we're so grateful to have this brave truth teller on board. The book releases March 15th, but it's

00:45:25.280 available for pre-order right now on Amazon or anywhere you buy books online. So after you buy

00:45:30.280 10 more copies of Johnny the Walrus, then go get that book as well. Get your pre-ordered copy today

00:45:34.620 because I promise you it will sell out. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:41.940 You know, there are some conservatives who say that we should not punch right. And I mostly agree.

00:45:48.080 But with the stipulation that the most common form of punching right is when people on the right punch

00:45:55.000 themselves directly in their own faces. And when I see people on the right giving themselves right hooks

00:46:01.440 to the skull, I feel the need to chime in and say, knock it off. And this is sometimes interpreted as me

00:46:07.540 punching right, but really it's the opposite. This is like I'm trying to help them. I'm not the one doing

00:46:12.080 the punching. The punches are self-inflicted. And that brings us finally to the so-called people's

00:46:16.380 convoy, which made it, or maybe it's the freedom convoy, which was, one is the Canadian one, one is this one.

00:46:23.760 Anyway, it made its way to D.C. or rather around D.C. this weekend. Now this convoy is a sort of sequel

00:46:30.800 to the Canadian convoy. And it's like most Hollywood reboots. It lacks much of the appeal.

00:46:37.780 And I think almost all of the point of the original. The only real similarity between the two

00:46:42.620 is that they both feature protesting truckers. But beyond that, the connection kind of breaks down.

00:46:47.840 Here's the Washington Post with their report of what happened yesterday when they all arrived.

00:46:52.080 An armada of drivers calling themselves the people's convoy, okay, so it is the people's

00:46:56.420 convoy, is circling the beltway at a deliberately slow speed Sunday as an act of protest against

00:47:01.560 pandemic restrictions. Organizers said their goal was to be a huge pain, quote unquote.

00:47:06.140 But though the convoy of hundreds of trucks, cars, and SUVs started out moving in a formation that

00:47:09.920 stretched roughly 30 miles, it became diluted after merging with normal beltway traffic. As of 2.30

00:47:15.280 p.m. Sunday, the convoy was well into its second loop around the district. The vehicles were spread out

00:47:19.560 in groups on Interstate 495's outer loop going about 40 miles an hour. Traffic was flowing around

00:47:23.820 them, as usual, at about 55 miles an hour. Quote, we're not even sure that we can call it a convoy

00:47:28.200 anymore because it's so dispersed among routine traffic at this point, said Virginia State Police

00:47:32.080 Spokeswoman Corinne Geller. The group intends to repeat its beltway loop every day this week,

00:47:37.380 according to organizer Brian Braze. The group says that it will increase the number of trips around

00:47:42.080 the beltway each day to pressure lawmakers and public officials. While the disruption to motorists

00:47:45.960 caused on Sunday was minimal, their presence could create far more chaos during a weekday

00:47:53.360 when beltway traffic is already thick with commuters. Okay, so as of Sunday, the convoy had

00:47:59.500 simply been absorbed by the traffic and had really accomplished nothing. And that may be all it ever

00:48:05.560 achieves, unless with the help of a workday rush hour, it manages in the days ahead to create the huge

00:48:13.180 pain that it wants to create and make beltway traffic even worse than it usually is. Those are

00:48:19.360 the two best case scenarios, right? That it does nothing. That's one best case scenario. Or it

00:48:26.380 creates a huge inconvenience. The worst case scenarios are that things somehow get out of hand, out of

00:48:31.960 control. Some kind of violence happens as a result. Maybe there's a road rage incident. Maybe a trucker is

00:48:38.020 involved in an accident that kills somebody. I'm not saying that will happen, but those are the worst

00:48:43.040 cases. So again, best case, nothing happens or only something moderately bad happens, which is a lot of

00:48:50.960 traffic and it annoys people. Worst case, something worse than moderately bad happens. So you might be

00:48:57.040 asking, what's the win here? Which of these results do the truckers involved hope to see happen?

00:49:04.840 Or have they imagined some other fantasy scenario? Do they think that after a week of circling the

00:49:10.600 beltway, Biden will hold a press conference agreeing to give the truckers anything that they

00:49:15.100 demand? Well, the problem with that hope is that it 100% will not happen. But second, it's not even

00:49:20.360 clear what they're demanding exactly. So even if you wanted to give them what they demand, you really

00:49:25.220 can't. So let's break this down. Here's why the People's Convoy is less than a smart idea.

00:49:33.060 And Wyatt has got another example of people on the right beating the hell out of themselves,

00:49:38.480 much like that scene in Fight Club with Ed Norton. First, we're two years into this. Most of the very

00:49:45.260 worst mandates and policies have already been lifted. Even the deepest blue cities are finally loosening

00:49:50.480 their restrictions. And the truckers have chosen now, two years later, when all this stuff is going

00:49:56.900 away, it's at this very moment when we're going to have this demonstration. At the moment when we're

00:50:04.580 already starting to win the COVID fight, finally, now we stage the demonstration. Why now, of all times?

