Ep. 931 - Leftists Want To Keep Twitter In Hands Of People We Can Trust, Like The Saudi Royal Family
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A trans psychologist is now raising concerns about the rush to transition children. He s concerned about it even though he is still doing the thing he's concerned about. Also, the Left continues in its hilarious panic attack over Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter, and a woman celebrates her abortion with a cake and a party. Plus, in our daily cancellation, a new poll says that millennials and Gen Z are leaving their jobs in pursuit of happiness. So why are they still so unhappy? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a trans psychologist is now raising concerns about the rush to
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transition children. He's concerned about it, even though he is still doing the thing he's
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concerned about. Also, the left continues in its hilarious panic attack over Elon Musk potentially
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buying Twitter, and a woman celebrates her abortion with a cake and a party. Whatever
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happened is safe, legal, and rare. Plus, in our daily cancellation, a new poll says that
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millennials and Gen Z are leaving their jobs in pursuit of happiness. So why are they still
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so unhappy? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Well, many on the right were pleased this week when Dr. Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist,
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raised concerns about the epidemic of teens identifying as transgender.
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Anderson is trans himself, a male who identifies as a woman, and has, as his LA Times profile puts it,
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helped hundreds of teens transition throughout his career. Helped. We've really got to put that
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word in quotes. But now he has concerns, and we're supposed to cheer him for blowing the whistle,
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I guess, but I'm not quite in the mood to applaud people like this, I have to confess.
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Day after day, emails pour into Erica Anderson's inbox from parents struggling to support their
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teenagers coming out as transgender. The parents come to Anderson, 71, in part because she herself
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is transgender. Anderson also stands out because she, again, she is, I'm really quoting from the
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article. These are the incorrect words they're using in the article, is one of the few clinical
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psychologists specializing in transgender youth to publicly question the sharp rise in
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adolescence coming out as trans or non-binary. She has helped hundreds of teens transition.
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But she also has come to believe that some children identifying as trans are falling under
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the influence of their peers and social media, and that some clinicians are failing to subject
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minors to rigorous mental health evaluations before recommending hormones or surgeries.
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You think? I mean, some of us have been saying this for years. This was immediately obvious to
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some of us from the very beginning, and yet it took Anderson years and hundreds of teen transitions
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before it finally dawned on him that maybe there's a problem here. This is a licensed,
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trained clinical psychologist, and yet the social contagion possibility only recently occurred to him?
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I think it's gone too far, said Anderson, who until recently led the U.S. Professional Society at the
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for a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more accepting and more families than
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ever were embracing children that were gender variant. Now it's got to the point where there
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are kids presenting at clinics whose parents say, this just doesn't make sense. Her skepticism and
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her willingness to speak directly to the public puts her at the center of America's culture war over
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trans kids. But this skepticism has not stopped Anderson from still participating in the
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transitioning of children. As the Times notes, quote, Anderson's website promises to help you
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become your authentic self. And her Twitter bio proclaims, working for a radically inclusive world
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for all transgender people. Some cases are relatively straightforward. After a year of weekly
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conversations with Liz, a 15-year-old who had no mental health issues and had long questioned her
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gender, his gender. I think we're talking about a boy. No mental health issues and had long questioned
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his gender. That's like saying, well, you know, he had no problems with his physical health and also he
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had lung cancer. That is the mental health issue. But it says that Anderson wrote a letter of support
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this year for a puberty blocker implant and estrogen patches for this young boy. Apparently,
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Anderson sees himself as quite moderate on the issue, though. As he's quoted, quote,
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the people on the right and on the left don't see themselves as extreme. But those of us who see all
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the nuance can see that this is a false binary. Let it all happen without a method or don't let any pass.
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Both are wrong. Now, the real scary thing here is that, in fact, Anderson does represent moderation
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in comparison to the rest of his field. The Times mentions how WPATH, which stands for the World
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Professional Association for Transgender Health, proposed new standards of care for kids. And
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these are the new ones that were proposed in December. And the new standards of care are
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minimum age of 14 for hormone therapy, 15 for chest masculinization, and 17 for genital surgeries.
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And only after comprehensive assessments showing patients meet the diagnostic criteria of gender
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incongruence and demonstrate persistent gender incongruence or nonconformity for several years.
