The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 926 - The Massive Government Coverup To Protect An Infanticidal Serial Killer

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the latest on the murder of five infants by an abortionist serial killer in D.C.

00:00:05.040 It's a story that the corporate media, the local government, federal government has decided to completely ignore, but we're not.

00:00:09.520 Also, Judge Jackson is confirmed as the first black woman Supreme Court justice and also the first Supreme Court justice who can't define the word woman.

00:00:16.720 A historic occasion indeed.

00:00:19.020 Plus, mainstream media journalists hold a seminar on disinformation, but things don't go as they planned during the Q&A portion.

00:00:25.260 And American Airlines has an exciting new aviation invention, buses. 0.92

00:00:29.820 In our daily cancellation, what the hell is a biromantic asexual? 0.98

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00:00:38.160 We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:49.260 Are you a member of the Taliban and unaware of it?

00:00:52.360 Some people on the left have been saying that pro-life people in Texas and the ever-growing number of states with the Heartbeat Act are no better than the Taliban.

00:01:00.500 No science or biology or acknowledgement that heartbeats are actually a good thing.

00:01:03.980 Just you against us, and therefore, you're the Taliban, and that's the response. 0.99

00:01:07.520 This is what the left, of course, is saying.

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00:01:51.100 So perhaps you've heard about the story of the fox in D.C.

00:01:55.600 Not Fox, the TV network, but an actual fox with rabies, it turns out.

00:01:59.620 She had taken up residence on Capitol Hill, had been terrorizing the local inhabitants for days.

00:02:04.580 Finally, the rabid fox attacked and bit a Democratic congressman and a journalist.

00:02:08.720 And this was the last straw.

00:02:10.620 The police were sent in to find and arrest the insurrectionist canine.

00:02:14.900 And after it was apprehended, the fox was euthanized and peace was restored to the land.

00:02:19.420 Now, personally, as you know, I'm not much of an animal rights guy.

00:02:22.860 But given that this animal was attacking politicians and journalists,

00:02:27.020 I think it should have been set free and promptly awarded a medal for its service to the nation.

00:02:31.360 If anything, more rabid animals should be let loose in the Capitol.

00:02:34.640 Send some wolves in, grizzlies.

00:02:36.940 Let the chips fall where they may.

00:02:38.220 And if they devour everybody and seize control of the government,

00:02:41.320 I'm not sure we'd be in any worse shape at the end of it.

00:02:44.640 In fact, I think it'd be quite an improvement.

00:02:46.920 In any case, I bring this up because this was, by the measure of media coverage,

00:02:52.100 one of the top stories in Washington this week.

00:02:54.980 Every major news outlet published multiple stories about the fox.

00:02:59.740 The Washington Post especially followed the saga of the bloodthirsty fox all week.

00:03:03.760 CNN, NPR, the New York Times, many other outlets also kept track of the story as well,

00:03:08.500 posting multiple breaking news bulletins concerning it.

00:03:12.400 Meanwhile, though, elsewhere in D.C., another saga has been unfolding,

00:03:17.200 which has attracted far less interest from the corporate media.

00:03:21.320 You might say that this other story happening in the same city,

00:03:24.080 right in our nation's capital, is quite a bit more important than a fox.

00:03:28.500 You know, you'd say that anyway if you have a soul and a brain,

00:03:31.800 which I suppose rules out most of the people working in corporate media.

00:03:35.620 I'm referring, of course, to the just-uncovered murder of five infants at a D.C. abortion clinic.

00:03:40.720 Now, you've heard me talk about this all week because it is one of the most important things

00:03:43.800 happening in our country right now.

00:03:45.340 The cover-up has made the story far less visible, but it also makes it all the more important.

00:03:49.500 You know, if you want to know the things that we should be talking about and you should be paying

00:03:54.700 attention to, just look for the things that they don't want you to pay attention to.

00:03:58.600 So to review briefly, last week, a pro-life group in D.C. called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising

00:04:02.640 obtained a box of, quote, medical waste from a clinic in the city run by a monstrous psychopath 0.72

00:04:07.900 named Cesar Santangelo. The box was given to them by a driver from a company called Curtis Bay Energy,

00:04:14.480 which operates out of Baltimore. And we'll get back to Curtis Bay in just a moment

00:04:18.720 because they're an important piece of this story. As for the boxes, as we've covered on the show,

00:04:23.480 they contain the remains of well over 100 aborted babies. Five of those babies were fully developed

00:04:29.100 late-term infant children, well past the point of, quote, unquote, viability. There was ample evidence

00:04:36.480 from the injuries on their bodies and from their stage of development that these babies were killed

00:04:41.400 either in illegal partial birth abortions or in illegal post-birth abortions, otherwise known as infanticide.

00:04:48.720 But the D.C. police still refuse to investigate the crime. They refuse to do an autopsy.

00:04:55.200 The mayor has so far not acknowledged the case at all. She's just ignoring it, as the media is

00:05:01.780 mostly ignoring it, and the Biden administration is ignoring it, and as they hope you ignore it.

00:05:07.280 Now, following the latest updates in the case, yesterday, the Daily Wire had a report showing

00:05:10.680 that Cesar Santangelo was caught on video during a live-action undercover investigation in 2012,

00:05:16.160 admitting explicitly that if any baby is born alive during an abortion, he will leave them to die.

00:05:23.200 Let's go back and listen to that again.

00:05:24.360 I'm ready to see that's 23, 24 weeks. If you're, you know, extra, if you, if you do everything

00:05:32.780 possible to help it survive, you know, there's maybe a 20 to 30 percent chance that it would survive.

00:05:40.080 If you don't do anything, then, you know, the chances are much, much less.

00:05:45.080 Because I'm just, like, so scared of, like, having to be stuck with a response.

00:05:48.620 Sure, sure. You know, like, would you make, you, would you make sure that it, like, it doesn't survive?

00:05:54.120 You know, there's things you do. Obviously, you're here for a certain procedure, and if your, your pregnancy were,

00:06:00.660 let's say you went into labor, the membrane's ruptured, and you delivered before we got to the

00:06:05.540 termination part of the procedure here, you know, then we would do things, we would, we would not help it.

00:06:11.720 Okay.

00:06:11.980 Let's say we wouldn't, we wouldn't, uh, intubate.

00:06:15.260 Okay.

00:06:15.760 Okay.

00:06:16.320 So you would make sure.

00:06:17.060 Yeah, we wouldn't do any extra, you know, it's like, yeah, it would be, you know, a person that would be a terminal person in the, in the, in the hospital, let's say, that had cancer.

00:06:28.380 You know, you wouldn't do any extra procedures to help that person survive.

00:06:32.520 Okay.

00:06:32.700 And I'm like, do not resuscitate others.

00:06:35.020 Okay.

00:06:35.300 Now he says, we do the same things here.

00:06:40.880 Not, we would do the same thing, but we do the same things.

00:06:45.940 And what are those things?

00:06:47.280 Well, uh, if it was hard to understand this conversation, let's recap.

00:06:50.280 Santangelo is assuring the mother, who's really an undercover journalist, that if her baby, which he refers to as it, if the it were to survive the abortion, he could, he would just leave the child to die.

00:07:02.700 Um, he would make sure that it does not survive.

00:07:06.020 He compares this to a terminal cancer patient in the hospital, except of course the terminal cancer patient cannot be helped.

00:07:13.100 There's, there's nothing that can be done to help the terminal cancer patient survive their condition.

00:07:17.580 And that's why we call it terminal.

00:07:19.680 They can at least be given painkillers though.

00:07:22.180 Something that the, the baby during an abortion is not given.

