The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 915 - My Global Journey To Answer The Ultimate Question

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, over the last year, I've been on a secret journey spanning the globe,

00:00:05.040 pursuing an answer to the ultimate question, the question that defines a generation.

00:00:08.740 Today, I'm finally ready to begin to reveal what I uncovered. We'll talk about that.

00:00:13.120 Also, the Supreme Court hearings for Kentonji Brown-Jackson continued yesterday with Democrats

00:00:17.620 and Jackson herself lashing out indignantly that anyone would dare question her stellar

00:00:23.040 judicial record of going easy on child sex predators. Plus, Home Depot goes woke.

00:00:27.840 Democrats push to extend the student loan payment freeze, though they can't really explain why.

00:00:32.880 And even though men and women are exactly equal and no different at all,

00:00:36.380 the Army has still lowered its fitness standards, again, to include more women.

00:00:41.160 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.660 I think it was about four years ago when I first posed the question, what is a woman?

00:02:05.420 I had started focusing on the scourge of gender ideology years before that and argued against it in a million different ways, 0.86

00:02:11.900 making a million different arguments in a million words or more,

00:02:15.340 and somehow over those several years, it never occurred to me to ask the most basic question of all.

00:02:20.660 I had heard the phrase, trans women are women, so many times, and yet for so long, I never thought to respond,

00:02:27.280 what does that mean? What do you think a woman is? What are you trying to say? 1.00

00:02:31.800 Four years ago, for whatever reason, it finally dawned on me, I realized I didn't need a million words, only four.

00:02:36.660 What is a woman? Now, once I realized that this is the question, really the only question we need to ask,

00:02:42.880 the question that pulls down the whole edifice of gender ideology, I started asking it, and asking it more, asking it over and over again.

00:02:52.340 I asked it for years on social media, in speeches and interviews.

00:02:56.040 It was clear that the proponents of gender ideology, the architects of the current madness, which is gripping our society, 1.00

00:03:01.660 were not going to answer the question, because they can't, and they had elected instead to simply ignore me,

00:03:08.020 which was easy enough.

00:03:09.380 So, I reached a point where I realized that either I could keep shouting into the abyss,

00:03:15.480 that's definitely an option, I do it all the time,

00:03:17.620 or simply give it up and move on with my life, that I can't do, I can't really give anything up,

00:03:22.540 or I could take drastic action,

00:03:25.580 and I chose the latter option.

00:03:26.960 And if they wouldn't answer my question, I decided that I would force their hand.

00:03:31.380 And so, I hatched an elaborate scheme that, over the past year, has taken me across the globe

00:03:36.160 and got me into the room with some of the leading, quote-unquote, experts in the field.

00:03:41.280 I talked to politicians, academics, pediatricians, psychiatrists, trans activists, surgeons, and many, many more.

00:03:48.360 I went everywhere from San Francisco to the African wilderness.

00:03:52.140 And yes, I did all of this essentially because nobody on the left would respond to my tweet.

00:03:58.920 An overreaction, perhaps.

00:04:00.440 But I don't believe in proportional responses, as you've probably noticed by now.

00:04:04.360 I've had to keep this project secret for a year.

00:04:06.860 Finally, we can announce it, though.

00:04:08.460 We announced it today, and there's still so much that I can't say,

00:04:12.220 and that will be revealed in the near future.

00:04:14.760 We'll have a full trailer for it in the coming weeks.

00:04:16.980 But for now, here's a very quick sneak peek.

00:04:20.020 Watch.

00:04:22.140 I have traveled all over the world for the past year asking one simple question.

00:04:30.460 What is a woman? 1.00

00:04:38.120 What is a woman? 1.00

00:04:39.440 What is it?

00:04:40.200 What is it?

00:04:40.900 I don't know.

00:04:42.420 People are laughing. 0.99

00:04:43.320 Is that a dumb question? 0.98

00:04:45.320 I've been asking everybody this, and almost nobody can answer it. 0.99

00:04:48.640 What is a woman? 1.00

00:04:49.820 What is a woman? 1.00

00:04:51.140 That's a great question.

00:04:54.600 If one person could tell me what a woman is. 0.99

00:04:57.360 Congressman, thank you for being here.

00:04:59.200 I think this interview is over.

00:05:00.840 Let's try off the cameras.

00:05:01.740 I just wanted to know, what is a woman? 1.00

00:05:03.000 And you're not going to find out.

00:05:05.780 It's not a complicated question.

00:05:07.480 Now, that congressman very much regretted inviting me to his office for a sit-down.

00:05:18.800 He was, you know, not the only interview subject to regret their life decisions.

00:05:22.620 I can tell you that.

00:05:23.900 But I can't tell you much more than that when it comes to specifics.

00:05:27.400 But I can tell you that all I did was ask the most basic questions.

00:05:33.600 If gender ideology was going to collapse on camera, and it did in spectacular fashion, I wanted it to collapse under the weight of its own incoherence. 0.96

00:05:44.500 I wanted the allegedly smart, highly credentialed advocates of this stuff to just bury themselves, and they did too. 0.97

00:05:51.360 One line in scripture that I return to in my head over and over again as we film this project is Romans 1.22, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 0.97

00:06:01.800 I watched the wise make fools of themselves over and over again.

00:06:06.400 In fact, much of the real wisdom that I did encounter, and I encountered some, you'll see that in the film also, came from simple, normal people. 0.99

00:06:13.640 The kinds of people that the wise would say are fools.

00:06:16.380 So, we ask the question, how did the left get away with propagating these ideas for so long, while somehow never having to answer even the most basic questions about it? 0.96

00:06:29.680 How did they conquer Western society with an ideology that falls over and shatters into a thousand pieces with a simple flick of a finger?

00:06:36.900 It's this enormous, seemingly imposing, totally ubiquitous thing, something that has reshaped our civilization, changed the way people see themselves and their own species, and yet all you have to do is walk up and just poke it, just poke it, and it pops like an overinflated balloon.

00:06:56.020 How could something so flimsy, so thin, have so much success?

00:07:03.620 The answer is, for one thing, people are scared.

00:07:06.080 It has threatened the sane into silence.

00:07:08.560 That was something that became abundantly clear as soon as I set out on my What is a Woman journey, because everywhere we went, almost everybody that we talked to, even the ones who knew the truth and were willing to say it,

00:07:20.180 even them, most of them still look kind of from side to side and whispered like they were spies passing state secrets.

00:07:27.880 There's a lot of fear out there, because the left is always standing in the middle of the crowd with a bomb strapped to its chest, threatening to hit the red button if anybody dares question them.