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Okay, so they will still drug kids as young as 14. They'll still chop the breasts off of 15-year-old
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girls. That's the euphemism, masculinization, otherwise known as chopping body parts off.
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And they'll still generally mutilate minors. They're still going to do that. And yet,
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many trans-affirming doctors and psychologists say that even those standards are too strict,
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not affirming enough. What they want is nothing. They want no guidelines, no standards, no rules at
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all. Anderson supports at least some standards and thus qualifies as not only moderate, but really
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downright conservative in comparison to the Frankenstein psychopaths in his field. Or I should
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say the other Frankenstein psychopaths. Because Anderson, even while raising concerns,
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has participated in this kind of unthinkable abuse hundreds of times and is still doing it even now
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in spite of all of his concerns. Now, I don't mean to downplay or say that it's insignificant for
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someone like this to come out and concede that there's a problem. It is indeed quite significant.
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And it should tell you something that even a trans psychologist who transitions children is willing
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to admit that there are some red flags here at least. That's significant. I just don't give him
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any credit is my point. It should again be immediately obvious, self-evident to anyone with
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the slightest understanding of child psychology that kids are not mentally equipped to make these kinds
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of decisions and that kids are extremely susceptible to peer pressure. So if lots of minors are all at
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once making this kind of decision, that should tell you all you need to know. If some of the medical
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professionals responsible for fomenting this confusion and helping to spread the social contagion
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are now suddenly concerned, it's not because they give the slightest damn about the well-being of kids.
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It's because they're performing another medical procedure called CYA in the medical field. Cover your ass.
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But here's the important point. Anderson still obviously affirms trans ideology at its core.
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Here he is, for example, in a recent video on his YouTube channel, giving some advice to trans people. Listen.
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I often talk with my patients about the voice in our head that's self-critical. And what we need to do
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is we need to address that self-criticism and realize that what we're doing is extraordinary.
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That to live an authentic life as a trans person requires a lot of bravery and not to discount that.
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And if we do that, if we are really authentic in knowing who we are and believing in our journey,
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people will come along sooner or later. And not all people will come along,
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but it won't matter because we're living our authentic life. And that's what's most important.
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Yeah, it's really someone you want to go to for your mental health troubles.
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Now, it doesn't matter how many concerns you raise about the rush to transition children.
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Those concerns mean nothing if you're still telling the story that we hear in that clip.
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A story where authenticity can be found by rejecting your true physical, biological, divinely created nature
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and reaching for some figment, some phantom version of yourself, even to the point of
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After all, the whole reason why we should not rush to transition children
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but rather that nobody at any age is ready for it because it is an impossibility.
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We also shouldn't transition them slowly or carefully.
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You actually can't transition kids from one sex to another.
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Because you cannot become something other than what you biologically are.
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The problem with trans ideology isn't that it's too nuanced or too mature or too complicated
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then you could probably make an argument for transitioning teens if it weren't false.
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I mean, if it's true that a male can be born in the wrong body,
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if it's true that your authentic self could be something other than your physical self,
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then why should we prevent teenagers from embracing and living that truth?
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The argument against transitioning children becomes incoherent pretty quickly,
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or at the very least, it becomes much, much, much weaker
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if it's not based in a fundamental rejection of trans ideology as a whole.
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will always be part of the problem, not the solution.
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This is not a both sides are wrong kind of thing.
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It's the side that tells people, whatever their age,
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that authenticity and happiness can be found in a rejection of their natural self.
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It's the side that tells people, whatever their age,
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that it's possible to transition from one sex to another.
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Now, over on that wrong side, there may be degrees of wrongness.
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Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal, tried to calm the company's employees during an emergency all-hands meeting today.
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As they panicked over the possibility that Elon Musk will buy the company outright.
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Agrawal reportedly told nervous employees that Musk could not change the company's culture because no one man can change that.
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Now, this is significant because it sounds like he's preparing them at least for the possibility that Musk might actually pull this off and buy the company.
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It says, while he is legally limited to what he can disclose about the situation, it's an interesting choice of words as it appears to leave open the possibility that Musk really may take over the company and turn it private.
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One Twitter employee tried to claim that what Musk was doing by trying to buy the company for far above market value was like a hostage situation.
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Agrawal said, I don't believe we're being held hostage.