00:07:25.540 I mean, you can't make any attempt to ease the child's pain and suffering because only living beings feel pain and feel suffering.

00:07:32.560 So to give the child painkillers would be to admit that he is a living being, which the abortionist murderer cannot do.

00:07:39.260 But the other big difference obviously is that the child born alive can be helped.

00:07:44.420 He just needs some basic life-saving medical interventions in order to live.

00:07:48.520 Uh, he has refused those interventions through no choice or consent of his own.

00:07:53.580 That's not like the cancer patient.

00:07:55.080 Let's bring it back to the patient in the hospital.

00:07:57.280 So imagine that you had a patient in a hospital experiencing a medical emergency and there is something very simple that could be done to save his life.

00:08:06.920 But instead the doctors put him off in the corner and watch him die.

00:08:11.840 That's what Sant'Angelo is saying he would do and does do.

00:08:15.940 And now there's physical evidence that he takes even a more direct role in the child's death than that.

00:08:22.420 What we're describing here is already murder.

00:08:24.640 Leaving the baby to die, that's murder.

00:08:26.400 You're killing the baby.

00:08:27.900 But the babies recovered from the medical waste box were not simply left to die. 0.92

00:08:31.680 They were killed.

00:08:32.300 Their skulls were crushed. 1.00

00:08:33.660 Their brains were sucked out of their head. 0.99

00:08:36.220 This is happening here in America. 0.98

00:08:37.840 While the media talks about a dead fox.

00:08:40.880 And what about that medical waste box?

00:08:43.100 Where was it headed?

00:08:43.700 Well, it was headed to Curtis Bay, which is the company whose name is on the box where the bodies were recovered from.

00:08:49.640 And that company says on its website that it is, quote, the only facility in the Northeast region that utilizes waste-to-energy incineration to safely convert infectious biomedical waste and non-hazardous pharmaceuticals into useful energy.

00:09:03.740 That's right on the website.

00:09:06.120 So they were going to burn the children's bodies for electricity.

00:09:10.520 The Baltimore area is apparently, at least partially, being powered by the bodies of dead children.

00:09:18.340 Right there on the website.

00:09:20.560 Now, Curtis Bay denies this, for the record.

00:09:22.380 They say that they don't burn, quote, unquote, fetal remains for energy.

00:09:27.880 And yet their name is on the box.

00:09:30.480 What's more, they collect medical waste, evidently, from abortion clinics.

00:09:36.220 What else would be inside the box?

00:09:39.600 And whatever Curtis Bay knew about the contents of its own boxes, I think we can fairly assume that they knew what was inside the box.

00:09:46.940 Because, again, you're collecting from an abortion clinic.

00:09:49.440 Now, maybe they never check, so they have plausible deniability.

00:09:54.720 That could very well be the case.

00:09:57.540 A don't ask, don't tell kind of situation.

00:10:00.700 Where they send the boxes over to Santangelo and they say, oh, send us your medical waste.

00:10:05.960 And, by the way, we don't take fetal remains.

00:10:09.700 Hint, hint, wink kind of thing.

00:10:12.700 But whatever they knew, Santangelo certainly knew it was in the boxes.

00:10:16.360 Just as Planned Parenthood was caught selling the parts of aborted babies for scientific research, Santangelo was apparently selling them off to be burned for fuel.

00:10:26.360 And that brings us to the latest.

00:10:27.600 One of our reporters, Mary Margaret Olihan, who was, she'd been doing great work on this story and so many other stories before this.

00:10:33.380 She went to the clinic to get some answers about all this, the clinic in D.C. where Santangelo operates.

00:10:37.820 While she was there, she got a fair bit more than she expected or bargained for.

00:10:42.780 After trying to speak to Santangelo and being shut down, Olihan left the building and happened across a visibly pregnant woman in clear distress who was right then in the process of undergoing an abortion.

00:10:55.560 The woman was in severe pain and told our reporter that, quote, they just took the tubes out. 0.91

00:11:01.920 And Olihan explains what that means.

00:11:03.720 Reading out from the article, it says,

00:11:04.780 He says,

00:11:34.780 The doctor usually injects the baby with digoxin or potassium chloride when he puts the laminaria in, then waits a day or two for the baby to die before inducing the abortion.

00:12:05.340 But the baby does not always die, Altman told me.

00:12:07.240 And if the doctor does not reach in and cut the umbilical cord before the baby is induced, that baby could be born alive.

00:12:14.980 So the laminaria sticks are used either for abortions where the baby is ripped apart and dismembered piece by piece. 0.89

00:12:22.340 Again, with no painkillers, nothing at all being done for the pain.

00:12:26.120 So this child will feel the pain of being ripped apart.

00:12:30.340 Or, as was probably the case for this woman that our reporter encountered, they're used in an abortion where the baby is stabbed with a poison needle and left to die over the course of one or two days.

00:12:40.180 If the child is not dead by then, he'll be born alive potentially and either killed directly or left off in the corner of the room to continue his agonizingly slow death.

00:12:50.960 Now, by the way, Lila Rose at Live Action took a look at the Google reviews of this clinic earlier in the week and found several women who, just right there in the reviews, 0.81

00:13:02.520 said that they underwent the same sort of procedure and they reported that their babies were either born alive or may have been born alive.

00:13:09.400 One woman says that her baby was born and then or delivered and then rushed out of the room.

00:13:15.160 And she asked if the baby was alive and was not given a straight answer.

00:13:20.040 This is all very common.

00:13:22.120 It happens all the time at clinics all over the country.

00:13:26.940 Babies that are being born, dismembered, ripped apart.

00:13:29.660 This is all happening all across the country, especially in places like D.C.

00:13:34.720 And then we find out, in some cases, reportedly, being shipped off to power plants to be burned for fuel.

00:13:43.840 I mean, we are burning our children for fuel.

00:13:48.360 And the people who brag the most about their compassion, about their love for the downtrodden,

00:13:55.200 and especially for the most vulnerable, they are the ones facilitating this.

00:14:03.560 And sitting off on the sidelines and watching and applauding as it happens.

00:14:10.320 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:11.700 All right.

00:14:21.880 So Judge Ketanji Jackson was confirmed yesterday, is now officially the first black female Supreme Court justice.

00:14:33.180 And so we heard quite a lot yesterday about the historic nature, this historic occasion,

00:14:39.200 including Dick Durbin, Democratic lawmaker, who had a lot to say about how historic this is

00:14:45.720 and how wonderful it is that we should all be celebrating.

00:14:48.040 Let's listen to a little bit of that.

00:14:50.240 I'd like to close with one last personal plea to my Senate colleagues.

00:14:55.900 I hope you'll think about this.

00:14:57.560 In the years to come, long after we've left the Senate, one of our grandchildren may ask

00:15:04.500 where we were on this historic day, April 7th, 2022, when America broke down what seemed

00:15:12.180 like an impossible racial barrier and voted to send the first African-American woman to 1.00

00:15:17.660 serve on our highest court.

00:15:19.560 I will be proud to say I was on the Senate floor, standing at my desk and casting my vote

00:15:26.280 with pride for the next associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

00:15:31.880 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

00:15:34.140 I hope my colleagues will join me in sharing this historic moment.

00:15:38.700 You know what I take away from that?

00:15:39.920 He says, long after we've left the Senate.

00:15:42.220 But when is that going to be exactly?

00:15:43.800 Can we get on with that?

00:15:45.040 I mean, this guy's 6,000 years old and he's still in the Senate talking about long after

00:15:48.800 we're gone, many years from now.

00:15:51.120 That's the most troubling thing to hear.

00:15:52.540 Many years from now, after we're all gone.

00:15:54.360 Meanwhile, the average age in the Senate is 97 and many years from now, they'll be gone.

