The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 946 - The Left Temporarily Rediscovers Biology

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left continues to struggle to find a compromise between their

00:00:03.680 feminist pro-abortion talking points and their trans talking points. Also, the White House

00:00:07.360 refuses to condemn protesters, quote-unquote, who are planning to hunt down conservative Supreme

00:00:11.340 Court justices and show up at their houses. The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard drama continues,

00:00:15.380 but I think the lesson in this story is one that most people are ignoring so far. And Trump

00:00:19.340 allegedly suggests missile strikes against drug cartels. Sounds like a fine plan to me. Plus,

00:00:24.440 the guy who physically assaulted Dave Chappelle on stage during a comedy show

00:00:27.560 will not face felony charges, despite the fact that he was carrying a deadly weapon at the time.

00:00:31.520 It's almost like they want this kind of thing to happen more often. We'll talk about all that

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00:01:58.860 at the Ryman in Nashville on June 29th. See you there. So this has been a difficult week to say the

00:02:04.700 least for the left. In fact, there have been several difficult weeks in a row. A few weeks ago, Elon Musk

00:02:09.220 bought Twitter, ushering in a troubling new era where people can use social media to do dangerous

00:02:14.580 things like, you know, share their viewpoints and say their opinions. And then the next week after

00:02:19.320 that, my book, Johnny the Walrus became the number one bestseller in the country, causing deep trauma

00:02:22.820 to Amazon employees and to leftists across the nation. Speaking of which, I should mention here

00:02:26.960 that BookScan, the company that tracks all book sales, released their official list for the previous

00:02:33.360 week for last week. And we can confirm now that Johnny the Walrus outsold every book in every category

00:02:37.980 last week. In spite of this, of course, it was left off of the New York Times bestseller list. It makes

00:02:43.860 sense, I suppose, just because it was literally the bestselling book out of all books. That doesn't

00:02:49.800 mean that it qualifies as a bestseller. Why? Well, I suppose because the New York Times, and they

00:02:54.780 don't, you know, they don't tell you exactly what their algorithm is for how they track these things.

00:02:59.500 And they don't tell you that because they want to give themselves the excuse to leave books like

00:03:03.220 this off of it. But I think what it is, is that they subtract one book sale for every leftist that

00:03:10.080 your book traumatizes, which means that by that accounting method, I actually sold like

00:03:14.680 negative a million books, I guess. All of that trauma, though, was mere appetizer for the main

00:03:21.520 course, which of course was served this week with news that Roe v. Wade is about to be aborted. The

00:03:26.740 prospect of fewer babies being killed, even if the decrease will be relatively minimal as the majority

00:03:31.800 of abortions are already performed in states that will not outlaw them just because Roe was 0.51

00:03:36.200 overturned. But the prospect is still devastating for the reasons that we've covered on the show.

00:03:41.380 Leftism is the worship of self. Through abortion, a mother kills her child, sacrificing him on the

00:03:46.360 altar of the self and thus declaring herself to be an autonomous, independent being. It's all a mirage.

00:03:52.300 Of course, she's just consigned herself to a life of regret and despair without knowing it.

00:03:56.400 But this is the doctrine of the leftist religion, and it's why abortion is its highest sacrament, 0.75

00:03:59.900 a sort of satanic parody of baptism. The other thing that has made this news so difficult is that it

00:04:04.940 comes at a time when the left has been busy trying to convince us that biological sex doesn't exist

00:04:10.240 and men can get pregnant. So the Roe news has sparked mass confusion really on the left. Some

00:04:15.860 have retreated back to the standard feminist, no uterus, no opinion talking point, which even though 1.00

00:04:22.840 that's now defunct, they're still going with it. Others have tried to cut a path between that and the

00:04:29.400 trans agenda. So for example, the AP yesterday put out new style guidance, and this is the style

00:04:35.380 guidance that they're giving. They say, quote, phrasing like pregnant people or people seeking

00:04:41.300 an abortion seeks to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women,

00:04:46.680 such as transgender men and non-binary people. Such phrasing should be confined to stories that

00:04:52.960 specifically address the experiences of people who do not identify as women. So this is their attempt 0.78

00:04:59.480 to come to a compromise. According to the AP, you can still say things like, overturning Roe is an

00:05:06.480 attack on women because you only need to acknowledge the fictional existence of pregnant men when you're

00:05:11.780 specifically talking about pregnant men. This is how the AP seeks to have its cake and eat it too,

00:05:16.960 and they give it a good shot. But ultimately, the attempt fails. Either women exclusively give birth 1.00

00:05:23.500 or not, and if not, then it doesn't make any sense to say that abolishing Roe is an attack on women. 0.99

00:05:29.100 Now, it doesn't make any sense, first of all, because it's not an attack on women, but even if it was,

00:05:33.480 the claim is incoherent if men can also get pregnant. I mean, you might as well say that abolishing Roe 0.99

00:05:38.940 is an attack on people with blonde hair or an attack on people who are five foot seven.