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He said, this provides all of us with this moment where we feel distracted, where we feel a loss of control.
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I am personally going to spend my time focusing on things I can control and that I believe will matter.
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So, they had kind of a, oh man, I would have loved actually, I wish we had some clips of this meeting.
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I would have loved to be a fly on the wall there to see that.
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All of the Twitter employees panicking, sobbing, crying, comforting each other.
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This is one of my, this story is one of my, this is one of my favorite stories.
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One of my favorite, this is one of my favorite news events of probably the decade.
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And as we discussed yesterday, the fact that the man responsible for this, Elon Musk, is an African-American on top of it, just makes it all the much better.
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Now, Elon Musk, meanwhile, was at a TED Talk conference and he was explaining some of what's going on and why he decided to do this.
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He was asked why he made this offer to begin with.
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Oh, so, well, I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech, where all, so, yeah.
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So, Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.
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So, it's just really important that people have the, both the reality and the perception that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.
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And, you know, so, one of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open source the algorithm and make any changes to people's tweets.
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You know, if they're emphasized or de-emphasized, that action should be made apparent so anyone can see that that action has been taken.
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So, there's no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.
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Well, you will hear on the left that they care a lot about inclusivity.
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And that's Elon Musk's pitch here, is that he wants Twitter to be actually inclusive.
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I mean, inclusive in the only way that means anything.
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And also, diverse in the only way that means anything, especially for a social media platform, which is to, you know, allow a diversity of opinion, allow people to express their viewpoints.
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That's what matters on a social media platform.
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And that's his pitch, that it should be inclusive.
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He also says, interestingly, that he doesn't care about the economics of it.
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My strong, intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.
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Now, meanwhile, over on the left, of course, the panic continues.
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And they're very concerned about the devastating consequences to speech.
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And they're trying to dress this up as, well, they're worried about how this is going to affect free speech, even though Elon Musk's whole point is that when the reason he wants to take over is that Twitter is not protecting free speech.
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So over on MSNBC, they were talking about these devastating consequences, how bad this is going to be for the entire world.
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There are real and devastating consequences for using that platform to lie.
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I wonder, you know, when talking about this, it's, you know, it's kind of funny.
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But there are massive life and globe altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.
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But that's Facebook is really the real action is in that.
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It has an outsized influence because media people like it, politicians, world leaders and Elon Musk.
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And so one of the issues is if he's not going to do this.
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And by the way, Twitter and some of its biggest investors, like Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, are saying no and they're putting poison pills in.
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He's going to have to somehow unload this 10 percent stake.
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And he probably that's probably what he's going to have to do or raise private financing, which has its own risks.
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There's a lot of risks and possible rewards, but a lot of risks for him.
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Well, I didn't play the soundbite, but he was asked if there's a plan B and he laughed and said there is.
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That's what a super villain hero would say, right?
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This was echoed by a salon writer, Matthew Rosa.
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We showed you some of the similar reactions yesterday on Twitter from the blue check crowd, journalists and everything.
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And they really do think that this is a civilizational catastrophe to have Elon Musk on Twitter.
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So Matthew Rosa, who writes for Salon, said, if Elon Musk allows Trump back on Twitter, it'll be a death blow to the free world.
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I discussed the danger of Trump's big lie for Salon.
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Like Hitler's big lie, it must not be normalized, lest fascism return.
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That's how much power Trump has, apparently, just by trolling Twitter.
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And here's one of the many great ironies about this.
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It's that the left, very worried about what will happen if this billionaire is able to purchase Twitter.
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You know, God forbid a billionaire owns a social media platform.
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But one of the many ironies is that, first of all, these journalists, almost every single one of them, work for companies that are owned by billionaires.
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And, but yet the Washington Post, they're among the outlets telling us what a crisis this will be for Elon Musk to own Twitter.
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Yes, we don't want it to fall into the hands of Elon Musk.
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We want it to be in the hands of people we trust.
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People like BlackRock, the Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley, the Saudi royal family.
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You know how much the Saudi royal family cherishes free speech, right?
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We know the Saudi royal family, that's, they really care a lot about democracy.
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And so that's why we need, we need them, we need them to keep their stake in Twitter so that, so that democracy will remain intact.
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It'll be the death blow to the free world if the Saudi royal family does not still own a large portion of Twitter.
