The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 927 - 'We Aren't Grooming Children,' They Cry As They Groom Children

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left insists that teachers absolutely aren't sexually

00:00:03.680 indoctrinating elementary schoolers, yet there's video footage of teachers doing precisely that.

00:00:07.600 Also, Pete Buttigieg says that children will die if he and his fellow groomers are not allowed to

00:00:12.220 say whatever they want to our kids. The truth is that gender ideology, as professed by Buttigieg 0.75

00:00:16.480 and others, is what will kill kids and is killing kids. Also, Donald Trump endorses pro-abortion,

00:00:21.360 anti-gun, pro-trans Dr. Oz, and a jury refuses to convict the men entrapped by the FBI in a

00:00:27.180 plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Plus, Sam Elliott issues the inevitable groveling apology

00:00:31.680 for committing the sin of not liking a gay cowboy movie. In our daily cancellation, 0.83

00:00:36.060 some libertarians on YouTube tried to debunk me. We'll see how they did. All of that and more today

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00:01:52.000 to Charity Mobile today. As we have noted, one of the interesting things about the leftist reaction

00:01:57.580 to the anti-groomer efforts in Florida and elsewhere is that they tell us the laws are totally

00:02:02.000 unnecessary because nobody is trying to sexually indoctrinate young children anyway, and they also

00:02:06.400 tell us that the laws are an assault on human rights and will result in millions of gay people 1.00

00:02:11.220 dying of unspecified causes. The laws will do nothing, and also they will do very horrible things.

00:02:17.120 At the exact same time. These claims obviously can't both be true, but let's look at them

00:02:21.420 individually. If this is a non-issue and there is no sexual indoctrination of children happening

00:02:25.820 anyway, then it's very hard to explain this video just posted by our nation's leading journalist,

00:02:31.720 Libs of TikTok. Here we see a first grade teacher at a Boston charter school,

00:02:36.060 Brooke Charter School is what it's called, instructing students in grades K through 2

00:02:40.180 about transgenderism during what is being called an identity share zoom call. Listen to this.

00:02:46.840 All right. So something that's really cool and unique about who I am is that I am transgender.

00:02:52.560 So we touched a little bit about that at the beginning of this week in the book that Miss

00:02:57.400 Hammond read, but I'm going to give you my explanation about what it means to be transgender

00:03:01.900 as well. So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them and they make a guess about whether the baby

00:03:07.980 is a boy or a girl based on what they look like. And most of the time that guess is 100% correct. 0.97

00:03:13.980 There are no issues whatsoever. But sometimes the doctor is wrong. The doctor makes an incorrect

00:03:20.720 guess. When the doctor makes a correct guess, that's when a person is called cisgender. When a doctor's 0.52

00:03:26.740 guess is wrong, that's when they are transgender. So I'm a man. But when I was a baby, the doctors 1.00

00:03:33.320 told my parents I was a girl. And so my parents gave me a name that girls typically have and bought 0.89

00:03:39.480 me clothes that girls typically wear. And until I was 18 years old, everyone thought I was a girl.

00:03:46.980 And this was super, super uncomfortable for me because I knew that wasn't right. The way I like to

00:03:52.480 describe it is like wearing a super itchy sweater. The longer you wear it, the itchier it gets. And

00:03:57.940 the only way to make the itching stop is to have everyone see and know the person that you really

00:04:02.440 are. So when I was 18, I told my family and my friends that I'm really a boy. And it was like

00:04:07.480 this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders and I had the freedom to be who I truly am. And even

00:04:13.860 though this experience is super challenging sometimes, it made me the person I am and I'm super proud to be

00:04:20.020 transgender. This person is a disgrace to plaid, first of all. I'm ashamed to be wearing plaid on 1.00

00:04:26.500 a day like today. Remember, nobody is talking to little kids about transgenderism, even though we

00:04:32.700 have seen video after video after video of exactly that, teachers doing exactly that, and openly

00:04:38.660 admitting that they've done and will continue to do exactly that. The teacher in the video tells the

00:04:43.980 little helpless children that there are two categories of people, transgenders and cisgenders. 0.89

00:04:50.240 Now, I think it's worth lingering here for just a moment to consider that claim in a little bit

00:04:56.040 more depth. That is, after all, something that we can do as reasonably intelligent adults. We can

00:05:02.380 analyze claims made by other adults and figure out whether they're credible. Lots of grownups in this

00:05:08.740 country aren't even capable of that much. So then what chance do little kids have in that case? How

00:05:13.560 are they supposed to sift through the nonsense and decipher truth from propaganda? Again, there are

00:05:19.200 millions of adults in this country who will hear what the person in that video said and think,

00:05:23.840 yep, makes perfect sense. So if adults can hear all of that blathering gibberish and be duped by it,

00:05:30.660 what hope is there for like a seven-year-old? Yet those of us who have maintained our capacity for

00:05:36.800 critical thought might notice that the transgender versus cisgender thing is, first of all, simply one

00:05:44.240 binary system being substituted for another. Now, these people insist that the gender binary is

00:05:51.520 artificial and limiting, and then they turn around and introduce a different system that is also binary.

00:05:57.880 And where did they get the cisgender thing from? It's obvious why they find the term useful. It implies 0.71

00:06:04.640 that normal people who identify as the sex they were born are not actually normal, but are instead just 0.97

00:06:10.000 one possible variation. It also helps to reframe all human beings in the terms and language of LGBT 0.89

00:06:16.980 ideology. Calling us cisgender is essentially like, it's like the LGBT version of a vicarious baptism. 0.64

00:06:24.420 We are all baptized into their worldview, whether we like it or not.

00:06:28.260 But where did the cisgender word come from? As it turns out, the term was first coined in 1991 by a

00:06:35.580 German sexologist named Volkmar Sigush in a paper titled, Transsexuals and Our Nosomorphic View,

00:06:47.120 whatever that means. Now, you'll notice a theme here. Almost every depraved and insane thing in our

00:06:53.120 culture today, at least as it relates to sex, can be traced back to 20th century sexologists,

00:06:58.140 especially German sexologists. And just like almost all the rest of them, Sigush took a rather

00:07:03.840 tolerant view of pedophilia, drawing a distinguishing line between pedophiles and what he called,

00:07:10.500 quote, pedosexuals. He said in an interview a few years ago that pedosexuals can be, quote,

00:07:17.020 kind-hearted, informed, and enlightened, and that we should not try to cure them of their, quote,

00:07:22.780 desires. But instead, we should just try to, you know, keep them from making physical contact with

00:07:28.120 children. So the desire is not the problem. It's just the act itself. As mentioned, this accepting

00:07:36.220 approach to pedosexuality is, quote, unquote, pedosexuality, as this person calls it, is a

00:07:42.720 through line that connects nearly all of the 20th century sexologists and psychology quacks who

00:07:48.640 invented gender ideology, John Money and Alfred Kinsey principle among them. So keep all this in

00:07:53.700 mind when you hear the claims that critical race theory is just a legal theory and it isn't taught

00:07:59.420 in schools. Well, cisgender was coined in a German sexology paper 30 years ago. Now it's being taught

00:08:07.420 to kindergarteners. So there is a pipeline that takes radical, obscure, left-wing ideas directly

00:08:15.300 into grade school and out into the wider culture. The pipeline in this case is more of a sewage line

00:08:21.560 and we're all now living in the filth and muck that dumps out on the other end. There's something else

00:08:27.580 worth noting in the video, though. The groomer teacher says that doctors guess about whether a baby is a