00:07:37.940 But what you find so often is that it's a dummy bomb strapped to a dummy.

00:07:42.680 People are afraid of a phantom.

00:07:44.440 Now, it's true that the left owns all the institutions, and so they do have the power to punish you.

00:07:50.940 I, myself, have already basically accepted that at least some of my social media platforms will not survive the release of this film.

00:07:58.160 I'm already expecting that.

00:07:59.600 This movie is somewhat of a kamikaze mission in that way, which is why I wanted to get it right, because it might be my last act. 0.96

00:08:06.580 Who knows?

00:08:07.240 At least when it comes to my access to the internet.

00:08:09.680 I know there will probably be some steep consequences, especially considering the people who we embarrass in this film and how badly we embarrass them.

00:08:19.240 So the fear people have is not entirely imaginary.

00:08:22.480 And yet the fear has scared people to such an extent that they think they can't even talk about this at all.

00:08:29.500 They treat the subject, the subject of what a woman is, what biological sex is, like it's literally radioactive. 0.85

00:08:35.560 The fear causes people to fall silent, and the silence only emboldens the ideological terrorists even more.

00:08:43.180 The second factor is that the left is very good at making simple things seem complicated.

00:08:49.900 Not just on this issue, but all issues.

00:08:53.320 What they do is they try to drown you in jargon and buzzwords and caveats and exceptions to the rule and any other ball they need to throw at you to distract you from the topic at hand.

00:09:02.900 And soon, before you know it, you're off the path, you're knee-deep in the weeds, can't remember where you were going or why or what you were talking about.

00:09:11.900 And then, when you're out there, in the muck, off the trail, confused, they'll come along and say,

00:09:19.660 You see, this is all so complicated.

00:09:21.680 You should stop thinking about this subject.

00:09:23.600 Just leave it to us. 0.99

00:09:25.840 Rest your puny little brain, child, and let us think for you. 0.99

00:09:29.980 Trust the experts. 0.94

00:09:31.020 What they don't expect is that you'll take them up on it and actually go talk to those experts and ask them the questions they're supposed to be able to so easily answer.

00:09:45.040 Actually ask the questions.

00:09:48.680 By that I mean, don't just sit there and let them talk at you, but ask the questions.

00:09:54.860 Apply some skepticism to what they're telling you.

00:09:58.720 Just a little bit.

00:10:01.560 That's not what they're expecting.

00:10:03.380 That's exactly what I did.

00:10:05.040 And the results are tremendous, as you'll see soon enough.

00:10:10.020 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:11.380 You'll also enjoy, I mean, I don't know, this is what's going to be hard before we release the full trailer.

00:10:24.480 I'm going to want to talk about so much of the stuff in this movie, and I can't.

00:10:27.760 But I don't want to steal our own thunder here when the trailer comes out, but you did see one clip there in the teaser, in a sneak peek of me at the Women's March with the sandwich board sign that said, what is a woman?

00:10:44.000 And so I will tell you that if you go to the Women's March where people are marching for women and you ask them, what is that exactly?

00:10:56.040 They do not respond kindly to the question.

00:10:59.440 So if you want to know how to get kicked out of a Women's March, that's how you do it. 1.00

00:11:05.140 I admit I also had a bullhorn, you know, so I was, I didn't take the most subtle approach in that particular instance.

00:11:12.980 But anyway, you'll see, you'll see all that.

00:11:16.380 It's all, it's all really good.

00:11:17.400 Really excited about it.

00:11:18.180 Okay.

00:11:20.380 So let's go to here.

00:11:22.880 We'll go back to the Supreme Court nomination hearings.

00:11:25.900 There's a lot of different clips and stuff I want to play.

00:11:27.320 We're just going to kind of go through these, maybe somewhat at random.

00:11:30.760 We've been hearing about, of course, the two things that come out of the Supreme Court hearing.

00:11:35.620 One, very topical for our, for our purposes, is that Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to be Supreme Court justice

00:11:41.120 and yet cannot tell you what a woman is. 0.96

00:11:43.700 And in fact, on that subject, Ted Cruz yesterday returned to it and asked her some questions,

00:11:51.420 making the point that there are some real consequences, obviously, to having a justice who doesn't know what a woman is.

00:11:59.320 The most basic consequence is that she doesn't have, apparently, or at least is pretending not to have,

00:12:04.640 any kind of grasp on reality.

00:12:06.300 And you would think that that's something you would want from your justice, but also,

00:12:09.700 it presents some real legal problems if you don't know how to define this word.

00:12:14.440 And so Ted Cruz got into that with her, and we'll see how that went.

00:12:18.760 You told her that you couldn't define what a woman is, that you were not a biologist,

00:12:25.380 which I think you're the only Supreme Court nominee in history who's been unable to answer

00:12:29.820 the question, what is a woman, let me ask you, as a judge, how would you determine if a plaintiff 0.99

00:12:39.060 had Article III standing to challenge a gender-based rule, regulation, policy,

00:12:47.700 without being able to determine what a woman was?

00:12:50.600 So, Senator, I know that I'm a woman, I know that Senator Blackburn is a woman,

00:12:57.320 and the woman who I admire most in the world is in the room today, my mother.

00:13:03.600 It sounded as though the question was...

00:13:06.660 Let me ask, under the modern leftist sensibilities, if I decide right now that I'm a woman,

00:13:16.340 then apparently I'm a woman.

00:13:19.360 Does that mean that I would have Article III standing to challenge a gender-based restriction?

00:13:24.440 Senator, to the extent that you are asking me about who has the ability to bring lawsuits

00:13:32.600 based on gender, those kinds of issues are working their way through the courts, 1.00

00:13:37.380 and I'm not able to comment on them.

00:13:40.580 Now, Ted Cruz had one line of question he was trying to go down and trying to get an answer

00:13:44.380 out of her, and I appreciate that.

00:13:45.880 I do wish that he had interjected with a follow-up when she said,

00:13:52.380 I know I'm a woman.

00:13:55.700 Obvious follow-up is, how do you know that?

00:13:58.040 And that is also a question that comes up in the film that I discovered.

00:14:05.140 There's the evasions.

00:14:06.500 Okay, well, are you a woman? 0.99

00:14:07.780 Yes.

00:14:08.480 How do you know that?

00:14:10.440 And then you see the meltdown happen even more.

00:14:12.640 I wish he'd asked that question, because there's no...

00:14:16.360 How do you know you're a woman? 0.80

00:14:17.920 And you have to give a biologically-based answer.