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And when the Saudi prince yesterday said that he's not going to sell, the left was cheering him on, say, yes.
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Please stay invested in Twitter so that we know that we can, that it's in the hands of people we can trust.
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Asset management firms, banks, foreign dictators, we're a lot better off with them owning it, right?
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Ron DeSantis yesterday signed a late-term abortion ban.
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This has been just a great week for the pro-life cause.
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We've got abortion bans in Oklahoma and Kentucky and now in Florida.
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They signed, this is not an, unfortunately, this is not an abortion ban that covers all abortions,
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And Ron DeSantis signed it in front of a very excited crowd yesterday and also gave a shout-out.
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We've got to play this because it gave a shout-out to Daily Wire and one of our great reporters at Daily Wire.
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Do you see how that type of mindset has led to things that really shocked the conscience in our society?
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We just saw this terrible scandal in Washington, D.C.
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Do we, we, where, is Mary Margaret here from the Daily Wire?
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They found all these remains of babies and they found five who were basically infants, premature, they would have been,
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but they would have been able to survive, you know, outside the womb.
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And yet Washington, D.C. is treating that just like we would treat the trash from our lunch or something like that.
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And it's really horrifying to see that that could go on in our country, but particularly in our nation's capital.
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And I want to thank her and Daily Wire for exposing it.
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But, um, it's, it's already like a distant memory.
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Um, the fact that the fully developed infants were butchered in D.C.
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And the police are refusing to do an autopsy, refusing to conduct any investigation whatsoever.
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Even if you're on the right side of the issue and you care about it, it's, there,
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there are so many things going on all at once, you know, one of our, one of our big challenges
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that we have on the right, I think it's challenges everybody has, but just speaking about, uh,
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on the right, one of our challenges is, is to remain focused on issues that matter.
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When we have an issue, it's really important to remain focused on, not get distracted by
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Um, so that's not something, we can't just let that go.
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That, oh, they, they're murdering fully developed infants in D.C.
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Um, and certainly the Daily Wire, we're not going to let it go.
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Meanwhile, Nikki Fried is the agriculture commissioner and she's running for governor
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So I want you to remember the footage you just saw, Ron DeSantis in front of a, a large
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Um, and here is his primary challenger on the Democrat side.
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Um, moments ago, Governor DeSantis signed the abortion ban in our state.
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We have to win because he just moved us back 50 years.
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Ron DeSantis has got to be shaking in his boots looking at that.
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This is, uh, that, that turnout, that makes Biden's turnouts.
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That makes like a Biden campaign event look like a Trump event in comparison.
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Speaking of sad, um, and disgusting and infuriating, uh, also someone who goes by Carmelita Hate,
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And I'm not going to quibble with that description at all.
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So if you do have one, please gather all of your closest friends after to celebrate, be around
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And, um, apparently she had a party to celebrate her abortion.
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And then she has a picture of a cake and it says originally it's a boy, but the Y is crossed
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And then, you know, people, as you might expect, reacted to this, um, in a not so positive way.
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And so she, she kind of responded to the backlash.
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She says, is it crazy that I posted this kind of, but to stop making abortion, some shameful
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Maybe some crazy stuff is what they need to see.
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I'm thankful to have such a good support system and good sense of humor to get through the
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Now, there are a couple of, uh, things to note here.
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First of all, as always, we see how the, the safe, legal and rare mantra has long since
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I mean, there, there was a time and maybe if you're a little bit younger, you might not even
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remember this time, cause this is, this was back mostly in the nineties, you know, when
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I, when I'm coming of age and first became introduced to the, uh, issue of abortion back
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then, the people on the pro abortion side said that, you know, we, we don't like abortion
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Um, we just want it to be, we want, we want it to be safe, which is a misnomer because
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there's no such thing as a safe abortion because it's always killing at least one person.
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And, um, it's always damaging the second person, which is the mother, whether physically
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oftentimes physically, but certainly psychologically and emotionally, whether she wants to face
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We want it legal and, uh, we want it to be rare.
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We, you know, we don't, we don't want a lot of abortions.
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It's just, um, it's a kind of an, it's a necessary evil.
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That was sort of the approach back in the nineties.
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And they still talk about safe abortions, which don't exist, but, um, rare is out the
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window because the problem is if you, if you admit that you want abortion to be rare, then
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you are admitting that there's, that it's not a good thing.