00:08:36.380 boy or a girl. And I've heard this variation more and more frequently, this idea of, well, it's just a

00:08:42.860 guess. And it is a kind of a significant departure from the usual sex assigned at birth narrative that

00:08:49.640 we get from these people. Now that narrative is also completely false, of course, but because doctors

00:08:55.040 no more assign a child sex than they assign the child species or DNA structure. But at least the assigned

00:09:01.780 language pays some moderate deference to the concept of biological sex. The sex is assigned,

00:09:09.580 quote unquote, based on the child's reproductive organs. But even that is too much for the trans 0.99

00:09:18.100 ideologues. By changing the language to guess, the groomers are convincing children that the sex on

00:09:24.120 their birth certificate is a completely random, totally arbitrary, haphazard designation. It's all

00:09:31.320 a roll of the dice. It's not even an estimation or a theory or a prediction or a construct. It's simply

00:09:40.760 a guess. Like, you know, I might guess about whether you're holding a quarter in your right or left hand,

00:09:46.880 that kind of guess. The effect, quite intended, of course, is to make the child listening to this

00:09:54.160 begin to question whether the doctor guessed correctly in his own case. It is destabilizing

00:10:01.520 to the child. He thought he knew himself, but now he's not so sure. This is where the identity crisis

00:10:08.820 begins. It is caused. It is imposed. It is started intentionally. And then years later,

00:10:16.880 after a childhood full of unnecessary confusion, self-doubt, self-loathing,

00:10:22.560 if that child then tragically succumbs to despair and hurts or kills himself,

00:10:29.240 the same people who sent him down that path will then turn around and blame those of us who had

00:10:34.480 absolutely nothing to do with it. This was illustrated late last week with this exchange

00:10:39.500 between Pete Buttigieg and the clucking hens of The View. Listen.

00:10:43.000 My state of Florida, with the so-called don't say gay law now, which he says will kill kids. 0.95

00:10:53.500 Do you agree? And, you know, as a politician, because this strikes you as, you know, 0.95

00:10:58.900 your husband is a teacher. You are obviously LGBTQ yourself and you are now a parent.

00:11:05.080 Yeah. So how do you feel? Yeah, he's right. And I think every law ought to be judged for the effect

00:11:11.880 it's going to have on real people in real life. And I get the political reasons why they're doing

00:11:17.940 this. By the way, some of those political reasons, they don't have a plan on anything else, right? I

00:11:22.800 mean, they don't have a plan on dealing with inflation or dealing with gas prices or dealing

00:11:28.500 with the issues. Yes, he says the law will kill kids. If he's not allowed to groom children, 0.83

00:11:36.200 they will die. Let him and his grooming comrades, all of them, the teachers, like the woman we saw

00:11:43.380 in the first video, let them have their way. Let them unfettered access to our children or else our 0.95

00:11:49.500 kids will die. It is the most insidious and vile form of emotional blackmail imaginable.

00:11:55.520 And it's made all the more sinister by the fact that Buttigieg is the one who is getting kids

00:12:01.060 killed. Him and the other gender ideologues, they're the ones doing it. They are getting kids 1.00

00:12:07.880 killed. They are depriving children of identity, of truth, of true self-acceptance. And a great many

00:12:16.960 of these kids will die and are dying because of it. And it's their fault. The groomers, it's their fault.

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00:14:02.080 controversy that's been brewing. Yesterday, I went out with my family to a lake nearby. The lake was like

00:14:09.060 40 degrees, but the kids, they still went swimming because kids are weirdly impervious to pain.

00:14:14.000 Actually, they're kind of both. I was thinking about this yesterday. Kids are weirdly impervious

00:14:18.160 to pain, but also overly sensitive to it at the same time. So my kids will swim in a freezing lake

00:14:22.900 or they'll like fall 40 feet out of a tree and then pop up like nothing happened. But then five

00:14:27.280 seconds later, you know, they'll get a paper cut and scream like somebody shot an arrow through their

00:14:31.560 hand. Anyway, so we were there and I'm lounging. I'm vibing as the kids would say. And my wife

00:14:36.500 snapped a photo, as always to shame me. And this photo has elicited mockery on Instagram,

00:14:42.740 but I have no shame. So here it is. You can see I have the, yeah, I have the Birkenstock sandals

00:14:48.160 with socks that I'm wearing out in public. The chinos, the ball cap that you may not like.

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00:15:15.740 all night, every night. And by that, I mean, from when the kids go to bed until 915, when you fall

00:15:21.760 sleep on the couch and by partying, I mean nothing that resembles partying at all. That's what white dad 0.84

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00:15:55.300 mattwalshreport.com, get signed up. Okay. Let's start here. This is from Breitbart. It says,

00:16:01.240 former President Donald Trump endorsed celebrity doctor, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania's US Senate race

00:16:07.900 on Saturday after his initial pick, Sean Parnell dropped out amid a contentious custody battle

00:16:11.900 with his estranged wife last fall. Trump said his endorsement of Oz is all about winning elections

00:16:17.400 in order to stop the radical left maniacs from destroying our country. Trump said in a statement,

00:16:22.740 the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to save America by electing

00:16:26.900 the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate. I have known Dr. Oz for

00:16:33.220 many years, as have many others, even if only through his various, through his very successful

00:16:38.460 television show. Trump touted the thousands of life-saving heart operations Oz has performed

00:16:43.460 throughout his medical career and the eight New York Times bestsellers he authored.

00:16:48.120 Trump also pointed to Oz's pro-life views, right, and his strength on the border election fraud in

00:16:54.820 the military as reasons for his endorsement. Trump said, Dr. Oz is pro-life, very strong on crime,

00:17:00.100 the border election fraud, our great military, and our vets, tax cuts, and will always fight for and

00:17:04.340 support our under siege Second Amendment. He will ensure America will become energy independent again.

00:17:09.600 Dr. Oz also passionately believes in high quality education and protecting parent involvement

00:17:14.360 throughout the process. Okay, none of that, just so you know, none of that is remotely true at all.

00:17:20.640 Dr. Oz is and has always been pro-abortion, anti-gun. He's spoken about this publicly many times. Now,

00:17:29.500 maybe when he started running for Senate, he experienced a conversion on all of these issues

00:17:35.500 all at once. But that's going to make you a little bit skeptical. I mean, somebody, I don't know how old

00:17:38.960 Dr. Oz is. He's, let's say he's mid-60s at least. So a guy in his mid-60s has a certain point of view

00:17:46.060 for his entire life and then decides to run for office as a Republican and all at once, magically,

00:17:53.540 look at that. He's a, he has, it's a, it's a road to Damascus moment. What a coincidence.

00:17:58.860 No, Dr. Oz is without a doubt, a full-on leftist, not just, not just like leans liberal establishment

00:18:08.980 Republican type. He is a leftist. And I'll play a video in a second that proves this. He is a far

00:18:14.100 left leftist. He is actually about as far left as you can be. He's on the cutting edge of leftism

00:18:21.360 right now or, or damn near it at least. And I mean, we don't even, there are so many problems

00:18:31.300 with Dr. Oz. We don't even need to mention the fact that he's not at all qualified to be Senator.

00:18:35.220 The fact that he was a TV doctor for 20 years, I don't see, I don't really see the correlation

00:18:39.860 between that and being an effective Senator. But then again, Senators don't really do much anyway.

00:18:43.960 So I guess anyone could be qualified for it. So that's not even, that's not my problem with him.