00:50:12.320 The Biden administration is losing the battle on the COVID narrative. You might say they've already

00:50:17.220 basically lost it. And they're losing in every other way also, everywhere. Democrats are barreling

00:50:22.160 towards a historic landslide annihilation in the midterms. All this can do, if it does anything,

00:50:27.980 is distract from the hapless incompetence of the flailing Democrats and give them a shiny object

00:50:32.600 to point to, a villain to demonize and say, look at these right-wing extremists making your life harder,

00:50:38.220 showing no respect for you as a working man, making it harder for you to get to work, making it harder

00:50:41.860 for you to get home to your families and your children after work. That's what they'll say if they feel the

00:50:47.780 need to acknowledge this at all. What they certainly will not say is, you know what, because these random

00:50:53.000 truckers circled the Beltway 98 times, we're now going to renounce our evil leftist ways and willingly

00:50:57.680 forfeit our positions of power. I feel certain that they will not say that. Second point, one of the

00:51:04.140 reasons I know they won't say that is that this protest is very specifically being done in a way so

00:51:11.060 as to cause no pain at all to the actual leftist lawmakers in D.C. who are ostensibly its targets.

00:51:17.780 So the truckers are, at least based on what was going on on Sunday, trying to cause gridlock on

00:51:24.300 the already gridlocked D.C. Beltway, or at least, you know, more traffic than usual. I mean, they're

00:51:30.540 not stopping their trucks in the middle of the highway, but, you know, slowing down intentionally

00:51:34.360 and trying to cause traffic. What they perhaps don't understand is that D.C. politicians are mostly

00:51:39.800 living inside the Beltway in D.C. itself. Their offices are a few blocks away from where they live.

00:51:45.120 Most of them fly into D.C. on the rare, odd occasion where they actually have to do some work,

00:51:49.800 and they either stay in a hotel or, like in AOC's case, they have expensive homes that they

00:51:53.980 rent in the fancy parts of town. They don't get on the Beltway to get to work. Okay? So they're

00:51:59.120 going to be totally unaffected by this. AOC and Nancy Pelosi aren't going to be sitting in traffic 0.62

00:52:02.660 behind the wheel, pulling their hair out, frustrated and reassessing their life choices. That's not going to

00:52:07.300 happen. Do you know who will have that experience if the truckers succeed in being a, quote,

00:52:11.440 huge pain? Regular working people. The D.C. Beltway is not a secret VIP passageway used by the elite

00:52:18.700 when they're going to meet at their creepy, eyes wide shut sex dungeons. It's actually just a

00:52:24.140 highway where people who live in Maryland and Virginia drive to work, and many of them are

00:52:28.860 normal blue-collar people. Now, there might be some lawyers and lobbyists and assorted ne'er-do-wells

00:52:33.860 in the mix, but there are a lot of just hourly wage workers, blue-collar types, soccer moms, 1.00

00:52:38.980 and so on. Speaking of soccer moms, they just helped us deliver a huge win in Virginia, 1.00

00:52:43.760 and for their troubles, now they're going to be punished by this convoy as well.

00:52:49.440 Here's the thing. If you want someone to hate you, I mean just viscerally hate you,

00:52:54.840 despise you with every fiber of their being, the kind of hatred where they sit and fantasize about

00:53:00.420 terrible and violent things happening to you, if you want to make that happen, then go to a busy

00:53:05.020 highway during rush hour and intentionally cause more congestion. I can think of no more efficient

00:53:10.520 way to be hated by more people all at once, of all political persuasions. Is this the goal?

00:53:17.680 To be hated by normal people who commit the sin of needing to use the highway between 6 and 9 a.m.

00:53:22.140 on a weekday? To make matters worse, the people who are causing this inconvenience,

00:53:27.080 or who tried causing it anyway, can't even really explain why they're doing it. Now, supporters say that

00:53:33.660 it's about pandemic restrictions, but when you point out that most of those restrictions are already

00:53:37.280 gone, and the rest are probably on their way out, and the ones that maybe will be around for a long

00:53:43.060 time exist in certain contexts where you'd think that the protests will be more targeted, like

00:53:47.040 airports, for example. Now, those restrictions may never go away, and those are federal restrictions,

00:53:53.340 but why aren't you protesting at an airport if you're going to protest at all? Not that I'm advocating

00:53:58.180 anybody causing more congestion at airports, because that's not going to help anything either.

00:54:01.840 But when you point that out, what you're told, what you're given in response are kind of vague

00:54:08.520 platitudes about freedom and unity. And as one person told me on Twitter, this is about people

00:54:12.820 standing together. And someone else told me, well, they don't need to explain themselves to you.

