The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 942 - Discovery+ Goes Full Groomer With ‘Drag Kids’ Reality Show

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Discovery just announced a new show about cross-dressing

00:00:03.520 children called Generation Drag. The corporate media will continue grooming and sexualizing

00:00:07.840 kids no matter what it costs them. Also, Biden thinks the economic devastation he's causing is

00:00:12.300 hilarious. The DHS secretary tries to defend his agency's new ministry of truth. And in our daily

00:00:17.120 cancellation, we meet a trans, queer, latinx, neurodivergent public theologian. What do any 0.50

00:00:22.680 of those words mean? We'll find out today, maybe. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:39.800 slash Matt. So last month, Discovery Media merged with Warner Media to create a new media conglomerate

00:01:47.340 creatively called Warner Brothers Discovery. You'll notice how all the people in media who

00:01:51.920 are so concerned about Elon Musk taking control of Twitter rarely bat an eye when these giant

00:01:56.440 corporations merge or buy each other out or come together through other means of corporate

00:02:01.160 copulation and form these giant monopoly behemoths. That is, they aren't concerned until they start

00:02:07.300 losing their jobs, as was the case over at CNN when the newly formed Warner Brothers Discovery

00:02:11.520 started cutting off the dead limbs, starting first with that rotting, useless piece of lumber called

00:02:16.060 CNN Plus. The goal is to, you know, bring everything, all of the various smaller streaming

00:02:21.420 services owned by the company under Discovery Plus and HBO Max. Now, after the merger and the

00:02:28.240 merciful euthanizing of CNN's streaming service, Warner Brothers Discovery needs some successes. You

00:02:34.160 know, it needs some hits. It needs to get some attention. It needs hits is what it needs. And it

00:02:39.800 apparently believes that it has just that with a new series just announced, debuting on Discovery Plus

00:02:45.420 in a few weeks, called Generation Drag. This is a reality show produced by Tyra Banks and revolving

00:02:52.260 around five child crossdressers as they prepare for a big drag show in Denver, which invites, quote,

00:02:59.540 teen queens, kings, and non-binary performers ages 8 to 18. Now, the children featured on the Discovery

00:03:06.360 Plus show seem to run that age gamut from very young to simply young. And all of them, of course,

00:03:14.180 too young to be involved in the liberal West version of Baka Bazi. Discovery released a trailer for this

00:03:20.420 abomination on Friday. The comments, if you go to YouTube, are disabled. I wonder why. You can

00:03:25.960 actually see why they're disabled when you watch the clip. Let's watch this. 0.60

00:03:30.240 Welcome to the Pink Palace, my lovely friend. 0.87

00:03:34.520 I first discovered drag at 13. I didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted it. Put on the wig and the

00:03:44.920 makeup, and I'm someone completely different. I'm so pretty! My drag name is Vanessa Shimmer, and she is

00:03:51.980 just a force you cannot reckon with. How do I parent a child that wants to do drag? 1.00

00:03:58.300 I never expected drag to be a part of our lives. Oh my god, these are so cute. These are problems I 1.00

00:04:06.800 never thought I had to prepare for. What I love about drag is the glitz and the glam.

00:04:13.720 I want to pause it here for a moment because I want to answer the question that the abusive mother 0.69

00:04:21.780 asks, albeit rhetorically. She asks, how do I parent a child who wants to do drag? And her answer on how

00:04:28.520 to parent the child is to not parent him at all, to instead allow him to be swept along by whatever

00:04:34.700 forces are influencing him, and simply stand by while he's used and abused in this way. Although

00:04:39.840 that's probably a far too generous interpretation of this woman's role and motives, given that she's

00:04:44.340 not only allowing her child to do drag, but also putting him on television, it's pretty clear that

00:04:48.920 the forces influencing the child and driving him to cross-dress are, at least partially, his parents.

00:04:54.240 As the horror movies tell us, it's coming from inside the house. There are a couple more points

00:04:58.360 that we made here, I think, some of which require us to unfortunately watch a little bit more of this,

00:05:02.820 which we will do now. Watch.

00:05:04.820 I'm Noah, and I'm transgender. Have you talked to mom and dad about the pictures?

00:05:12.360 What do you think of taking those photos down? The constant reminder that we had to pretend

00:05:19.320 I was a boy. Do you think a mom would ever want to watch me do drag? How do I explain this to my

00:05:26.820 child that she doesn't fully accept Novela? Making friends has been a hard thing for me to do.

00:05:33.760 When I'm becoming Nemo. Whoa. Become more confident. Let me make sure you are appropriately fluffed.

00:05:41.300 This transition has been difficult for them, but they try, and that's all you can ask for.

00:05:50.060 It's important for kids to understand that they're not alone.

00:05:53.860 So my mom started Draguton. Kids and their families are coming from all over the country, 0.99

00:05:58.960 where we get to be our true self.

00:06:01.360 Oh, God. This is happening.

00:06:03.520 It's Vanessa Shimmer!

00:06:07.260 This is a place of love and support.

00:06:09.260 Because we need that in this world.

00:06:12.780 This is me, and you better like it.

00:06:15.860 Bye!

00:06:16.620 Now, one interesting thing that you see there when you watch this is that it seems like

00:06:26.160 every child featured in the show actually has what appears to be a father in the picture.

00:06:34.920 And you notice one there, the father himself is wearing the drag wig. 0.95

00:06:38.280 Now, that's probably not a coincidence.

00:06:39.760 I'm sure they selected for that because they didn't want to, you know, they didn't want to

00:06:46.480 promote the stereotype that boys who get involved in this kind of thing oftentimes don't have fathers.

00:06:51.260 So they selected families where there's a father there in the picture.

00:06:55.080 But that only emphasizes the fact that there are many different kinds of fatherless homes.

00:07:00.860 And when we talk about the fatherless home epidemic, oftentimes that boils down to the

00:07:05.940 statistics of fathers who are physically not in the home.

00:07:08.760 But if you're just looking at that, you're not getting the full picture.

00:07:12.160 Because the actual epidemic is much, much larger than that.

00:07:16.960 And there are plenty of homes where there's a father physically present.

00:07:20.840 Like he's a living, breathing organism taking up physical space within the home.

00:07:25.560 But he's not present in any other way.

00:07:27.580 He's not spiritually present.

00:07:28.680 He's not emotionally present.

00:07:29.680 He's not psychologically present.

00:07:31.240 He's certainly not present as a source of discipline and direction,

00:07:35.540 which is one of the primary things that children need fathers for.

00:07:38.760 So these are all fatherless homes, even if their fathers, quote unquote, are physically there.

00:07:49.060 Now, the child at the end there says, this is me and you better like it.

00:07:52.800 But tragically, he's wrong on both counts because he's been led wrong.

00:07:56.600 He's been led astray.

00:07:57.580 This is not him.

00:07:58.480 When he's dressed up in girl clothes and prancing around on stage for the enjoyment of predator adults

00:08:03.120 who should all be in prison, it's not him.

00:08:06.060 What is presented on stage is a rejection of everything that comprises his authentic self,

00:08:10.900 a rejection of his masculinity, his boyhood, his childhood, his innocence.

00:08:15.000 All of that is sacrificed.

00:08:16.280 And he's not choosing to sacrifice it because he doesn't know what he's giving up or what the consequences will be.