00:18:47.420 My problem is that he is a far left leftist. That's my issue that Donald Trump decided to

00:18:55.560 endorse. Now I've heard over the weekend, many excuses for Donald Trump because there are people

00:19:04.620 on the right, lots of people on the right who are always ready and eager to make excuses for

00:19:09.720 Donald Trump because we've decided, and this has been the case for ever since Trump was on the scene

00:19:15.100 as a political figure. It's been decided generally speaking by the right that Trump is never

00:19:20.000 responsible for anything that he does. It's all like any, any mistake is always somebody else's

00:19:25.400 fault. And so the excuse that I'm hearing for Trump is that, oh, it's his advisors. Ah, those,

00:19:30.320 those damned advisors again. Well, maybe we should start asking, first of all, if it is his advisor's 0.99

00:19:36.360 fault, why is he so terrible at hiring advisors? And second of all, is he not capable of analyzing

00:19:41.680 these things for himself and seeing that Dr. Oz, I mean, it took me five minutes to discover that Dr.

00:19:47.140 Oz is a leftist and I haven't known him for my entire life or I haven't known him for years like

00:19:53.140 Trump has. So I don't buy that excuse. I also don't buy the excuse that, um, that, well, the other guy,

00:20:00.540 you know, the other people, there, there, there are no good candidates in the race right now for Senate

00:20:04.560 on the Republican side in Pennsylvania. And they're all a bunch of establishment milquetoast types.

00:20:09.580 And so, uh, you know, there's, there, there is no good option that I can believe. I certainly

00:20:14.760 believe that. So, but if that's the case, then either you endorse nobody or if you are going to

00:20:21.300 endorse Dr. Oz for some reason, which I don't know why you would, because there's no way he's the best.

00:20:27.100 I don't care who the other guys are. There's no way that Dr. Oz is better than them

00:20:31.100 because it can't get much worse. But if you are going to do it, then just say that he's the lesser

00:20:38.180 of two evils that he like, he's not great. But then again, uh, you know, he's, he's more likely

00:20:43.260 to win in the general, whatever your argument is, just be honest about it. Don't try to put him

00:20:47.000 forward as a pro-life champion. So if you want to know what Dr. Oz is all about, uh, let's go back

00:20:55.640 to one of his, and this is the great thing about a guy who's been on TV forever is that he's,

00:20:59.740 you could just go and watch the tape. He's, he has addressed all of these issues extensively

00:21:05.420 in interviews and on his own show, and he's made his views very clear.

00:21:11.300 So this is from, I believe, several years ago, in fact. So Dr. Oz, before it was

00:21:17.520 as popular as it is now on the left to promote trans kids, before that, Dr. Oz, that's why I said

00:21:26.180 he was, he's on the cutting edge of leftism. Here he was a few years ago on a show, um,

00:21:31.360 singing the praises of childhood transgenderism. Watch. 0.99

00:21:35.860 What if your son told you he was meant to be a she? She always knew that she is a girl. Would 0.89

00:21:43.080 you let your child become the opposite sex? Talk to me about why I decided to have a double 1.00

00:21:47.160 mastectomy at age 14. Inside the lives of transgender kids. This show is going to be 1.00

00:21:53.040 controversial for a lot of people, challenging your beliefs about what it means to be male

00:21:57.720 or female. The word you'll hear today is transgender. Transgender. It describes people whose sex on

00:22:05.560 the outside doesn't match who they are on the inside. Now imagine your child is transgender. 1.00

00:22:12.580 What would you do? Our lives as parents are first defined by the words, it's a girl or it's a boy.

00:22:19.320 Could you make a decision to let your child live as the other sex even alter their body? It's an area 1.00

00:22:25.840 of intense debate. Today you'll meet families coping with this astonishing reality.

00:22:32.460 What does it mean to be a boy? What does it mean to be a girl? Those two simple questions

00:22:37.980 are infinitely complex and gut-wrenching for parents of children who are born transgender. 0.98

00:22:43.800 I'm a girl and I have a penis. 0.73

00:22:49.200 Eight-year-old Josie was born Joseph. Physically, she's a boy, but from the time she could talk, 0.99

00:22:55.480 Josie knew she was a girl.

00:22:59.020 Doesn't get any better, by the way. You can see the entire episode if you can stomach it,

00:23:01.940 which is on YouTube right now. And lest you try to make any excuses for Dr. Oz and say,

00:23:08.040 well, he's just talking about the issue. He's taking an objective view of it. Well,

00:23:12.960 even that would be terrible because you can't take an objective view of children being sexually abused,

00:23:19.140 which is what this is. There's no, there's no, well, you know, these kids are being sexually

00:23:23.500 abused, but let's, let's think of it objectively. That is already terrible,

00:23:27.040 but that's not even what he's doing. I mean, it's very clear in the episode that he is promoting this.

00:23:32.760 He is, he is legitimizing it, validating it, using his doctor label to validate this stuff.

00:23:40.600 And that's very, it's very effective in lots of people's minds. I mean, there are a lot of people

00:23:49.080 who for years have been sitting around watching these, these, these kinds of people on, on TV

00:23:54.360 and they see this stuff promoted and they think, well, Hey, if Dr. Oz says it's fine or that it's

00:24:00.540 valid, then it must be. He says that, well, what does it mean to be a boy? It's, it's infinitely

00:24:08.340 complex. It's not complex. Actually, it's not complex at all. It's very simple.

00:24:13.320 And you know, you must know that as a medical professional.

00:24:18.080 So you watch that and you think like this guy is running for Senate as a Republican

00:24:23.720 and he just got an endorsement from the previous Republican president.

00:24:29.320 I think it's the Republican party is in shambles, in shambles right now.

00:24:35.620 But when, when, when that, I mean, if that becomes accepted, that becomes fully mainstream

00:24:42.620 accepted on the right or among Republicans, then it is over. And I mean, it's, it's done.

00:24:48.020 It's over. Um, because that is, that has to be a deal breaker. I don't, we could get into

00:24:55.480 his positions on abortion, gun rights. I mean, all of it is bad, but if you're endorsing trans 1.00

00:25:00.940 children, the concept of their being such a thing as a trans child, um, that has to be 1.00

00:25:07.880 the, where the line is drawn deal breaker, that's it.

00:25:15.560 And if it's not, and if we let that become the standard in the Republican party,

00:25:21.500 then it's, it's done. It's over. And then you have Democrats. And then on the other side,

00:25:27.620 you have Democrats and that's all that there is. And I know you might say that we're already in

00:25:33.940 that position where you've got the Democrat party and the Democrat light party. I would say that

00:25:39.800 we're, we're, we're not there yet. There is a battle within the Republican party right now over,

00:25:46.160 you know, it's a kind of a civil war. It really depends on, on who wins that battle

00:25:50.480 because Ron DeSantis is also a Republican and he obviously is not endorsing transgenderism in

00:25:58.120 children. So you've got two sides, the two sides of the Republican party kind of battling it out

00:26:03.260 right now. And if the side that wants to mainstream this kind of stuff, gender ideology, if they win,

00:26:11.320 then it's done politically it's done. All right, let's go to this from the federalist. It says a jury

00:26:18.060 refused on Friday to convict any of the four men standing trial for supposedly plotting to kidnap

00:26:22.960 Michigan, Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, after strong evidence that the FBI tricked them

00:26:28.280 into the plan. After 20 days of trial, jurors determined that Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta

00:26:33.620 were not guilty of felony charges, a conspiracy to unlawfully seize, confined, kidnap, abduct,

00:26:38.420 and carry away and hold for ransom and reward or otherwise the governor of the state of Michigan.

