Ep. 914 - The First Black Woman For The Supreme Court Doesn't Know What A Woman Is
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Summary
The What is a Woman Movement makes it all the way to the Supreme Court, as Judge Jackson reveals that, though she wants to be on the Court, she cannot answer the most basic questions about reality. She also has a tenuous grasp of justice, as her lenient approach to child porn cases demonstrates. Plus, Governor DeSantis declares the real winner of the race that Leah Thomas won by cheating, and ESPN is now woke on steroids. And Harry s, jealous of our success with Jeremy s Razors, accuses the Daily Wire of hate speech. Plus, Kid Rock explains how to become uncancellable, and President Biden declares a new world order using those exact words.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the What is a Woman movement makes it all the way to the Supreme Court
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as Judge Jackson reveals that though she wants to be on the Supreme Court, she cannot answer
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the most basic questions about reality. She also has a tenuous grasp of justice as her lenient
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approach to child porn cases demonstrates. Talk about all that today. Plus, Governor DeSantis
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declares the real winner of the race that Leah Thomas won by cheating. ESPN is now woke on
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steroids. And Harry's, jealous of our success with Jeremy's Razors, accuses the Daily Wire of hate
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speech. Plus, Kid Rock explains how to become uncancellable. And President Biden declares a
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new world order using those exact words. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Go to altoira.com slash Matt. The confirmation hearings for Kentonji Brown Jackson took a shocking turn
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yesterday when Republicans made the bold and controversial decision to ask the judge about
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her resume and her judicial philosophy, her rulings, her fundamental beliefs. Breaking from
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recent tradition, they, for whatever reason, did not ask Jackson how many beers she drank in college,
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nor did they inspect her high school yearbook for potential vulgarities. Democrats claim that
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Jackson has been treated unfairly. One can only assume that this is what they mean. She's been
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treated like a judge seeking the highest judicial appointment in the land and not like an alleged
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criminal on trial by a kangaroo court. That's what essentially separates the way Republicans
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handle these sorts of things from the way Democrats handle them. But of course, it's already known ahead
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of time that any line of questioning directed at Jackson will be out of bounds and racist.
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At least any questioning outside of questions like, what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? And
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have you always been this wonderful? The left made that explicitly clear from the outset,
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though they didn't need to be explicit. This is how the game is played according to the long
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established rules. Yet, in spite of the inherent racism of demanding that a black woman explain
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herself when all she wants to do is become a Supreme Court justice, there is, based on her record and
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her worldview, quite a lot to explain. Many of the questions about Jackson and to her as well have
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focused rightfully so on her lengthy history of leniency towards child sex predators, especially people
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who consume child pornography, who are also child sex predators by definition. The RNC
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research account lists several cases where Jackson passed down a sentence significantly below
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federal sentencing guidelines. In fact, this is how she handled every child porn case she
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encountered, every single one. She passed down a sentence below federal guidelines. So, for example,
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in one case, a man who had images of eight-year-old children, pornographic images, was supposed to be
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sentenced to 10 years, according to the guidelines. She gave him three months. In another, a predator
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with 48 files of child porn on his computer was subject to 97 months in prison. Jackson cut that
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into a third, giving him 28. In still another case, a pervert who posted a pornographic image of a
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five-year-old was given by Jackson the lowest possible sentence allowed by the law, just 60 months.
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Now, one thing you might take away from this is that the federal guidelines are far too lenient already.
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I see no reason why child porn users and distributors should not be given mandatory life sentences.
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It should be like a one-strike-and-you're-out kind of situation. These are not people we need in society.
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You do something like that, it should be, okay, we don't need you in society. You're gone, and you're
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never coming back. And yet, the soft guidelines were still not soft enough for Jackson, who seems to have
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a soft spot in her heart for child sex perverts. Now, what can she say for herself to justify this?
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Well, to explain at least one of these cases, she said that the lenient sentence was due in part to
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the child predator's diplomas and certificates. Listen.
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He presented all of his diplomas and certificates and the things that he had done and argued consistent
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with what I was seeing in the record that this particular defendant had gotten into this in a way
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that was, I thought, inconsistent with some of the other cases that I had seen. Part of what a judge is
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doing, as required by Congress, is thinking about this case, thinking about unwarranted sentencing
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disparities, that's in the statute, other cases, other determinations that a judge may have made
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about this. I don't remember in detail this particular case, but I do recall it being unusual.
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Now, at another point, she argued that her lighter touch on this issue has sometimes been due to the
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disparities in the system and the fact that the federal guidelines for child porn sentencing were
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first established back when child porn users had to obtain images through the mail. And this, for some
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reason, is significant, and it means that sometimes the sentence should be lighter than the guidelines
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As you said, the guideline was based originally on a statutory scheme and on directives, specific
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directives by Congress at a time in which more serious child pornography offenders were identified
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based on the volume, based on the number of photographs that they received in the mail.
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And that made totally, total sense before when we didn't have the internet, when we didn't have
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distribution. But the way that the guideline is now structured based on that set of circumstances
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is leading to extreme disparities in the system because it's so easy for people to get volumes of this
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kind of material now by computers. So it's not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious
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offender in the way that it used to. So the commission has taken that into account, and perhaps even more
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importantly, courts are adjusting their sentences in order to account for the changed circumstances. But it
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says nothing about the court's view of the seriousness of this offense.
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So the argument is that punishing someone for each image they obtain was fair back when they had to have the images
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mailed to them. But now that it's so easy to get hundreds of images at once, it's not fair. That's the argument.
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And it's a very, very bad argument. And you know it's a bad argument because over on CNN, infamous public
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masturbator Jeffrey Toobin was agreeing with it. It seems that Toobin, having already displayed his tube
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on a Zoom call, is now incapable of experiencing any further shame or embarrassment. Either that or he
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enjoys it, the freak. Whatever his reasons, Toobin, with his hand suspiciously out of view, said this.
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Can I just add one point about these kiddie porn cases? And this came up, I remember, when I was an
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assistant U.S. attorney back in the 90s, is that when those sentencing guidelines were written for those cases,
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this was a time when the people who committed these crimes would order individual photos and then get them
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usually through email. And then they would be sentenced based on the number of photos
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they possessed. This was all pre-internet. So once the internet came in and people got access to
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hundreds and then thousands of photos, the sentencing guidelines would reflect hundreds and then
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thousands of photos. Federal judges have been struggling with the issue of how do you create
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a fair system that was designed pre-internet that was, yet you have to sentence people post-internet.