00:08:20.980 The adults in his life are sacrificing it for him.

00:08:23.820 Now, the fact that this show exists and is produced by one of the largest media companies in the world

00:08:31.420 and one of the most famous and mainstream models in the world, Tyra Banks, is involved as well.

00:08:37.000 Well, and that they're putting this out there at a time when there's such intense

00:08:41.500 and eminently justified backlash over this kind of thing, you know, that all proves yet again,

00:08:46.320 of course, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that there is a conspiracy to groom and sexualize children.

00:08:51.000 Warner Brothers is planting its flag here.

00:08:53.140 They will promote the grooming and sexual abuse of children, no matter how much outrage it provokes.

00:08:59.260 They're even willing to lose money to do it.

00:09:01.340 You know, last week we had the clip from Good Morning America from a few years ago

00:09:07.960 when they were talking about child drag performers and they brought a child drag queen, quote unquote, on stage.

00:09:15.640 And that was done at a time, as evidenced by the fact that hardly anyone noticed when they did it,

00:09:21.340 that was done at a time when the media could do stuff like this and get away with it.

00:09:26.340 Now you do this, there's going to be outrage.

00:09:29.340 And they know that.

00:09:31.340 So they're willing to deal with that.

00:09:33.900 They're willing to lose money to do it.

00:09:35.980 That's how important it is to them.

00:09:38.700 And that's also an important point to be made here and to realize.

00:09:43.000 But there's another point I want to make as well.

00:09:45.280 Consider this.

00:09:47.520 Child beauty pageants, events where young girls are caked in makeup and paraded around on stage,

00:09:55.700 those are dying out all across the Western world.

00:09:58.220 There's been even a push in some countries, including in this one, to ban the pageants outright.

00:10:03.900 But even if they haven't been successfully outlawed yet, they're certainly and thankfully not nearly as popular as they once were.

00:10:10.500 There is wide mainstream agreement that it is inappropriate to get your daughter involved in something like this.

00:10:17.100 Worse than inappropriate, it's exploitative and abusive.

00:10:20.180 This is one of the reasons why the horrible TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras was canceled back in 2013.

00:10:26.820 And even people who won't necessarily go that far in describing the pageants, maybe won't call them abusive and exploitative,

00:10:34.820 even most of those people will admit that it's controversial at any rate.

00:10:39.020 You can go to pretty much any left-wing media outlet and find articles that have been written denouncing these kinds of pageants.

00:10:46.080 Certainly if Discovery, which owns TLC, had announced last week a revival of Toddlers and Tiaras,

00:10:52.760 there would be widespread outrage over the decision and it would be outrage echoed by the left wing and in the mainstream media.

00:10:58.140 After all, why do you need to dress little girls up like fashion models and take makeup on their face and then send them out on stage to strut around? 1.00

00:11:09.420 Is this how little girls should be spending their time? 1.00

00:11:12.500 The answer, of course, is no.

00:11:13.900 And most people seem to agree these days, anyway, that the answer is no.

00:11:18.140 And yet, if you take little boys and put them in dresses and cake them in a makeup,

00:11:27.660 suddenly many of the people who said that this sort of thing sexualizes little girls are okay with it.

00:11:32.320 More than okay, they celebrate it.

00:11:33.900 In fact, Tyra Banks herself, on her short-lived talk show 10 years ago,

00:11:38.460 addressed the issue of child beauty pageants and treated it as a controversial subject.

00:11:42.800 She apparently was against it.

00:11:43.960 Now she's producing a show about drag pageants for boys. 0.99

00:11:49.920 How can this be explained?

00:11:52.180 Have these people suddenly decided that what was sexualization for girls isn't for boys?

00:11:58.400 No.

00:11:59.600 The answer is not that they don't think that these drag shows sexualize kids. 0.56

00:12:03.320 It's that in this case, that's exactly what they want to do.

00:12:08.920 You know, sexualizing girls is wrong, they say. 1.00

00:12:11.220 But sexualizing boys for the sake of promoting the LGBT lifestyle, 1.00

00:12:17.140 well, that's an entirely different matter.

00:12:20.820 As far as they're concerned.

00:12:22.780 And that, I think, is the real point behind all of this.

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00:14:04.540 So the White House correspondent dinner was back this weekend,

00:14:09.400 a time for the ruling class to get together and have a good hearty laugh

00:14:14.400 over how badly they're screwing up the country.

00:14:17.060 And Biden apparently, in a moment that will, you're going to see this moment,

00:14:22.120 you've already probably seen it a million times,

00:14:23.820 you're going to see it a million more times,

00:14:25.680 especially as we head into the midterms.

00:14:28.280 I mean, this is going to be featured, this moment in particular,

00:14:31.400 on a hundred different ads.

00:14:34.160 And then never mind as we get into 2024.

00:14:35.900 I mean, this is a moment tailor-made for attack ads from the other side.

00:14:41.220 Here's Biden having a good laugh about how badly he's screwing up America.

00:14:46.520 Let's watch.

00:14:48.260 I think ever since you've come into office, things are really looking up.

00:14:51.680 You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up, everything.

00:14:55.240 No, it really has been a tough first year for you, Mr. President.

00:15:01.380 Yeah, now, the one thing about this is that when that joke is made,

00:15:06.420 I'm not exactly sure what the right reaction is.

00:15:10.280 Because if Biden had sat there and looked angry or something,

00:15:13.560 then that would be the story too.

00:15:15.480 I guess they can't take a joke.

00:15:16.640 But whatever the right reaction is, it's certainly not to laugh.

00:15:19.940 Even if it is kind of an impossible, like there's no winning right there

00:15:24.780 when you're sitting there at an event like this

00:15:27.440 and someone makes a joke about how your inflation and everything

00:15:32.360 pan to you and your reaction.

00:15:35.100 There's no good reaction.

00:15:36.220 But that only speaks to, that's not an offense of Biden.

00:15:39.380 That's exactly why this event should be happening in the first place.

00:15:43.160 Because it's an event where there's just no,

00:15:45.140 there's no right way to go about it.

00:15:46.480 And especially when there is a food shortage and there is inflation

00:15:54.320 and people are suffering economically in so many other ways

00:15:57.120 that the ruling class is going to get together

00:16:01.340 and just have a nice time and show off their luxury and wealth

00:16:07.260 and all the rest of it.

00:16:09.020 So why would they do it?

00:16:10.160 It's not that they're, you know, one thing I've heard,

00:16:12.320 and I think this is wrong,

00:16:13.220 I've heard from some people criticizing this,

00:16:16.420 some conservatives that it's like these people are oblivious,

00:16:19.460 they're out of touch is another expression you hear quite a bit.

00:16:23.860 And I actually don't think that that's correct.

00:16:26.460 They know how this is perceived.

00:16:29.740 They know that the average person who sees them all in their tuxedos,

00:16:33.200 having a banquet, laughing about these things that are very serious.

00:16:36.980 I mean, inflation, to the people in that room,

00:16:39.800 inflation is a joke because it doesn't really affect them that much

00:16:42.480 because they're all rich.

00:16:46.120 Trevor Noah is somehow a rich, wealthy comedian.

00:16:52.900 Which that's a different subject, but I'll never understand that.