00:26:42.880 Jurors could not agree on the fates of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., the other two.

00:26:46.860 So those men left the trial with no verdict and with the possibility of being brought to trial

00:26:50.700 again. Prosecutors representing the U.S. Department of Justice argue that the group of men were

00:26:54.400 anti-government extremists who schemed to violently take down Whitmer for her role in promoting

00:26:58.840 COVID-19 and tyranny in Michigan. But right now, because the defense argues, I think correctly,

00:27:08.440 that this was not their plot, okay? The four men, they didn't come up with this. This wasn't

00:27:13.920 their plot. The FBI came up with it and recruited them into it. The FBI came up with a plot to kidnap

00:27:19.820 the governor of Michigan and then went and suggested it to other people and tried to recruit them into

00:27:25.020 it. And so who do you blame for that? You blame the FBI. And that's why this verdict, or in two cases,

00:27:33.880 kind of a non-verdict, as it stands right now, this is the right decision. We'll see what happens if

00:27:41.260 there's a retrial or something. Hopefully there isn't. But my point is, if you're really worried

00:27:48.220 about the police state or law enforcement abuses or whatever it is, you should be happy with this result

00:27:57.240 tentatively. You should be happy with it. Because this is, without a doubt, law enforcement abuse. And there's a

00:28:05.000 whole lot of it that happens with the FBI. But you don't find that on the left. I mean, the left is

00:28:11.420 very upset that they want all these guys to go to jail forever. And I think this is something that

00:28:18.100 our side gets wrong and that I get wrong. Or at least we talk about this in a way that's imprecise.

00:28:25.320 Because we often say, and I have said, that the left is anti-police. Well, I mean, they aren't,

00:28:35.700 actually. I kind of wish they were. Now, I mean, it's not good to be anti-cop. You shouldn't be.

00:28:42.280 But that would be better than what they actually are. Because at least if you're just anti-cop in

00:28:47.540 general, you're basically an anarchist, then that's a consistent principle, at least. And it would

00:28:53.780 mean that you would be skeptical. You'd be consistently, constantly skeptical, probably

00:28:58.880 overly skeptical of law enforcement. But it would mean that when there's actual law enforcement

00:29:05.540 abuse happening on any side to anybody, you would be there and you'd be very critical of it.

00:29:10.440 If you're just anti-cop across the board. Again, not the right approach, but it's better than

00:29:16.000 what we actually get from the left, which is that their view of law enforcement and of police,

00:29:23.320 it really depends on who's on the other side. Like, who's the person being arrested? Who's the

00:29:31.380 person potentially being abused, exploited, whatever? I mean, when you look at the way they

00:29:41.220 react to, you know, George Floyd or Michael Brown or any of these cases with any of the BLM

00:29:47.720 martyrs, you'd be excused if that's all you saw of the left and of their approach to law enforcement.

00:29:57.340 You'd be excused for thinking that, oh, well, these people just hate the cops. Because like,

00:30:01.040 even when the police are trying to arrest a violent criminal, and in the case of Michael Brown,

00:30:07.200 the violent criminal is trying to kill them. And even then, you know, leftists are not tolerant of

00:30:14.600 the police using any kind of lethal force in response. It seems like from their perspective,

00:30:20.800 if a violent criminal is trying to kill a police officer, it's the police officer's ethical duty

00:30:26.340 to just stand there and allow themselves to be killed. So you see that, and it seems like extreme,

00:30:34.120 like an extreme anti-police bias. But then you go over to the other side, and you see a Capitol

00:30:41.360 police officer shooting an unarmed woman in the neck inside the Capitol building, and they're

00:30:45.960 celebrating that. You see the FBI blatantly trying to entrap people into criminal conspiracies,

00:30:54.400 and they're fine with that. So this is not a consistent principle, and that's because on the

00:31:00.760 left, there are no consistent principles, period. This is a relativistic view of the world, and so

00:31:08.340 everything is always relative. And that explains, as Daily Wire reports, leftist MSNBC host Joy Reid

00:31:15.840 tweeted her disgust Friday with the Michigan jury that did not convict four men of conspiring to

00:31:20.060 kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Reid, as she often does, focused on the race and political 1.00

00:31:25.260 leanings of the accused men, arguing that they were not convicted because they're white right-wing

00:31:29.360 extremists. She tweeted, quote, unreal. So in America, in the year of our Lord 2022,

00:31:34.700 you can plot to kidnap a Democratic woman governor to stage a show trial to hurt her or worse because

00:31:39.920 you don't like COVID restrictions, and then you can walk as long as you're a white right-wing 0.96

00:31:43.960 extremist. Holy jury nullification, Batman. Yes, because when you look at the response to January 6th 0.87

00:31:51.720 from the federal government, obviously the only conclusion you can draw is that if you're on the

00:31:57.040 right, law enforcement will just leave you alone. Right? That's the obvious conclusion.

00:32:03.440 By the way, Joy Reid, since we're on the subject, she found other things to racialize as well. That

00:32:07.740 should actually be the name of her show. I don't know what the name of her show actually is, but

00:32:11.480 whatever it is, it should be racialized with Joy Reid. I think that's a much better name.

00:32:16.980 And here she is this weekend looking at the racial element of the media's focus on Ukraine. Listen.

00:32:24.860 We haven't witnessed the same type of solidarity for the Yemenis as we do for the Ukrainians.

00:32:30.180 We don't see historic sanctions or global campaigns, corporations like Airbnb and Netflix

00:32:35.300 taking a stand. And this is not to say that we shouldn't care this much for Ukraine. Far from

00:32:39.360 it. The point is we should also care this much for refugees and those facing occupation and war

00:32:44.500 in the Middle East and Asia and Africa too. The coverage of Ukraine has revealed a pretty radical

00:32:49.460 disparity in how human Ukrainians look and feel to Western media compared to their browner and 1.00

00:32:55.140 blacker counterparts, with some reporters using very telling comparisons in their analyses of the

00:33:00.660 war. It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair

00:33:08.320 being killed, children being killed every day with Putin's missiles. The unthinkable has happened to

00:33:14.020 them. And this is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe. This isn't a place with all due 0.95

00:33:20.920 respect, you know, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. You know,

00:33:28.680 this is a relatively civilized, relatively European. I have to choose those words carefully to

00:33:34.520 a city where you wouldn't expect that or hope that it's going to happen.

00:33:39.600 Civilized. OK, let's face it. The world is paying attention because this is happening in Europe and

00:33:45.220 this was happening anywhere else. Would we see the same outpouring of support and compassion?

00:33:49.180 But we don't need to ask ourselves if the international response would be the same if

00:33:53.240 Russia unleashed their horror on a country that wasn't white and largely Christian because Russia 0.99

00:33:57.880 has already done it in Syria. This is a teachable moment for us in the media. We aren't afraid to

00:34:04.640 call out our own industry. There is a lot of soul searching that we need to do in Western media

00:34:09.180 about why some wars and lives seem to matter more than others.

00:34:12.580 First of all, not to get into semantics, but actually the media, the media did focus.

00:34:21.140 Syria dominated the headlines for months.

00:34:26.400 But all of her criticisms about the media, you know, and their focus on Ukraine, like that,

00:34:33.400 you work for MSNBC. That's, you're one of the drivers of this.

00:34:37.560 And I actually agree as I've, as I argued from the beginning

00:34:42.440 that the focus on Ukraine is out of proportion with the way we look at other parts of the world.

00:34:54.320 It's not, it's not, it's not for racial reasons though.