00:54:18.880 You busybody, they have a right to demonstrate. Well, yeah, they do have a right, but if you're not

00:54:23.100 willing or able to explain your demonstration, it is inherently a pointless and counterproductive

00:54:27.600 demonstration. Demonstrations are supposed to, well, demonstrate something, send a message,

00:54:33.420 push for some specific end. So what does this demonstrate? Other than the participants' lack

00:54:39.200 of originality, for one, and their total disregard for the other people on the roadway. But by far,

00:54:46.020 the worst defense that I've heard of this is that, well, hey, at least they're doing something.

00:54:52.960 But doing something is certainly not always better than doing nothing. Okay? Doing nothing

00:54:59.120 is zero. That's a zero. Doing something counterproductive is a negative. And zero

00:55:05.860 is better than a negative. That's just mathematics. You know what the at least they're doing something

00:55:10.780 mentality got us? It got us January 6th, which was not an insurrection or a terrorist attack,

00:55:16.100 but it was an incredibly stupid and monumentally counterproductive event in which a lot of people 0.99

00:55:20.020 went out and did something without stopping for even a moment to think about whether the thing 0.99

00:55:24.140 they're doing has any chance at all of actually helping. Spoiler, it didn't. It had no chance of

00:55:28.920 helping, and it's not helping unless the plan was to help the Democrats and the left, which it

00:55:32.900 certainly did succeed in doing. You know, if I'm upset about the income tax, I could put on a clown suit

00:55:39.540 and jump on a pogo stick while singing the Macarena, you know? And I would be doing something. I mean,

00:55:45.920 you couldn't, if you came up to me and said, well, why are you doing this? At least I'm doing

00:55:48.940 something. It's something, certainly. It is something. But the something I'm doing only

00:55:55.280 makes me look like, in this case, a literal clown. It brings attention to me. It lets me blow off steam 0.86

00:56:01.180 in my own personal way. But if I was hoping to achieve a reduction in the income tax, it's hard to

00:56:06.720 see how my pogo stick clown suit plan will achieve that goal. Yet this is what we so often do on the

00:56:13.220 right. We, you know, people go out and just do things. We do a whole lot of things, doing a whole

00:56:21.000 lot of somethings, yet it doesn't really accomplish anything because there's not much strategy behind

00:56:26.320 it. Now, that's not always the case, of course. There are plenty of people on the right who know

00:56:31.460 how to think strategically, who know how to win and how to stage a demonstration, cause a scene while

00:56:37.060 advancing their agenda at the same time. If I may say so humbly, I have myself been involved in more than

00:56:42.040 one of these kinds of successful demonstrations. What's the difference between the successful ones

00:56:46.720 and the Pointless Circus Acts? Well, if you're on the successful site, you know what your win looks

00:56:52.280 like. You have clear goals in mind. You know what a win is. You know what the potential loss would be.

00:56:58.380 And you've roughly calculated the chances of the loss against the chances of the win. You've

00:57:03.020 determined that the win is sufficiently more likely and that it's worth the risk of the loss.

00:57:07.800 You've also thought about how this will play, what it will look like, what the optics will be.

00:57:11.100 If you don't care about optics, you know, then you shouldn't be in the protest game because

00:57:17.240 protests are all about optics. That's the whole point. You've also considered how your enemies might

00:57:22.660 sabotage what you're doing and you know what your counterpunch will be in each case. Perhaps most

00:57:29.800 importantly of all, you can explain exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it. You have a

00:57:41.100 and you drill that message every chance you get. You're more than happy to explain yourself. In

00:57:47.840 fact, that's the whole reason that you're doing what you're doing. You have a point and you want

00:57:53.040 nothing more than to explain that point. This is how we, and when I say we, I mean, not just me,

00:57:59.240 obviously, but lots of people on the right helped to flip Virginia red. No small feat. 0.96

00:58:03.280 But these were targeted acts of demonstration with specific goals in mind. We knew what the win is

00:58:10.600 and we stayed on message. The message in Virginia was parental rights. That was the message. Stay on

00:58:16.980 it and you beat on that drum every chance you get. It can't be, well, it's this and it's also this and

00:58:23.640 also just freedom and also this generally and also unity and harmony and all the good things in

00:58:28.180 rainbows and puppy dogs. That can't be it. That's how we flip Virginia red anyway. But you know,

00:58:35.020 with, with a lot of traffic on the DC beltway, maybe our trucker friends will help to flip it

00:58:38.280 blue again. Who knows? There's a better chance of that than of whatever positive result they have

00:58:42.140 in their minds. And that ultimately is why they are, I'm afraid to say today canceled and we'll leave

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Ep. 902 - Another Spineless Republican Jellyfish Caves To The LGBT Lobby

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