00:05:43.960 You would be confusingly and arbitrarily limiting the conversation in a way that makes no logical

00:05:50.760 sense. There's no way around it. If pregnant men exist, then all of the standard feminist talking 1.00

00:05:57.080 points are out the window. They are all neutralized, outdated, transphobic. You have to choose one path

00:06:02.940 or another. Choose the path with pregnant men and penis-bearing women, or choose the path of reality. 0.99

00:06:08.820 You cannot live in unreality and reality at the same time. At least you can't for now. Not until 0.96

00:06:15.200 Mark Zuckerberg hooks us all up to the matrix anyway, then maybe that'll change. But Democrats

00:06:20.280 have never been troubled by their own incoherence, which is why so many are forging ahead with their

00:06:25.240 standard feminist claptrap. And we've heard many examples of this over the last few days. I want to 1.00

00:06:29.320 play one more because it unintentionally raises, I think, an important point. So here's Senator Mazie

00:06:36.140 Hirono, perhaps the dumbest member of Congress, and that's saying quite a bit, giving her take on 0.99

00:06:41.660 all this. Listen. 0.99

00:06:42.760 I am just gobsmacked. I hardly know where to begin. But fundamentally, Republicans don't give a rip about

00:06:49.240 women. They are more angry, incensed, and whatever words, or outraged by the leaks than they are by the 1.00

00:06:58.840 fact that women in this country are going to wake up one morning and realize they no longer control 1.00

00:07:04.600 their own bodies. I share the sentiments of my colleagues standing here and all the people out

00:07:11.360 there who are outraged by what the Supreme Court, well, the radical right-wing justices of the Supreme

00:07:16.760 Court are about to do. So I ask the question, is there anything we can do to men that even comes close

00:07:25.120 to forcing a woman to have a baby? I tweeted that out, and there are all kinds of really interesting 1.00

00:07:32.480 reactions. Go to that tweet, and you'll find out what's happening out there.

00:07:39.700 Yes, go to that tweet and find out what's happening out there. She says, like I said, a very, very stupid 1.00

00:07:47.940 woman. And they're not all stupid on the left or in the Democratic Party. There are some of them that 1.00

00:07:53.860 are quite smart and very evil, but for Mazie Hirono, just a very dumb person. And she says, 1.00

00:08:00.100 what can we do to men that comes close to forcing a woman to have a baby? Well, again, according to

00:08:06.420 your own party, we can force men to have babies too. I mean, you know, that's because according to 0.85

00:08:10.320 you, that's possible. But putting that aside, I mean, putting aside the fact that everything you

00:08:15.400 said contradicts everything else you say, we have to clarify two things. First, I know these people

00:08:21.600 aren't big on definitions, but by definition, women who get abortions already have babies. If they 0.99

00:08:27.640 didn't have babies, then there would be nothing to abort. Now, yeah, we might use the word have to

00:08:32.840 mean give birth, but even after a woman has a baby, she still now has a baby. So when I say I have 0.98

00:08:41.640 children, I don't mean that I am now in the process of giving birth to them or that I ever did give

00:08:46.460 birth to them, though I could have given birth to them, according to Mazie Hirono's party. The point is

00:08:50.600 simply that the child already exists once the abortion occurs and nobody is in favor of forcing

00:08:56.900 women to bring children into existence. That's not what anyone is saying. But once the baby does 1.00

00:09:04.400 exist, which happens at conception, nobody should be able to kill him. That's all. The other part of

00:09:11.160 her claim is what raises, I think, the important point, which is she says that we don't do anything

00:09:16.160 to men that comes close to forcing women to have babies. Well, I'll tell you something we do to men.

00:09:23.620 By the current law, a woman can legally kill a man's child without his consent. Men are in the unique 0.99

00:09:31.420 position of having absolutely no legal power to prevent the murder of their own children in the womb.