00:34:56.820 And by the way, if you want to make it racial, well, you could easily look at it from the other end.

00:35:08.080 Why is the media focused on Ukraine so much? Well, yeah, you could say that the, the victims in this

00:35:13.760 case have, have it, you know, appear to be white, have lighter, have a lighter skin tone. And so that's

00:35:19.420 why people are focused on, um, okay, well, the, the bad guys, right? People, people on the other

00:35:26.280 side, Putin, you could just as easily argue from the perspective of the, of left-wing media,

00:35:32.140 you know, they prefer this story because they like him as a bad guy. Whereas if you go into other

00:35:38.880 parts of the world, you're going to find that, yes, the victims are not white, but also the bad guys 0.94

00:35:43.560 aren't white. So you'd easily look at it that way. If you want to racialize it becomes a double-edged

00:35:51.460 sword, but really the racial narrative either way is it's, it doesn't really explain it. And the fact

00:35:59.280 is that Afghanistan did dominate the headlines for a few months back around the time of the, of the

00:36:06.920 Afghanistan, uh, pull, pull out. It really is up to why, like, why do we focus on this? So that we 1.00

00:36:15.720 focused on Afghanistan, it was Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan. And then we just drop

00:36:19.500 it like a hot potato, move on to the next thing. I mean, it's not like everything, it's not like

00:36:26.300 everything is fixed in Afghanistan. It's not like it's better. We just moved on or talking about 1.00

00:36:31.200 something else. Why is that? Well, I guess we should, we should ask the media, we should ask Joy

00:36:39.320 Reed, go talk to your bosses about that. They're the ones who are determining this. Um, it's not,

00:36:48.840 it's not a right wing conspiracy. It's a corporate media decision. And the corporate media is not run by

00:36:56.340 white, uh, right wingers. I can tell you that. All right. One other thing I got to play for you.

00:37:02.720 This is, uh, we could call it disappointing. Also not really disappointing because it's, it's totally

00:37:08.540 expected. Sam Elliott's is of course the famous, iconic Hollywood actor. And a couple few weeks ago,

00:37:16.220 we, um, gave him some credit because he was asked about this power of the dog, which is this

00:37:23.000 very artsy Western, terrible, boring movie, dull, very dull movie. That's I defy you to watch that

00:37:29.060 movie and make it through 15 minutes without falling asleep. And it was nominated for a bunch

00:37:32.560 of awards and everything. And it's about a gay cowboy and the critics are hailing it because of

00:37:37.300 the gay themes and everything else. Um, Sam Elliott in a podcast was asked about this movie and he gave

00:37:42.720 an honest answer. He said, he doesn't, he doesn't like it. He doesn't, you know, he just doesn't,

00:37:46.000 he doesn't need those kinds of themes in a Western. He likes the more traditional Westerns.

00:37:49.640 That's his, that was his honest opinion about it. And, um, of course people were very upset

00:37:55.280 about his honest opinions because he was asked about his opinion of the movie.

00:38:00.120 But just because as we've learned, just because you're asked about your opinion of something,

00:38:04.140 that doesn't mean that you're, that you're actually entitled to give your opinion.

00:38:07.560 What they want to hear is you repeat the accepted opinion and pretend like it's your own,

00:38:14.140 whether it is or not. And so people are very upset about that. And, uh,

00:38:18.180 and Sam Elliott was on a panel a couple of days ago, was asked again, and he is now singing a little

00:38:24.980 bit of a different tune. Listen. Yeah. First, don't go do a podcast whose call letters are WTF.

00:38:32.480 WTF. That movie stuck, struck a chord with me. 0.93

00:38:47.120 And in trying to tell the guy, the WTF guy, how I felt about the film,

00:38:55.140 I wasn't very articulate about it. I didn't articulate it very well. And I said some things

00:39:06.260 that hurt people. And I feel terrible about that. The gay community has been incredible to me

00:39:20.200 my entire career. And I mean my entire career from before I got started when I was in this town.

00:39:31.080 Friends on every level. In every job description.

00:39:36.680 Up until today with my agent, my dear friend, my agent of a number of years.

00:39:43.200 And I'm sorry that I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved

00:39:50.800 and anyone else by the words that I used.

00:40:00.780 Is he going to cry? It looks like he's about to cry. I couldn't keep listening to the,

00:40:05.600 watching the clips. I don't know where, where it goes. It can't go anywhere good from here.

00:40:09.100 It just goes to show, look, these, these are actors. The characters they portray on screen

00:40:15.820 are fake, of course, and oftentimes do not reflect who they really are at all. So

00:40:19.540 Sam Elliott has made a career playing these kind of gritty, tough, you know, Western badass type

00:40:25.440 figures. And here he is on a panel in Hollywood crying because people were, had their feelings hurt

00:40:32.640 by his opinion about a movie. He's, he's, he's, he's apologizing to the people who he hurts.

00:40:39.680 And those are people who were hurt by Sam Elliott's opinion of power of the dog.

00:40:48.580 They, they were hurt because Sam Elliott had an opinion about a movie that they disagreed with.

00:40:55.780 Hurt. We never get any specifics on how this, like, in what way were they hurt? How could they

00:41:03.980 have been hurt by that? But they were. So Sam Elliott grovels and apologizes. It's just, it's a

00:41:11.180 damn shame. I mean, he's old. He's in his, you know, he's in his seventies. He's obviously rich. 0.96

00:41:16.560 He's got plenty of money. Um, and he has everything that he needs to just throw up the middle finger

00:41:23.840 to all of the sensitive cry, cry bullies that not even really sensitive, the pretend sensitive cry

00:41:31.300 bullies and say, you know what? I don't care, but he's not going to do that because he lives in

00:41:36.620 Hollywood and this is how he's been. He himself has been conditioned his whole life and it won't

00:41:42.880 matter either. He is. It doesn't, you've already, it's too late, Sam. You've revealed your actual

00:41:49.400 opinion about something. Cat's out of the bag and everyone knows the secret. Now they know the

00:41:55.740 secret that you actually have your own opinions about things. And, and God forbid you, you, you

00:42:04.200 maybe sometimes enjoy watching movies where, um, uh, there's, there's not, uh, LGBT ideology being,

00:42:12.480 being, uh, shoved in your face every second. Like you sometimes prefer to watch movies without that,

00:42:17.680 God forbid. So you've already revealed that they know it now and you can cry and apologize all you

00:42:23.120 want. It's not going to change it. Could have kept your dignity, decided to give it up and you get

00:42:29.840 nothing in return. Same old story. If you haven't heard of Ben's book club, now's your chance to get

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00:43:57.680 comment section.

00:43:59.120 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day. We're the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:44:09.040 All right, some comments from Friday's show. John Williams says,

00:44:12.060 I cannot believe that anyone could listen to what Matt is describing and still be pro-choice. Well,

00:44:16.020 they don't listen, John. That's the trick. They don't, not just to me, they just don't listen.

00:44:22.200 They tune it out as much as they can. And that's how they remain pro-abortion. It's the only way that

00:44:28.580 you can remain pro-abortion, I think, is to be very careful about what you expose yourself to. I think 0.84

00:44:37.720 it was C.S. Lewis that said something along the lines of, you know, an atheist can never be too

00:44:42.420 careful in his reading because the point C.S. Lewis was making is that atheism is this kind of this

00:44:48.960 fragile thing and you have to protect it very carefully by making sure you don't expose yourself

00:44:53.800 to anything that could shatter that view into a million pieces. And it's the same thing with

00:45:01.100 being pro-abortion. That's why clinics know this. The abortion mills, they know this for sure. 0.99

00:45:08.540 That's why they've conspired with the government. They've got all these special laws.