00:14:24.100 Or you can say, I just feel like one.

00:14:27.840 Okay, so anyone who feels like one is one?

00:14:31.260 And what do you mean you feel like one?

00:14:33.220 Like, what is a woman feeling? 0.99

00:14:35.000 And how can you differentiate that between...

00:14:38.200 I mean, if you're a woman already, then whatever feelings you're having are the feelings that

00:14:43.740 a woman's having, so how can the feelings determine... 1.00

00:14:46.220 So we didn't go down that.

00:14:49.100 But it does create, of course, all kinds of problems, especially with the way our legal

00:14:53.860 system is set up right now, and all of these gender-based laws and everything. 0.96

00:14:59.100 If you want to have those kinds of laws, then how can you do that if you erase the distinction

00:15:05.920 between men and women?

00:15:07.340 It's just like if you were to declare that race does not exist, and that anyone can decide,

00:15:17.120 or rather that it's totally fluid and subjective, and anyone can decide to be whatever race they

00:15:21.820 want to be.

00:15:22.480 Well, one of the consequences of that is that now all the hate crime laws that you also

00:15:26.480 support and have created, how do those work out?

00:15:30.120 How do you determine that?

00:15:33.980 So she ducks and dodges there, not even very well, but she ducks and dodges, tries to evade

00:15:39.800 it, and she does the same when it comes to the question on her sentencing of child sex 0.98

00:15:48.580 predators, and especially people who have used or consumed or distributed child porn.

00:15:53.820 Now, the media and the Democrats continue to be very scandalized that this is coming

00:15:57.960 up at all.

00:15:58.500 We'll see some of that in a moment.

00:16:00.120 Cory Booker was just shocked and offended.

00:16:02.760 He was totally floored by what was happening.

00:16:04.840 This is unheard of for a Supreme Court justice to be treated this way.

00:16:09.940 And again, like we said yesterday, from the Democrats' perspective, it is sort of unheard

00:16:14.460 of and shocking to them because these questions are all about her actual judicial record and

00:16:21.520 her legal philosophy, her personal philosophies, her worldview, things relevant to the job.

00:16:27.500 That's what the Democrats find shocking because they're not used to that.

00:16:31.640 All they care about is usually digging into somebody's personal life, looking at their high

00:16:34.880 school yearbook, how much beer did they drink in college and so on.

00:16:38.440 The question, obviously, about sentencing for child pornography is incredibly relevant because this

00:16:52.700 goes down to just a real fundamental level.

00:16:56.420 She wants to be someone who we call Justice Jackson, which does actually sound kind of cool.

00:17:12.140 I got to admit, it sounds cool.

00:17:14.020 That would be the only good thing is just how it sounds, just the name.

00:17:17.460 Everything else would not be good having her in the Supreme Court because although she would 1.00

00:17:22.220 have this name of justice, she doesn't have any concept of, just like she has no concept

00:17:26.580 of what a woman is, even though she's a woman.

00:17:30.860 When you think about justice, what is justice to you?

00:17:33.860 I think we should know that if you want to be a justice on the Supreme Court.

00:17:37.220 Her concept of justice, apparently, is to every occasion when she had the opportunity to give 0.99

00:17:46.280 a lighter sentence to child porn offenders than the federal guidelines allow on every

00:17:53.300 single occasion.

00:17:54.880 Now, she was asked whether she regrets any of these decisions.

00:17:59.140 Federal guidelines call for years and she decides to give somebody a few months, but she regret

00:18:03.940 that and here was her answer to that.

00:18:07.220 What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme

00:18:19.640 Court, we've spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences and I've

00:18:29.940 tried to explain.

00:18:31.700 You regret that we're focusing on your cases?

00:18:33.640 I don't understand.

00:18:34.120 No, no, no.

00:18:34.640 I'm talking about the fact that you're talking about seven very serious cases.

00:18:41.240 I'm glad we agree on that.

00:18:43.740 I regret that you're talking about my judicial record.

00:18:48.100 That's what she regrets.

00:18:48.920 Yeah, it may have been a minority of the cases that she dealt with, but they're very important

00:18:55.940 cases.

00:18:56.920 And the reason why you harp on them is because unlike some of the other cases that she may

00:19:00.880 have dealt with, this speaks again to her fundamental concept of justice.

00:19:06.760 And based on her record, I'm not sure she has any concept of it at all.

00:19:14.360 Or if she does, her idea of justice is to, if you have someone who's already victimized

00:19:20.300 children, sexually victimized children, and by consuming child porn, by obtaining child pornography,

00:19:29.200 you have participated in the abuse of children. 0.94

00:19:34.100 Obviously, I would think it was obvious.

00:19:36.120 So her idea of justice is someone is convicted of that, you know, slap on the wrist, basically

00:19:42.280 a few months in jail, maybe, and throw them back out into society.

00:19:45.700 Give them another shot.

00:19:46.860 Give them another try.

00:19:47.480 And I doubt very much that there have been very many cases of somebody convicted of child

00:19:56.260 pornography, they spent a couple months in jail, and then go back out into society, and

00:20:00.880 that's the last time they ever go near any of that stuff.

00:20:06.180 That's just not the way it works.

00:20:08.960 There's a trajectory with these kinds of things.

00:20:11.240 When somebody has that in their soul, and they're falling down this pit, it doesn't just stop

00:20:21.060 in the middle of the, you know, kind of mid-air, and they end up flying back in the other direction

00:20:27.360 towards the light.

00:20:29.740 Not going to say it's impossible.

00:20:31.080 Nothing is impossible with God, but it is not common, and it's not likely.

00:20:35.220 Usually, somebody starts with child pornography, and then, it doesn't take very long, soon

00:20:44.940 they're physically victimizing children in real life.

00:20:50.220 Although, even the child pornography, I mean, those are children who are being physically

00:20:54.180 victimized in real life, and that the person who is obtaining it is participating again in

00:20:58.840 that abuse.

00:21:01.520 So this all is relevant, but she says that it's not.

00:21:04.480 But it's also not just child pornography.

00:21:06.760 I want to go back a day before this.

00:21:08.100 This is a clip we didn't play yesterday, but she also has a habit of light sentences, not

00:21:14.780 just for child pornographers and people who have obtained child pornography, but also drug

00:21:20.060 kingpins as well.

00:21:20.960 Let's listen to that question.

00:21:23.260 Judge Jackson, before you granted this fentanyl kingpin's motion to reduce his sentence, did

00:21:28.500 you contact any of the victims from his case?