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You're at least conceding that it's less than ideal to be murdering babies, let's say, and
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And so that gives rise to the shout your abortion movement and all this stuff and people
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You know, though, even when they celebrate it, you can still tell the truth because she
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even says, uh, abortion is healthcare and it's traumatic.
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And then she talks about how it's, it's, it feels a shameful.
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If it's, if it's just a clump of cells, if it's not a human being that you're killing,
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And if, if even more than that, you are, it's a statement of your autonomy and your liberty
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I mean, I, the, the way that they talk about abortion, it's like, in fact, they will quite
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literally compare it to, um, having a parasite removed or you have a tapeworm or something
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and you go to the doctor and get medicine for it or having a, having a cancerous lump taken
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Well, who would ever describe that as, as traumatic?
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I mean, it might be, it'd be traumatic to have the cancer, but, but, you know, being
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free of an illness that that's not a, in and of itself traumatic.
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Um, so it doesn't make a lot of sense according to the narrative that they give us, but then
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it starts to make a lot of sense when you realize that, uh, of course, abortion is killing
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a human child and that even these women, they, they still know that that's still in the
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back of their minds, in their subconscious and probably not even buried that deep.
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Because when you see all of this celebration of abortion and we're to throw a party for
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our, for the abortion, um, yeah, it's disgusting and it's, it's enraging to see.
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And, um, these people are psychopaths in a lot of ways, but you also have to understand
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This is, um, you know, this is overcompensation to a maximum degree because, you know, this
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is, this is the truth about abortion that I'm, that I'm always trying to get across is
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that, you know, despite what the abortion industry tells women, you can't just go get
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the abortion and then it's like what they, what they tell the women is it's like set,
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it's like hitting the reset button and going back.
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Well, you, you, you were going to have a child, but, um, you decided to get abortion and now,
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so now there's no child anymore and you can go back to how it was before.
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It's like resetting, taking an eraser to a chalkboard, but that's not actually what it
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You become a mother the moment you conceive a child.
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And that is the reality that will always be with you.
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And you could try to stave off the mourning process.
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Um, you could try to stave off the guilt by going over the top and getting the confetti
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out and setting off fireworks, but eventually it, it, it will, it will come through and you're
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It says two women in New Jersey's only all women's prison have both fallen pregnant after
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The pregnant women who were not identified are housed at the embattled Edna Mahan correctional
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facility in Clinton, which New Jersey governor announced plans to close last year.
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Prison bosses said that in both instances, the sex was consensual.
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It is unclear if the women had sex with the same transgender inmate or if it was two different
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So already we have, we need a Snopes fact check here.
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Well, not a Snopes fact check because they're not going to fact check something like this,
00:33:31.160
That's, that's, uh, that's, that's hard to figure out.
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It's an all women's prison and, and women are falling pregnant.
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Um, Edna Mahan houses 27 transgender prisoners and over 800 women altogether.
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It is also unclear how far along the two inmates are and whether they plan to continue with
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their respective pregnancies, whether they plan to continue.
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So there's a women's prison, 800 women, and they already have almost 30 men in the women's
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Um, and I can also, without, without knowing anything about the particulars here, and I
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don't know that I fully even believe the particulars that we're being told.
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Like we're just told that the sex was consensual.
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I mean, maybe it was, but listen, there's no reason to believe that whatsoever.
00:34:28.200
You're taking violent criminal men, oftentimes they're like rapists and sex offenders who
00:34:37.480
And then one day say, you know what, I'm actually a woman and they're, they're sexually attracted
00:34:42.480
And so this is all just, just kind of a happy coincidence that now they get to be housed
00:34:48.860
Uh, you're taking them, you're locking them into cages with actual women.
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Um, and then if, if a, if a woman, uh, becomes pregnant, in fact, some of the headlines, there
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was one headline, it might've been in the Daily Mail or one of these other outlets.
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It said that, uh, two women have fallen pregnant at a women's prison.
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That's not, that's not something that that's a, that's a, something that happens after a particular
00:35:17.860
Now, whether that act was consensual, that's my point is, is I, there's no reason to believe
00:35:24.260
Um, because we are not going to be told if a trans male rapes a female inmate, that information
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is not going to make it to us through any official channels.