00:16:01.740 How about now?

00:16:02.840 Why don't you go home now and start telling your grandchildren all these incredible stories

00:16:06.580 that you're so proud about?

00:16:09.820 Raphael Warnock also was, he got a little bit spiritual in this moment.

00:16:15.720 And let's hear a bit of that.

00:16:18.120 Yes, I'm a senator.

00:16:19.320 I'm a pastor. 0.80

00:16:24.120 But beyond all of that, I'm the father of a young black girl.

00:16:31.040 I know how much it means for Judge Jackson to have navigated the double jeopardy of racism

00:16:39.180 and sexism to now stand in the glory of this moment.

00:16:44.280 In all of her excellence.

00:16:47.360 For my five-year-old daughter and for so many young women in our country.

00:16:52.980 But really, if we're thinking about it right, for all of us.

00:16:57.760 Seeing Judge Jackson ascend to the Supreme Court reflects the promise of progress on which our

00:17:06.220 democracy rests.

00:17:09.680 So what a great day it is in America.

00:17:12.880 A great day in America.

00:17:14.080 Well, a couple of things here.

00:17:15.040 First of all, they want us to celebrate a moment like this.

00:17:20.560 And there are several reasons that we can't actually celebrate the moment.

00:17:24.300 We'll go through some of them.

00:17:25.100 I mean, the first reason is that she's not a good candidate. 0.90

00:17:29.480 That she is, you know, we should celebrate, no matter what they look like or what sex they are,

00:17:36.220 what skin color they have, we should celebrate Supreme Court justices who actually are faithful

00:17:40.520 to the Constitution and will interpret the Constitution and try to defend the Constitution

00:17:44.700 because that is their job, to uphold the law as it is written in the Constitution.

00:17:49.200 We know that that is not what Jackson is going to do.

00:17:52.980 So there's nothing really here to celebrate.

00:17:54.480 The other reason we can't celebrate it is that we hear from people like Warnock that

00:17:57.960 this is, it's a moment of progress.

00:18:00.160 It's progress.

00:18:00.940 It's the same thing we heard what feels like ancient history now when Barack Obama was first

00:18:05.640 elected.

00:18:06.020 I mean, how much do we hear about this?

00:18:07.460 This is a moment of incredible progress and a black man's been elected president.

00:18:11.860 And they tell us that.

00:18:12.960 And between Obama and Jackson, there have been many other such moments of alleged glass ceilings

00:18:21.480 breaking all over the place.

00:18:22.660 And yet, they say this progress is happening in one breath.

00:18:26.540 And in the next breath, they revert back to just, we're still a systemically racist country.

00:18:31.300 It's just as bad now as it was during slavery times.

00:18:34.540 I mean, we had John Stewart yesterday talking about the three-fifths compromise as if nothing

00:18:41.720 has changed since then.

00:18:45.000 He said the American dream is false.

00:18:47.520 It's a myth.

00:18:48.020 It doesn't exist.

00:18:48.740 Yeah.

00:18:49.020 Well, this is a black woman who's now a Supreme Court justice being hailed by a black senator 0.94

00:18:54.860 on the floor of the Senate.

00:18:58.000 Is that not evidence?

00:19:01.560 Is she enjoying the American dream?

00:19:03.440 So apparently, it is possible.

00:19:06.260 So they say that this is a sign of progress.

00:19:09.640 And I could almost put everything else aside if they actually meant it.

00:19:14.860 Like, I wish I could say to them, okay, it's progress.

00:19:17.260 Great.

00:19:17.540 So can we move on now?

00:19:18.820 Are you saying that we now have progressed past the point of systemic racism?

00:19:25.640 We're not that kind of country anymore?

00:19:27.940 Is that what you're saying?

00:19:30.320 Now, I think this progress happened a long time ago.

00:19:32.560 But if you're saying that it happened right now, then okay.

00:19:38.160 But what happens the next day when you're pretending that this is a systemically racist

00:19:43.060 country and all the rest of it?

00:19:44.060 So they want to celebrate the progress in one moment.

00:19:50.400 And then in the very next moment, they want to pretend that no progress has happened at all.

00:19:57.760 In fact, even in saying this, he gives away the game because he says that

00:20:02.280 Ketanji Jackson had to navigate the double jeopardy of racism and sexism.

00:20:06.980 Yeah, that's one way of looking at it.

00:20:08.220 Or another way of looking at it is that Ketanji Jackson's success is yet more evidence that

00:20:15.140 this systemic racism and sexism actually doesn't exist.

00:20:20.520 But it's an unfalsifiable claim.

00:20:23.860 That's the thing about systemic institutional racism and sexism.

00:20:27.140 It is unfalsifiable.

00:20:28.800 Literally nothing can happen that would be evidence that it doesn't exist.

00:20:34.100 Even a black man being elected president, becoming the most powerful man in the free world, 0.88

00:20:40.760 was not evidence at all that systemic racism doesn't exist. 0.71

00:20:46.560 You can have not only the most powerful man in our government be a black man,

00:20:51.260 but you could have an administration comprised of racial minorities, and it still is not evidence.

00:20:57.920 If you don't believe me, the next time you hear someone going on about systemic racism,

00:21:01.480 just ask them, what would need to happen to prove to you that systemic racism in America doesn't exist?

00:21:11.040 What would you need to see happen? 0.93

00:21:12.560 Because we know a black man being elected president isn't going to do it. 1.00

00:21:16.840 We know that a black female Supreme Court justice, that's not going to do it. 1.00

00:21:21.240 Okay, that doesn't do it.

00:21:22.240 What would do it for you?

00:21:23.420 What do you need to see?

00:21:26.360 And I'll tell you right now, they won't be able to tell you.

00:21:28.140 And that is indication right there.

00:21:33.280 That is proof that you'll have an unfalsifiable claim.

00:21:35.880 And unfalsifiable claims are fallacious.

00:21:42.200 It can't be falsified because it also can't be proven.

00:21:45.280 It's a thing that exists out in the ether.

00:21:47.920 It doesn't exist in reality.

00:21:49.260 You know, it's like you can't falsify the existence of unicorns.

00:21:56.560 You can't prove that unicorns don't exist.

00:22:03.800 And let's see what else we got.

00:22:05.360 Oh, one other.

00:22:06.240 I thought this was actually inspiring.

00:22:08.980 Kamala Harris, we've heard from some of the senators,

00:22:10.660 but Kamala Harris also had something to say, obviously, about this historic moment.

00:22:14.220 And let's listen to her thoughts, such as they are.

00:22:18.900 You know, there's so much about what's happening in the world now

00:22:21.680 that is presenting some of the worst of this moment and human behaviors.

00:22:29.360 And then we have a moment like this that I think reminds us

00:22:33.280 that there is still so much yet to accomplish and that we can accomplish.

00:22:37.420 There's so much about what's happening in the world now

00:22:44.360 that is presenting some of the worst of this moment and human behaviors.

00:22:50.500 Let me, okay.

00:22:51.540 There's so much about what's happening in the world now.

00:22:54.380 I understand that part.

00:22:56.880 That is presenting some of the worst of this moment.

00:23:00.580 What's happening in the world is presenting the worst of this moment and human behaviors.

00:23:05.840 She recovered by the end.

00:23:07.060 I'll give her credit.

00:23:07.860 You know, by the end, like in the first sentence was a mess.

00:23:11.340 The second sentence, she kind of recovered and she had something approaching of coherent

00:23:14.480 thought.

00:23:14.840 So that's progress.

00:23:16.360 You know, that's progress from Kamala Harris is progress from the Biden administration.

00:23:22.120 So maybe there is hope yet.