00:16:55.580 I mean, I've yet to, and I've given him a shot,

00:16:57.500 but Trevor Noah, he's almost as bad as like female feminist comedians. 0.97

00:17:03.020 I've never heard, I cannot think,

00:17:06.440 and if someone has an example, let me know,

00:17:08.440 but I can't think of one good joke I've ever heard him make, not one.

00:17:14.320 But regardless, this doesn't affect any of them.

00:17:16.880 So they can have a laugh, they can have a nice laugh about it.

00:17:19.100 Are they out of touch?

00:17:21.100 Do they not, do they not realize how this is perceived by the rest of us?

00:17:25.600 Well, no, they, they know, they just, that's the point.

00:17:28.140 And it's not that they don't care either.

00:17:29.640 It's, that's the point.

00:17:31.120 They're quite aware of how it's perceived.

00:17:34.380 And that's the point.

00:17:35.300 This is about them establishing their place atop the hierarchy.

00:17:39.100 It's the same thing with the Oscars.

00:17:41.720 There's always these questions about,

00:17:42.960 well, why would they still have the Oscars?

00:17:44.500 Don't they realize, oh, these out of touch celebrities once again?

00:17:47.620 No, yes, they, they realize how it seems.

00:17:49.780 They realize how it's perceived.

00:17:51.400 You have a four-hour ceremony on primetime television to just talk about how great you are

00:17:59.300 and award yourselves and pat yourselves on the back.

00:18:02.500 They know how that seems to the rest of us.

00:18:05.620 And they're happy about that because, again, it's about reestablishing the hierarchy.

00:18:11.260 It's about them saying to everybody else, we're up here and you're down here.

00:18:16.620 And if you're resentful and all that, that's fine.

00:18:19.580 That's just you being jealous of us.

00:18:22.400 We're okay with you as the peons being resentful and jealous.

00:18:27.920 So I think that's crucial for us to understand about this.

00:18:31.620 Later on, Joe Biden himself got up and did his own stand-up routine.

00:18:36.100 And let's listen to some of that.

00:18:38.740 But I'm not worried about the midterms.

00:18:40.640 I'm not worried about them.

00:18:42.100 We may end up with more partisan gridlock,

00:18:44.500 but I'm confident we can work it out during my remaining six years in the presidency.

00:18:51.400 And, folks, I'm not really here to roast the GOP.

00:18:56.660 That's not my style.

00:18:57.700 Besides, there's nothing I can say about the GOP that Kevin McCarthy hasn't already put on tape.

00:19:02.760 At the same time, a lot of people say the Republican Party is too extreme, too divisive, too controlled by one person.

00:19:17.200 They say that's not your father's Republican Party.

00:19:20.620 Ronald Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear this wall down.

00:19:24.720 Today's Republicans say, tear down Mickey Mouse's house. 0.98

00:19:28.900 And pretty soon they'll be storming Cinderella's castle, you can be sure of it.

00:19:33.700 But Republicans seem to support one fellow, some guy named Brandon.

00:19:39.460 He's having a really good year.

00:19:41.680 And I'm kind of happy for him.

00:19:43.400 I mean, the Brandon joke was okay.

00:19:51.760 That was, you know, I give that a C+.

00:19:56.860 Not too bad.

00:19:57.840 It's like slightly self-deprecating.

00:20:00.240 But you got to throw that in.

00:20:01.600 You got to throw in the slightly self-deprecating joke.

00:20:03.920 The other thing is, like, that was for the most part cringy and embarrassing.

00:20:09.960 And nothing more cringy and embarrassing than the comment about six more years.

00:20:15.620 And you could tell, even though they applauded in the audience, you know, no one sitting in that room feels that way about it.

00:20:22.000 I mean, these are the same people, remember, who a couple of weeks ago, when Obama showed up in the White House,

00:20:28.980 they left Joe Biden to just wander around by himself, standing alone, sat in the corner.

00:20:35.040 So that's how they feel about Joe Biden.

00:20:37.060 But they had to applaud.

00:20:37.940 Oh, yeah, six more years.

00:20:39.080 Sure.

00:20:39.580 Sure, Gramps.

00:20:42.240 Cringy and embarrassing, yes.

00:20:43.460 But at the same time, he did whatever meds they pumped into him so that he could basically be coherent for minutes at a time.

00:20:54.120 Keep in mind, this was not just, that was a minute clip.

00:20:56.640 But he spoke for, like, a few minutes in a row and was basically coherent for that entire time.

00:21:04.880 So I guess you give credit to whatever meds they put him on because they pumped him full of something.

00:21:11.500 And this is the point we've gotten to now with Joe Biden, where if you can see a clip of him speaking for one minute and making sense,

00:21:20.480 and not just randomly wandering off the podium or turning his back to the audience and talking to the wall or, like,

00:21:28.640 if you could just see for one minute standing in front of a microphone and speaking and making, basically making sense,

00:21:34.600 that's impressive.

00:21:36.140 You're impressed by that.

00:21:37.540 And this is the president of the United States.

00:21:39.680 And we're impressed by that.

00:21:40.920 Oh, good for him.

00:21:42.780 He spoke for a minute.

00:21:44.280 That's an improvement.

00:21:46.140 This is the president we're talking about.

00:21:49.160 My God.

00:21:50.320 A little more political news.

00:21:51.580 A new book says that Kamala Harris is, here's a shocker, bit of a diva in the White House, apparently. 1.00

00:21:58.440 Who would have thought?

00:21:59.900 This is a new book that I believe is just released.

00:22:03.160 And let's watch this interview on NBC.

00:22:06.200 Kamala Harris felt disrespected.

00:22:08.740 Here's one anecdote you have.

00:22:09.780 Harris worried that Biden's staff looked down on her.

00:22:12.220 She fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious.

00:22:16.260 When Harris walked into a room, the White House staff did not stand up the way they did for Biden.

00:22:20.040 The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect.

00:22:22.660 What was astonishing here is apparently there was a meeting about this.

00:22:25.860 Yes, the chief of staff to Kamala Harris telephoned the West Wing and told a senior advisor in the West Wing to Biden,

00:22:33.520 the VP has noticed this, and she would like folks to stand,

00:22:38.140 and staff members to stand when she enters the room.

00:22:41.520 This pulls back, I think, the curtain on what this White House is really like.

00:22:46.320 The tensions are deep and they are real between the VP's office and the West Wing.

00:22:50.080 Obviously, the public image is what it is, but this is an ongoing challenge.

00:22:56.120 And what is hovering over all of this, Chuck, is 24.

00:22:59.320 So clear.

00:22:59.900 Is Biden gonna run again?

00:23:01.040 And if not, is it gonna be VP Harris?

00:23:03.020 That is the mood music hanging over the entire Democratic Party right now, as are Biden's poor numbers.

00:23:08.500 By the way, that's from a book called This Will Not Pass, which is being released, I think, tomorrow.

00:23:17.900 And I did just go check, just out of curiosity, on Amazon.

00:23:23.720 And right now, it did surge one spot ahead of Johnny the Walrus.

00:23:29.480 So Johnny the Walrus was number one overall on Amazon for four days.

00:23:32.440 And right now, it's at number three, as This Will Not Pass, just passed in front of it.

00:23:37.680 And I could, first of all, consider this to be an attack on my identity as a children's author

00:23:43.180 and an assault on my psychological well-being, to be just at number three on Amazon.