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And what I thought Chairman Durbin pointed out is that judges across the country, including
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Republican-appointed judges, have been saying, look, we can't apply the rules
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that were designed pre-internet for an internet society. And many judges have been giving somewhat
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Now, far be it for me to get into an argument with the sort of man who doesn't wear
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pants to a work meeting, especially when the argument is about pornography. But,
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you know, I'm not convinced by this reasoning. If anything, it seems clear to me the sentences
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should be harsher now because of the ease of access. It's exactly the reason that they're
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calling for lighter sentences. That's why there should be harsher sentences, because it necessitates
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a greater level of deterrence. It means that we must make an even more drastic example out of each
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offender because of how easy this stuff is to obtain. The message from society should be,
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we find a file of child porn on your computer and you're done forever. Your life is over.
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Yet both Jackson and Toobin believe that the more crime, the more that this crime proliferates,
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the more common it becomes, the less we should penalize it. Now, one might wish that this is
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about as weird as things would get, but Judge Jackson is, at bottom, a leftist. And that means
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that the moral bewilderment and intellectual incoherence goes much deeper. I mean, this is
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a woman who is tragically confused, not just about the concept of justice, already a troubling source
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of confusion for a judge, but also about the basic realities of life, including what life even is
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and when life begins. And as to that question, here was her answer. Listen.
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Now, there's, of course, no excuse for not being able to answer that question. The only sensible
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starting point for life is the moment when you come into existence as a distinct human entity,
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otherwise known as conception. Any other starting point that you might choose will be necessarily
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arbitrary. There's only one solid, firm, sensible starting point, which is conception. But here's
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the thing. If she really doesn't know when life begins, then that's all the more reason to be
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stridently pro-life and anti-abortion. Because by Jackson's own words, as far as she knows,
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abortion might well be the murder of human life. I mean, if she doesn't know when life begins,
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then she cannot say that abortion does not murder, destroy human life. According to her,
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the abortion industry may well have murdered 60 million human lives since Roe v. Wade.
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Now, I know for a fact, not that it may well have murdered 60 million human lives, but that it did.
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But in order to get to the pro-life, anti-abortion conclusion, you don't even need to go that far.
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The maybe, the might, the I don't know, if you're a rational and moral person, that should be enough
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to get you to the anti-abortion conclusion. Because if it's possible, even if it's even possible
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that this mass genocide is happening, if it's a 50-50 toss-up, as she seems to think,
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then the only moral and defensible position to take is one of treating the unborn child as human
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life. To return to an analogy that I've made before, supporting abortion when you don't know
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when life begins, it's like tossing a live grenade into a room when you don't know if there's anybody
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in there or not. You know, it is at best morally incoherent to say, I don't know when life begins,
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but I support abortion anyway. Speaking of incoherent, nothing, of course, can top this.
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Do you agree with Justice Ginsburg that there are physical differences between men and women
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Senator, respectfully, I am not familiar with that particular quote or case, so it's hard for me to
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All right. I'd love to get your opinion on that, and you can submit that.
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Do you interpret Justice Ginsburg's meaning of men and women as male and female?
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Again, because I don't know the case, I don't know how I interpret it. I need to read the whole thing.
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Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
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So you believe the meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can't give me
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Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there's a dispute about
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a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law, and I decide.
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I think we can officially now say that the what is a woman movement has begun. When I started asking
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this question years ago, I dreamed, I honestly dreamed of a moment just like this, where someone
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like this is asked a question like that, very simple, in this sort of context. Because as we
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witnessed there, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down under the very meager weight of one
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extremely simple question. And the irony here is so rich, so grand, that it's almost impossible to
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fully appreciate and wrap your arms around. We've been breathlessly told that we should celebrate
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Jackson's nomination precisely because she's a black woman. But Jackson herself can't even tell
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us what a woman is. How can we celebrate the nomination of a woman if the people telling us to
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celebrate it can't define the word? So they say, celebrate her. Well, why? Because she's a woman,
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damn it. What's that? I don't know. Well, okay, then let me go get the champagne.
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Of course, Jackson's dodge is that she's not a biologist. But saying you can't define woman
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without a biology degree, it's like saying that you can't solve for five plus five without a degree
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in mathematics. It's like saying you can't define the word car if you're not a mechanic, or fish if
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you're not a marine biologist. It's like saying you have to be a world-class artist to explain what
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a crayon is. This is all a bunch of unintelligible, irrational, rambling nonsense.
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Now, is the fact that Jackson doesn't know what a woman is relevant to her job? Well, yes. I would
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think it's quite relevant to a Supreme Court justice and their job to know whether they have a basic grasp
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on reality. And it's relevant for another reason. Because we all know that obviously she knows what
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a woman is. She knows the answer to the question. She's not that stupid. I mean, if she doesn't know,
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then she is, without a doubt, the dumbest Supreme Court nominee in the history of the United States.
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She is the dumbest person to ever even be considered for the job.
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And should be disqualified on those grounds alone.
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But I'm going to give her more credit than that. I don't think she's nearly that stupid. There's no
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way that she could make it as far as she has being that stupid. So no, she knows what a woman is.
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She knows today. She's always known. She'll know tomorrow. But she's so beholden to left-wing
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orthodoxy, so firmly embedded in that world, so committed to it, that she will pretend she doesn't
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know, humiliating herself on the national stage in the process. That's what makes her dangerous on
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the Supreme Court. And yet this question, as I've been insisting for years, is the question
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that single-handedly destroys gender ideology and reveals leftism for what it is.
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And what is it? It's a movement of moral and intellectual chaos. It rejects truth categorically.
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It's a form of madness, ideological madness, madness that you choose to buy into and adopt as your
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worldview. Lunacy turned into a worldview is what leftism is. But most of all, it's flimsy. It's hollow at
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its core. Defeated by the most basic line of inquiry. Destroyed by questions.
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Questions that we just have to have the guts to ask, finally. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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by allowing men to compete in women's sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women,
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making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud. In Florida, we reject
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these lies and recognize Sarasota's Emma Wyant as the best women's swimmer in the 500-yard freestyle.