00:09:38.640 And what makes this even more outrageous, if it could possibly get more morally outrageous than that,

00:09:42.340 is that though the man has no legal power and no say at all, as soon as the child is born, I mean,

00:09:49.180 the second the child is born, he can be legally required to financially care for the child for the

00:09:52.920 next 18 years. Now, I'm in favor, personally, of forcing men to take care of their own children. 0.97

00:09:59.300 But I am not in favor of a dynamic where, in one instance, in one incident, rather, the man goes from

00:10:06.740 totally irrelevant, utterly powerless to prevent the child's execution to on the hook and responsible

00:10:14.540 for the child for the next 18 years. And there are a lot of problems with this dynamic. One of them is that

00:10:20.320 the message that you're sending to men when the child is in the womb is that this, you have no power, 0.61

00:10:29.520 no say, it's not even really yours. And it's just an it. It's not even a child. It has no worth,

00:10:34.820 no value, nothing. And it can be killed and it shouldn't matter to you at all. And then as soon

00:10:46.240 as the child is born, now you want the father to feel responsible for this being, which for the last

00:10:57.640 nine months you have told him isn't even human. The whole thing makes no sense. And this is a type

00:11:05.040 of injustice suffered by men and by men alone. No woman in this country will ever be in the position

00:11:12.140 of having to sit by powerlessly while someone else legally murders her child. Now, sure, there are

00:11:20.440 lots of men who, where this goes the other way, and they are pressuring women to get abortions.

00:11:25.920 That's a horrible thing too. But many, many cases go in the other way. And it's a part of the

00:11:32.820 abortion conversation, which is almost always ignored. Abortion is along with an attack on basic

00:11:38.860 human rights and the dignity of the unborn, also an attack on men's rights. Abolishing abortion does 0.90

00:11:46.680 not interfere with women's rights because it simply puts women on an even playing field with men. 0.99

00:11:51.160 Without abortion, nobody of either sex is entitled legally to murder anybody. With abortion, 0.81

00:11:58.360 women possess this power solely. They are judge, jury, and executioner. The left is not seeking 1.00

00:12:04.960 to preserve women's rights, but rather women's privileges. And this is a privilege that nobody 1.00

00:12:09.340 should have. A privilege that even the person who exercises it is harmed by. A privilege that destroys

00:12:15.440 everybody involved. A privilege that is, in the end, more of a curse. And that ultimately is why

00:12:21.460 abortion, though it grants this evil power to women alone, it is also an attack on women as well,

00:12:26.520 because it invites a woman to come and be destroyed. It invites her to give up what is the best and most 1.00

00:12:33.000 beautiful thing. And it makes all kinds of promises that turn out to be lies. That's what abortion is in 0.97

00:12:39.200 the end. An attack on everyone. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:48.760 Well, as we've just talked about, I've been talking about a lot this week, of course, with all this

00:12:52.260 news about Roe v. Wade, the left is, I want to say, more enraged than ever. But I don't know. They're

00:12:58.780 just in a constant state of panic and outrage all the time. But certainly, when their highest sacrament

00:13:05.120 is being threatened, that brings out a whole new side, if that's even possible. That's why it's

00:13:11.420 such a good time to tell you about a book that our friends at 40 Days for Life wrote. It's the

00:13:15.680 number two Amazon Christian bestseller, What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing

00:13:20.300 abortion, how to change minds and convert hearts in a brave new world. 40 Days for Life is based in

00:13:24.620 Texas. It's one of the largest pro-life grassroots organizations in the world. They have one million

00:13:28.000 volunteers in a thousand cities and 64 countries holding peaceful 40-day vigils outside of abortion

00:13:32.520 facilities to save lives and help abortion workers leave their jobs. That's why you got to get the 0.98

00:13:38.980 book, What to Say When, today. And I should also note, there's a lot of great stuff in the book,

00:13:43.300 but right there at the very beginning is a foreword written by, in fact, a best-selling children's

00:13:49.480 author, which is yours truly. So that's in the book as well. It covers the old arguments and the new

00:13:53.480 ones that you might be hearing at work or with family. So get it now and check out 40daysforlife.com

00:13:58.400 to help end abortion wherever you live. So on this topic of men and how they supposedly

00:14:06.340 benefit from abortion and all the rest of it, allegedly, I also wanted to, here's another

00:14:12.440 thing I want to read quickly. This is Jill Filopovich. She's a feminist writer and she just 1.00

00:14:16.520 tweeted this out. She says, there are millions of men whose lives would have been much worse without

00:14:21.360 abortion. Men who wouldn't have found their big loves, wouldn't have their kids. I'm sorry, what?