00:23:24.460 There is a chance for some kind of progress.

00:23:28.420 But no, this is, for all the reasons described, this cannot be considered a historic moment.

00:23:32.260 But also because, of course, they want us to celebrate the first black woman on the Supreme

00:23:39.640 Court, but we don't know what a woman is. 1.00

00:23:42.380 What do you mean by that?

00:23:43.980 And this is a point, you know, my fear with this point is that we will just, we'll get

00:23:52.440 tired of saying it and kind of move on.

00:23:55.540 But we have to, don't make that mistake.

00:23:58.120 You got to hit them with this every single opportunity, every time.

00:24:03.760 I mean, every time anybody on the left says anything about women, especially wants us to

00:24:11.240 celebrate the achievement of a woman or of women generally, every time they do it, you

00:24:17.800 come right back with, what do you mean by that?

00:24:19.600 Who is that?

00:24:20.000 What's a woman? 1.00

00:24:20.560 What are you talking about?

00:24:21.280 Define the word. 0.99

00:24:21.820 Can just hit them over the head with it, bash them over the head with it, metaphorically, 0.99

00:24:29.020 every chance you get. 0.99

00:24:32.020 Because this is not like a meme or just some kind of sassy, fun comeback.

00:24:39.040 This is a legitimate point, a point that destroys their entire worldview that they have to answer.

00:24:46.700 And so we should never tire of bringing it up.

00:24:48.580 All right, let's move to this.

00:24:51.380 So this week, The Atlantic hosted a seminar at the University of Chicago called Disinformation

00:24:55.900 and the Erosion of Democracy, where a whole bunch of high-profile people in media and politics,

00:25:00.760 to include Obama, apparently, was there.

00:25:02.720 And they showed up to talk about the dangers of disinformation, even though these are the

00:25:08.020 purveyors of disinformation.

00:25:09.340 And this was a fact not lost on some in the audience who were college kids.

00:25:16.340 And during the Q&A portions, they had the chance to call the propagandist to task in some really

00:25:22.100 glorious video footage.

00:25:23.440 We can't play all this, but I want to play a few clips here.

00:25:26.300 So first, here's a student asking, I think, the first question that comes to mind.

00:25:31.260 You're having this disinformation seminar, and you are the people who claim that the

00:25:37.500 Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.

00:25:40.600 Turns out that that claim was disinformation.

00:25:42.600 How do you rectify all that?

00:25:43.640 So here's a student asking an Atlantic journalist about this problem.

00:25:48.400 Thank you for doing this.

00:25:49.440 Really appreciate it.

00:25:50.180 I'm Daniel Schmidt.

00:25:51.120 I'm a freshman at the University of Chicago.

00:25:53.220 My question is for Ms. Applebaum.

00:25:54.940 So in 2020, you wrote, those who live outside the Fox News bubble do not, of course, need

00:26:00.420 to learn any of the stuff about Hunter Biden, referring to his laptop, of course.

00:26:04.340 A poll later after that found that if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16% of

00:26:10.180 Joe Biden voters would have acted differently.

00:26:12.860 Now, of course, we know a few weeks ago, the New York Times confirmed that the content is

00:26:16.320 real.

00:26:16.980 Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden's

00:26:21.840 laptop as Russian disinformation?

00:26:23.160 And what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly

00:26:27.800 disinformation and not reality?

00:26:30.880 My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant.

00:26:34.660 I mean, it's not whether it's disinformation or, I mean, I don't think the Hunter Biden's

00:26:39.900 business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States.

00:26:44.800 So I don't find it to be interesting.

00:26:48.060 I mean, that would be my problem with that as a major news story.

00:26:53.160 Oh, it's not interesting.

00:26:54.940 It just doesn't interest me.

00:26:56.520 That's all.

00:26:56.860 I don't find it interesting.

00:26:58.960 Is that how we're deciding now?

00:27:00.780 What news is worthy to be printed?

00:27:03.180 If it's interesting or not to you personally, subjectively?

00:27:08.640 During a presidential campaign, we're making decisions based on what you personally find

00:27:14.020 interesting.

00:27:14.480 And if you don't find it interesting, then not only are we not going to talk about it,

00:27:18.080 but it's going to be banned from social media.

00:27:21.240 That's a great power.

00:27:22.620 I mean, I'd love to have that power.

00:27:23.840 Just ban everything from social media that I don't find interesting, which would be like

00:27:26.880 99.9% of the stuff on it.

00:27:31.900 Not interesting, she says.

00:27:33.400 But that, of course, is not what they were saying two years ago.

00:27:37.920 They were not saying that it's not interesting.

00:27:39.420 They were saying that it's false, that it's disinformation.

00:27:44.200 So the next day, this happened a couple of days ago.

00:27:46.620 The next day, Jonah Goldberg, who's the token conservative on the panel, responded to this

00:27:53.200 bit about the, and he's also someone, by the way, who said that this was all disinformation

00:27:57.760 and a lie and a hoax and everything.

00:27:59.900 And he responded and had his thoughts about it.

00:28:02.080 Let's listen to that.

00:28:02.620 Talk about A to C, they now think that if only the media had told us about the laptop

00:28:09.260 at the time, as the kid yesterday was suggesting, which I don't buy his theory, that Trump would

00:28:15.920 have won.

00:28:16.840 But for the censoring of the New York Post, Trump would have won.

00:28:21.120 And I think it's a preposterous counterfactual.

00:28:23.700 But it's also, it's impossible for me to refute.

00:28:29.240 In the same way, I cannot refute that this bottle is keeping all the polar bears away.

00:28:35.100 Right?

00:28:36.000 I mean, do you see any polar bears?

00:28:37.260 I cannot prove the negative.

00:28:40.180 And this is just, it has now become...

00:28:43.560 Can we lock the doors just so you can...

00:28:45.340 It has been wrapped into a much larger narrative.

00:28:50.480 And so when they hear disinformation, they say, oh, you mean like Hunter Laptop, which

00:28:55.680 actually turned out to be true?

00:28:58.800 It's actually inferior. 0.85

00:28:59.740 It's sickening to listen to these smarmy...

00:29:01.840 Well, it's like keeping the polar bears away.

00:29:06.500 That's not the point, Jonah.

00:29:08.440 You know that's not the point.

00:29:10.660 The point isn't whether or not it's true that it would have swayed the election one

00:29:14.640 way or another.

00:29:15.180 Look, I actually, I myself am skeptical that the Hunter Biden laptop story would have swayed

00:29:24.300 the election.

00:29:25.480 Could have.

00:29:27.000 I'm skeptical of that.

00:29:28.020 I said that at the time when this story came out and conservatives and right-wing media were

00:29:34.200 hammering on the Hunter Biden laptop thing right as we were heading into the election.

00:29:38.540 And now, I didn't say that it's disinformation and it should be banned from social media.

00:29:42.260 I said, it's true, but I don't think that this is the best closing argument. 1.00

00:29:47.420 I don't think the best closing argument against Biden is that his son is a scumbag. 0.99

00:29:51.700 And yeah, you can draw the connection between his son and Biden and you can draw all these 0.99

00:29:54.780 connections and they are connected.

00:29:56.180 But if you want a political scandal to land, it has to be pretty simple and easy to explain.

00:30:03.440 And to connect the dots between Hunter Biden's laptop and Joe Biden himself, that takes a couple

00:30:08.340 more moves and it's a harder case to make, especially in the closing weeks of a campaign.

00:30:14.320 You want to go with things that are much simpler and more to the point about Joe Biden himself,

00:30:17.860 because a lot of people, they're going to hear about Hunter's laptop.