00:21:30.280 Senator, thank you for allowing me to address Mr. Young's situation.

00:21:39.160 I asked a simple question.

00:21:40.700 Did you contact the victims in his case or not?

00:21:44.340 Senator, Mr. Young was not released.

00:21:46.900 His sentence was reduced, and I did not contact the victims in his case because there were no

00:21:53.100 victims.

00:21:53.680 He committed a crime, a drug crime.

00:21:58.380 There were no identifiable victims in his case.

00:22:02.600 Drug crime is not a victimless crime.

00:22:05.300 A hundred thousand Americans were killed by overdoses.

00:22:08.140 Understood.

00:22:09.380 There were no victims of a fentanyl drug kingpin.

00:22:14.900 How many people does fentanyl kill every year?

00:22:18.820 Thousands?

00:22:20.760 A victimless crime?

00:22:23.380 That's an especially peculiar view from someone on the left, although that is basically people

00:22:27.280 on the left think, but it doesn't really make any sense because these are also people who

00:22:30.880 don't believe in free will at all.

00:22:34.340 And so, given that you don't really believe in free will, you of all people should agree

00:22:40.340 that a drug lord, someone who's selling drugs, that's not a victimless crime.

00:22:47.900 There are victims of that.

00:22:48.960 But then going back to yesterday, Cory Booker, after listening to all of this and all of

00:22:56.340 these Republicans who would dare, dare ask her questions about the kinds of sentences

00:23:01.300 she's passed down and what her judicial record is, her judicial philosophy, he's listened to

00:23:06.520 all of this and he's totally outraged.

00:23:09.560 And so we'll play, we got a couple of clips here.

00:23:11.300 We'll play as much of them as we can.

00:23:15.720 Let's start with clip four. 0.79

00:23:18.960 I got letters from leaders of victims' rights groups, survivors of assault, all saying sort

00:23:33.680 of the same thing with the National Review.

00:23:35.160 Feel proud about yourself.

00:23:36.280 You brought together right and left in this calling out of people that will sit up here

00:23:45.380 and try to pull out from cases and try to put themselves in a position where they're the

00:23:53.460 defenders of our children, to a person who has children, to a person whose family goes

00:24:03.700 out in streets and defends children.

00:24:05.660 I mean, this is a new low.

00:24:10.180 And what's especially surprising about this is it didn't happen last year. 0.99

00:24:12.800 Shut up, Cory. 0.98

00:24:13.240 We stopped that there. 1.00

00:24:14.740 He's getting geared up.

00:24:16.020 You know, he's about to, we've seen this before.

00:24:17.720 He especially likes it during the Supreme Court hearings.

00:24:20.440 I mean, famously, this is a guy that declared that he was Spartacus.

00:24:22.720 So he's getting geared up for another Spartacus moment.

00:24:25.800 This guy is, he's a performer.

00:24:27.660 He loves the theatrics.

00:24:28.700 This is a classic theater kid, you know, situation here.

00:24:33.620 He's not a very good performer, like so many theater kids in high school, but he loves it.

00:24:37.960 And so he's getting into the, into the motions.

00:24:40.240 He's about to really, he's got a, he's got a full monologue.

00:24:43.140 He's got prepared.

00:24:43.860 We're going to get to that here in a second.

00:24:47.220 But he points out that, well, how could they make these claims about someone who's, who's

00:24:53.220 a mother?

00:24:56.240 Well, yeah, that's actually a good point.

00:24:57.920 You know, if you're a mother and you have kids, even if you don't have kids, I'm not

00:25:03.040 sure I understand how you could go so lenient on a crime as heinous as child pornography.

00:25:08.440 You don't need to have kids to see why horror, why that is so horrible.

00:25:15.760 But considering that you do have kids, that's all the more reason why you would think you

00:25:20.800 would sympathize 100% with the victims who are children and not at all with the. 1.00

00:25:27.920 With the criminal who's a violent, sexually abusive scumbag. 1.00

00:25:34.880 So he's, he's, he's shocked by this. 1.00

00:25:37.300 He can't believe that's happening.

00:25:38.780 And then we get to, this is when he's going for the Oscar here.

00:25:43.020 This is what he wants on his Oscar reel.

00:25:45.260 Uh, and let's watch.

00:25:48.220 That is the story of how you got to this desk, you and I, and everyone here, generations of

00:25:55.340 folk who came here and said, America, I'm Irish.

00:25:59.040 You may say no Irish or dogs need to apply, but I'm going to show this country that I can

00:26:04.440 be free here.

00:26:05.260 I can make this country love me as much as I love it.

00:26:09.920 Chinese Americans first forced into near slave labor, building our railroads, connecting

00:26:15.680 our country.

00:26:17.120 Saw the ugliest of America, but they were going to build their home here and say, America, 1.00

00:26:21.620 you may not love me yet, but I'm going to make this nation live up to its promise and hope.

00:26:26.720 LGBTQ Americans from Stonewall women to Seneca, hidden figures who didn't even get their play

00:26:36.480 until some Hollywood movie finally talked about it.

00:26:38.220 Just pause it, pause it.

00:26:40.260 I feel so bad for the woman in the background there. 0.96

00:26:42.180 How is she keeping a straight face through all this?

00:26:44.140 Look at this guy's face.

00:26:45.220 Can we just put, look at his face. 1.00

00:26:46.820 What a lunatic. 1.00

00:26:48.940 At least he's playing one on TV. 0.99

00:26:52.760 And well, he had to throw in.

00:26:54.040 And so we've got to, um, he starts with Irish Americans and then we go, we get to, to LGBTQ

00:26:59.680 of course.

00:27:01.660 And now he's really getting ramped up.

00:27:03.040 He throws in hidden figures.

00:27:04.320 He's just thrown everything into it.

00:27:06.540 Um, let's keep playing it.

00:27:07.960 This is fun.

00:27:08.920 About them and how they were critical for us, defying gravity.

00:27:12.360 All of these people loved America.

00:27:15.820 And so you faced insults here that were shocking to me.

00:27:19.040 Well, actually not shocking.

00:27:20.220 But you are here because of that kind of love and nobody's taken this away from me.

00:27:30.240 Isn't that nice?

00:27:31.020 So you got five more folk to go through.

00:27:34.040 Five more of us.

00:27:36.600 And then you can sit back and let us have all the debates.

00:27:38.780 And I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a well charted Senate floor because it's not

00:27:43.620 going to stop.

00:27:44.260 They're going to accuse you of this and that heck in honor of your person who shares your

00:27:49.680 birthday, you might be called the communist.