00:14:29.300 Men who wouldn't have their kids 1.00

00:14:31.420 if there was no abortion. So the kids exist because of abortion. Let's try to figure that one out.

00:14:41.060 You're in the mind of a leftist. It's just, it's impossible to understand. Wouldn't have been as

00:14:44.520 successful, wouldn't have taken big risks. Many of them don't think about it. Some don't even know it.

00:14:48.800 How many men are sitting in elected office, running companies, caring for their much-loved kids,

00:14:53.640 going on big adventures, working their way up, making their art, writing their books,

00:14:57.720 appearing on your television screen because they didn't become fathers before they were ready?

00:15:03.380 Now, you know, the problem, there are many problems. One of them is that once again,

00:15:07.620 she's ignoring the fact that they were already fathers and then the child was killed. And so

00:15:14.160 they didn't, that's, it's not that they didn't become, not becoming a father before you're ready.

00:15:19.700 That's a, that's a good idea.

00:15:23.840 But that means not conceiving a child. Once the child is conceived, then you are now a father.

00:15:29.680 And when, when she paints this kind of rosy picture, she, as always, they ignore, they,

00:15:34.960 they, they pretend that regret, guilt doesn't exist. It's the same exact thing they do with

00:15:42.360 people who get, quote unquote, gender affirmation surgeries, when, you know,

00:15:47.060 genital mutilation, where they, they say, oh, they got that and everything was, everything

00:15:50.840 was happily ever after, rode off into the sunset. Just completely pretending that the regret doesn't

00:15:56.840 exist. When in fact, millions of people, especially when it comes to abortion, millions of people are

00:16:02.420 wracked by guilt and regret. And those voices are totally silenced in this conversation.

00:16:09.640 But the other thing about this that I noted was that, um, she says, you know, since Roe v. Wade,

00:16:17.020 there are so many men who, uh, they found the loves of their lives and they've, they got married and

00:16:22.740 they had kids and they've been successful because of abortion somehow. And yet, if you look at the

00:16:30.840 trajectory of these things, what you find is that since Roe v. Wade, actually, there are many fewer

00:16:36.860 men who are doing those things. Fewer men, statistically, over the last 50 years, have found

00:16:45.140 their true loves, you know, have, uh, had kids, have been, have found success in life.

00:16:50.620 The rates of divorce, fatherless homes, especially for men, suicide, depression, despair, homelessness,

00:16:59.400 drug abuse, uh, incarceration, all of that over the last 50 years since Roe v. Wade has skyrocketed.

00:17:07.380 Now, is that all because of Roe v. Wade? No, obviously not. There it's a, it's a, it's a

00:17:12.600 multifaceted problem and there are many, uh, things behind it. I think Roe v. Wade is part of the,

00:17:17.800 of the discussion, though. It certainly, for one thing, helps to engender this feeling of despair,

00:17:26.280 this feeling of, uh, for, for everybody, that life is essentially meaningless and worthless.

00:17:30.960 Because if that's the statement that you make about life at its earliest stages,

00:17:35.020 that it's meaningless, worthless, you can destroy it and throw it away, it doesn't mean anything,

00:17:40.280 that tends to seep into people's psyches in ways that they don't at first notice.

00:17:47.800 But whatever connection there is between Roe v. Wade and abortion and the ways that men have

00:17:54.280 suffered over the last 50 years, uh, the fact is that there is no evidence going in the other

00:17:58.940 direction, despite what this Jill Philopovich might want to claim. Um, also on the same topic

00:18:05.400 here, you know, in the last few days, some people who are considered right-wing, but really aren't,

00:18:09.900 you know, they're just, they're hated by the left anyway, but they're not really right-wing.

00:18:12.840 And I don't think they've ever called themselves that. Some in that, some prominent people in

00:18:17.960 that category have spoken out against overturning Roe v. Wade. Joe Rogan was one. He said, uh,

00:18:22.660 he took a kind of more moderate sort of tenuous stance on it. And he questioned whether we should

00:18:28.520 be aborting babies when they're more developed, but he did make it clear that the government

00:18:34.120 shouldn't be getting involved in people. Uh, and then also Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports.

00:18:38.740 There's, there's a clip that kind of went viral. Let's, uh, listen to what he has to say about it.