00:30:21.860 Well, it turns out a lot of people didn't hear about it because it was censored by the media.

00:30:24.780 But I think a lot of people would hear about it and say, well, I don't care.

00:30:28.560 What does that have to do with Joe Biden? 1.00

00:30:29.500 Yeah, his son, his grown son is a scumbag. 0.99

00:30:31.300 Okay, again, there is a connection there, but drawing, getting people to see the connection 1.00

00:30:37.640 is a different matter.

00:30:39.800 It's not the same thing, right?

00:30:43.040 I think the stronger argument and the closing argument against Biden all along should be

00:30:48.060 about him and how incompetent he is and also his age.

00:30:52.260 And I know that his age came up a lot, but I think that should have been the headline.

00:30:55.560 That should have been the number one thing hammering on the entire time. 0.63

00:30:59.240 This man is losing his mind.

00:31:00.240 He's not fit for office.

00:31:01.100 He's 78 years old.

00:31:01.900 He's got, he's senile, he has dementia.

00:31:03.800 Yeah, it was talked about plenty, but in my mind, that's the number one most salient thing

00:31:08.220 in the election to bring up.

00:31:09.560 Okay, but that's academic, that's irrelevant.

00:31:16.460 The fact is, we don't know whether it would have swayed the election because it was censored.

00:31:22.560 And all that matters, whether or not it would have or wouldn't have, not the point.

00:31:27.340 The point is that the powers that be in the culture, the media, big tech, they thought

00:31:35.600 that it would, which is why they censored it.

00:31:39.000 So this was an attempt to rig and sway the election.

00:31:45.040 Not just an attempt, it was.

00:31:46.720 They were rigging and they were rigging the election.

00:31:51.900 That's it.

00:31:52.420 Now, how do you quantify the effect that it had?

00:31:58.280 I mean, you can't because you're speaking in theoretical, in theoretical terms.

00:32:02.340 To know for sure, you have to go back in time and do it all over again, but without censoring

00:32:07.040 that material.

00:32:08.160 We can't do that.

00:32:08.860 So we can only speak theoretically.

00:32:09.720 But this was a rigging of the election that happened because big tech and the media, they

00:32:14.240 thought that this could be damning enough to convince people to vote, to either just

00:32:20.680 not vote for Biden at all, or to actually vote for Trump.

00:32:24.520 And they were having flashbacks to the email scandal with Hillary Clinton in 2016, which

00:32:29.900 absolutely did, absolutely was one of the deciding factors, and as well it ought to have

00:32:36.540 been, leading to her losing and Trump winning.

00:32:39.600 So they were having flashbacks to that, and they said, we can't let this happen again,

00:32:43.560 and so we're going to censor this material.

00:32:46.760 Jonah Goldberg is missing the point on purpose, talking about in theory, well, what would have

00:32:51.760 happened?

00:32:52.020 That's not it.

00:32:52.840 They thought that it would, and they tried to censor it, and they did censor it because

00:32:56.840 of that.

00:32:58.980 And that's the point.

00:33:00.020 And it is, it is, it should infuriate you, especially if you pretend to care so much about

00:33:09.480 democracy, and you're always accusing Trump and the far right of waging an assault on

00:33:15.060 democracy.

00:33:17.640 Well, how is this not an assault on democracy?

00:33:19.900 When there is factual and relevant information about a political candidate in a presidential

00:33:28.440 election that is kept from public view because of how it might sway them.

00:33:36.860 How is that not an assault on democracy?

00:33:42.240 Let's see.

00:33:43.440 Okay, I want to get to this.

00:33:44.940 We don't have a lot of time, but we talked yesterday about the case of Maria Lucio, who

00:33:50.820 is the woman who's on death row right now for brutally murdering her two-year-old daughter, 0.99

00:33:56.380 and she has had celebrities come out in her defense, you know, just the peanut galleries 0.99

00:34:03.280 out in her defense, and a lot of this was, a lot of this began with a Netflix documentary,

00:34:09.880 as is so often the case now.

00:34:13.700 You've got these supposed true crime Netflix documentaries, and these things, by the way,

00:34:18.540 these true crime, supposed true crime Netflix documentaries, they are a scourge on this planet

00:34:23.540 at this point.

00:34:27.100 So many examples of people watching these quote-unquote documentaries and coming away thinking they

00:34:31.600 understand a case when really they don't understand it at all.

00:34:34.440 I mean, it all, you know, making a murderer is one of the classic examples of this, of course.

00:34:38.100 Still to this day, people walk around saying that Stephen Avery has been unjudged, he should

00:34:44.600 be freed from prison.

00:34:47.660 Well, I'll tell you what, if they ever do free him from prison, and especially if you're 0.99

00:34:50.960 a woman and he moves in your neighborhood, move out, because this guy is a murderous psychopath.

00:34:56.980 And we know in that quote-unquote documentary, they left out a lot of relevant information,

00:35:03.040 and that's the problem with these documentaries, is that it's very easy to take a murder case

00:35:09.280 and make a guilty person seem innocent by simply just leaving out all the stuff that makes them

00:35:17.580 seem guilty.

00:35:18.480 Real easy to do.

00:35:20.100 You just take the defense, whatever the defense is, and you present that in film form, and you

00:35:25.980 leave out all of the most damning evidence.

00:35:27.680 And then people watch that, and they don't do any research on their own, and they walk away

00:35:30.880 assuming that, oh, this person's been thrown in jail, they don't belong there.

00:35:35.260 In Stephen Avery's case, it was, I mean, there were so many things that were left out.

00:35:38.440 Just off the top of my head, there's the fact that his victim, Teresa Halbach, you know,

00:35:42.680 she was going to his house, she had gone to his house a couple times to take pictures for

00:35:47.020 a magazine of, I think it was cars, you know, he was selling cars.

00:35:50.700 And she had told her bosses that she doesn't want to go back to his house because of this

00:35:54.960 guy, the guy's a creep, and would show up to the door, like, with nothing on but a

00:35:59.300 bathrobe.

00:36:01.660 So she had already, she had already gotten, you know, she was already freaked out by this

00:36:06.680 guy, didn't want to go there.

00:36:08.860 His DNA was found under the hood of her car when he said he never went in her car, never

00:36:16.200 was, never, never were anywhere near it.

00:36:18.480 He had made plans earlier while he was, while he was in prison, you know, years, years before 0.96

00:36:22.860 talking about torturing and raping women. 0.94

00:36:24.840 Um, I mean, he, he, he killed a cat and they kind of mentioned that, but they downplayed 0.99

00:36:30.540 it.

00:36:30.620 Actually, he doused a cat in gasoline and set it on fire.

00:36:33.840 I mean, this is, this is what like serial killers do.

00:36:35.740 So all kinds of stuff like that left out.

00:36:37.600 Um, similar thing with the Maria Lucio case.

00:36:41.180 Um, and we've heard about family members of Lucio who have come to her defense, but apparently

00:36:49.300 many of these are kids of hers who were not living in the house when all this happened.

00:36:53.060 Cause she had like 12 kids.

00:36:54.400 I don't think all by the same father.

00:36:56.260 And, um, and they've, so they've been in and out of foster care.

00:37:00.520 They were living in different homes.

00:37:01.960 And so many of the kids that have come out in her defense and saying she didn't do it,

00:37:05.120 they weren't in the house at the time.

00:37:06.880 One of her own daughters though, who was in the house has been on TikTok speaking out

00:37:10.780 and saying that her mom did in fact viciously abuse her sister.

00:37:14.540 Um, she didn't personally see some of the worst abuse, but she knows she was in the house

00:37:18.040 and she knows that it was happening.

00:37:19.400 So here, here she is on TikTok talking about some of this.