00:27:52.400 Well, yeah, but don't worry.

00:27:54.580 Reason to suspect.

00:27:56.340 Don't worry.

00:27:58.760 Oh, here we go.

00:27:59.980 God has got you.

00:28:02.440 And how do I know that?

00:28:04.420 How do you know that?

00:28:04.800 Because you're here and I know what it's taken for you to sit in that seat.

00:28:09.580 Uh, yeah, Cory Booker pretending to be religious is about as believable as what he was pretending

00:28:18.640 to date Rosario Dawson or whoever it was.

00:28:21.500 Um, and we've got, and then Jackson is crying there.

00:28:24.520 She's getting emotional.

00:28:27.040 Remember when, uh, Kavanaugh got emotional during his Supreme court hearing and there might've

00:28:34.480 been some tears welling up in the eyes and, and he got angry and a little indignant himself.

00:28:41.380 And, and you can recall all of the mockery coming his direction from people on the left.

00:28:48.800 Cory Booker was there.

00:28:49.580 He didn't come to his defense.

00:28:51.240 He wasn't, he didn't find that shocking.

00:28:53.600 He was participating in it.

00:28:55.380 Um, so we, yeah, we, we, we made fun of Kavanaugh for getting emotional.

00:29:00.860 Meanwhile, he's sitting there, um, on the biggest stage in front of, in front of the 0.96

00:29:07.480 world being accused of, uh, of being a serial gang rapist. 0.62

00:29:14.220 And for that, he, he wasn't supposed to get emotional.

00:29:17.280 It was, you know, it, it, it showed that he didn't, what was it?

00:29:19.560 He didn't have the right temperament to be on the Supreme court.

00:29:22.580 Because if you get a little bit upset and perturbed after sitting there for three days

00:29:27.940 and being told over and over again, that you're a serial gang rapist, um, then you don't have 0.96

00:29:31.840 the right temperament. 0.93

00:29:34.540 Well, what does it say about, about Jackson that she's getting emotional and crying?

00:29:38.320 She got a little bit angry and all they're doing is asking about her judicial record.

00:29:43.300 That's it.

00:29:45.340 Uh, great performance though, from Cory Booker.

00:29:47.500 Very good performance.

00:29:48.440 I mean, by, by, by political standards, I mean, it's, you know, um,

00:29:52.580 it's about as good as you get when it, when it comes to the theater.

00:29:55.320 There's one of the clip I want to play for you.

00:29:56.860 So the media, of course, as well, coming to Jackson's defense on the, um, especially on

00:30:05.400 the child porn part of this.

00:30:08.240 And now in fairness to the media, there's really no non-creepy way of defending lenient sentences

00:30:17.880 for child porn distributors and people who use child porn.

00:30:22.360 So there's no non-creepy way to do it, but the media is choosing the creepiest possible

00:30:26.880 ways.

00:30:27.220 So let's play this clip from NBC.

00:30:30.460 They spent a lot of time on this specific issue of an 18 year old from Washington who

00:30:36.540 the, uh, sentencing guidelines would have called for an eight year sentence.

00:30:40.060 The prosecutors recommended a two year sentence and judge Jackson imposed a sentence of three

00:30:46.200 months.

00:30:47.260 And so there was some discussion about why she did that.

00:30:50.440 Um, I've looked at the records in this case and I think apparently judge Jackson just doesn't

00:30:56.280 recall this case.

00:30:57.440 And that that's understandable.

00:30:59.000 She had many, many sentencing and something like 500 court decisions.

00:31:03.620 But the specifics in this case suggest that, uh, this was a, uh, uh, an 18 year old who

00:31:10.820 was curious about this kind of sexual activity that he sought out.

00:31:16.660 The court records show that a detective, when he realized that this young man was uploading

00:31:21.960 some of this, contacted him and said, how would you like to have real sexual activity with,

00:31:27.980 uh, my 12 year old daughter, which was make believe.

00:31:31.600 And this young man never responded to him.

00:31:34.640 And there was a psychiatrist who evaluated the young man and said, this was basically his

00:31:39.880 sort of curiosity about a specific kind of sexual activity.

00:31:43.380 He wasn't interested in, uh, younger people.

00:31:47.280 He was just sort of curious about this for his own purposes, that he was not a pedophile.

00:31:51.940 So those were the kinds of things apparently that judge Jackson took into account in that

00:31:57.040 specific case that Senator Hawley spent a lot of time on.

00:32:01.640 That's a Pete Williams with NBC.

00:32:03.640 I think we should put his MSNBC.

00:32:05.500 We should put his name with that.

00:32:06.480 So Pete Williams just saying, I was curious.

00:32:08.840 It's not a pedophile.

00:32:10.820 It was just a curious about child pornography. 1.00

00:32:14.440 These people are, are just degenerates, all of them. 0.99

00:32:19.540 Okay. 0.99

00:32:20.020 Let's move on to a couple other topics.

00:32:21.600 Um, so here's some material from a Home Depot in Canada, um, talking about privilege.

00:32:27.920 This was, uh, posted by libs of TikTok, always doing the work.

00:32:33.160 You know, this is like what really just tells you the state of, uh, of the media that I would

00:32:39.440 say that probably the top journalist in the country right now is the anonymous person who

00:32:45.340 runs a libs of TikTok account on Twitter.

00:32:47.020 This is actual journalism, finding real stories about things that are happening and, and telling

00:32:53.560 people about it.

00:32:54.740 Um, so here's, here's something that says, uh, Home Depot has gone woke.

00:32:58.180 And there's this worksheet that was handed out at a Home Depot in Canada.

00:33:02.920 And it says leading practices, unpacking privilege, privilege now in a special benefit or advantage

00:33:10.500 that may be earned or unearned.

00:33:12.260 And then it goes into, there's two kinds of privilege, social privilege, um, that's a

00:33:17.880 special unearned advantage or entitlement used to one's own benefit or to the detriment

00:33:21.720 of others.

00:33:22.200 These groups can be advantaged based on social class, age, disability, ethnic, or racial category,

00:33:27.120 gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.

00:33:29.920 Uh, and that's certainly, that, that definitely exists.

00:33:32.340 There's no question about it.

00:33:33.160 I mean, there are people who have, because of their demographic category, they have social

00:33:37.260 privileges.

00:33:37.660 There are people who have social privileges based on their quote unquote gender identity.

00:33:42.260 Um, in fact, the kinds of people who use phrases like gender identity and think that that's

00:33:47.480 a real thing.

00:33:48.080 Those are the ones with social privilege.