00:23:47.340 So you can go to johnnythewalrus.com and make sure that we remedy that.

00:23:52.140 But in any case, that's some of what we hear in the book is about Kamala Harris being a diva,

00:23:57.120 which is, you know, that's exactly what any rational person,

00:24:03.100 this is exactly the kind of thing that a rational person expected to hear when they selected Kamala Harris.

00:24:09.280 And now the Democrats, of course, this is not any kind of great political insight to say the Democrats are in trouble for 2024.

00:24:18.280 Because Joe Biden might claim that he's going to run again, and maybe he thinks that he will.

00:24:27.120 And maybe he actually will.

00:24:29.700 But they have to know that that's just not going to work.

00:24:32.600 I mean, the idea of Joe Biden, look at what he is right now.

00:24:35.420 We're impressed with him stringing a sentence together for a year, you know, for a minute, rather.

00:24:40.820 Certainly not a year.

00:24:42.020 And now imagine him at the age, he's going to be 82, running,

00:24:48.700 with the claim that he's going to be in office until he's 86.

00:24:52.800 That's just not going to work.

00:24:53.900 But on the other hand, that seems more desirable than having Kamala Harris,

00:24:59.240 because that's how unpopular she was. 1.00

00:25:01.220 This is what happens when you take someone who got like 0.1% in the polls,

00:25:04.160 and you make them the vice president.

00:25:06.600 Because you're worried more about identity politics,

00:25:08.620 and you've decided to take the affirmative action approach,

00:25:12.060 this is what you end up with.

00:25:14.800 Now, one more piece of political news.

00:25:17.420 Speaking of people who have no shot in 2024,

00:25:19.780 I got to play this for you.

00:25:20.540 Asa Hutchinson is the eunuch governor of Arkansas,

00:25:23.960 who perhaps not surprisingly supports turning little boys into eunuchs.

00:25:28.160 Of his many sins as the governor of Arkansas,

00:25:30.920 he, as you may recall, vetoed a bill that would have made it illegal

00:25:35.720 to chemically castrate little kids and sterilize little kids. 0.65

00:25:40.240 And he was not in favor of that bill,

00:25:42.260 because he thinks that kids, you know,

00:25:43.520 it should be okay to do that to kids.

00:25:45.320 He had an announcement of his own to make on CNN.

00:25:47.620 Let's watch a bit of that.

00:25:48.300 You spoke at the Politics and Eggs event in New Hampshire,

00:25:53.100 a traditional stop for any presidential hopeful.

00:25:56.580 Are you seriously considering running for president?

00:26:01.180 I am, but you've got to get through, of course, this year.

00:26:05.040 But that's an option that's on the table,

00:26:07.140 and that's one of the reasons I was in New Hampshire,

00:26:09.520 and you had Secretary Mayorkas on,

00:26:12.720 and the border security is such an incredible issue.

00:26:15.380 That's what the kind of thing that I'm passionate about whenever you look at,

00:26:20.040 we need to have Title 42 or some equivalent to it.

00:26:23.640 Secondly, we've got to go after the cartels in a more vigorous fashion.

00:26:27.820 And then thirdly, we've got to support the states in the role that we play.

00:26:32.620 So there's much to be done there.

00:26:34.000 I care about those issues.

00:26:36.160 And so, yes, I'm going to be engaged this year and hopefully beyond that.

00:26:39.760 Even if President Trump runs, you will run?

00:26:42.560 Consider running.

00:26:43.500 His candidacy won't affect yours?

00:26:48.160 No, it won't.

00:26:49.580 I've made it clear I think we ought to have a different direction in the future.

00:26:53.340 And so I'm not aligned with him on some of his endorsements,

00:27:00.120 but also the direction he wants to take our country.

00:27:03.220 I think he did a lot of good things for our country,

00:27:06.140 but we need to go a different direction.

00:27:08.000 And so that's not a factor in my decision-making process.

00:27:13.860 Asa Hutchinson thinks he's going to be president, thinks he has a chance.

00:27:16.420 I have a better chance of becoming president.

00:27:21.100 Like, actually, a much better chance.

00:27:22.640 And I have zero chance.

00:27:24.320 I have zero chance, but much better than this guy.

00:27:28.840 There is simply no path for Republicans like this anymore.

00:27:35.860 And by the way, there hasn't been one since Romney ran and lost.

00:27:41.900 Or rather, since McCain ran and lost,

00:27:47.900 there hasn't been a path for Republicans like this kind of Republican.

00:27:51.940 The milquetoast establishment Republican who's just, as I say,

00:27:57.520 what I think the word for them really is the speed bump Republicans

00:28:00.740 who maybe will lay down in the road and just try to stop,

00:28:04.420 not stop, momentarily slow the progress of leftism.

00:28:09.960 But a lot of times they won't even do that much.

00:28:12.260 There's no path anymore.

00:28:13.540 There hasn't been for years.

00:28:15.620 And there certainly is not now.

00:28:18.700 What does he think?

00:28:19.720 I'd like to see his internal polling when he's sitting down with his advisors.

00:28:22.900 What exactly are they telling him?

00:28:25.880 Where is your audience?

00:28:27.660 Where is your base exactly?

00:28:30.640 Doesn't exist.

00:28:31.360 I can tell you that.

00:28:32.400 All right, this is an interesting story from CBS.

00:28:35.260 We're going to get out of politics before we go back to it in a moment.

00:28:38.260 But a little bit of history here is a story from CBS News.

00:28:41.900 It says,

00:28:43.740 When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border,

00:28:49.660 they thought they were looking at a crime scene and took the bones to the state capitol.

00:28:52.940 Turns out it was a very cold case.

00:28:54.960 It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between 900 and 1200 AD.

00:29:05.920 So this is a crime from a cold case about a thousand years old.

00:29:09.560 This is according to the National Institute of Anthropology and History on Wednesday.

00:29:14.060 State capitol, the institute said,

00:29:16.820 Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them. 0.99

00:29:20.520 The police in 2012 weren't being stupid.

00:29:23.440 The border area around the town of Fronterra, where this happened, has long been plagued by violence and cartels and everything. 0.92

00:29:30.960 And so that's what they thought they were looking at.

00:29:33.180 And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull

00:29:38.400 and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.

00:29:41.720 Now, they say usually because they find a lot of skull piles.

00:29:48.360 That's kind of a troubling thing when you can say a statement like that.

00:29:52.380 Well, the skull piles are usually found with big holes punctured in them.

00:29:57.700 And they're usually found in certain areas where we know the ceremonies were conducted.

00:30:01.740 But in this case, they found them in caves.

00:30:03.820 And what does that tell you?

00:30:04.600 It's because this is where, you know, the Aztec Empire was.

00:30:10.920 And this is what they did.

00:30:14.000 They believed that in order for the sun to rise, in order for them to continue existing,

00:30:21.800 they had to continually appease their gods with human sacrifices.

00:30:26.940 And this happened not just in one location, but across the entire empire.

00:30:31.120 And thousands and thousands of people were killed.

00:30:34.940 Slaves were taken, oftentimes children, oftentimes women.

00:30:40.440 And they were killed in various different ways.