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And then he has his official declaration from the governor with the seal there, just reiterating
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reiterating again that Emma Wyant, who came in quote-unquote second behind the male
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Leah Thomas, it is in fact the winner of the race. This is, I don't know if I've mentioned this
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before, but maybe I have a time or two, that Governor Ron DeSantis needs to be our guy in 2024.
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He just, we're, we want to lose, you know, as conservatives, if we decide to throw him to the
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side and pick somebody else. He's by far the most effective Republican governor in the country. And
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the other thing, from a political perspective, you know, he understands that something like this
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is a winning issue. He knows what the winning issues are for Republicans.
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I think more and more Republicans are awakening to this. It took them long enough.
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But Governor DeSantis has his finger on the pulse, as it were, and really understands it.
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This is, by far and away, a winning move to say this. And he also says, it's very important,
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the language is important. He didn't say, because I think, you know, if another Republican had done a
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similar thing. And now that he's done this, I'm sure other Republicans will start doing it as well.
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But most Republicans, if they were to do something like this, they would probably say,
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if they would even go as far as this, they would say, by allowing trans women to compete in women's
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sports. But he uses the word man, and that's very important. Taking a stand, saying, no, this is a man,
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and that's it. You know, as I've been saying for so long, this is a winning issue for Republicans.
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It's an important issue. And it's an issue that the Democrats, they don't want to have a conversation
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about it. Now, they want to talk about it. They want to talk at you about gender and about trans
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rights and about all these things. So it's not to say they don't want to talk about it. They obviously
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want to talk about it. They talk about it all the time. They're screaming in our faces about it all the
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time. They want to march through the street, screaming about it into a bullhorn. They love
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talking about it, but they don't want to have a conversation about it. Now, you could point out
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that the Democrats don't really want to have a conversation about anything, and that's true,
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but especially with this. It can't be a back and forth. It's just, here's what we're saying about
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quote unquote trans rights, and that's it. They don't want any kind of back and forth at all.
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They don't want to be asked questions about it. Any questions. I mean, we're going to get to a
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point where it's going to be almost inevitable. As much as the media doesn't want to have to do it,
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you keep this issue at the forefront. What is a woman? You keep that at the forefront as well.
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We're going to get to the debate season in midterms and presidential election where that question,
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what is a woman, is going to come up in the debates. Again, it's not something that any
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moderator would want to ask because they're all on the sides of Democrats and they know how
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embarrassing the question is, but it's going to be so much to the forefront. If we keep pushing it
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there, you have to ask it. And if the moderator doesn't ask it, then Republican, you ask it.
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This is something that Ron DeSantis, if he was in a presidential debate, he would certainly do.
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And they can't, that's a question they can't answer. They don't want to answer any question
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about this. And listen to me when I say this. I mean, any question. When it comes to gender ideology,
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they don't want to and cannot answer literally any question on the subject.
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And that's why our job is to ask those questions.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in Florida, actually, no, this was in California, I guess. Disney employees
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had a walkout over the bill in Florida, the Don't Say Gay bill, which they invented in their heads. The
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bill that doesn't exist, actually doesn't exist in Florida, doesn't exist anywhere. It exists in
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their fevered imaginations. Um, and, uh, here's that walkout. Let's, let's take a listen.
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Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Say gay! Broke. I mean, this is,
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this is just heroism. They're marching down in California, shouting the word gay, say gay, say gay.
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Hey! Haven't read the bill! Haven't read the bill! That's really what the, what the march,
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the chant should be. Um, also Disney related. More people who haven't read the bill. ESPN yesterday.
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Now, I know I talk about, we talk about ESPN going woke. It's like, that's happened a long time ago.
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But they are, they are not relenting. I mean, they have, ESPN has chosen its path
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and will not waver from it and is just going deeper and deeper into this madness. So here
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was a long Twitter thread they posted yesterday. Um, because, you know, if you, if you like sports,
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then you follow ESPN on Twitter, right? Supposedly. Well, you're not going to get sports coverage.
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Instead, you get this. ESPN believes in inclusivity and denounces legislation and actions across the
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United States that infringe on any human rights. We stand with our LGBTQIA plus colleagues, friends,
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families, and fans. But you just love sports. They continue. We'll continue to partner with
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organizations that support the LGBTQIA plus community, be accountable where we fall short
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of expectations and never stop telling stories about LGBTQIA plus athletes like the ones we'll be
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sharing in this thread. And then, uh, they go into a long list of examples. Transgender kids in the
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U.S. are stuck in the middle of the ongoing debate over science and assumption, sex and gender
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identity, politics, and policy. Uh, this is the story of Becky, Stephanie, and Chris, three athletes
00:25:58.480
who say they just want to play. And then there's an article that's titled why some states are sending
00:26:04.020
transgender athletes to the sidelines. That of course is not true for the umpteenth time.
00:26:10.240
There are no states that are doing that. There are no states that are sending transgender
00:26:14.400
athletes to the sideline. Uh, there's no state that has passed any law saying that if you identify
00:26:18.980
as quote unquote transgender, you cannot compete in sports. That doesn't exist. Nowhere in America
00:26:23.700
at any point has any quote unquote trans person been told you're not allowed to compete in sports.
00:26:29.300
What has happened and what is happening in certain states is that they're saying to the trans people,
00:26:33.940
you in fact are not special. So you're going to be subject to the same rules as everybody else
00:26:38.720
and everybody else. They, they, they're going to be divided up based on biological sex determining
00:26:46.100
which, which, uh, you know, which league they compete in. Um, and so you're just, you are going
00:26:53.540
to be subject to the same rules as everybody. This is equality, which is what they say they want.
00:26:59.660
Well, I guess I'll correct myself. Um, it's not what they say they want anymore.
00:27:07.880
They've abandoned that. Now they talk about equity. And as we've talked about equity and
00:27:12.880
equality are actually two entirely separate things. All right, here's a, let's move to this. Joe Biden
00:27:19.300
with an accidental, you get these every once in a while and, uh, maybe increasingly so with Joe Biden
00:27:24.500
because he doesn't partially do the dimension, everything. He doesn't have the filter.
00:27:28.480
Like a lot of politicians do. So here's a moment of accidental honesty from Joe Biden. Listen,
00:27:34.700
you know, we are at an inflection point, I believe in the world economy, not just the world economy in
00:27:40.740
the world. It occurs every three or four generations as one of them, as the, uh, one of the top military
00:27:47.520
people said to me in a secure meeting the other day, 60, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946.