00:18:43.640 If that is an issue, I'd vote Democrat. So it's a great f***ing ploy. I don't understand. 0.97

00:18:51.840 And I thought this in my head too. It's like, theoretically, Republicans are like less government,

00:18:57.620 small government. So like, shouldn't Republicans be pro-choice because let the person, now I know 0.84

00:19:04.620 the argument. Yeah. You don't want the federal government making the laws. You want the state,

00:19:09.280 but overall the less government is just let a f***ing woman do what she wants with her body. 1.00

00:19:15.760 Keep the government out of it. That's to me what that is. It's like, yeah, you can't ban it. If a 0.99

00:19:20.700 woman wants it, great. She doesn't want it. Great. Her choice, no government, less government, 1.00

00:19:25.520 less government, that whatever. It's a crazy thing. It has to be said people. I'm sure some people are

00:19:30.940 like, that's not your thing. They're going to be mad. It's a super sensitive issue.

00:19:33.480 I don't care. Certain issues, you have to be like, what the f*** are you talking about? 0.97

00:19:37.420 This is one of them. So he's saying that he would vote with people who hate his guts, 0.98

00:19:44.600 also people that have tried unfairly to destroy him with various different witch hunts. But I think

00:19:51.040 when you listen to Portnoy or anyone kind of in that sort of ideological category, and you listen to him

00:19:59.080 talk about abortion, it kind of goes to show what I said a few days ago, which is despite the fact

00:20:05.300 that we're told that this is a great issue for Democrats and that this is going to create a blue

00:20:10.920 wave around the midterms, and this is going to backfire on Republicans, despite that claim,

00:20:18.640 it's actually not true because they do not want to talk about this. This is not a conversation they

00:20:24.900 want to have, which is why they're always trying to change the subject to something else.

00:20:28.920 Let's talk about, let's pretend that this is an issue of interracial marriage, as Eric Swalwell said,

00:20:33.580 or Joe Biden said yesterday, next thing we're going to be segregating gay kids from straight kids in

00:20:39.100 the classroom or something because of Roe v. Wade. It doesn't make any sense. But they're just,

00:20:42.460 they're desperately trying to, it's like when Roe v. Wade comes up, when abortion comes up,

00:20:46.860 they fall into this hole and they're just clamoring on the sides of the hole to climb out of it

00:20:51.500 because they don't want to talk about it. Why don't they want to talk about it? Well, because

00:20:56.080 their position is hideously immoral and terrible, but also because they rely on

00:21:03.460 kind of what you just heard there, which is, you know, what you hear from Dave Portnoy,

00:21:10.200 it's pretty clear to me that he just hasn't thought about this issue hardly at all.

00:21:16.340 This is not someone who's given it a lot of thought. And so what you hear from him on abortion,

00:21:22.840 it's kind of like the same talking points that you hear from somebody, high schoolers on a topic

00:21:28.460 like this. And that's what they want. That's what the pro-aborts want. That's what Democrats,

00:21:34.300 that's what the left wants. They know that it's, that they're in a good position and the best thing

00:21:41.680 for them is when you just don't think about the issue very much, which is why they don't want to

00:21:49.180 spend multiple news cycles or even one news cycle talking about it. Because when you talk about it,

00:21:54.200 it forces people to think about it. For Dave Portnoy, it's pretty clear that he kind of indicates that,

00:21:59.420 that this is, you know, it's not his issue. He hasn't thought about it, but like, since it came up,

00:22:03.840 here's his thoughts just kind of off the cuff. And they're very, they are, they are very undercooked,

00:22:09.600 let's just say. And that's what they, that is what they depend on. When you look at this,

00:22:15.440 the polling results of 70% of Americans support Roe v. Wade. Well, most of them are in kind of that

00:22:20.860 category. They just don't, they don't understand the issue. They don't think about it.

00:22:25.920 And that's where the left wants you. They want you not, they want you not thinking about it.

00:22:30.060 Because when you do think about it for just a few minutes, you start to see how absurd this kind

00:22:35.980 of claim is that, well, the government shouldn't control what people do. Of course, the government

00:22:41.200 controls what people do. Some, I mean, there are things that people want to do that they should

00:22:45.660 not be allowed to do, that we should try to prevent them from doing. And if they do it,

00:22:49.220 they should be punished for doing it. So that talking point just doesn't make any sense. Let

00:22:55.060 women do what they want to do. Well, no, of course, we're not going to just let women do anything they 1.00

00:22:58.200 want to do. There are, there are lots of things that a woman or a man might want to do that,

00:23:03.460 that any normal person, any civilized society would say, you can't do those things.