00:30:43.400 Of course, the primary method of execution for the Aztecs anyway, for human sacrifices,

00:30:48.120 was to pin them down to a stone slab and cut open their chests and pull their hearts out. 0.98

00:30:53.880 And then they would cut off the people's limbs and the kind of the trunk of the now decapitated, 0.98

00:31:02.080 butchered person would be rolled down the temple steps.

00:31:04.480 And the limbs would oftentimes be eaten by the priests.

00:31:08.460 Now, I bring all this up, not just because I'm trying to shock and horrify you,

00:31:13.020 but because this is history.

00:31:14.460 And this is what happened before the Spanish showed up, before the conquistadors showed up.

00:31:20.920 And, but that's an event that we're supposed to, we're told, mourn.

00:31:26.060 This is a terrible thing.

00:31:27.220 When the conquistadors came, the Europeans came, and they conquered, you know, the new world. 0.97

00:31:34.000 And we're supposed to mourn this.

00:31:35.300 And we're supposed to continually apologize for it also.

00:31:38.300 Even though none of us around today had anything to do with it.

00:31:40.580 Not that I'm, not that I begrudge, you know, I'm fine taking the credit

00:31:47.060 for something like that.

00:31:51.600 Because as it turns out, you know, this is what the conquistadors were up against.

00:31:56.140 If you can imagine, and you can't, because none of us can.

00:31:58.640 You are, you've already sailed across an unknown sea and you land somewhere and you really don't

00:32:09.320 know where you are.

00:32:11.480 You know, it's impossible for us to even conceptualize this because we, you know, we have GPS.

00:32:16.820 We have, so everything, you know, our, our perception of the world is completely different.

00:32:22.680 We, we, cause we know what the world looks like.

00:32:24.600 And you can pull out your phone and just connect with a satellite and it'll tell you how to

00:32:29.780 get anywhere in the world.

00:32:32.100 Um, they didn't have that back then.

00:32:34.800 And so they had no idea where they were.

00:32:38.780 Um, you're landing on a plot of land.

00:32:41.200 You don't know how big it is.

00:32:42.280 You don't know what's, what's there.

00:32:44.500 You have no idea.

00:32:45.340 And they venture inland.

00:32:48.420 And the first thing that happens is they come across these big temples and pyramids and they

00:32:53.840 climb up and they go inside.

00:32:56.320 And, and oftentimes the place is drenched in blood and it smells like human flesh and 0.89

00:33:02.560 there are decapitated heads and, and limbs all over the place.

00:33:06.440 And they found this everywhere they went.

00:33:10.620 And they're vastly outnumbered.

00:33:14.600 By this enormous empire of warriors where this is what they do.

00:33:18.920 They just capture and kill people and they managed to, uh, conquer this, this, uh, this

00:33:24.060 empire.

00:33:26.000 Extraordinary story.

00:33:27.420 It's a story of courage and heroism and something we should all be grateful for.

00:33:32.160 Thank God.

00:33:32.940 I mean, this, this civilization that butchered women cuts, cut the hearts out of children 1.00

00:33:38.740 by the thousands.

00:33:40.920 Thank God they were conquered.

00:33:43.000 That's what we should be saying.

00:33:44.040 So, all right, going back into politics briefly here, um, the DHS secretary appeared on CNN

00:33:51.140 over the weekend to defend, um, the ministry of truth that they have put in place, what

00:33:58.000 they're calling the disinformation board.

00:34:00.660 And, uh, the DHS secretary says that, Hey, everything you're hearing about it, it's all

00:34:04.740 a bunch of, uh, this is just conspiracy theories.

00:34:06.940 Don't worry about it because he says you, you can, we can trust them.

00:34:11.060 We can trust them.

00:34:12.120 Let's listen.

00:34:13.080 Will American citizens be monitored?

00:34:15.220 No.

00:34:16.300 Guarantee that.

00:34:17.340 So what we do, we, we in the department of Homeland Security don't monitor, uh, American

00:34:23.340 citizens.

00:34:23.920 You don't, but will this board change that?

00:34:25.520 No, no, no.

00:34:25.860 The board does not have any operational authority or capability.

00:34:30.220 What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation

00:34:37.280 from foreign state adversaries, from the cartels and disseminate those best practices to the

00:34:44.400 operators that have been executing in addressing this threat for years.

00:34:49.580 Oh, okay.

00:34:50.300 Well then there's nothing to worry about.

00:34:51.640 I mean, the people that are in charge of this, they've told us that we can trust them

00:34:55.760 and they're not going to monitor Americans.

00:34:56.960 How often have we heard that from government agencies?

00:35:00.340 Oh, we don't, we don't monitor Americans except when we do, but other than the times when we

00:35:05.600 do, we don't.

00:35:07.560 Now he was also asked about Nina Jankiewicz, who's the left-wing activist who's going to

00:35:11.700 run this disinformation board, the ministry of truth.

00:35:14.000 And he says that nothing to worry about there either, because she's totally neutral and

00:35:19.720 very trustworthy.

00:35:21.320 Let's listen to that.

00:35:23.220 Republicans are criticizing your decision, the administration's decision to choose Nina

00:35:29.120 Jankiewicz to lead this disinformation board.

00:35:31.960 They say she is not somebody who is neutral.

00:35:34.800 Your response?

00:35:35.640 Eminently qualified, a renowned expert in the field of disinformation.

00:35:40.920 Absolutely so.

00:35:41.860 Would you be okay if Donald Trump were president, if he created this disinformation governance

00:35:48.780 board, or if it is in place and he wins again in 2024, that he's in charge of such a thing?

00:35:54.180 I believe that this working group that gathers together best practices, makes sure that our

00:36:01.240 work is coordinated, consistent with those best practices, that we're safeguarding the right

00:36:07.440 of free speech, that we're safeguarding civil liberties.

00:36:10.240 I think it's an extraordinarily important endeavor.

00:36:13.080 Before I let you go, I'm sure you have heard that Kevin McCarthy, now the Republican leader

00:36:17.860 who hopes to be speaker if Republicans take over in November, will consider impeaching you.

00:36:25.080 Well, he gives reaction to that, but I assume he's opposed to being impeached.

00:36:28.700 I don't know.

00:36:29.540 Now, we know that what he said, he said Nina Jankiewicz is neutral.

00:36:32.700 We know that that's not true because she's on the record with her.

00:36:37.060 She's ideological.

00:36:38.360 She's a leftist.

00:36:40.160 Very open about that.

00:36:41.620 She's been on the record about that in the past.

00:36:44.020 We also know, even though she's supposed to be a foremost expert in disinformation, I don't know

00:36:49.480 how exactly you become an expert in disinformation.

00:36:51.680 In a way, everybody at CNN are experts in disinformation, I suppose.

00:36:55.760 Experts in disseminating it anyway.

00:36:57.280 Anyway, so that's one of the ways that we know that she's not neutral is because we know

00:37:03.440 she's a leftist.

00:37:04.900 But also, we know that she's not neutral because she is, we assume, a human being.

00:37:13.600 Now, if she was some kind of robot, that might be different. 1.00

00:37:17.060 But even then, if she was a robot, then she would have been built and programmed by somebody,

00:37:20.920 which means also not neutral.

00:37:23.120 Because there is no neutral human being on Earth.

00:37:27.280 That doesn't exist.

00:37:29.100 Every human being has a worldview, has opinions, has a perspective, has some kind of ideological

00:37:40.500 commitment, even if it's half-baked and self-contradictory and all the rest of it, which it is for a lot of

00:37:45.880 people, especially on the left.