00:37:21.520 Let's play this.

00:37:23.060 The only one who abused my sister was my mother, Melissa Lucio. 1.00

00:37:28.800 No, my father, stepdad that lived in the house with us was not aware of the abuse that

00:37:34.320 was going on.

00:37:35.720 Um, even us as kids, we didn't know the extent of the abuse that was happening.

00:37:41.100 Um, we, the abuse that we talk about and know about is, um, the isolation of her keeping 0.90

00:37:49.220 my sister away from everyone, not letting her play with us, um, my mom would hold my sister 1.00

00:37:55.960 down on the bed or she would hold her head down on the pillow so that Mariah wouldn't 1.00

00:38:03.160 interact with us.

00:38:04.200 Um, we did see my mom pinch Mariah, um, but we never witnessed a punch.

00:38:11.580 We never witnessed my mom bite Mariah, nor did we ever witness my mom pull my sister's

00:38:18.520 hair.

00:38:18.700 But all of that was happening.

00:38:21.020 Um, like I said, my dad was not aware of the abuse.

00:38:24.380 He was always working.

00:38:26.020 Um, and the only time that I can think of that the abuse was possibly happening was either

00:38:33.360 when all of us were in school, my dad was working and my mom was alone with Mariah or when all

00:38:40.700 of us were sleeping because my mom slept or my Mariah slept in the bed with my mom and my

00:38:46.820 dad.

00:38:47.680 Um, and that's the only thing that I can think of.

00:38:51.360 Um, we didn't see any of the abusing until when we came home or when my dad found Mariah that 0.75

00:38:58.300 day in the bed, um, Mariah was soaked, her, her, her pamper was soaked and, um, my dad

00:39:06.700 took off her clothes so that he can change her pamper before the ambulance got here or

00:39:11.700 there.

00:39:12.420 And, um, when he took off her pamper, of course he had to take off her pants and that's when

00:39:18.360 he saw the bruises and that's when he started screaming to my mom, how could he do that?

00:39:23.740 Or how could she do that?

00:39:25.580 And why was she, why did she abuse my sister? 1.00

00:39:28.300 So that's this woman's own child who's, who's reporting all this and now she's on death row

00:39:34.660 justly so for killing this child says the child fell down the steps.

00:39:39.060 Allie Stuckey has a thread on this and, and has posted some of the court documents detailing

00:39:44.800 more about the abuse that, uh, Mariah, the daughter suffered, um, at the hands of this 0.98

00:39:53.020 disgusting woman. 1.00

00:39:54.140 And she admits that she did, she, she, okay, just reading it says, appellant also stated 0.98

00:39:59.140 that she would hit Mariah when appellant got mad. 0.96

00:40:01.780 Appellant also described how she pinched Mariah's vagina and how she would sometimes grab and 1.00

00:40:05.540 squeeze Mariah's arm. 0.98

00:40:07.220 Appellant described how she bit Mariah twice on the back at different times, about two weeks

00:40:10.320 before Mariah's death.

00:40:11.620 Appellant said that on one occasion she bit Mariah on the back for no reason while she was

00:40:15.380 combing Mariah's hair.

00:40:16.340 Appellant said, I just did it.

00:40:18.220 Appellant also stated that she would spank Mariah several times day after day. 0.93

00:40:21.720 And so admitting to vicious, like deranged physical abuse of a child, then the child

00:40:29.080 ends up dead with bruises and marks all over her body says, and the claim is that she fell

00:40:33.640 down the steps and people are buying this.

00:40:37.600 It's like, it's unthinkable to me.

00:40:39.720 And one thing you hear a lot, by the way, is that, well, the, the other kids said that

00:40:43.100 they were not personally abused.

00:40:44.240 That doesn't mean anything.

00:40:47.380 You know, a parent, an abusive psychotic parent kind of focusing their abuse on one child

00:40:53.300 is not uncommon.

00:40:55.600 It happens a lot.

00:40:56.780 They have a name for it.

00:40:57.420 They call it the Cinderella phenomenon or a target child selection.

00:41:01.220 And I don't particularly like either of those terms, but those are the terms that are used.

00:41:04.500 And this is something that, that happens.

00:41:06.600 It's, it's a very well-known phenomenon where a parent, abusive parent will isolate for whatever

00:41:12.740 reason, will pick one child, isolate them.

00:41:14.840 We hear about that in the video there, how she was isolated and then physically abused

00:41:18.880 while all the, all the other kids are left alone, at least physically.

00:41:22.220 That is clearly what happened here. 1.00

00:41:24.200 This woman deserves to die. 1.00

00:41:26.800 Few people on earth deserve to die as much as she does. 1.00

00:41:29.380 And I will thank God when she is finally executed because that's what she deserves. 0.99

00:41:33.200 All right. 0.96

00:41:33.660 One other quick thing before we get to the comment section report from a journalist at airline

00:41:38.420 weekly says, this is an exclusive report.

00:41:41.480 American Airlines is the latest offer, an on the ground alternative to flying amid the

00:41:46.100 pilot shortage and high oil prices.

00:41:48.440 They will begin operating buses as flights for American from its Philadelphia airport hub

00:41:54.960 in June.

00:41:56.680 Buses as flights is what they're calling it.

00:41:58.780 In other words, just, you see it there.

00:42:00.860 So no, it's just a bus.

00:42:02.200 Like unless the bus flies, unless this is a magic school bus situation where Miss Frizzle's 1.00

00:42:07.660 flying it through the air and going on adventures.

00:42:09.220 It's not a bus as a flight.

00:42:11.180 It's just a bus.

00:42:12.360 And so this is the innovation.

00:42:13.600 This is the aviation innovation we're getting now.

00:42:17.500 And I was thinking about this and it just seems to me like we're moving backwards, right?

00:42:21.640 Because 30 years ago, you could take a supersonic flight from New York to London in like three

00:42:27.660 hours, three and a half hours.

00:42:28.560 And now if you're in Philly and you want to go to a city nearby, you buy a plane ticket,

00:42:34.680 they put you on a bus.

00:42:37.240 The aviation industry is progressing in the opposite direction, basically.

00:42:41.800 By 2030, American Airlines, it'll be like a Wright Brothers planes that they're flying.

00:42:48.080 You'll be able to glide from New York City to another location in New York City.

00:42:52.820 That's the direction we're heading.

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00:43:29.140 Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:31.080 Who's bringing shopping carts back to their rightful place?

00:43:36.440 We're becoming saints here in the sweet baby gang.

00:43:44.940 Memotype says, is Matt making an institutional power argument?

00:43:48.540 Yeah, I am making an institutional power argument that I have made many times for cancel culture.

00:43:53.020 That is, institutional power is a real thing.

00:43:55.300 I guess you're referring to the institutional power argument we hear from the left where

00:43:59.840 they talk about how racism is defined by institutional power and you can't be racist unless you have

00:44:05.540 institutional power.

00:44:07.200 And that's why only white people can be racist. 0.88

00:44:09.020 Yeah, that's completely bogus for many reasons.

00:44:12.080 One is that racism has nothing to do with institutional power.

00:44:14.220 If you despise someone or judge them or think they're inferior because of their race,

00:44:17.440 then you're racist whether you have institutional power or not.

00:44:19.900 It's also false because white people are not the only ones with institutional power.

00:44:23.740 But that doesn't mean that no argument should be made based on institutional power.

00:44:29.200 Institutional power is a real thing that exists.

00:44:32.140 And my argument is that although racism is not defined and dependent upon institutional power,

00:44:38.580 cancel culture is.

00:44:39.820 Cancel culture, that's how you distinguish between cancel culture and just holding somebody

00:44:47.340 accountable or expressing your disapproval of something or protesting.