00:23:11.860 Theft, rape. Now, of course, in many cities in America, you can do a lot of those things,

00:23:16.280 especially theft. They're not going to punish you for it. But again, most normal people look at that

00:23:21.180 and say, well, that's crazy. You got, you got to do something to stop that. Another one of those

00:23:24.880 things is murder. We don't allow people to murder other people. Should we make an exception if you're

00:23:31.780 murdering your own child? Not only should we not make an exception, but that's actually the worst

00:23:38.620 kind of murder, which again, if you think about it for like two minutes, just spend two minutes

00:23:44.460 thinking about the issue, that will become very clear to you, which is why they'd not want you

00:23:49.380 thinking about it for even two minutes. Instead, they want half-baked thoughts. They want you to

00:23:55.720 be emotional and they want you to be angry. And that was especially clear yesterday at the White

00:24:00.280 House press conference. Jen Psaki, who I think this was her last day, she introduced her replacement and 1.00

00:24:06.600 she has now gone off to become an MSNBC analyst. Again, no conflict of interest there. She's just been,

00:24:13.920 she's been doing this job while also working out a gig where she'd become co-workers and colleagues 0.98

00:24:20.220 with the very people who are supposed to be holding her to account. So no conflict of interest, but

00:24:24.040 I think she's gone now. This is her last press conference. And she was asked about quote unquote

00:24:31.680 protesters who are tracking down the home addresses of the conservative Supreme Court justices to go to

00:24:38.360 their homes to intimidate them. Is Jen Psaki, speaking for the White House, willing to come out and 0.99

00:24:45.940 clearly denounce that kind of thing? Well, what do you think? Let's listen.

00:24:52.160 These activists posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices. Is that the kind of

00:24:58.160 thing this president wants to help your side make their point? Look, I think the president's view is

00:25:03.640 that there's a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this

00:25:10.860 country about what they saw in that leaked document. We obviously want people's privacy to be respected.

00:25:16.640 We want people to protest peacefully if they want to, to protest. That is certainly what the president's

00:25:22.160 view would be. So he doesn't care if they're protesting outside the Supreme Court or outside someone's

00:25:26.800 private residence. I don't have an official U.S. government position on where people protest. I want it,

00:25:32.540 we want it, of course, to be peaceful. There's no, we have no official government position on whether

00:25:40.200 you should be going to the homes of Supreme Court justices to try to intimidate them to change their

00:25:44.980 opinion on a case. She has no position on that. When, in fact, really what that means is that she

00:25:54.200 does have a position and the position is, yes, please go do that. Because, and, and, but this

00:26:03.060 is, uh, remember if you, you know, January 6th was the worst day in American history. It was like 15

00:26:09.420 9-11s and seven Pearl Harbors all rolled into one. And here she is refusing to denounce, refusing to 0.78

00:26:17.740 tell people, Hey, no, do not do this. And in fact, if you do it, we're going to, we're going to arrest

00:26:22.700 and prosecute you because she wants them to do it. I told you when this news first came out, they

00:26:33.920 will on the left, uh, and this is generally the case for anything they want, but especially when

00:26:40.000 it comes to this, they will do anything. They will do anything.

00:26:43.840 And look, when you send people to Supreme Court justice, when you, first of all, because let's

00:26:53.160 follow this, the steps here. First, you tell people that overturning Roe v. Wade is an attack

00:27:01.140 on the very exist, their very existence. It's, it's an attack on their lives, on their basic

00:27:07.560 fundamental human rights. Okay. It's going to turn, it's going to turn women into slaves. 1.00

00:27:15.200 So you tell them that, and then they get the addresses for Supreme Court justices and they

00:27:21.000 go to the home where these people live. And all you say about is, Hey, well, you know, protest

00:27:27.740 however you want. You are all but inviting people to not just intimidate, but to violently

00:27:36.400 physically attack Supreme Court justices. And the thing is, if, um, if someone takes all

00:27:41.060 of this very seriously, I mean, what if somebody really believes they actually believe that

00:27:45.360 overturning Roe v. Wade means the enslavement of women? They really believe that. Well, then 1.00

00:27:51.720 they would feel totally justified in actually just assassinating, murdering the justices 1.00

00:27:57.720 who are about to enslave women. I mean, think about it. If it was, if it was actually true 0.99

00:28:05.140 that there were people in positions of authority who were about to enslave half of the population,

00:28:13.940 then pretty much any, you could go to, you could be morally justified in pretty much any means

00:28:22.100 necessary to stop that from happening, to stop the enslavement of, of, of half the population. Well, 0.95

00:28:28.000 it would be hard to go too far in stopping that from happening. So you tell people that,

00:28:34.260 send them off to the house where, where the Supreme Court justices live. I mean, you know what

00:28:40.320 you're doing. And if one of these justices are actually killed, I guarantee you, no one in the

00:28:50.480 Democrat party, none of them are going to have any regret. They'll be perfectly fine with that.