00:45:15.620 No other, by the way, no other industries, no other private establishments get this kind of law,

00:45:19.700 but there are laws on the books where you're not allowed to get within X number of yards of an

00:45:24.600 abortion mill. Even if you're not on their property, like public property, they still get this radius.

00:45:31.880 No one else gets it. They get it because of this relationship between the abortion industry and 0.98

00:45:37.320 government, this kind of incestuous relationship. So they have that. They've got clinic escorts who

00:45:43.640 come out. And when the women are coming in to kill their babies, they send the escorts out. And the 0.74

00:45:47.280 escorts' whole job is just to make sure that the women don't look over at any protesters that might be 0.90

00:45:52.580 there. They don't receive any of the literature that someone might try to hand to them.

00:45:56.480 It's all about keeping this fragile thing intact.

00:46:06.780 Let's see. Nate says, if you make abortion illegal, there will be an influx of back alley procedures. 0.99

00:46:13.800 Well, maybe the mother of the child will reconsider something so dangerous if they themselves could

00:46:17.520 be put in harm's way. Yeah, that's the correct response to this back alley claim that, oh,

00:46:23.500 if we don't have abortions, then you're going to have unsafe and dirty abortions that happen in back 1.00

00:46:28.740 alleys. Well, the problem is that every abortion is unsafe by definition. The objective of the abortion

00:46:39.020 is to destroy life, and so there's no safe way to do it. And also, it is a dirty, evil, terrible thing

00:46:50.940 to do in the first place. And in a civilized society, you don't provide a nice, clean,

00:46:58.980 welcoming environment for people to do dirty, evil, destructive, horrible things to their kids,

00:47:05.640 most of all. Let's see. Mike Mart says, this biromantic asexuality nonsense reminds me of the 1.00

00:47:15.280 infinite fracturing of musical styles that the punk rock scene spawned back in the 90s. You can no

00:47:20.700 longer talk about your favorite artist without the initiated lecturing you on whether their style

00:47:25.240 was pre-this, post-that, neo-something, or proto-something else. The growing palette of genders

00:47:30.280 and sexualities creates an ever-increasing array of self-branding opportunities for people desperate

00:47:35.000 to stand out in a rather bland culture. I want to say we are reaching peak narcissism,

00:47:39.580 but we could have a long way to go yet before the worship of the self comes into its full flower.

00:47:45.320 Very well put. I don't think I need to add anything to it. James says, Matt, after your

00:47:49.960 take on chain restaurants, I have to say you're banned from the show. Yes, this is another reason

00:47:54.380 why I'm being viciously attacked today, aside from my great style and my sandals and socks.

00:48:01.260 All I said on Twitter yesterday is that actually all sit-down chain restaurants are fine,

00:48:07.380 and some are even good. And in the vast majority of cases, the boutique kind of nice, trendy

00:48:13.660 restaurants aren't enough of an improvement over the chains to justify the price. That's my point.

00:48:20.400 So, for example, I've never been to a nice Italian restaurant that's enough of an upgrade over Olive

00:48:28.280 Garden or Carrabba's to make it worth the premium you pay for it. I know this is being treated like

00:48:32.960 heresy, and I've got all the Italians coming after me. How could you say this? Well, it's, 1.00

00:48:37.380 true. I'm not saying, yeah, you could go to the nice Italian place, and the spaghetti is going to

00:48:41.340 be, you know, a little better than Olive Garden. It's not better enough to justify how much more

00:48:45.960 you're paying for it. That's my take, and I'm sticking to it. And look, I've been to nice

00:48:51.200 restaurants all over the country. I've been to the kind of places that are renowned. You know,

00:48:55.140 you hear about, oh, this is famous across the world. It's the best place. And you go in,

00:48:59.240 and they're always good, but they're almost never good enough for the price.

00:49:03.700 And I usually leave there thinking, man, I could have just gone to Red Robin and paid a tenth of

00:49:09.740 the price, and I'd be just as full right now, and the food experience would have been only slightly

00:49:15.980 worse. That's my take. So, that's a hot take that's actually, it's on the positive end of things. I

00:49:21.700 don't do those very often. Usually, my hot takes are, oh, actually, this thing that you think is good

00:49:26.160 is bad. I'm saying this thing that you think is bad is actually good. So, you should just,

00:49:30.320 everyone should appreciate that, for what it is, at least. Let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:49:38.580 Today, for our Daily Cancellation, we'll be responding to another YouTube video,

00:49:41.840 which endeavors to expose, humiliate, and debunk yours truly. This one was posted by two people

00:49:47.100 named Brad Palumbo and Hannah Cox. They don't have a very large following. You'll see why in a moment.

00:49:52.260 And perhaps by most standards are not worth my time, but they represent something that I find

00:49:56.140 particularly annoying, and so I can't really help myself. They are smug, self-satisfied libertarians.

00:50:02.980 Not that there's any other kind of libertarian, of course. And nothing irritates me more than smug,

00:50:08.180 self-satisfied libertarians, which is why I feel compelled to speak out and respond.

00:50:12.740 Brad and Hannah react to three of my, quote-unquote, controversial opinions. The first is my take on the

00:50:18.640 dating scene. The second is my opinion about alleged mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

00:50:22.400 And the third is a tweet that I posted like four or five years ago, where I said that yoga is a

00:50:27.240 satanic pagan ritual. I stand by all of those opinions, especially the last one about yoga.

00:50:33.140 Yoga is most certainly a depraved, despicable, and blasphemous, and also sacrilegious act.

00:50:40.760 But as important as that discussion is, due to time constraints, I'm going to focus today on the

00:50:44.700 portion of the video, which covers the first two subjects. There's a little bit more meat on the

00:50:48.880 bones there. So let's get into it. Hey guys, I'm Brad Palumbo. This is Hannah Cox. Welcome back

00:50:55.780 to Libertarians React. We're the co-founders of Base Politics. And today we're reacting to

00:51:00.280 the one and only Matt Walsh. This is going to be really hot take-ish. I think we're going to have

00:51:06.000 very strong reactions as much as he has to say. If you don't know Matt Walsh, he's a blogger,

00:51:10.360 Christian conservative, extreme traditionalist who really likes to push his way of thinking on other

00:51:14.820 people. That's something we don't really stand for as libertarians. So we're going to work

00:51:18.880 and break them down. Let us know your thoughts. Make sure to leave your comments as well.

00:51:23.560 Okay, a couple of problems here. First of all, turn the music in the background down a few notches.

00:51:28.080 Also, I haven't been a blogger for like five years. I'm a podcaster now. Get it right. Podcast is

00:51:34.880 blogging in vocal form, but still. Also, these two characters are the co-founders of something called

00:51:43.300 based politics, which is like me being the founder of something called vegan feminist

00:51:48.460 yoga politics. Actually, that would be far less absurd because I am, after all, a best-selling

00:51:53.000 women's studies author. But libertarians, on the other hand, are definitely not based, 0.99

00:51:57.360 especially not these libertarians. In fact, it's fair to say that the term based could literally be

00:52:03.160 defined as the opposite of these two. Speaking of not being based, they accused me of pushing my way

00:52:09.060 of thinking on other people. What? How? By expressing my opinions? Isn't that exactly what

00:52:15.500 they are doing? If I push my opinions on other people by saying them out loud,

00:52:20.480 then aren't they pushing their opinion of me onto me by making an entire video about me?