00:35:38.860
Um, I mean, and even if it was supposedly on the surface consensual, when you, when you
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put a woman in a, in, in a prison cell with a violent, dangerous man and the woman quote
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chooses to have sex with the man, is that actually consent?
00:36:02.760
I mean, we, we've been told by the me too movement that, um, if a woman chooses to have
00:36:09.100
sex with her boss, that it's not really a choice.
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There's not really any consent there or not as much consent as there should be because of
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So you're a woman locked in a cell with a man who could overpower you at any moment and
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who is sexually attracted to females and you have sex with them.
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Is that, is, is it even a choice or is it something these women are doing?
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So I don't, no matter how you slice it, I'm not sure how you can even call it consensual.
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And if they've got 30 male prisoners in, in a, in this one women's prison in New Jersey,
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um, this is, we're talking about hundreds, if not thousands of men who are in women's prisons
00:36:58.320
And again, they're, they're violent and dangerous.
00:37:06.600
So as I've been saying for a long time, I, this is, um, I, I guarantee you there is right
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now an epidemic of sexual assaults by men against women in women's prisons.
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And we will, we will never be told about it though, because these women have no way of
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And of course the me too movement is, uh, conspicuously silent about the whole thing.
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Let's see the, uh, Sean Speck says that title alone probably called for at least 2000 outraged
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The title of the show yesterday with the Elon Musk as an African-American immigrant.
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One of the many things that makes this story just so incredible.
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Um, another comment says your discussion talking through this, what's the plan here situation
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when choosing to fight the cops makes it so painfully clear that all of these young men
00:38:20.220
grew up without fathers because your point of view is exactly what any good father would
00:38:35.740
It's killing, um, the people who grew up, grew up without fathers.
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It's killing the people who those fatherless criminals then go on to victimize, killing
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I had the same thought because as a father, I, I'm, I'm constantly having this conversation
00:38:55.020
They do something that doesn't make any sense that I have to sit them down and say, okay,
00:38:58.160
what, what were you hoping would, would happen here?
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What was, what would, walk me through the steps?
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It's about imparting just a little bit of common sense because it turns out that common
00:39:12.700
sense doesn't, um, especially for kids, doesn't always come naturally.
00:39:16.880
You've got to kind of condition them into common sense and being able to think rationally
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and, um, being able to think like being able to think through an action where you say, okay,
00:39:30.360
I'm going to do this and here are the potential results of this particular action.
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That's not something that kids are naturally good at.
00:39:40.440
And I think especially fathers to walk them through it.
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And then if you have kids who never get that because they have no father at home, then
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And, uh, next thing you know, as happened with the most recent BLM martyr, you know, he stopped
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And the next thing you know, he's in, he's in this, this hand-to-hand battle with the cops
00:40:01.500
and there's just nothing good that can come of it.
00:40:08.680
Even if you're able to fight the cops off and run away, when they catch you, you're going
00:40:17.300
But the moment you start fighting the cops, especially if you're grabbing at their weapons,
00:40:20.540
even if it's the taser, your chances of now being killed in this, um, interaction have
00:40:28.480
And you know what, it's, it's, it, it, it, an unwillingness or inability to think through
00:40:38.480
But I also think at a deeper level, uh, you find people who, who just, there's this despair
00:40:44.440
there and they, they don't, they don't see their life as having any value.
00:40:48.140
And so if the Black Lives Matter movement could serve any purpose at all, and if it actually
00:40:55.480
cared about black lives, it, it, it wouldn't be screaming at us.
00:41:00.200
Like you don't need to scream at me that black lives matter.
00:41:04.180
But instead, maybe you should tell that to someone like the most recent BLM martyr, who
00:41:14.020
was, uh, you know, uh, who was killed while, while fighting the cops.
00:41:20.340
Like that's a message that he needs to hear, needed to hear before it was too late about
00:41:28.580
You know, value your own life, protect your own life by not.
00:41:34.180
Making these kinds of decisions, self-destructive decisions.
00:41:42.700
Jason says, love the show, Matt, but I feel it's time for a little constructive criticism.
00:41:46.800
I'm sure you're right about Dr. Oz and the position he holds, but that felt like a lack
00:41:52.840
Um, was that video you play with Jussie Smollett pre the facts coming out?