00:28:57.540 And I'll tell you something else. They would actually be hesitant to even denounce that.

00:29:02.880 I mean, Justice Alito could be killed by an angry mob and the Democrat party would be very hesitant

00:29:09.980 and even denouncing that. Because that's what a lot of these people want. Just do whatever it takes

00:29:20.420 to make sure that we can still have abortions anywhere we want. That's how important it is to

00:29:26.320 them. Pure, I mean, it's pure unadulterated evil is what it is. All right, let's move to this.

00:29:34.060 A lot of people tracking this Amber Heard, Johnny Depp situation, Johnny Depp suing for defamation.

00:29:41.640 Yesterday, Amber Heard, I guess two days ago, she took the stand to respond and in her own defense

00:29:48.600 against the defamation charge. And here's one clip that's been making the rounds online. You know,

00:29:53.320 a lot of people think that Amber Heard is kind of overacting and they don't find her to be a

00:29:57.820 credible witness. So let's watch some of this. We get in an argument and I shove past him,

00:30:05.560 just stomp off. And he grabs me. We have an argument about me walking away. And am I walking

00:30:13.660 out of this? And in my head, I was like, I, I would, I actually wasn't thinking of leaving yet,

00:30:18.920 but that would later be going through my mind. And we had a, a, a brief interaction and I don't,

00:30:28.440 I don't remember the exact sequence of things. I wish I did. I have a lot of flashes. It gets a

00:30:40.060 little bit more confusing from my ability to recall everything in a linear way a little later on as

00:30:47.660 things got crazier. But for this part, the first night, what I distinctly remember is at one point,

00:30:56.520 I, I, I, I don't think I had gotten very far. Maybe I came back into the room, but he, when he

00:31:03.420 shoved me, I went flying across these parakeet floors. I mean, just skidding across these floors.

00:31:10.300 And I remember thinking, it just looks so easy for him to throw me around like that. You know, I,

00:31:18.040 I, I, I just slid, screeching my skin against this like beautiful wooden floor.

00:31:30.160 Uh, that's a interesting thing to note. And when you're telling the story that the floors were

00:31:36.580 beautiful, uh, now keep in mind that we also have, and Johnny Depp on his defense had audio of Amber

00:31:43.680 heard admitting on tape that she had attacked him and actually admitting that she'd hit him and then

00:31:48.240 calling him a baby for, uh, complaining about it now. So it's, it's, it's hard to square those two

00:31:54.600 things. On one hand, she paints this picture of this violent, monstrous guy who's throwing her

00:32:00.400 around like a rag doll. Um, but on the other hand, we have her on tape admitting that she 1.00

00:32:06.520 smacked them around and then making fun of him and call him a whiny baby. Like, is that what you

00:32:11.160 would do if somebody was, it had so much more strength than you and they were prone to these

00:32:16.160 violent outbursts? It just doesn't, it doesn't make a lot of sense. A lot of this doesn't make

00:32:19.160 any sense. And, um, she also is kind of an interesting thing where there are things that

00:32:24.380 she remembers very like little, little details. She remembers very vividly. And then other things that

00:32:27.920 you would think are pretty big details that you can't remember. Um, and then a lot of, um,

00:32:34.900 what would appear to sometimes be on the stand, some, some acting going on. Uh, but here's my

00:32:40.420 point. This is what I said before. I just want to, I want to reemphasize this once again. Um,

00:32:47.700 having tracked this just a little bit, do I think that Amber Heard is the good guy

00:32:53.860 in this scenario? Obviously not. I think it's pretty clearly not. We know enough about her. 0.77

00:33:00.760 We've heard enough and there's enough evidence to know that she's, she's not the good guy.