00:27:55.420
And, uh, since then we established a liberal world order and that hadn't happened in a long while.
00:28:02.560
A lot of people dying, but nowhere near the chaos. And now is a time when things are shifting. We're
00:28:08.120
going to, there's going to be a new world order out there and we've got to lead it and we've got to
00:28:14.640
He doesn't just say it once. He says that he repeats it. This is a liberal world order, a new world
00:28:21.040
order. Uh, that's his own words. You know, anybody else were to say that and accuse the left of
00:28:31.280
wanting to establish a new world order, then it's a great conspiracy theory and you'd probably get
00:28:35.080
banned from Twitter and YouTube or whatever for saying it. But, uh, here he is saying it himself.
00:28:39.020
Of course, the new world order is, was, was never a, even a theory. There might be a conspiracy.
00:28:46.600
There's certainly an element of conspiracy to it. Um, I think a lot of it is an unspoken conspiracy.
00:28:51.900
That's the thing about the so-called conspiracies on the left. They are engaged in lots of conspiracies
00:28:57.820
and all of the most powerful institutions in the country are in a way conspiring amongst themselves,
00:29:03.220
but they don't need to, most of the time they don't need to meet in smoky rooms and, uh, and hatch their
00:29:10.960
evil plans. They're just all sort of on the same page automatically. Their, their ideology puts them
00:29:17.900
on the same page and, uh, they want the same things, but the idea that they want to reshuffle the world
00:29:25.540
order. Well, of course they do. That's incredibly obvious. Um, it's in fact that a new world order,
00:29:35.880
if anything, it understates what they're trying to do. They're not just trying to reorder things
00:29:40.600
within the world. They're trying to change reality itself. They're, they, they want a new reality
00:29:47.400
order or something like that. They want, they want to fundamentally change the realities of the
00:29:53.660
universe, which cannot be changed, but that's what they want to. And if they cannot change the basic
00:29:58.060
realities of life, then it's, then the next option is to, um, indoctrinate, you know, a country full
00:30:06.820
of people and especially generation, younger generations of people who don't recognize basic
00:30:10.920
realities. So it's pretty clear that that's what they want to do. All right. Um, moving along pretty
00:30:17.360
fast. There's a lot to cover. I want to, I want to get to as much of this as I can. And I also have to
00:30:21.380
mention this yesterday. We taught, we announced the, um, unveiling of Jeremy's razors, uh, which is
00:30:28.400
our response to Harry's razors, which we used to advertise on all the shows. And then, um, they,
00:30:36.820
they got wind of the fact that Michael Knowles stated that men are men and women are women because
00:30:42.940
one Twitter account with two followers said, Hey, did you know that they believe this? Meanwhile,
00:30:48.080
it's like all of our shows talk about that all the time. And Harry's pretended that they had no idea.
00:30:54.020
And then one Twitter follow Twitter account with two followers says, but brings it up to them. And
00:30:59.200
then they denounce us and, uh, say they want nothing to do with us. We launched Jeremy's razors. Um,
00:31:05.080
and here, here from the daily wire now, it says in a statement given to spy.com, Jeff Rader,
00:31:09.360
co-founder and co-CEO of Harry's maintain that, um, they believed in free speech, but we're drawing the
00:31:14.720
line at hate. They said in a statement, we created Harry's to offer better shaving and grooming
00:31:19.980
products for everyone. We believe deeply in free speech, but draw the line at hate. We'll continue
00:31:25.600
to support our customers and community with kindness and compassion. Uh, spy.com added a
00:31:32.960
spokesperson from the brand continued by saying that Harry's does advertise across various media,
00:31:37.020
including the conservative Fox news. However, the brand does not associate with entities
00:31:40.800
that engage in or endorse hate speech. And the hate speech here again, is just that men are men
00:31:48.280
and women are women. In fact, what it, what it was specifically, I think was, uh, Michael Knowles
00:31:53.480
talking to, I believe he's on Candace Owens show. He's talking with Candace and was discussing the fact
00:31:59.040
that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. I think that was the specific thing, which is all related to
00:32:05.140
the fact that men are men and women are women. Um, and the idea that, that people who are deluded
00:32:11.680
about this, who are confused about what sex they are, the idea that that's a mental illness,
00:32:16.500
that was the psychiatric community's consensus. If you care a lot of, we always hear about the
00:32:21.740
consensus of the scientific community. Well, that was the consensus view of psychiatrists and
00:32:29.320
the psychiatric community up until very recently when all of a sudden they changed it and they
00:32:34.780
said, Oh, it's, it's not a mental illness. Um, you know, what they, the way that they flipped
00:32:40.540
around is that they said, okay, uh, if somebody thinks that they're born in the wrong body,
00:32:46.220
the problem, it's not their, the problem is not their mental perception. It's not that they're
00:32:50.820
mentally diluted because that's what they were saying before. That's a mental illness. If you think
00:32:56.360
that you're born in the wrong body or you're, you're a man, but you think you're a woman for
00:33:00.360
decades, it was, okay, that's a mental illness. Um, now they say, well, the problem is just the
00:33:06.960
feelings, the dysphoric feelings that you get from this mismatch between your quote, gender identity
00:33:13.220
and your sex. And so we have to treat the feelings. And so often the way that you treat the feelings,
00:33:19.100
it turns out is through hormones and through surgery and everything else. So that's the switch that
00:33:22.980
they made a very significant switch, really reversing course entirely. But the interesting
00:33:31.040
thing is that when they made this switch, they, there was never any scientific explanation given
00:33:36.380
for it. This was a political change. And we've seen this from the psychiatric industry many times
00:33:42.660
where they make changes in the way that they approach certain proclivities and certain delusions
00:33:49.340
and so forth. And, and they don't explain it on scientific grounds. It's only on political
00:33:53.480
grounds that they make the change. But all this is hate speech now. It's all hate speech. And he
00:33:57.420
has no interest. And Harry's has no interest in anyone who believes anything that I'm saying right
00:34:01.300
now, which is why you can get Jeremy's razors instead. Right. I also want to play this for you.
00:34:05.020
Kid Rock was interviewed by Tucker Carlson a few days ago, and he said something about cancel
00:34:09.600
culture that I actually thought was pretty important. So I want to play that for you. Listen.
00:34:14.040
Why haven't you been canceled? Like people aren't allowed to say what they think you are.