00:42:00.560
Just saying, I don't like the idea of bagging on the guy who admittedly, I would likely despite
00:42:04.160
as well, using a video that I'm guessing was before the juicy scandal blew up and no
00:42:10.600
He was referring to, uh, uh, of all the damning video clips you can play of, of Dr. Oz.
00:42:15.800
It's just the latest one to resurface was him after, um, the Jussie Smollett hoax was perpetrated.
00:42:22.160
Him, him supporting Jussie Smollett, talking about what a great guy he is.
00:42:24.940
Well, first of all, it, it, speaking of common sense, it was obvious to anybody with common
00:42:32.320
sense immediately that that story was, was false.
00:42:36.800
Um, and, and also Dr. Oz is running for office now as a politician.
00:42:40.740
So there's no being, yeah, judgy of a, of a political candidate.
00:42:47.780
You know, that's, there's, I don't think it's possible actually to go overboard in our skepticism
00:42:53.260
towards and, um, criticism of political candidates.
00:43:00.160
Oftentimes I think we go the other direction, but we're not skeptical enough.
00:43:05.180
So you want to run for office, then you have to endure that kind of criticism.
00:43:08.120
Especially when you have made a career over, um, sending false falsehoods out into the world.
00:43:20.740
The only thing about that Jussie Smollett clip is like there, we don't even need to focus
00:43:24.060
on that because of, I don't think we need to get past the fact that the first clip we
00:43:27.280
played last week of, of Dr. Oz endorsing trans kids or abortion or gun control or any of the
00:43:36.060
And yet he's still got the, uh, Donald Trump endorsement, of course.
00:43:39.760
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Recently for the Daily Cancellation, we spent some time dumping on boomers
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after Jeff Foxworthy tried to blame the younger generations for the existence of participation trophies.
00:45:35.800
And as I pointed out, the boomers label millennials the participation trophy generation
00:45:40.200
on neglecting to mention that they, the boomers, are the ones who invented participation trophies
00:45:44.840
In fact, the boomers invented almost all of the terrible things that are ripping our society apart.
00:45:48.680
Things like veganism, the internet, the sexual revolution.
00:45:53.160
I don't know if boomers actually invented veganism, but I'm blaming them for it anyway.
00:45:56.200
But today we're going to take the always enjoyable generational blame game
00:46:00.440
and move it over to the younger set this time, Gen Z and millennials.
00:46:05.960
Though from a spiritual and emotional perspective, I'm really more of a
00:46:08.760
disgruntled 85-year-old hermit who lives in a hollowed-out tree in the woods or something.
00:46:19.000
Gen Z and millennials are disrupting the workplace as they're choosing to be jobless
00:46:23.240
rather than work for a company they don't like.
00:46:26.520
Now there are different ways to be a disruptor.
00:46:28.360
You could be the Elon Musk type of disruptor, doing new and bold things, challenging the
00:46:35.880
Or you could be the kind of disruptor who disrupts by standing off to the side like a useless lump
00:46:40.360
and scratching your ass while everyone else gets the work done.
00:46:43.960
Sadly, many of my peer group and younger have chosen the latter course.
00:46:49.320
Gen Z and millennials are unique when it comes to demanding a work-life balance.
00:46:53.320
They don't just want flexible work hours and environments.
00:46:55.880
They want to work for companies that align with their own personal beliefs and values.
00:47:00.120
And almost half of Gen Z and millennials would rather be unemployed than unhappy in a job,
00:47:05.160
The career goals of Gen Z and millennials are changing power dynamics in the workplace.
00:47:09.160
Almost two in four members of younger generations would prefer being unemployed than work in a job
00:47:15.720
Most of the young people surveyed said they preferred to work at companies that shared their personal values.
00:47:20.280
Two in five Gen Zers and millennials said they would take a lower-paying salary if it meant
00:47:24.760
that they were purposefully contributing to society.
00:47:27.320
Diversity and inclusion were also important to the survey respondents.
00:47:30.600
49% of Gen Z and 46% of millennials said that they wouldn't work for a company that didn't make diversity a priority.
00:47:37.240
Priority of Gen Z and millennials is their own happiness.
00:47:39.320
In fact, 56% of Gen Z and 55% of millennials said they would quit a job if it interfered with their personal lives.