00:52:26.040 When exactly does spoken opinion graduate from being just an opinion to being a form of compulsion?

00:52:32.400 I'm assuming that line is crossed the moment you say something that these two don't like.

00:52:36.400 Let's continue. So in this first clip, he endorses arranged marriages.

00:52:45.860 Let's take a listen. Now, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum are arranged marriages. 1.00

00:52:51.400 Instead of a boundless, never-ending buffet of options, a young person in a culture that 1.00

00:52:55.620 practices arranged marriages will be assigned just one, and they don't even make the choice.

00:53:01.160 Their families just pair them up and say, here you go. There's far less freedom.

00:53:06.180 And far less autonomy in a system of that sort, but it is, without a doubt, superior to our system.

00:53:12.840 We would be happier. Every person in the dating scene right now would be happier if they were

00:53:17.880 just matched up with someone against their will. Against their will? That's a new dating app, right?

00:53:23.980 Against your will. Here you go. You're assigned this person. Go make babies. 0.99

00:53:29.540 What the heck is wrong with them? I don't know. How is it conservative to be like, 0.98

00:53:33.760 yeah, it would have a lot less freedom and individual rights, but it'd be better? That's

00:53:38.680 like, that's not what conservatism in America has ever been about.

00:53:42.300 How bad is your marriage? Is what I want to know. That you think people should just be like,

00:53:45.920 assign people like a lottery system. Like, here you go. And that would be just as good as whatever

00:53:50.200 you found. It's a little rapey, to be honest. The vibes of like, yeah, women should be assigned 1.00

00:53:56.680 to me as my wife. No, they should not, sir. They should not.

00:54:02.860 This seems like it comes from a very incel kind of mindset of like, I can't get women on my own. 0.81

00:54:07.140 They never pick me.

00:54:08.040 He was married.

00:54:08.820 I know, but he speaks for that crowd.

00:54:11.180 Yeah, I guess.

00:54:12.360 Yeah. Just a quick tip for any future Libertarians react videos. I would dial down the music,

00:54:17.900 but also the shrillness and smugness by about eight or nine points. Because right now you're

00:54:22.600 at a full 10 on the smarmy dork scale. And it's frankly a bit overwhelming. As mentioned, 0.88

00:54:28.040 Libertarians in general have a serious problem with smugness. But here I think we've met like the

00:54:31.700 Libertarian smug super spreaders. These are our patient zeros of Libertarian smugness.

00:54:37.660 They also have zero in the way of arguments, rebuttals, or clever comebacks.

00:54:42.200 They are, of course, being wildly dishonest about my argument. I never said that arranged

00:54:45.760 marriages are ideal. I also never said that women should be assigned to me to be married. I also

00:54:49.960 never mentioned that women should be the only ones subjected to it. I said that arranged marriages 0.99

00:54:55.440 are better than our current approach to dating. That's simply because our current approach couldn't

00:54:59.560 possibly be any worse. But is there at least some wisdom to the arranged marriage model?

00:55:05.200 Yes, there is. And before you continue scoffing and gasping at the very idea that there could be

00:55:09.620 anything redeeming in it, consider that many cultures around the world, especially non-Western

00:55:13.660 cultures, have had and still have such a system. Are they all just a bunch of idiot troglodytes, 1.00

00:55:19.340 Brad and Hannah? Are you sure you want to make that argument? If that's the broad brush you want to use 1.00

00:55:24.900 to paint billions of people and dozens of cultures across the world and throughout history,

00:55:29.520 go for it, I guess. Fits with the whole smug theme, I guess. As for me, my preferred system is

00:55:35.920 essentially the one we had in this country before the modern dating scene began to form, and certainly

00:55:40.040 before hookup culture and dating apps took hold. I favor courtship, where the dating phase is understood

00:55:46.060 by all parties concerned to be the path to marriage. Typically, in a courtship culture, families 0.81

00:55:51.540 may not choose your spouse, but they are heavily involved in selecting potential matches.

00:55:55.620 This is far superior to our current arrangement, where a legion of confused, lethargic, hapless

00:56:01.260 single people scroll endlessly through avatars on their phones, randomly selecting one after another

00:56:06.700 for fleeting temporary flings, where emotion, infatuation, and physical attraction are the

00:56:11.540 only driving forces, the only litmus test. You would, in fact, be better off just having your family

00:56:18.200 choose your spouse for you than making decisions that way, which is the most superficial, unreliable,

00:56:25.160 and chaotic way possible. And ironically, the girl in the video actually makes this point for me

00:56:30.800 accidentally. Listen.

00:56:33.640 No.

00:56:34.220 No. One time my dad tried to set me up with somebody, and I was aghast at who he thought

00:56:38.760 I would like. I was actually insulted. I was like, Dad, you know I'm cute, right? Like,

00:56:42.220 you know I don't have a problem pulling men, right? Like, no.

00:56:46.300 But at least that was a suggestion. It wasn't a...

00:56:49.600 It was a suggestion what he would like me to be with, which was like this super Christian guy

00:56:53.120 who was in his church and who was slightly balding, but he thought it was a good option

00:56:56.600 for me. So he was like a really good guy. And I was like, yeah, I'm going to need a really

00:57:00.180 good guy who's not balding. And also who doesn't live in Anderson, South Carolina, because I'm

00:57:03.660 for sure as hell not. And like, you know, those kinds of things. So all I'm saying is I would

00:57:08.080 never... I love my parents dearly, but I would never want them to pick my mate. They would

00:57:12.300 have no clue how to begin to pick who I would actually want.

00:57:15.160 Yeah. No, it's just creepy. And it's really crazy. And I just can't relate to that one at all.

00:57:20.840 Can someone make a video attacking me that's, like, put some effort into it? I'm looking

00:57:26.080 for a good challenge here. This is just... So your dad set you up with someone who you

00:57:31.300 admit is a really good guy, but he's losing his hair, so you had no interest in him. And

00:57:35.020 you say that you're too attractive to be wasting your time with men who have the audacity to

00:57:39.120 possess physical flaws. Now, look, I wouldn't usually say what I'm about to say, but speaking

00:57:44.320 to the girl now, you earlier felt comfortable commenting on my marriage inaccurately, of course.

00:57:48.960 So you've opened yourself up to some harsh truths. And here it is, cupcake. You may be

00:57:54.280 slightly overestimating yourself. You seem to have erroneously given yourself a couple of

00:57:59.100 extra points on the 1 to 10 physical attractiveness scale. Just a tip. And even if you hadn't, if

00:58:07.680 you're single and making your decisions based on hairlines, you're either going to be lonely

00:58:11.760 and miserable, as you are right now, for the rest of your life, or eventually you're going 0.99

00:58:15.180 to be frivolously marrying some scumbag who isn't a good guy, but at least still has all 1.00

00:58:19.540 his hair. And a short time later, you're going to file for divorce and try to make yourself 1.00

00:58:23.320 into the victim of your failed marriage when it's your own vanity and stupidity that put 1.00

00:58:27.640 you in that position. One of those two results are your destiny, unless you learn to look a 1.00

00:58:33.760 little deeper in your search for a mate. The fact that you can't look deeper right now

00:58:37.880 and that your father seems to have a better view of who would be a good match for you than

00:58:41.820 you do only proves my point. You yourself specifically would be better off with an

00:58:47.680 arranged marriage. Now, I'm not sure I could say the same for the poor sap who ends up with 0.96

00:58:53.420 you on the altar, but you would actually be better off with that. So from here, the dynamic

00:58:58.940 duo moved to my unorthodox opinions on alleged mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