00:37:47.220 But still, there are no neutral people.

00:37:50.140 Does not exist.

00:37:52.840 And when he says that she's totally neutral, we know that that's a lie.

00:37:57.280 But the reason that he says that is because the only way that something like this could possibly

00:38:05.640 actually work is if it was actually being run by neutral people.

00:38:11.300 We would need to be able to trust what they're labeling disinformation actually is, and that

00:38:20.540 they don't have any other motivations, and that they're not politically invested in any

00:38:27.080 way whatsoever.

00:38:29.800 Like, in order for it to work, we would need to be able to trust that.

00:38:32.340 But we can't, because no human being is neutral.

00:38:38.080 And that's the whole point, really.

00:38:40.940 That's why the government can't do things like this.

00:38:45.000 Because we're relying on them as political actors to be the arbiters of what is true and what isn't.

00:38:53.360 What is valid information and what isn't.

00:38:58.160 The fact that no human being is neutral is the whole point.

00:39:03.380 And that's what makes this so dangerous.

00:39:07.660 And of course, even though he says that, yeah, well, if Trump was in charge of the government

00:39:11.040 and he was running the disinformation board, I'd be fine with that.

00:39:16.300 He says that, but of course, we know that that's also not true whatsoever.

00:39:19.740 One other quick thing before we get to the comment section, I want to put this up on the

00:39:23.080 screen.

00:39:23.520 This is a, let's go to nine, clip nine here.

00:39:25.840 This is a tweet from, this is a guy who works at Microsoft.

00:39:30.700 And his name is Justin Nelson.

00:39:33.360 His handle is TheGeekDiplomat.

00:39:36.280 Kind of tells you what we're dealing with.

00:39:37.760 And he puts, he's got an image of his positive COVID-19 test because he's still taking COVID

00:39:42.520 tests, apparently.

00:39:43.200 And this is his caption, rage crying this morning.

00:39:48.780 Uh, two years of isolating and keeping my toddler safe.

00:39:52.580 And I get infected with COVID-19 at a mandatory team offsite, even while wearing a KN95 mask. 0.59

00:39:58.460 Uh, now my toddlers are exposed.

00:40:00.540 This isn't over.

00:40:01.780 We need to immunize under fives now. 1.00

00:40:05.180 Hashtag immunize under fives now.

00:40:07.060 It's a hashtag calling for, you know, injecting kids under the age of five.

00:40:10.480 Imagine being a man who not only rage cries at all.

00:40:16.400 I don't know what a rage cry is.

00:40:18.740 I know what rage is.

00:40:20.480 I do have some experience with that.

00:40:22.980 But crying because you're enraged.

00:40:26.740 Um, I don't have a lot of familiarity with that, but rate rage crying.

00:40:30.400 Number one is, is the first problem.

00:40:31.760 And then doing it over a mild illness because you got a cold and then announcing it to the

00:40:36.320 world shamelessly.

00:40:39.840 And we can't expect from the kind of guy who rage cries over a cold.

00:40:45.440 I don't know if he's married or not.

00:40:46.640 I mean, he has a kid.

00:40:49.300 You gotta feel bad for the wife.

00:40:50.700 Just think about that, ladies. 1.00

00:40:51.840 How would you react if you went into the room and your husband is, is crying because he

00:41:00.560 has a cold and then you, and then you said to him, what are you, are you crying?

00:41:04.080 And he said, I'm only crying because I'm angry.

00:41:08.480 Uh, that's how do you go forward as, as a, as a woman in that situation, knowing that this

00:41:13.660 is the kind of man you married?

00:41:14.440 I mean, I'm sure it's not news to her, but anyway, the kind of guy who rage cries, I assume

00:41:20.260 we, we probably cannot, uh, obviously we can't rely on him to have any sort of introspection,

00:41:24.780 but if he was capable of introspection, then he might start thinking to himself, well, wow.

00:41:29.120 Um, I have completely, my, my life has, has revolved around this for two years.

00:41:35.780 I have sacrificed two years of my life just to avoid getting a cold.

00:41:42.700 And I've, and worse than that, I've sacrificed, um, my, my child being able to live a normal

00:41:48.940 life so that he doesn't get a cold and, and then, uh, and then it happens anyway.

00:41:55.700 So an introspective person, first of all, would not have gotten to this point in the

00:41:58.980 first place, but if they did, would stop and think, well, you know, maybe the lesson here

00:42:02.160 is that I should just be living my life because these kinds of things are going to happen.

00:42:09.240 Maybe when he's done, when he wipes the tears away and is done rage crying, maybe he'll

00:42:12.240 start thinking about some of those things.

00:42:13.780 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:26.820 Evox Pop says, just two questions.

00:42:29.060 How soon can this ministry of truth and its board be disbanded and who has the power to

00:42:33.540 do it?

00:42:33.860 Well, uh, the only people that could do it are, you know, this is another government initiative,

00:42:38.200 government agency, government board, whatever, if the government's doing it, then the only

00:42:41.220 people who can stop it are also in the government.

00:42:45.480 And, um, our only ability to do anything about it is to try to vote people into office who

00:42:50.940 will put an end to it.

00:42:53.880 Um, but that's, that's, that's the issue here is, um, when Republicans are in control of the

00:43:03.440 executive branch, can we rely on them to disband the ministry of truth?

00:43:07.680 You know, I think if Ron Santos becomes president, then that's exactly the kind of thing that

00:43:13.020 he would do.

00:43:13.820 And he's proven that with the way that he's governed Florida.

00:43:16.380 But, um, a lot of Republicans, no, I wouldn't trust them to do it because here's, here's the

00:43:21.320 thing, um, a ministry of truth, just like every time the government expands and gets into a

00:43:26.120 new area, uh, it always means, of course, more power for the government and the people

00:43:30.300 who are in the government, especially the people running the government and having your

00:43:33.920 own ministry of truth means a lot of power.

00:43:38.280 And so you need people in office who are willing to sacrifice their own power, who are willing

00:43:46.260 to say, this is an enormous amount of power that this particular thing gives me and I'm

00:43:50.580 willing to give it up.

00:43:53.280 Um, most Republicans have proven over the course of many decades that they are not actually willing

00:43:59.280 to do that, which is why, even though every Republican campaigns on shrinking the size

00:44:04.560 of the government, none of them, I mean, literally none of them have done it so far because you

00:44:12.800 run the government and the bigger the government is, the more power that you have.

00:44:18.720 So that's, uh, that's kind of the catch 22 here.

00:44:21.660 Um, that means that there's just a very small select number of Republicans that we can trust

00:44:25.760 to take a radical action like that.

00:44:28.260 And, uh, like I said, small, small select group.

00:44:31.960 Um, let's see, Jax says, love his point about going to college after high school.

00:44:36.600 I served a two-year mission after high school and my college experience so far has been a lot

00:44:40.340 better for me than it would have, uh, been if I hadn't done that.

00:44:44.040 I feel a bit more mature and understand who I am better than if I went to college straight

00:44:47.840 after high school.

00:44:49.800 Um, that's exactly the point.

00:44:53.380 And you're not going to find very many people who wait a few years to go to college

00:44:58.600 and regret the fact that they didn't go right at the age of 18.