00:34:19.400
I am uncancellable. What's that? Because I don't give a ****. And I'm not in bed with any big
00:34:25.960
corporate things. At the end of the day, there's nobody I'm beholden to no record companies,
00:34:29.880
no corporate interests, no nothing. And you can't cancel me. I love it when they try. I'm like,
00:34:35.640
yeah, why aren't there more artists like that? Because they're in bed with record companies and,
00:34:41.260
you know, corporate deals and structures at every level. And, you know, it's and if someone
00:34:47.160
finds a way to get me a little bit here and there, I'll find another way around it.
00:34:50.360
You never see artists talk like that. They seem very easy to intimidate.
00:34:55.860
At what point did you realize, like, you're just not going to be intimidated?
00:35:00.040
Day one. Really? I think I crawled out of the womb with both middle fingers in the air.
00:35:04.240
So, he's right that there are, it's an important point, that there are two ways to get cancelled.
00:35:14.560
And it's really, there's really only two. There are only two ways for it to happen.
00:35:18.840
Two kind of categories. It's just, unfortunately, a great many people fall into one of these categories
00:35:24.840
or both. So, either in order to be cancelled, you have to be beholden to corporate interests
00:35:31.220
as a great many people are. I mean, if you work for a big giant corporation, then in that way,
00:35:39.640
you're beholden to them because you work for them. Through no fault of your own, I mean,
00:35:44.020
you have to have a job. But so, that's one way. If you're kind of at the mercy of giant corporations,
00:35:50.320
then that's one way to get cancelled. The other way is if you care what the mob thinks about you.
00:35:56.380
And that's why we see people who wouldn't seem to really be beholden to anyone. There's no reason
00:36:02.040
why they need to be beholden. Rich and famous people got all the money in the world. And
00:36:06.260
even if they get cancelled by corporations, they're not really cancelled. They're still
00:36:10.480
going to be rich. They're still going to be famous. They could go out on their own and do their own
00:36:13.100
thing. But they still apologize and crumble and everything because, although they're not really
00:36:18.580
beholden to corporate interests, or maybe they are a little bit, the bigger issue is that they
00:36:21.800
care what the mob thinks. So, either you care what the mob thinks, or you'll be beholden to
00:36:26.600
corporate interests, or both. And for a lot of people, it's both. Especially a lot of celebrities
00:36:32.400
and so on. The answer is both there. So, if you want to be uncancellable, that's the way to do it.
00:36:38.580
Now, unfortunately, lots of people are not in the spot that Kid Rock is in, where you could be
00:36:46.360
wealthy and all of that. And, you know, you don't really, you're not, you don't need to
00:36:50.860
go to any corporation or anyone looking for a job. You can kind of do your own thing. So,
00:36:55.340
not everyone's in that spot. But at least one thing that everybody can adopt
00:36:59.400
is the second part. Which gives you a, some cover, anyway, in cancel culture. Which is to stop
00:37:09.460
caring what the mob thinks to begin with. A lot of the cancellations that happen, it's really a,
00:37:16.360
it's a, it's a, a self-cancellation. The mob gives the gun to the canceled person
00:37:22.600
and just convinces them to pull the trigger against themselves, metaphorically.
00:37:28.860
And, you know, eventually we get to the point where, with cancel culture, where, where it's not
00:37:32.040
so metaphorical. And that, that happens quite often. So, you get, you got to get to a point where
00:37:39.800
it just doesn't mean anything to you. And you realize that, first of all, all these labels that are
00:37:45.720
thrown at you, anytime you cancel, it's always going to be under the guise of racism, sexism,
00:37:51.080
transphobia, whatever. And you get to the point where you realize that these labels don't mean
00:37:57.900
anything at all. I mean, after all, they're being thrown at you by people who, as we saw,
00:38:04.040
even on the Supreme Court, or who want to be in the Supreme Court, can't, can't define a word like
00:38:08.100
woman. So, they certainly, an abstract kind of concept like transphobia, that doesn't mean
00:38:14.320
anything. Now, that really doesn't mean anything. So, who cares if you're called that?
00:38:22.260
And most of the people in the mob who are coming after you and attacking you and insulting you,
00:38:26.360
they don't actually care that much. You don't mean anything to them. This is all a game to them.
00:38:33.220
This is a power game, power struggle. They want to impose their will on you.
00:38:39.800
Not much different from the bully in the playground. You know, it's a playground bully mentality.
00:38:45.780
But nationwide, formed into a mob, ideologically driven.
00:38:50.940
All right, one other thing before we get to the comment section,
00:38:52.780
maybe you've seen this clip already, but we've got to play it on the show. Somehow I've skipped
00:38:57.540
over it. Over the last two days, I've skipped over it. But, you know, Kamala Harris, she has these
00:39:03.440
moments of real insight that I find personally inspiring. And here was another one of those
00:39:11.620
moments. She's getting made fun of for this, but I think she really makes a good point. Listen.
00:39:16.220
The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance
00:39:24.720
of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it,
00:39:31.480
there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires,
00:39:37.780
what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time
00:39:43.960
when we think about a day in the life of our children.
00:39:50.500
The thing about the passage of time is that when time passes, it tends to pass. And there is,
00:39:58.340
in effect, a passage, which is of time. And the time, what it's doing is it's passing, hence,
00:40:07.620
therefore, the passage. And when you think about it, when you think about it, the passage of time
00:40:16.100
is really a passage of time in which there is a passage of time. And the time is passing all the
00:40:29.240
time. Every time. Great stuff from Camilla Harris. I have a, I actually have a lot of respect. Maybe
00:40:38.400
I shouldn't, but, um, the, the one thing that I do respect about some politicians anyway, is, um,
00:40:46.800
if you're a really good BS artist, because that, that's a talent in its own right to be really good
00:40:53.620
BS artist. And the, the ability to stand up in front of people and say nothing at all, but sound
00:41:01.380
like you're saying something that is actually a skill. And it's a skill that unfortunately can
00:41:06.860
take you really far in life. As we've seen, it can take you all the way to the, to the, to the
00:41:09.980
white house. But with Camilla Harris, she doesn't, she's a, she's a BS artist without the artist part
00:41:15.120
of it. It's just, it's just full BS. And she's not, she, she thinks that she's good at this
00:41:20.100
and she's not. And that's what makes it so difficult to watch and listen to, but also
00:41:24.540
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00:42:01.780
Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.