00:44:52.260 That's how you distinguish between those two things because they're not the same.

00:44:56.900 Cancel culture is when the powerful institutions in this country are used against someone to shut

00:45:03.380 them down, silence them, and it's done in a vengeful, petty, often dishonest kind of way

00:45:09.660 for ideological reasons.

00:45:12.980 Like, that's what Kev's culture is.

00:45:15.240 I think we should be pretty clear about that.

00:45:20.120 Let's see.

00:45:21.340 Matt, why aren't you displaying your hard-earned trophy?

00:45:24.520 Yeah, the trophy that somebody awarded me for, you know, dominating my children in pickup basketball.

00:45:29.380 Well, the reason I'm not displaying it is that the shelving behind me, the shelves behind

00:45:34.540 me are fake because this, again, as I've told you before, is just a sheet.

00:45:38.880 It's like a bed sheet with an imprint of my old studio on it.

00:45:45.200 So that's why I can't, unfortunately, I can't display the trophy.

00:45:47.620 Speaking of which, though, speaking of me defeating my kids in various competitions,

00:45:54.080 I did play, it's kind of a big moment.

00:45:55.800 And I played, really, it was like the first time playing a real board game against my

00:46:00.020 kids.

00:46:00.360 It was just my daughter, the eight-year-old Julia.

00:46:02.760 I played Monopoly.

00:46:04.100 It's the first time playing Monopoly against her and my wife, all three of us played.

00:46:07.280 And I just, I crushed their souls.

00:46:10.480 Okay, by the end of this thing, I had every Monopoly on the board except for one, and it

00:46:15.800 was just in total domination.

00:46:18.040 And I told my daughter beforehand, before we got into it, I said, I'm not going to let you

00:46:21.900 win.

00:46:22.700 We're playing for real now.

00:46:24.180 Okay?

00:46:24.440 Okay, you're eight years old.

00:46:26.100 We're playing a real board game now.

00:46:27.920 And she said to me, oh, I know, Daddy, I just want to play a game with you.

00:46:31.340 I said, okay, let's play.

00:46:33.000 And by the end of it, I had won so thoroughly, of course, and she starts crying.

00:46:36.140 She's in tears.

00:46:37.220 And I asked her, like, why are you crying?

00:46:38.520 And she said, she told me because she thought she might win.

00:46:40.720 She got her hopes up.

00:46:42.160 And I tried to comfort her, and I said, oh, no, Jules, you were never going to win.

00:46:46.380 I was always going to win.

00:46:47.960 You're not ever going to beat me in this game or any other game.

00:46:51.060 And I thought that would comfort her, and it apparently didn't, and my wife was looking

00:46:53.860 at me, and I'm like, I'm the bad guy all of a sudden.

00:46:57.420 But I stand by this.

00:46:58.600 This is my dad growing up.

00:47:00.040 We used to play cards, and he would never let us win.

00:47:04.260 He would ruin us in cards every single time.

00:47:07.060 And look how I turned out.

00:47:10.300 Maybe that doesn't help my case.

00:47:11.680 I don't know.

00:47:11.960 And finally, Aaron says, Matt, I'm a correctional officer who makes the inmates watch their sweet

00:47:19.380 daddy.

00:47:22.200 Well, sweet daddy seems like it could have some troubling connotations in a prison setting,

00:47:26.900 but it is good to hear anyway.

00:47:29.520 I do appreciate that.

00:47:31.360 I don't know how exactly you force your, it does seem like that might be a violation of

00:47:34.700 human rights to force your inmates to listen to this podcast, but I appreciate it all the

00:47:39.120 same.

00:47:40.020 Let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:41.960 Well, Disney is continuing its groveling struggle sessions as its executives debase

00:47:50.360 themselves in ever more extravagant and excruciating ways, hoping to win back the good favor of

00:47:54.780 the LGBT cabal that's really running the company at this point.

00:47:57.980 This week, Disney held another Reimagine Tomorrow online seminar for its employees, and as always,

00:48:03.240 Chris Ruffo got his hands on the footage.

00:48:05.780 We'll review some of it, but there's one part in particular that I'd like to pay special

00:48:09.660 attention to.

00:48:10.120 We'll get to that in a couple minutes.

00:48:11.000 Before we get there, here's a Disney official announcing a benefits program to help pay for

00:48:16.700 sex change surgeries for the children of Disney employees.

00:48:20.680 Listen.

00:48:21.780 The other big area is gender identity and expression.

00:48:24.840 So doing all of this work to ensure that our employees and cast can express their gender

00:48:30.200 here authentically and proudly at the company.

00:48:32.860 So, you know, coming up with guides on how to change your photo, information about pronouns,

00:48:37.100 working with our benefits team to give information about gender affirmation procedures, both for

00:48:41.740 our employees who are transitioning and trans, but also our employees who have kids who are

00:48:46.440 transitioning.

00:48:49.000 Gender affirmation procedure, as you know, if you listen to the show, is a euphemism that in practice 0.94

00:48:53.140 actually means chopping the breasts off of teenage girls, chemically castrating young boys and 1.00

00:48:57.060 subjecting these confused and abused children to various other forms of medical savagery. 0.83

00:49:01.360 It wasn't very long ago that the left was still denying that these kinds of things were done to

00:49:05.440 children at all.

00:49:07.100 Now, though, Disney proudly announces that it will foot the bill for procedures that five seconds ago

00:49:12.000 we were told didn't exist, weren't happening.

00:49:13.940 Will this be enough to satiate the Alphabet squad?

00:49:18.140 Well, of course not.

00:49:19.340 During the same seminar, various Disney employees and executives who claim various different letters

00:49:23.220 in the LGBT XYZ club appeared on camera to talk about their deep and profound pain.

00:49:29.760 This they-them was feeling particularly emotional. 0.99

00:49:33.100 Let's listen to that.

00:49:35.000 You know, for me, well, one, I'm an emotional person.

00:49:39.860 So there's always a fear of crying in public, but I've just decided to accept that this is who I am.

00:49:44.440 Um, but in addition to that, you know, the fact, just the fact of like how painful this has been

00:49:51.220 and as a Black person, as a Black queer person, as a Black queer and trans person, you know,

00:49:58.260 to do the work of holding the company accountable means unpacking my own pain for somebody else to learn.

00:50:05.420 And that is really hard to do without knowing that it's going to get better.

00:50:12.640 And so if I'm going to continue to do this and continue to show up and kind of lay myself bare for the benefit of my colleagues and our leadership,

00:50:21.920 um, I want to know that something is going to be done about it so that I don't feel this way anymore and so that we don't feel this way anymore.

00:50:30.500 As a Black person, as a Black queer person, as a Black queer trans person, as a Black queer trans person with food allergies, 0.73

00:50:38.520 as a Black queer trans person with food allergies and dyslexia,

00:50:41.300 as a Black queer trans person with food allergies and dyslexia and vertigo,

00:50:44.300 just keep, you know, padding the victim resume.

00:50:46.860 The woman insists that she's deeply in pain.

00:50:49.500 She's suffering, writhing in emotional agony. 0.91

00:50:51.860 But as always, she cannot explain what exactly she's so upset about.

00:50:56.720 I mean, I think I know the answer. 0.64

00:50:57.940 One answer is that she's a manipulative fraud who uses emotional blackmail to control people. 1.00

00:51:02.460 This, of course, is the number one most common cherished tactic of LGBT activists. 0.91

00:51:06.880 The other is that she has an ego the size of Disney World. 0.98

00:51:10.040 But it's as thin and fragile as it is overinflated.