00:33:50.580 If you're in the, if you're, if you can claim membership to the LGBT club somehow fit 0.96

00:33:58.000 your way under that ever expanding umbrella, then you have social privilege, but that's

00:34:01.540 not the kind of privilege they're talking about, I assume.

00:34:03.840 Um, and then also white privilege, that's societal privilege that benefits white people beyond

00:34:08.300 what is commonly experienced by people of color under the same social, political, and economic

00:34:12.600 circumstances.

00:34:13.520 And then it goes into, and then so, so those are the two broad categories.

00:34:16.460 And then there's sort of these subcategories and it says what privilege looks like.

00:34:21.020 If you're confident that the police exists to protect you, you have white privilege.

00:34:25.620 That's what white privilege. 0.85

00:34:29.500 So if you, if you do not believe that you're being hunted down by cops who want to execute

00:34:37.480 you while you're just walking down the street, then you have privilege.

00:34:41.680 I would think of that.

00:34:42.660 Okay.

00:34:42.800 If that's privilege, that's just the privilege of not being paranoid.

00:34:46.020 Um, if while growing up college was an expectation of you, not a dream, you have class privilege.

00:34:55.360 If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian 1.00

00:35:00.400 privilege.

00:35:02.060 If you can use public bathrooms without stairs, fear, or anxiety, you have cisgender privilege. 0.84

00:35:09.220 So that's, that's nobody by the way.

00:35:11.480 Like who, does anyone feel 100% comfortable in public restrooms? 0.82

00:35:16.020 It would be kind of strange if you did.

00:35:17.800 Like there's always a little bit of anxiety in public restrooms.

00:35:20.380 Um, and then also able-bodied privilege and heterosexual privilege.

00:35:25.580 And can I also say just a note that on the Christian privilege thing, I, I've always seen

00:35:31.200 it as the other way around.

00:35:31.940 Like if you're getting off of work and you get off time off of school for someone else's

00:35:37.340 religious holidays, how, how, doesn't that mean that you have the privilege?

00:35:40.000 It seems like you get the extra privilege there.

00:35:41.760 It's not even your holiday and you get to take off.

00:35:46.020 Um, so what's, what's the privilege exactly?

00:35:48.740 If we're, if we're inviting you, we celebrate Christmas and we're saying, we're, you know

00:35:51.640 what, we're going to give everybody off.

00:35:54.000 You're not even Christian. 1.00

00:35:55.340 We're going to give you a Christmas gift and you get to take off also.

00:35:59.060 That, what is that?

00:35:59.740 You being oppressed?

00:36:00.760 You're being attacked?

00:36:01.480 Um, no, the, the privilege would be, uh, we're going to take off for Christmas, but, but

00:36:10.480 all of you still have to work.

00:36:13.300 Um, yeah, able-bodied and heterosexual privilege.

00:36:16.200 So this is a Home Depot.

00:36:17.080 This is what they're doing at Home Depot.

00:36:18.260 Now, Home Depot responded.

00:36:19.740 The AP reached out to them.

00:36:21.300 Here's what the AP says.

00:36:22.000 Home Depot said Wednesday that a worksheet about privilege that went viral is an unauthorized

00:36:25.600 document from the company's Canada division, an anonymous Twitter account with the handle

00:36:29.440 libs of Tik TOK, uh, posted it.

00:36:32.160 We know that.

00:36:33.160 And they said that, um, Home Depot issued a statement saying that while it supports diversity

00:36:38.620 at the company, the worksheet was not created or approved by its corporate diversity, equity

00:36:43.420 and inclusion department.

00:36:44.800 Company said this, this was a resource in our Canada division and not part of any required

00:36:49.480 programming.

00:36:50.040 So that's, this has already been labeled online as misinformation and debunked and everything.

00:36:55.940 And it's not, this was, this was something that was used at a Home Depot and that was

00:37:00.140 handed out to employees, apparently at a Home Depot.

00:37:02.180 It just didn't come down from the top.

00:37:04.880 I mean, eventually it will though, because they, they admit that they have, well, you know,

00:37:09.900 we have a corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion department.

00:37:12.560 It's just like, that's that particular bit of brainwashing.

00:37:16.060 Isn't something that came from us.

00:37:17.300 So we have each individual Home Depot could do their own brainwashing.

00:37:21.400 We have our, but we have the corporate version and that's not part of it yet, but that's

00:37:27.460 all, that's all inevitable.

00:37:29.600 I mean, once that, the whole point of having a diversity, equity, and inclusion department

00:37:33.700 is precisely for things like this.

00:37:38.080 And it's kind of significant too.

00:37:39.460 There's a certain significance to Home Depot starting to go woke because, um, as far as

00:37:45.100 I know up until now, they were one of the few companies that had basically stayed neutral.

00:37:52.260 Um, they were one of the few companies that up until this point, you know, at least hadn't

00:37:58.800 gone out of the way to display their wokeness.

00:38:01.340 And that apparently is, uh, that, that was, that was never going to last, I suppose.

00:38:06.860 Okay.

00:38:07.260 Finally from the daily wire says a group of congressional Democrats is pushing for president

00:38:10.900 Joe Biden to continue the payment freeze on federal student loans, at least through the

00:38:14.800 end of 2022.

00:38:15.840 And a letter to Biden on Monday, a group of 43 house Democrats led by Pennsylvania representative

00:38:19.540 Conor Lamb said the Biden, uh, administration needed to continue the progress made by Democrats

00:38:24.920 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by extending the pause or else the rapid transition to repayment,

00:38:30.560 uh, would risk borrowers being delinquent of defaulting on their loans.

00:38:37.560 So we know the tactic now they want to get rid of student loans.

00:38:40.540 They want to have student loan forgiveness.

00:38:41.620 Um, which just means that of course that somebody else will be forced to pay for them.

00:38:48.640 Uh, you can't actually just snap your fingers and make the loans go away.

00:38:52.780 But I think that they've found what they, what they believe to be a way around it.

00:38:57.420 So instead of having student loan forgiveness, we'll just have a, a, a pause on student loans

00:39:01.820 and then we'll just keep on extending it.

00:39:05.620 No reason can really be given for this.

00:39:08.140 And everybody else with all of their other debts, uh, they still have to pay back those

00:39:15.440 debts, but we're going to make an exception for student loans.

00:39:17.220 Of course they can't explain it, but they can't explain anything else.

00:39:20.280 Of course, as we've seen, like, what is a woman? 0.60

00:39:22.660 Uh, we'll get now to the comment section.