00:42:12.880
Okay. We'll do just one video comment. This one mercifully short. Let's play clip 23.
00:42:20.680
Hey, Matt, I just saw you on Candace. You're totally right. All water tastes the same. I drink
00:42:26.780
tap water. If I need a water bottle, I drink the Walmart brand because all water tastes the same.
00:42:33.200
Also, she said there at the very end of her show that you're often wrong and that we should think
00:42:39.380
about that. I know we previously declared war on Ben Shapiro for not swearing allegiance to the
00:42:44.280
sweet baby gang. Is this war on Candace? Sweet baby gang for life. I mean, unfortunately it is,
00:42:51.720
but this is not a war that I started. I mean, she declared war on the sweet baby gang by name.
00:42:58.160
And I have to say, look, what I did talk about the show a couple of days ago, the, the water taste
00:43:03.140
challenge that I, it was my idea. I challenged Candace this because, because she, to her credit
00:43:09.680
was able to get Dasani water trending on Twitter over the weekend, uh, talking about how terrible
00:43:16.340
Dasani is. And then I discovered much to my bewilderment that, that this is a, this is a
00:43:21.580
common sentiment among people. Like all kinds of people pretend that they feel very strongly that
00:43:27.100
Dasani water tastes terrible. And it's, it sparks this whole other conversation about what's your
00:43:30.420
favorite brand of bottled water. And everyone's pretending to have a favorite brand. Like they
00:43:34.540
can tell the difference. And my point all along was that actually all water tastes the same. This
00:43:38.400
is all psychosomatic. It's a, it's a placebo effect. You think you can tell the difference,
00:43:42.460
but you can't actually. And so that's why I challenged Candace Owens and said, let's have taste
00:43:47.120
tests, blind taste test. And, uh, and we'll see if you can actually tell the difference. Like that's
00:43:52.720
the best way to go about this. And I did say initially that I want to meet in a neutral playing
00:43:58.180
field, which is the break room. And we'll do this taste test and we'll see who wins, you know?
00:44:02.540
And it ended up being on her show instead. Okay. You know, it's not exactly a neutral playing
00:44:06.400
field, but I'll go along with it. What I will say, this is all I'm going to say about it. This
00:44:09.560
is all I'm going to say. Um, if you watch that segment on Candace's show, which you, which you
00:44:17.140
should, you should watch the whole show, but you should watch that segment as well at the very end.
00:44:20.460
Um, you know, I think the most important segment on, on her show on any show this week is,
00:44:25.660
is, is what we did with, uh, with the water tasting test. Um, but I did win without any
00:44:35.380
question whatsoever. It ended up being a, a somewhat longer segment than you might argue
00:44:42.040
it needed to be. Okay. It was a, it was, there was quite a dispute that, that occurred. Not all
00:44:48.600
of that makes it into the final product. Cause you got to cut things down for time a little bit,
00:44:51.680
but all I'm going to say is that we, we did do at least one clean take here where we each try
00:44:59.440
that we had five cups of water and we didn't know what was in it. And we each tried it. Of course,
00:45:05.280
I, I always said all along, I can't tell the difference. So I couldn't tell the difference
00:45:07.460
and then she guessed and she guessed wrong and she, and, and she wasn't able to tell the difference
00:45:11.420
either. So I did win whatever camera tricks they come up with. I don't know, but I did win.
00:45:16.880
And so I'm waiting on my $100 from Candace Owens. And I mean, gas is expensive. Like,
00:45:26.640
I don't know how I'm going to get home today. I need that a hundred dollars to put gas in my car.
00:45:30.600
And I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm waiting on her to come through. All right. This is a from Justin Graham
00:45:35.900
says total boss moved by the daily wire to pull a David hog and try to beat the enemy at their own
00:45:40.400
game. But unlike hog, Jeremy's razors company will actually be successful given daily wires track
00:45:44.580
record. Well, I mean, that understates it. Yeah. David hog decided he wanted to start his own
00:45:49.100
pillow company to compete with my pillow. But I think with David hog, he never actually,
00:45:52.780
he just announced that he wanted to do it. And the pillow company collapsed before it even started.
00:45:57.380
So it was a failed, he might be the first person in history to ever have a failed pillow company
00:46:02.840
that never existed to begin with. Um, this is no, this, this is all, this is very real. We actually
00:46:07.440
did launch it and sold a whole bunch of razors by the way. So you can go to, uh, I hate harrys.com and
00:46:12.460
get your own. Um, let's see. Uh, a Miller time says, Matt, last week, my son came home from camp
00:46:22.120
and said he made a new friend that he thought was a boy, but it was a girl that liked to be called a
00:46:27.080
boy. What would your response be to your son from context? My son is nine. The girl's 11. Uh,
00:46:32.140
why would be telling my son in a hurry? Very, very, without using any clever language, being very upfront
00:46:38.800
and direct and straightforward and saying, um, well, you said, this is a girl that likes to be
00:46:44.120
called a boy. You say to your son, um, that is a girl who is confused and we feel very sorry for her
00:46:52.580
that she's confused, but she's a girl. And we, we, we refer to her as a girl. We treat her as a girl
00:46:58.620
because that's what she is, no matter what she says. Unfortunately, she's very confused.
00:47:01.980
And then the next thing that I would be doing, unfortunately you have to do this is, um, I would
00:47:07.680
be doing everything I can to strongly discourage my child from spending a lot of time with this
00:47:14.800
girl. And, uh, and the reason for that nothing, you know, it's, it's, it's not an attack on the
00:47:22.280
girl herself. Cause I feel sorry for the girl. She's only 11. She's a victim in this scenario,
00:47:26.900
but we know, and we've heard many times, and there's so many examples of this, this social
00:47:32.460
contagion aspect of, uh, with, with gender ideology and gender confusion, that it spreads
00:47:38.160
like, like a physical virus. And so you have to do everything you can as, as a parent to
00:47:43.820
shield your kids from that, especially at this age, especially at the age of nine, you know, um,
00:47:51.040
very prone at that age to confusion of all sorts. And so I think you got to do everything you can
00:47:55.320
to shield your kid, but also be very, very direct with them about, about the truth.
00:48:02.860
And, you know, and I certainly wouldn't get in, I wouldn't bother getting into anything about,
00:48:06.460
oh, we got to be, be respectful. And that, you know, it's the most important thing here.