00:51:12.780 And she carries this massive bag of narcissism around with her everywhere. 1.00

00:51:15.920 And it's always getting, you know, bumped into and bruised.

00:51:20.180 This, again, is the classic story of LGBT activists told over and over and over again. 0.75

00:51:25.500 You also notice how this woman has almost no thoughts of her own.

00:51:29.460 Everything she utters is a talking point or buzzword.

00:51:32.320 Do the work.

00:51:33.300 Unpack my pain.

00:51:35.020 Show up.

00:51:36.660 She's so obsessed with herself and focused on herself, and yet there is almost no self there.

00:51:40.620 She's a walking, talking, leftist cliché. 1.00

00:51:44.100 And we'll return to that theme in just a moment.

00:51:45.880 But first, we have to go to Bob Chapek, who's the Disney CEO and a man who, if he were any more spineless, would melt into a puddle and disappear down the drain.

00:51:55.660 He's more of a jellyfish than a man at this point. 0.89

00:51:58.680 Translucent, insubstantial, gelatinous, invertebrate, and apparently totally incapable of experiencing shame.

00:52:05.440 Watch.

00:52:05.680 By now, I hope you've all read my most recent note, in which I pledged to be a better ally for the LGBTQ plus community, apologize for not being the ally that you needed me to be, and committed to ensuring that our company lives up to its values.

00:52:22.940 I meant every word, and that's what we're here to talk about today.

00:52:27.200 I know that we've got work to do, and that work starts with listening.

00:52:31.260 I'm glad the company will hear from today's panel of LGBTQ plus employees, and I hope that you are as impacted as I've been by the voices that I've heard over the past few weeks.

00:52:43.600 I've read many emails that have been sent, spoken with LGBTQ plus employees and their allies, met with advocacy groups, and convened my own leadership team.

00:52:54.520 And I have been taken by the honesty, the openness, and the urgency of their stories.

00:53:00.060 I want you to know that your words have made a real impact on me.

00:53:03.780 I understand that we've made mistakes and the pain that those mistakes have caused.

00:53:09.400 And I know that our silence wasn't just about the bill in Florida, but about every time an individual or institution that should have stood up for this community did not.

00:53:19.740 I and the leadership team are determined to use this moment as a catalyst for more meaningful and lasting change.

00:53:26.760 You know, it's in videos like this where you really see the religious nature of modern leftism.

00:53:31.680 Chapik confesses his sins, seeks atonement and absolution. 0.98

00:53:35.100 I mean, every religion has this feature, but in, say, the Christian religion, the faithful seek the forgiveness of our Father who art in heaven.

00:53:43.400 Chapik seeks the forgiveness of his own gods who art in the LGBT initialism. 0.99

00:53:47.880 There are many little demigods in that club, and everybody on the outside of the club is struggling to get inside the club and enjoy their own share of its divinity. 0.99

00:53:55.520 A Disney executive producer named LaToya Ravineau has found her own way into the club, and it's pretty interesting.

00:54:02.980 Listen to this.

00:54:04.520 I identify as, like, a biromantic asexual.

00:54:07.900 I've had a lot of learning and growing about myself this year, kind of facilitated by how comfortable I felt on the Proud family and with my immediate team at Disney TVA.

00:54:19.220 And so it's just sort of, like, this creative dissonance between my personal experience.

00:54:24.220 A biromantic asexual. 0.91

00:54:28.400 Now, let's break this down.

00:54:30.640 An asexual is somebody who supposedly doesn't experience any sexual attraction at all to anyone.

00:54:36.540 The problem with that identification is that, first of all, if it's true that somebody experiences no sexual attraction at all,

00:54:42.160 then it makes absolutely no sense to include them in the LGBT community, given that this is a community which is literally defined by its various sexual attractions.

00:54:50.120 Putting an asexual person in the LGBT camp, it's like having a club for birdwatchers and also including people who have absolutely no interest in birdwatching. 0.97

00:55:00.720 These are people who do not want to partake in the very thing that defines the club.

00:55:05.960 It makes no sense to have them in the club in that case.

00:55:08.480 Also, people are not meant to be asexual and are not asexual.

00:55:15.400 Now, some animal species are asexual, like Komodo dragons and certain species of crayfish.

00:55:21.980 But people are not Komodo dragons or crayfish.

00:55:25.260 That woman, as far as I could tell, is neither of those things.

00:55:28.040 She's a human being.

00:55:28.660 What we call asexuality would more properly be characterized as a low libido or a disinterest in romantic relationships.

00:55:37.620 That's not the same thing scientifically as asexuality.

00:55:41.280 It is rather a dysfunction of the brain, which may be due to hormonal problems or some sort of mental illness or trauma suffered earlier in life.

00:55:50.260 You know, it could be a lot of reasons for it.

00:55:51.620 Or perhaps, and I think this is the most common, it could also be a symptom of spiritual despair.

00:55:56.720 Some people have given up on human relationships because they've decided that they're not worth the cost or the effort.

00:56:03.060 But that's not asexuality.

00:56:05.220 And whatever the cause of this affliction, it's not an identity.

00:56:09.440 It's bizarre and self-limiting to find your whole identity in your sexual attraction.

00:56:14.120 But it's even more bizarre and far more limiting to find your identity in your lack of attraction.

00:56:19.920 You are finding your sense, yourself, your sense of self in the absence of something.

00:56:27.340 This is no way to become a fully formed and stable human being.

00:56:31.680 But wait a second.

00:56:33.480 She says that she's not only asexual but also biromantic.

00:56:38.020 But what does that mean?

00:56:40.240 I mean, in reality, romantic means something that is characterized by love and affection towards another person.

00:56:46.320 This is the dictionary definition.

00:56:47.800 And we have to understand love in this context to be the erotic form of love.

00:56:54.560 That's what a romantic love is.

00:56:57.120 That's why you would hopefully say that you love your mother, but you would even more hopefully not say that you go out to dinner with your mother.

00:57:04.960 It's a romantic dinner.

00:57:07.120 See, there are different kinds of love.

00:57:08.640 And romantic love is erotic love.

00:57:11.180 It's sexual love.

00:57:13.380 These are the same.

00:57:14.760 Erotic, sexual, romantic.

00:57:15.900 These are all synonyms.

00:57:17.280 They belong in the same category.

00:57:18.660 So how can somebody be romantic, more than that biromantic, meaning that they have romantic attraction to both sexes, and yet also at the same time be asexual?

00:57:30.580 Well, they can't, is the answer.

00:57:34.560 One of the latest LGBT innovations is to draw this incoherent, bifurcating line between romantic and sexual. 1.00

00:57:41.940 But the distinction, just like the distinction between sex and gender, is meaningless.

00:57:46.320 Romantic and sexual are the same thing.

00:57:48.580 They are characterized the same way.

00:57:51.200 If you're not romantically attracted to somebody, then you're not sexually attracted to them.

00:57:55.220 If you are romantically attracted to them, you're sexually attracted to them.

00:57:58.120 There is no legible distinction between the two.

00:58:02.480 And yet the LGBT activists draw one anyway. 0.92

00:58:06.380 This is their game.

00:58:07.460 It never ends.

00:58:08.840 They never stop their assault on language and logic.

00:58:13.160 All coherent concepts have to be broken down, torn to shreds, blended together, and turned into a jumbled smoothie of meaningless contradictions.

00:58:23.120 And that's why ultimately today, we thought I was going to cancel Disney, but we already canceled them.

00:58:27.700 So instead, in a much more specific sense, we are canceling biromantic asexuals. 0.87

00:58:32.980 Can't really be canceled, I guess, because they don't exist.

00:58:35.320 But even so, canceled.

00:58:37.400 And we'll leave it there for today.

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