00:39:24.160 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard.

00:39:27.720 Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:32.380 The Chrome to Your Dome says, as a psychology, as a psychology PhD student, uh, I really wish

00:39:42.240 I could, uh, I've chosen a different profession.

00:39:44.640 My school and the APA are woke beyond belief.

00:39:48.320 Yeah, I, I hear this from people, you know, inside the psychiatric industry all the time.

00:39:54.760 And I don't even need to hear it because it's quite obvious to me that there's, there's,

00:39:59.220 it's not much of a secret, um, that the psychiatric industry is far, far, far left and has been

00:40:08.580 for a long time.

00:40:10.960 And that, that's a problem that we need to start talking about in a serious way on the

00:40:17.360 right.

00:40:17.560 Um, we talk about, um, we talk about the bias in the news media.

00:40:22.420 We talk about indoctrination by Hollywood.

00:40:25.180 We talk about it in the school system and it matters in all those places.

00:40:28.700 Obviously it matters a lot, especially in the school system.

00:40:32.640 But at a certain point, we got to talk about therapists, psychiatrists,

00:40:37.160 psychiatrists, uh, because most of these people are dyed in the wool, full blown ideologues,

00:40:45.740 leftists, and they're dealing with very vulnerable people who tend to trust them implicitly.

00:40:54.240 Now schools are in the same position.

00:40:56.940 They're dealing with vulnerable people who are children.

00:40:58.880 Children tend to trust the teachers.

00:41:00.180 And so they take advantage of that by indoctrinating, uh, same exact thing is happening all over the

00:41:06.440 place with psychiatrists and therapists.

00:41:08.240 Uh, the more that we can talk about that, the better.

00:41:11.540 Um, let's see.

00:41:15.120 John says, I've been a loyal subscriber of Matt for a couple of years now.

00:41:18.340 I think his points are really well articulated and he's helped me realize how bad the delusion

00:41:22.600 in today's society has gotten.

00:41:24.140 However, today I found out he pronounces the word crayon, how he pronounces the word crayon.

00:41:28.500 And I'm not sure I can look at him the same anymore.

00:41:31.540 Well, this is, well, because what do you want me to say?

00:41:34.320 Crayon?

00:41:35.920 Crayon.

00:41:37.440 This is anti-Marylander bigotry.

00:41:40.060 I get made fun of all the time for the way I pronounce certain words. 1.00

00:41:43.320 Some of the pronunciation is just the fact that I'm stupid. 0.99

00:41:46.260 A lot of it is the fact that I'm from Maryland. 0.98

00:41:48.140 And in Maryland, if you've ever been there, we, the accent doesn't really make sense.

00:41:52.260 It tends to pop up.

00:41:53.380 It's sort of schizophrenic.

00:41:54.540 It pops up in these, there, there isn't a, uh, a real pattern to it all the time that

00:41:59.760 you can always notice.

00:42:00.600 But, but the one thing is we, we just pronounce, we have a strange way of pronouncing basic words.

00:42:04.780 And, um, at least that's my excuse anyway.

00:42:09.120 Uh, and finally, Vakula says, thank you, Matt, for your kind words of encouragement to those

00:42:15.080 in despair.

00:42:15.660 Uh, I suffer from depression and I can attest to the truth of your words.

00:42:19.120 Go outside, play with a pet, talk to another human being.

00:42:22.380 It all helps immensely, even when the pills fail.

00:42:24.860 Yeah.

00:42:27.080 Well, that's, I appreciate you saying that because, um, yeah, you would think that just

00:42:33.220 pointing out that, Hey, get some exercise, get some sun, think about what you're eating,

00:42:37.940 what you're putting into your body.

00:42:39.000 Think about your diet.

00:42:40.660 You'd think that all this would be seen as just sort of helpful encouragement, some, some

00:42:44.720 good, good advice, basic advice.

00:42:46.560 You don't have to be a genius to know this, but people tend to get really upset when it

00:42:51.500 comes to any mental issue.

00:42:53.620 If you go outside of, of just saying, okay, go to a psychiatrist, uh, get some pills, take

00:42:58.920 the pills.

00:42:59.240 If you go anywhere outside of that, then you're accused of being, you know, cruel somehow.

00:43:04.100 Well, of course, exactly the opposite is the case.

00:43:06.240 Well, as you heard right at the top of the show, telling you again, I've been working on

00:43:09.760 a top secret project for over a year.

00:43:11.740 It is called what is a woman. 1.00

00:43:13.160 And, uh, I believe this could be the most important question and film of 2022.

00:43:19.420 I, I, I actually do believe that, that I think that this is, uh, the most important film that

00:43:24.620 you'll see at least this year.

00:43:26.420 We fearlessly and unflinchingly question the logic of a trans movement that has taken aim 1.00

00:43:30.980 at women and children.

00:43:31.980 And we're going after that.

00:43:33.600 It's, it's, it's not just around the fringes here that we're dealing with this issue.

00:43:37.100 We are going right at the concept itself.

00:43:39.800 That's what we're doing.

00:43:41.220 This fight is for everything.

00:43:42.420 It's for the truth itself.

00:43:43.820 What is a woman coming 2022, go to whatisawoman.com. 0.76

00:43:47.560 Um, and also as the beloved author of the bestselling children's LGBTQ plus book, Johnny

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00:44:00.320 That's why I was invited on to Dr. Phil to discuss these issues, which if you haven't seen

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00:44:19.380 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:44:20.680 You know, every Hollywood action film these days must, it seems by law, feature at least

00:44:30.060 one ass kicking woman who can tussle with men three times her size and knock anyone to 1.00

00:44:35.200 the ground with one swift punch to the jaw. 0.99

00:44:37.740 Uh, most movies now tend to feature multiple women of this type, all of different races 1.00

00:44:41.620 and sexual orientations and all united by the fact that they, they don't need no man to

00:44:45.820 bail them out, fight their battles, rescue them from dragons, open their pickle jars.

00:44:49.880 They don't need any of that.

00:44:50.960 Now I have in the past confess, confess to a certain annoyance when it comes to this familiar

00:44:55.380 trope.

00:44:56.280 I admit that I can't really take a young, attractive 110 pound actress seriously in the role of 1.00

00:45:02.280 an assassin or gunslinger or enforcer or any other sort of ruffian.

00:45:06.520 Now sure, movies are fictional, but, but a woman of this type who can physically dominate 1.00

00:45:12.400 strong men is so outside of the realm of actual human experience that, that every film which

00:45:18.120 features such a character automatically becomes kind of a cartoon.