00:59:04.480 They didn't offer anything that could reasonably be described as an argument against my take on

00:59:08.300 dating. Let's see if they might get around to attempting an actual refutation on this topic,

00:59:13.260 at least. Let's listen. One of the worst things to happen in modern times is the medicalization

00:59:17.940 of the human condition. Now people who experience anxiety think they're sick. They aren't. Anxiety

00:59:22.720 is a fundamental fact of human existence. It is not a disease. That's what I wrote. That's

00:59:27.740 what I believe. We have set out to medicalize and disease-ify every aspect of the human condition,

00:59:32.980 every difficult emotion, every unpleasant personality trait. That's why the DSM now has

00:59:38.140 something like 300 mental disorders listed and over 50 million adults in this country have been

00:59:42.320 diagnosed with at least one of them. Which one of those applies to trolls who say outlandish things

00:59:47.720 for attention? Right. I hate this. Yeah. You hate this too, I'm sure. I do. I'm very bothered by it,

00:59:54.300 but it's also just like very objectively wrong. Literally, depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain

01:00:00.560 that you can observe in someone. You can look at the brain scan of somebody who's clinically depressed

01:00:06.020 for someone else and see the difference. It is not the same as just feeling sad sometimes. And it's

01:00:12.520 so harmful when so many people lose their lives to these conditions and die by suicide to be just

01:00:18.320 out here on this hill with this completely medically uninformed and unscientific take that's just,

01:00:25.360 I guess, honestly, just for attention.

01:00:26.700 Ah, just for attention. So I just want attention. What is it that you want when you talk about me?

01:00:32.380 The title of this video is Libertarians React to Three Wildest Matt Walsh Trad Contacts,

01:00:38.240 parentheses, Matt Walsh Show. They put my name in their title twice and I'm the one begging for

01:00:43.060 attention. But this is the kind of free thinking we get from libertarians. If you have an opinion

01:00:47.860 that ventures outside of the mainstream, it must be just a ploy for attention. These two literally

01:00:52.940 cannot imagine how or why any human being could or would ever formulate an independent thought

01:00:58.700 otherwise. They're dumbfounded by the very idea of ideas. Their dumbfoundedness is especially

01:01:05.680 embarrassing in this case because anxiety and despair are huge topics, deep and important topics,

01:01:10.020 and topics that people have been discussing and debating for thousands of years. As far as these

01:01:14.420 two are concerned, though, the debate is over, I guess. The pharmaceutical industry

01:01:17.420 has settled the debate. We are all now ethically bound to agree with big pharma or else we're

01:01:23.300 harmful malignant trolls just out for attention. Now, Brad smugly assures us that I'm factually

01:01:29.840 wrong. Depression is a chemical imbalancement, he says. While the chemical imbalancement theory of

01:01:35.820 depression was cutting edge about 75 years ago, in this century, Brad, it's roundly understood by nearly

01:01:43.000 every credible scientist and researcher to be a misnomer. The drug companies still talk about

01:01:48.060 chemical imbalance. Dumb libertarians on YouTube still talk about it. But the people who understand 0.98

01:01:52.840 the issue and who want others to understand it have long since moved on from it. There is, in fact,

01:01:59.300 no evidence of any simple measurable imbalance that easily explains depression. You cannot diagnose

01:02:06.220 depression with a brain scan. Absolutely you cannot. And they don't, by the way.

01:02:11.580 If you could diagnose it that way, that's how they diagnose it. But they don't.

01:02:17.340 You might want to read some literature on the topic that was written sometime after World War II,

01:02:21.260 Brad. Just a tip. Okay, one more clip. Let's watch.

01:02:25.840 Anxiety and depression can be normal human experiences if you are experiencing situational

01:02:31.440 anxiety or depression. And that can be a small blip that you have to work through. Say,

01:02:36.700 you know, and that is not a medical condition, right? You're not having an imbalance. You're

01:02:40.300 having a rational reaction to an event. Somebody dies in your life. You're sad. You fall into

01:02:44.680 depression. That is situational depression. And while you can still get help for that and should,

01:02:49.180 especially things like therapy, I would not say that's a medical condition, right? Same thing with

01:02:53.660 anxiety. Like if you're having anxiety because you're really stressed and you have a deadline,

01:02:57.260 you don't want to make it. Like it's normal to have anxiety there. But then there are actual medical

01:03:01.700 conditions, which are things like generalized anxiety disorders, depressive disorders. And there's many

01:03:07.040 kind of many orders underneath those that you can look up in the DSM. But basically,

01:03:10.380 they are things like you and I have. I have a generalized anxiety disorder. And what that means

01:03:14.240 is that I have anxiety responses that are not normal given the situation, the circumstances.

01:03:19.980 You're not just feeling anxious. I'm not just feeling anxious. I'm not responding to a rational

01:03:23.680 event. I am making things up in my head and overreacting to them and fixating on them oftentimes to

01:03:28.760 a point where if I had not received medical treatment throughout my life, I might fall into things like

01:03:33.080 addiction. I might fall into other harmful behaviors to escape it. I might overreact to

01:03:37.520 situations in ways that could be harmful. And often these things can lead to suicide. And so to say

01:03:41.480 that these are not medical conditions is extremely harmful. It's not based on anything at all. I

01:03:45.520 almost think it's like something that could make you liable if something in your audience is

01:03:48.960 listening to some of this. Like, good grief. Like, I would feel a responsibility.

01:03:53.020 So the libertarians have actually just said that I should be legally liable for my unpopular views

01:03:57.260 on mental illness. These are our free speech champions, folks. What's more, I should be legally

01:04:01.660 liable if I convince people not to purchase products from the pharmaceutical industry? I mean,

01:04:07.480 you'd almost be tempted to think that these two are being paid by Pfizer, but then you realize that

01:04:10.720 Pfizer could afford much more persuasive spokesmen. She draws a line between depression or anxiety 0.96

01:04:15.680 felt due to a life event like a death in the family and pervasive anxiety felt day to day,

01:04:19.520 and often for seemingly irrational reasons. She says that the latter is in the DSM and the other

01:04:24.000 isn't. But again, she's wrong. In fact, grief disorder, that is grief felt after the death of a loved

01:04:28.320 one is now officially in the DSM as a mental illness. I guess that means the free-thinking

01:04:32.760 libertarians have to uncritically accept it as a legitimate medical issue. I, however, retain the

01:04:38.300 right to be skeptical. As for the pervasive and irrational anxiety she describes, that is also very

01:04:43.480 normal. Anxiety is one of the defining elements of the human condition. This is why philosophers have

01:04:48.240 puzzled over it for millennia. It's rooted deep in all of our psyches. There is not one person alive

01:04:53.080 on earth who is ever totally free of anxiety. Anxiety at its basis level is fear or dread in

01:04:58.260 the face of the unknown. Kierkegaard said that anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Now he saw it,

01:05:03.520 most thinkers in history have seen it, as an elemental fact of human psychology. Only in modern times have

01:05:09.520 we compartmentalized and medicalized it. I'm skeptical of that. I'm skeptical of many popular ideas,

01:05:16.720 I confess. This is just one of them. Another one is libertarianism. Though in fairness, I shouldn't

01:05:21.460 blame libertarianism for the fact that these two are such mediocre and unimpressive representatives 0.71

01:05:26.920 of it. And so ultimately, they specifically, if not libertarianism as a whole, are the ones who are

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 11, 2022

Ep. 927 - 'We Aren't Grooming Children,' They Cry As They Groom Children

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