00:45:05.160 Meanwhile, there are a whole lot of people who regret the fact that they went to college

00:45:08.720 right out of high school.

00:45:09.480 I know there's not a lot of regret in the other way, but there's a whole lot of regret,

00:45:11.820 um, in the other camp.

00:45:15.300 Let's see.

00:45:15.820 Another comment says, one week ago, I attended the Hodge twins comedy show in California.

00:45:20.180 It was hilarious.

00:45:20.860 They opened it up for Q and a, and the first question that was asked of the twins was,

00:45:25.080 are you guys part of the sweet baby gang?

00:45:27.900 And they didn't know what it was.

00:45:29.440 I yelled out SBG for life.

00:45:31.160 Our conservative community is growing so rapidly now because the left is so insane.

00:45:35.720 Love the, uh, MW show.

00:45:38.260 They didn't know what the sweet baby gang is.

00:45:40.280 I once again feel attacked by that, but I love the fact that we are, we are growing.

00:45:47.520 The cult is growing and anytime you could put somebody on the spot who will have no idea

00:45:53.520 what you're talking about, you should definitely do it.

00:45:56.220 Um, let's see.

00:45:58.720 Lance says, love that Walsh comes swinging for Ben multiple after multiple speeches in

00:46:04.680 a row.

00:46:05.040 LOL.

00:46:05.880 Oh, he doesn't need the help, but we are a team here at the daily wire.

00:46:08.620 That's, and that's definitely not the case with every conservative media outlet.

00:46:12.900 So you can't take that for granted, but I think it is here.

00:46:14.960 Um, whiteout says, Matt, I recently found out that my parents enjoy pineapple on their

00:46:20.400 pizza.

00:46:20.820 This has scarred and devastated me emotionally.

00:46:23.260 How do I confront them of their insurrection against my wellbeing?

00:46:27.020 Look, as a dedicated contrarian, and I get these comments with questions about pineapple

00:46:30.320 pizza all the time.

00:46:31.520 Um, and as a contrarian, I've decided, I guess that I'm going to become an apologist for

00:46:36.260 pineapple on pizza.

00:46:37.520 I don't even like it that much.

00:46:38.480 I don't hate it as much as many people do, but I am now officially in favor of pineapple

00:46:43.880 on pizza just because I'm sick of people complaining about it so much.

00:46:47.400 So I'm on your parents' side.

00:46:48.680 In fact, you know what?

00:46:49.700 Haven't done this in a while, but you, sir, are banned from the show.

00:46:53.440 You know, last week, my LGBTQ plus masterpiece of a book, Johnny the Walrus, became the number

00:46:57.640 one bestselling book in America and, uh, is still at least in the top five.

00:47:02.240 And of course the deranged leftists saw this as a great opportunity to be even more deranged.

00:47:05.780 Amazon quickly followed up my great success by banning the book's advertisements after

00:47:09.540 a leaked video revealed their infantile employees holding some sort of cry session over the

00:47:14.080 book, which is quite hilarious.

00:47:15.500 Uh, so I'm celebrating a little bit this Wednesday, May 4th.

00:47:18.180 I'll be doing a live book signing at 7 PM central on YouTube.

00:47:21.640 Brett Cooper, host of the comment section, will join me to moderate an audience Q and

00:47:24.860 A as I answer your questions live and sign copies of the greatest children's book ever

00:47:29.780 written.

00:47:30.240 The only way you can get your signed copy of Johnny the Walrus is to become a Daily Wire

00:47:33.900 all access member using code Walrus.

00:47:35.960 When you do so, you'll not only receive a signed copy of Johnny the Walrus, but you also get

00:47:39.000 your, uh, get our iconic leftist tears Tumblr, which really goes with Johnny the Walrus because

00:47:43.180 there's so many leftist tears.

00:47:44.280 You need a Tumblr for them.

00:47:45.580 So you got to get all that together.

00:47:47.000 If you haven't gotten your copy yet, now is the time head to dailywire.com slash subscribe

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00:47:56.120 the Walrus right now.

00:47:57.480 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:03.380 For our daily cancellation today, we turn our attention to an article from one of our local

00:48:07.520 outlets here in Tennessee called the Tennessean.

00:48:10.320 In a recent piece, the Tennessean extends an invitation to us that, um, none of us asked

00:48:14.600 for or wanted headline is meet Nashville's trans queer latinx neurodivergent theologian.

00:48:22.700 Now you'll notice already that this headline is nominally six words long. 0.71

00:48:26.980 And yet after the second word Nashville, it takes a three word detour into utter gibberish

00:48:31.580 and doesn't return to reality and words that exist in the dictionary until the end with

00:48:35.820 the word theologian.

00:48:36.820 Everything in between is abject nonsense.

00:48:39.360 This gives you an idea as to what to expect as we venture into the text of the article

00:48:43.280 itself.

00:48:43.840 It begins, Robin Henderson Espinoza is the only Nashville-based trans queer latinx neurodivergent 0.91

00:48:51.360 public theologian that they know.

00:48:53.440 Wait, that who knows?

00:48:57.300 That they know?

00:48:58.760 Sounds like there's a sentence cut off here, or maybe the author of this piece had a stroke

00:49:02.260 while they were typing.

00:49:03.420 But it turns out that, of course, the they refers to Robin Henderson Espinoza, who, despite

00:49:07.540 having three names, is only one person, but still goes by they anyway.

00:49:12.020 And it continues, I don't know anybody like me, Henderson Espinoza, who uses gender neutral

00:49:16.960 pronouns, said in an interview.

00:49:18.260 Yet it was only recently when Henderson Espinoza, 45, got to know their better self, or rather,

00:49:24.180 got to know their self better.

00:49:26.480 Got to know their self better.

00:49:29.480 Okay.

00:49:30.320 Such is the diagnosis that they are on the autism spectrum.

00:49:33.140 Amid this eventful period in their life, Henderson Espinoza also made time to write

00:49:37.480 reflections about their personal experience and its connection to larger sociopolitical events,

00:49:42.260 which they turned into a book.

00:49:43.800 Henderson Espinoza's new book, Body Becoming, A Path to Our Liberation,

00:49:47.760 released on Tuesday.

00:49:50.200 Somehow, I don't feel a threat from that book to Johnny the Walrus.

00:49:53.260 I don't think that I have to worry about that making it into the top 10.

00:49:56.300 I must, again, though, point out here that the correct gender neutral pronoun for an individual

00:50:02.660 entity is it.

00:50:05.340 So if you're really neither male nor female, and yet you're a single person, then you are

00:50:10.380 an it.

00:50:11.820 But Robin, just like every other supposed gender neutral person, doesn't want to use it because 0.83

00:50:16.480 that sounds dehumanizing, which it is.

00:50:18.460 But rejecting the binary of female and male is by its nature dehumanizing as you are rejecting

00:50:23.980 the very human nature, which declares that there are only males and females.

00:50:29.220 These people want to have their dehumanized cake and eat it too. 0.98

00:50:33.380 Robin says that she, and I think this is a female, but I'm taking a bit of a shot in the

00:50:37.100 dark here.

00:50:37.400 So she is, unlike anyone she knows, incredibly unique.

00:50:42.400 I don't know anybody like me.

00:50:44.680 Now, that's obviously the point of all this.