00:48:11.880
It's of dire importance to your child and to the rest of his life that you make 100% clear what the
00:48:20.640
truth is and that that truth is not going to change no matter what anyone says.
00:48:25.320
Um, let's see. Jennifer says, thank you, Matt, for articulating the fundamental issue with these
00:48:32.720
so-called mental disease diagnoses. Many people think they're clinically depressed due to a chemical
00:48:37.660
imbalance when in reality they're clinically imbalanced due to embracing their depressive
00:48:42.480
modes. Get off the couch, get some sunshine. Life is full of ups and downs. Uh, get over it. Yeah. I mean,
00:48:49.360
look, I mean, the, the get over it part, it is true. You know, you say it, you phrase it like that
00:48:56.220
and you're going to feed into this thing that you're being dismissive or whatever. And, um, uh,
00:49:01.320
and, and, and people aren't going to appreciate that. And it is true that someone who's in the grip
00:49:06.600
of despair, which is what depression is. It's despair. Um, it's never quite as simple as just
00:49:14.800
get over it. However, the rest of what you said before that, that's why I would just, I keep the
00:49:20.560
get over it phrase out because you don't need that. Get off the couch, get some ups, get some
00:49:24.640
sunshine, you know, get some exercise. That part is also going to be seen as dismissive, but it is
00:49:29.020
not because that is actually true. This is a, this is just a fact that things like sunshine, things like
00:49:33.940
exercise, movement, you know, doing things, just getting out, like try not to think about it as much,
00:49:38.920
getting actively involved in life. That does make a huge difference.
00:49:44.500
Even to someone who's in the grip of, of unthinkable despair. I'm not saying it's going
00:49:49.540
to automatically, I'm not saying you walk outside and it's a sunny day and it immediately goes away,
00:49:53.780
but it will make a big difference. This is a psychological fact. It's a scientific fact as well.
00:49:59.820
Um, and the fact that we're not allowed to talk about this or acknowledge it, acknowledge that
00:50:03.240
things like exercise, um, help to cure depression. Like we're not, it's, it's just a fact,
00:50:08.080
but we're not allowed to acknowledge it because it's seen somehow as, uh, well dismissive, which
00:50:12.720
it isn't. Um, Max Winter says when I was a kid, even my parents noticed that I had a lot of
00:50:19.140
symptoms of ADHD. I was easily distracted. I had trouble completing things on my own.
00:50:23.920
I was, uh, I was always very active and had a very active imagination to the point where my
00:50:28.000
parents thought I was on some part of the autism spectrum, yet they never chose to take me to a
00:50:32.180
doctor and have me diagnosed with any of this since they knew this was just normal behavior for a
00:50:35.840
child, especially a boy. And they knew that whatever kind of help I would be given was just
00:50:40.720
a medication. That's it. Well, I think your parents made the right decision. And, you know, the thing
00:50:44.920
is you hear from parents talking about their own kids and with ADHD in kids, it vast majority of
00:50:52.100
cases, it is going to be boys. And that's something that maybe we should stop and think about right
00:50:56.640
there. If this is a mental illness, that's entirely in the brain and it's about chemical imbalances or
00:51:03.140
whatever, then why it seems really odd that it happens to afflict boys. Most of the time,
00:51:07.760
it just so happens to afflict the kinds of people who are naturally energetic, naturally have more
00:51:15.220
trouble focusing, especially in a public school environment where they're being told to sit at a,
00:51:18.900
at a, at a desk for seven hours a day and do busy work. That's just not, that's actually not,
00:51:24.840
it's not a natural environment that is conducive to children thriving, especially boys.
00:51:31.920
Um, but what you hear from parents is, uh, you know, when you say this kind of thing,
00:51:38.580
they'll say, Oh, well, you don't understand because of, you know, my son, yeah, he's energetic
00:51:43.520
and he has trouble focusing, but it's, it's way worse than what you're talking about. It's,
00:51:47.760
it's, it's, it's like to another level. And that's why he has ADHD. First of all, how do you know?
00:51:53.220
I mean, you're just assuming this is, this is your one experience, you know, you have maybe one son,
00:51:58.220
maybe two or whatever, but, but, um, and, and you know, with your child that he has a lot of
00:52:04.480
trouble focusing, you're just, you're just kind of assuming that it's so much worse than what
00:52:07.780
anybody else deals with. Um, I don't, I don't think that that, I don't, I don't think there's any
00:52:13.080
basis for that assumption. And that's, that's one of the fundamental problems with the ADHD thing
00:52:20.720
is you break it down. You're talking about attention deficit. There's a, someone has a
00:52:26.200
deficit of attention, has a deficient ability to pay attention. Well, in order to make that
00:52:32.240
determination about someone, you first have to know how much attention they're supposed to have.
00:52:39.800
What's the baseline in order to know that they are deficient of it. How in the world do you measure
00:52:45.860
that? And then it complicates matters when you realize that especially with kids and especially
00:52:51.460
with boys and especially in the public school environment, the baseline for their attentional
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The comedian Jeff Foxworthy was trending on social media last night after the release of
00:53:49.520
his Netflix special called Good Old Days. From what I understand, though I haven't watched the
00:53:53.480
set, the humor is very safe, staying away from anything that might be considered political or
00:53:57.460
topical. Apparently he doesn't even joke about rednecks anymore, according to reports anyway,
00:54:02.080
which, which I hope are mistaken reports. But for whatever reason, one brief and rather routine
00:54:07.320
bit from the special was being discussed last night. And I, you know, I made it onto my radar
00:54:11.660
because I saw it on social media and, um, anyway, take a listen, but I had a great childhood.
00:54:18.060
You know, I got, I played every sport for the recreation center. My parents didn't make me pick
00:54:24.100
one sport because they thought I was going to play professional, whatever I played every sport. And it
00:54:29.820
was weird back then because if you wanted a trophy, you had to finish in first place.
00:54:40.780
Now it's pretty standard fair complaining about participation trophies. It's a, it's cliche,
00:54:44.900
but we've all done it. And for good reason, you know, I can still remember the first participation
00:54:48.080
trophy that I ever received at the age of like seven, six or seven after a little league season
00:54:52.840
in which we didn't win a single game. And I'm not sure that we even had one base hit between us
00:54:57.220
on the whole team. And, um, I was brought to the trophy ceremony and I assumed that my team would be
00:55:02.120
sitting there in shame, watching as the better teams are awarded for their achievements.