00:47:45.000
Now, there's obviously nothing wrong with wanting to work for a company that represents your values.
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I mean, in principle, that's a very good thing.
00:47:52.760
The problem is in the perverse and stupid value system that so many of these people want companies to align with,
00:47:58.280
as evidenced by their insistence on diversity and inclusion.
00:48:02.280
Aside from value alignment, we're also told that millennials and Gen Z demand a better work-life balance,
00:48:08.280
that they would rather be unemployed than unhappy at their jobs.
00:48:11.000
And this is where the real problems arise, I think.
00:48:13.960
First of all, if you're a young person today, or even an old person,
00:48:18.520
the balance you should be worried about is not work-life, but screen life.
00:48:23.880
We're told that young people don't want work to interfere with their personal lives,
00:48:28.280
but almost every waking hour of their personal lives are wasted staring at screens anyway.
00:48:33.480
I could have more respect for the desire for work-life balance if you were going home to be with your spouse and children,
00:48:39.880
or you were trying to leave yourself time to engage in a productive hobby like woodworking or gardening or something.
00:48:47.480
But the fact is that for many of these people, the lives they're trying to protect from workplace intrusion are hardly lives at all.
00:48:55.720
There's something quite morbidly ironic about a man screaming that there's more to his life than being a wage slave,
00:49:01.080
only to discover that the only thing he wants to do is scroll through TikTok and binge Netflix.
00:49:06.120
Second, even leaving that issue to the side, the more fundamental problem with the work-life balance idea
00:49:13.000
is that work and life are not two separate things.
00:49:18.160
It's a symptom of our privilege and entitlement in the modern industrialized West
00:49:21.740
that we can even consider life and work as two distinct categories.
00:49:25.720
Talk to anybody outside of that bubble about their work-life balance,
00:49:29.260
and they'll have no idea what you're even talking about.
00:49:37.320
So when the self-righteous millennial or Gen Zer turns up his nose and says,
00:49:44.180
the question is then, who will be doing the work to sustain his existence?
00:49:50.620
Whether you're happy or not, the fact of life is that your life requires work.
00:49:55.860
And if you refuse to do it, somebody else has to.
00:50:05.000
Whoever it is, if you are not living a life free of the work requirement, nobody can.
00:50:12.680
You are rather living a life where that requirement has been offloaded to somebody else.
00:50:17.880
You've made someone else your slave, in effect.
00:50:21.160
You don't want to be a wage slave, so someone else is going to be your slave.
00:50:30.720
The refusal to participate in the difficult aspects of your own life is evil.
00:50:39.400
We hear that all of these younger people are prioritizing their happiness,
00:50:43.820
focusing on their happiness, giving up work for the sake of happiness,
00:50:47.900
pursuing happiness, thinking about their happiness, talking about happiness,
00:50:52.220
And yet, shockingly, so few of them are actually happy.
00:50:57.180
There have never been people who talk so much about happiness and yet feel it so little.
00:51:05.580
Millennials and Gen Z are at once the most focused on their happiness and yet also the least happy.
00:51:12.080
Perhaps there's a lesson there, which we might consider finally learning at some point.
00:51:15.980
And the lesson is that happiness cannot be conjured out of the ether like a magical spell.
00:51:27.020
Happiness is a byproduct of a well-ordered, well-situated, grounded, virtuous, productive life.
00:51:34.220
That's the only way to achieve sustained happiness.
00:51:39.400
You can, you know, go to a back alley somewhere, buy some black tar heroin and find some pleasure that way, I guess.
00:51:44.900
You could derive pleasure from an extra-large fast food value meal or a $3 hooker.
00:51:50.820
But you won't find happiness any of those places.
00:51:54.320
And you won't find it in a directionless life free of work, free of challenge.
00:51:58.620
Spend staring at screens while somebody else provides for all of your many needs.
00:52:01.940
As it turns out, life and work cannot be severed, and neither can happiness and work.
00:52:11.880
You have to give yourself over to some cause beyond yourself.
00:52:16.760
Happiness comes then as a side effect, often when you least expect it.
00:52:27.580
And one day you look up and you say, wow, look at that.
00:52:38.520
And it's something that both the Gen Z and millennial generations would do well to learn.
00:52:56.480
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00:53:19.200
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00:53:38.940
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