00:50:46.440 The accumulation of meaningless identity labels is a narcissistic attempt to present yourself

00:50:51.700 as more complex, more interesting, deeper, more profound than the average person.

00:50:57.160 And yet it has precisely the opposite effect.

00:50:59.260 But she's not done claiming labels.

00:51:01.780 It continues,

00:51:02.180 Henderson Espinoza, an ordained Baptist minister who has a PhD in philosophy, knew for many

00:51:07.380 years that they were transgender, but didn't explore what that meant to them until 2017

00:51:11.280 when they moved to Nashville from California.

00:51:13.780 Henderson Espinoza found a Vanderbilt physician who was overseeing Henderson Espinoza's hormone 0.99

00:51:17.980 therapy.

00:51:18.900 Then in 2018, Henderson Espinoza learned that they're on the autism spectrum.

00:51:23.240 It never occurred to me that my brain worked differently, Henderson Espinoza wrote in their

00:51:26.600 new book.

00:51:26.940 I realized that my socialization in the church and academy had been through neuronormative

00:51:32.280 people who didn't understand my body or my mind and had curated such a disconnection

00:51:36.640 from my body.

00:51:38.720 Wait, if you don't identify as either male or female, then what are the hormones supposed

00:51:44.960 to achieve exactly?

00:51:46.680 Meanwhile, Robin, addicted to the self-satisfied high she got from accruing the labels trans,

00:51:51.920 non-binary, latinx, decided to go back for another hit, adding neurodivergent to the 1.00

00:51:56.920 list.

00:51:58.200 As has happened with so many other things, the category of mental illness has now been

00:52:02.460 fully subsumed by the LGBT alphabet group.

00:52:06.700 This is why LGBT activists will so often list their mental health conditions as if the conditions 0.59

00:52:11.200 themselves are sexual identities.

00:52:14.740 And like sexual identities, mental illness has been made into something trendy, desirable, 0.98

00:52:20.300 another way to set yourself apart.

00:52:22.140 The made-up term neuronormative has the same scoffing tone and dismissive ring to it as

00:52:29.380 the made-up term cisgender.

00:52:30.700 And that's the other thing about all of the obsessive labeling that leftists do to themselves.

00:52:35.340 While labeling themselves, they also put labels on the rest of us that we did not choose or

00:52:40.640 agree to or consent to.

00:52:43.120 Cisgender is not a term that any so-called cisgender person chooses for themselves.

00:52:47.040 It's a label that trans activists place on us.

00:52:51.700 Now, God forbid we label them in a way they don't like, but they can label us all they

00:52:55.960 want.

00:52:56.920 Those are the rules they want us to play by anyway, but I refuse.

00:53:00.200 Also note in that last segment, again, the sheer volume of absolute certifiable nonsense, especially

00:53:07.380 the last sentence.

00:53:09.140 I realized that my socialization in the church and academy had been through neuronormative

00:53:14.000 people who didn't understand my body or my mind and had curated such a disconnection from

00:53:20.360 my body.

00:53:22.000 Curated a disconnection from your body?

00:53:24.340 How is a disconnection curated?

00:53:26.100 How can someone else curate your own disconnection, whatever that means? 0.84

00:53:31.240 What in the hell are you babbling about?

00:53:33.420 Well, Robin does quite a lot of babbling, it turns out. 0.98

00:53:35.900 This is common of leftists generally, but especially those who identify themselves as pastors and

00:53:39.840 theologians.

00:53:40.900 Those two labels, as it happens, are the most absurd of all the titles Robin gives to herself.

00:53:46.400 As evidenced by this clip of Robin Henderson-Esposoza, originally posted to Twitter by a group called

00:53:51.400 Q Christian Fellowship, which says in its bio that its mission is to cultivate radical

00:53:55.560 belonging for LGBTQ plus people, and it achieves this, apparently, through incoherent prattle 1.00

00:54:00.960 like this.

00:54:01.740 Listen.

00:54:03.460 The not yet is the imaginal space of becoming.

00:54:08.140 The not yet is in the space of a realized utopia.

00:54:13.320 The not yet is the Christian message that we must embody in critical and creative ways to

00:54:21.880 steward a narrative that calls us into being human with one another again.

00:54:28.260 That is the kind of hope I want to invite us to embody.

00:54:33.360 That is the kind of queerness that I hope we can practice. 1.00

00:54:37.740 One that reimagines language and practice and narratives that can be midwifed and stewarded

00:54:47.340 through the imaginal.

00:54:50.300 That is hope to me.

00:54:54.360 That is the kind of power I think we have as a collective of believers, of doubters, of

00:55:03.720 Christians, as those who are becoming. 1.00

00:55:09.860 So this is like the leftist version of speaking in tongues, because no part of what you just

00:55:14.640 heard qualifies as English.

00:55:16.560 Neither does it qualify as Christian. 0.97

00:55:17.980 I mean, it is religious, no question, but this is not the Christian religion you're hearing 0.99

00:55:21.340 there.

00:55:22.480 Just to quote one section of it, she says,

00:55:24.460 Oh, okay.

00:55:37.740 Now, if you listen to that and you hear all the big words and think, well, maybe I'm just 0.99

00:55:41.880 too stupid to understand what she's saying, then you're having exactly the reaction that 0.99

00:55:46.340 people who speak this way want you to have. 1.00

00:55:48.640 And you're also wrong. 1.00

00:55:49.520 You are not too stupid. 1.00

00:55:50.420 Your failure to understand gibberish is not a shortcoming on your part. 1.00

00:55:55.740 This is just how smug leftist academics speak, because for one thing, they would rather dazzle

00:56:00.540 you with their faux intelligence than actually communicate like normal human beings.

00:56:04.660 They don't want to be understood.

00:56:06.960 They want to be admired.

00:56:09.380 When it comes to leftist ideas in particular, this is especially the case. 0.92

00:56:13.120 They hide behind this impenetrable fortress of scholarly sounding bulls**t, because along with 0.94

00:56:18.400 wanting to impress you with what it usually turns out to be a pretty middling intellect, 0.97

00:56:22.280 they also want to disguise their true meaning, such as there actually is any true meaning

00:56:26.240 at all.

00:56:27.120 Whatever they're trying to say, if they're trying to say anything, they prefer to keep

00:56:31.700 it safe, locked inside a box of gibberish and buzzwords.

00:56:35.900 The hope is that you'll just nod confusedly and go along with whatever it is they want you

00:56:40.080 to do or whatever direction they want to take you.

00:56:42.520 They want you to scratch your head and shrug your shoulders and say, okay, sure.

00:56:46.020 Let's be stewarded to the imaginal space of queerness.

00:56:50.400 Sounds good.

00:56:52.420 What they don't want you to do is stop and say, wait a second, what exactly are you trying

00:56:56.080 to say?

00:56:57.240 Can you speak like somebody who isn't suffering from a severe concussion and just put it in

00:57:01.480 plain English for me?

00:57:03.260 They don't want that, because if there is any meaning underneath all this nonsense, it's

00:57:08.260 something quite horrifying.

00:57:10.140 Something that they clearly don't want you to see or understand.

00:57:13.940 And that is why, finally, Robin, the Neuro-Latinx transbinary divergent theologian, is today 0.84

00:57:20.620 canceled.

00:57:21.720 And we'll leave it there.

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