00:55:06.220
The best team in the league was, was very impressive. They actually had four base hits
00:55:09.780
that season. So those MLB caliber teams did all receive their trophies, but then confusingly,
00:55:15.920
we were called to the stage also, and not to be locked in stockade. So the better teams could
00:55:20.040
throw tomatoes at us and mock us for our failures as I first thought might happen, but to give us our
00:55:25.280
own trophies, the dreaded participation trophies. We were awarded just for showing up, even though we
00:55:31.060
barely did that. I mean, the thing about baseball is that there's, there's nothing about it, which
00:55:35.480
requires you to work hard. It's not like completing a marathon. You know, I could almost agree with some
00:55:40.740
form of participation trophy for completing a marathon just because the mere act of doing it
00:55:46.320
and finishing it is an achievement in its own right. But in baseball, if you want, you can sit out in the
00:55:53.500
outfield in a lawn chair and just watch the clouds go by, which is basically how I spent nine years of
00:55:58.240
little league minus the lawn chair. It's absurd to award us for participating in something so leisurely
00:56:03.940
as that. And I saw that even then at the age of a six or seven. So I therefore understand why so many
00:56:10.040
people for so many years have complained about participation trophies. I also see how these
00:56:14.360
trophies are symbolic in a bigger sort of way, representing the coddled, self-congratulatory,
00:56:19.300
entitled, lazy, self-esteem focused attitude that infects modern society. And yet there's a point
00:56:24.620
about all of this and participation trophies in specifically, which has always bothered me.
00:56:31.820
So now I'm using this one little Jeff Foxworthy joke as an excuse to make it. Here's the point.
00:56:36.260
And it's very simple. So often boomers like Foxworthy are the ones complaining about participation
00:56:43.020
trophies and labeling my generation, the millennials, the participation trophy generation. And yet not to
00:56:50.200
split hairs here, boomers, but well, you're the ones who gave us the trophies. You invented the concept
00:56:56.960
or at least popularized it. It's not like we at the age of seven staged some sort of mutiny at the
00:57:02.140
trophy ceremony and forced you to give us trophies at gunpoint. No, you came up with the concept of
00:57:07.380
participation trophies and gave them to us. And then 20 years later, you look around and say,
00:57:11.440
these damned kids and their participation trophies. Do you see the problem here?
00:57:15.100
Why did the boomers give out participation trophies? Well, I mean, why did they coddle their
00:57:21.660
children in so many ways? Why did they raise their kids to cherish self-regard and self-esteem above
00:57:26.600
everything else? Why did they tell us that we're all precious little diamonds who are perfect and
00:57:31.080
above reproach in every way? Well, before we talk about why, we just need to reiterate that
00:57:36.540
this is what they did. We didn't come up with any of this stuff ourselves. As for why,
00:57:43.260
part of it is the collapse of meaning tied to the collapse of faith, which left a hole in the
00:57:47.820
heart of our culture and in each individual, which for decades now we've been trying to fill
00:57:52.140
with self-love, self-affirmation, our own quote-unquote truth. But on a more psychological
00:57:57.820
level, the boomers were also prolific divorcers. They sparked an epidemic of divorce. I mean,
00:58:03.900
boomers are getting divorced. You think it's bad now? Talk about the height of the boomer divorce
00:58:09.640
epidemic, tearing families apart, turning their children into latchkey kids who spent all day in
00:58:15.160
government school, came home to empty houses while both parents worked, and were raised by the TV.
00:58:20.140
Much of the coddling and spoiling was out of guilt. It was a form of overcompensation.
00:58:24.760
I went to school with a whole lot of kids from broken families, and almost all of them
00:58:28.220
had nicer toys than I did. Part of that is because their parents valued material wealth above everything
00:58:34.600
else in life. And part of that is because their parents were constantly trying to buy their
00:58:38.560
affection. The point here is that whether you're talking about participation trophies or anything
00:58:43.360
else, when you complain about your children's generation, you're complaining about yourself.
00:58:50.860
Because a new generation does not fall out of the sky. They aren't actually delivered by
00:58:56.200
storks. They don't climb out of tombs like zombies or mummies. They don't materialize out of thin air.
00:59:02.100
Despite how some people in my generation might physically appear, we're also not orcs dug out
00:59:07.480
of the ground like in Lord of the Rings. Generations are raised by the generation before them.
00:59:13.380
They're conditioned, for better or worse. They enter into a world that they didn't create.
00:59:19.600
So much about them is ultimately decided by the people who came before them. That's not an excuse.
00:59:24.840
It's just a simple, basic fact of human life. And it's a fact that boomers, as a group,
00:59:30.480
have never been willing to accept. You rarely see boomers look around at their children and
00:59:36.660
grandchildren and say, my God, where did we go wrong? You rarely see that. Instead, they talk
00:59:44.040
about this like they had nothing to do with it. Like they, in fact, are guilty. They, in fact,
00:59:51.020
are victims of the culture that they created. That level of introspection saying, where did we go
01:00:00.380
wrong? Seems to exceed their grasp in many cases. It also exceeds the grasp of my generation, just as
01:00:05.660
it will for the generation after us, generation Z and the ones after them. Self, you know, self
01:00:11.720
introspection is a lost art. Self-obsession we have. We're obsessed with ourselves, but actually,
01:00:21.120
you know, thinking critically about ourselves and our own choices and our own lives. That's
01:00:26.720
something that almost nobody in this country seems able to do. And this is why we have to face these
01:00:32.460
hard truths. There is a generation of children right now who collectively at the current rate are
01:00:38.100
doomed to become something really quite monstrous as they grow older. There will be exceptions. I'm
01:00:43.500
determined that my own kids will be among the exceptions, but as a group, the results are not
01:00:47.800
going to be pretty unless there's a drastic cultural sea change right now, something I'm not holding my
01:00:53.060
breath for. And then when our kids' generation, the generation of kids right now, when they come of age,
01:01:01.020
you know, those of us who are older, we're going to survey the damage and scratch our heads and say,
01:01:04.780
how could this have happened? Well, it happened because we happened. That's how it happened.
01:01:11.340
Time to take ownership. And for this reason, Jeff Foxworthy is canceled. I had to cancel someone,
01:01:20.080
so it comes back down and around to a Jeff Foxworthy. Kind of collateral damage in all of this, but
01:01:24.520
what can I do? We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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