00:45:21.460 If you're going to have Scarlett Johansson slapping dudes around, it might as well be Minnie 1.00

00:45:26.200 Mouse doing it.

00:45:27.520 Of course, I say that I can't take a young, attractive woman seriously in this role, but, 0.92

00:45:31.640 but she still rates higher on the believability scale than a middle-aged woman. 0.87

00:45:35.540 I mean, Queen Latifah is 50 years old, out of shape, female. 1.00

00:45:39.780 And yet she stars as the violent, imposing, rough and tumble protagonist in the CBS show 1.00

00:45:44.520 The Equalizer.

00:45:45.600 It's like if they took Liam Neeson out of Taken and replaced him with your Aunt Betty. 0.59

00:45:51.100 Action movies have always been absurd.

00:45:53.240 I mean, I, of course we admit that.

00:45:55.080 Featuring many scenes where vastly outnumbered and outgunned good guys somehow managed to single-handedly

00:46:01.180 disarm and defeat rooms full of bad guys.

00:46:03.860 But at least it used to be like Bruce Lee or Bruce Willis doing that.

00:46:08.700 But if they remade Die Hard today, John McClane would be Jane McClane and he'd be played by

00:46:13.440 Brie Larson or somebody.

00:46:15.160 It's a whole new level of absurdity.

00:46:17.460 The psychological ropes suspending disbelief can only carry so much weight.

00:46:22.620 And yet, if I were not such a terrible quote-unquote sexist, and I took Hollywood at its word, and feminists at their word, and the left in general at its word, and believe that there's nothing inherently ridiculous about a woman physically going toe-to-toe with a man, 0.64

00:46:39.280 that I'd be all the more confused by the latest news from the U.S. Army. 0.66

00:46:43.740 As the Daily Wire reports,

00:46:44.800 On Wednesday, the U.S. Army revealed its new fitness test called the Army Combat Fitness Test, which has changed requirements so that it boasts different scoring standards for men and women.

00:46:54.980 Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, the service's top enlisted leader, declared,

00:46:58.760 In most cases, the standards will be lowered, quote, following a congressionally mandated report from RANDCOR, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, that found nearly half of the service's women could not pass earlier standards for the test.

00:47:17.040 Military.com adds,

00:47:18.640 Military.com explains some differences in the expectations for men and women.

00:47:32.100 For example, a female soldier between 17 and 21 years old now has to deadlift between 120 and 210 pounds, while a male soldier has to deadlift between 140 and 340 pounds.

00:47:42.520 In that same age group, female soldiers have to run two miles between 23 minutes, 22 seconds, and 15 minutes, 29 seconds. 1.00

00:47:49.460 While male soldiers must perform that exercise between 22 and 13 minutes, 22 seconds.

00:47:55.620 But they aren't just lowering the standards for each exercise.

00:47:58.760 They're also completely getting rid of any exercise that women have struggled to complete historically. 0.97

00:48:05.460 So going back to the article, it says,

00:48:06.560 Leg tucks, which were required by the previous standard, have been eliminated to measure core strength.

00:48:12.060 The new test requires planks instead.

00:48:13.920 Quote,

00:48:14.380 And why are we doing all this, is the question.

00:48:33.360 What's the point of frantically changing and lowering the fitness requirements, especially at this particular moment in history, with the possibility of war, unfortunately, hanging over us?

00:48:44.400 I mean, we are looking at the possibility still of a world war.

00:48:47.740 And so right now is when you decide to lower the fitness test?

00:48:54.020 Well, here's the answer.

00:48:55.560 Quote,

00:48:55.980 Well, steam picked up for Army planners to create a new test around the time when combat arms jobs, such as the infantry and cavalry, were opened to women in 2015. 0.99

00:49:04.420 The force initially sought to create a gender-neutral test and attempted to juggle dueling goals of creating a more inclusive force while also creating a fitter force. 0.89

00:49:13.780 Researchers at RAND found that only 52% of enlisted active-duty women were able to pass the original design for the ACFT, compared to 92% of men in their congressionally mandated study, released Wednesday.

00:49:25.220 Only 42% of women in the National Guard and 41% in the Reserve could pass.

00:49:31.920 41%.

00:49:32.400 Yes, this certain group of people are widely incapable of living up to the traditional fitness requirements for the military.

00:49:42.040 And so obviously what we must do is lower the requirements so that more members of that group could be in the military.

00:49:49.980 Now, this is logically unintelligible on a number of levels, starting with the fact that the very people who advocate for and impose these kinds of changes are also likely to claim in the next breath that men and women are the same.

00:50:01.220 Women are no weaker than men.

00:50:02.560 And in fact, to stay on the subject of the day, the entire category of women is essentially non-existent.

00:50:09.280 How can all of these ideas coexist?

00:50:12.020 How can women be equal to men, while at the same time the word woman means nothing, while at the same time, in the name of inclusion, we have to lower the standards for women because these women who are totally equal are also, it turns out, generally much weaker than men.

00:50:25.260 Yet, exactly the same.

00:50:27.840 How can you make sense of all this together?

00:50:29.720 Well, you can.

00:50:30.740 At least if you're looking for, you know, coherence grounded in anything resembling objective reality or truth.

00:50:36.200 But it starts to make sense in its own way.

00:50:39.660 When you understand first that leftists are relativists, this means that the truth itself changes depending on the situation.

00:50:45.920 At some level, these people are able to contradict themselves in the same sentence and yet believe both contradictory claims simultaneously.

00:50:54.820 Cognitive dissonance is their stock and trade.

00:50:56.800 It comes with relativism.

00:50:58.980 The truth is relative to whatever their needs, feelings, desires, and goals are at any given moment.

00:51:02.780 But also, we must understand that the leftists running our institutions, to include the military, are not only engaged in a war on truth, but also in a war on this country.

00:51:13.700 They want to destroy it.

00:51:15.040 They want to tear it down.

00:51:16.400 They want to reduce it to rubble so that they can rebuild something new and hideous from the wreckage, something conceived in their own image.

00:51:24.000 You would not actively work to make your military weaker unless you wanted to destroy your country.

00:51:30.320 So, if it seems like this is deliberate, that's because it is.

00:51:36.240 And that's why today, maybe not the army itself, but the people in charge of deciding these kinds of policies are canceled.

00:51:43.500 And we'll leave it there for today.

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00:51:47.100 Godspeed.

00:51:47.400 We'll see you next time.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 24, 2022

Ep. 915 - My Global Journey To Answer The Ultimate Question

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