00:33:04.680 Does that make Johnny Depp the good guy though? And the answer is no. Okay. What this is, is that

00:33:11.520 this is a, this is a, these are two Hollywood, two self-centered egotistical Hollywood dirtbags

00:33:19.620 who found each other and frankly, like richly deserve each other. There's no good guy. There's

00:33:26.820 no real side to take here. And that's what I don't understand is the people that are on Johnny

00:33:31.960 Depp's side. I'm on Amber Heard's side. If you, if you have tracked this at all, paid attention to

00:33:35.620 it at all, how can you listen to any of this and come away feeling that either of them are sympathetic

00:33:40.180 characters? Makes no sense to me. You know what the lesson here is? Look, Johnny Depp was married to a

00:33:48.620 woman, left that marriage and then was with a succession of different women. And I think he

00:33:55.100 was engaged a few times and then broke that off. And then, and then he had, he had kids with a woman

00:34:00.220 and he left that. I'm not sure if he ever actually got married, but he left the mother of his kids

00:34:06.160 and landed on Amber Heard. And we know how that worked out. And so what is the lesson here among

00:34:13.660 maybe many other lessons? One of them is that when you keep trading in a partner or romantic partner

00:34:23.880 for another, a newer model, you're not going to find that the quality of the newer model

00:34:30.240 improves over time. Usually it's going to go the other direction.

00:34:35.720 And ultimately for Johnny Depp, you know, especially if you, if you've left marriages,

00:34:44.100 you've left your kids, you've done this and that, um, the woman that you end up with at the end of

00:34:49.780 that whole succession is going to be the sort of woman who is willing to be with a man who's done all 0.87

00:34:55.860 of that. And that's not going to be a high quality woman. Um, and especially if you're older and rich, 1.00

00:35:06.640 then she's going to have other intentions in mind. So maybe that's the lesson in all of this.

00:35:13.360 Maybe you find something we could all consider doing. Take this as a, as a word of warning here.

00:35:20.020 Take this as a, as an example of what not to do. Instead, um, find one person and you, you get

00:35:26.880 married to them and you have a family and you stay with them because once you leave that person and

00:35:33.920 embark on this journey, you know, it's, you're, you're not going to land on somebody better.

00:35:42.840 It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse as you go.

00:35:45.100 I think that's what I would take away from this. Not that, uh, Johnny Depp is a, you know,

00:35:52.100 the innocent victim and all of this, cause that's not how I see it at all. Uh, let's see what else

00:35:57.580 do we have? This is from Fox 13. No surprise here. Unfortunately, a man accused of attacking

00:36:05.120 comedian Dave Chappelle on the stage of the Hollywood bowl Tuesday evening will not face felony charges.

00:36:11.300 According to the Los Angeles time, the 23 year old man was originally arrested for assault

00:36:15.080 with a deadly weapon. After rushing the stage, authorities told the Los Angeles times that

00:36:17.800 the man did not brandish the weapon during the assault. Uh, the Los Angeles district attorney's

00:36:22.040 office has forwarded the case to the Los Angeles city attorney's office, which handles misdemeanor

00:36:26.660 crimes within the city. Uh, Chappelle was performing on stage for a Netflix comedy special when he was

00:36:31.480 assailed. It did not appear he was injured by the assault. So this, this is someone who rushed on stage

00:36:38.520 in the middle of this comedy festival and tackled Dave Chappelle to the ground and had a deadly

00:36:44.000 weapon on him. He had a knife that was oddly enough hidden inside a replica gun. That part,

00:36:49.300 I don't understand. Well, I do understand it. This guy's a lunatic. So there's a lunatic who

00:36:53.500 physically attacked Dave Chappelle on stage, had a knife on him and the Los Angeles district attorney 0.72

00:36:59.660 desperately looking for any reason, you know, to, um, let a violent criminal off the hook. What they're

00:37:08.720 saying is, well, he didn't technically brandish the weapon. He just had it on him. And who knows

00:37:14.540 if he intended to use it? You know, this is a crazy guy who rushed the stage during this comedy 0.63

00:37:20.060 special, tackled somebody on the ground, had a knife on him, but we don't know if he was going 0.82

00:37:23.980 to use it. He maybe had the knife. Who knows? Maybe he was just before that, he was cutting apples

00:37:28.640 with it. And that's why he had the knife for a snack. He was slicing the cheese and apples.

00:37:32.920 So that's a misdemeanor charge. If you're wondering why our cities are plagued by crime,

00:37:44.360 um, this is the reason why. And there's, there's just, you don't do that. You don't let somebody

00:37:51.980 like that off the hook with a misdemeanor. Twist, twisting yourself into logical pretzels here to,

00:37:58.560 to justify making that a misdemeanor crime. You don't do that, um, unless you want more crime.

00:38:07.600 Which in the end is what these people actually want. And I think they also want, I think,

00:38:13.140 especially on the radical leftists, they are especially happy with a scenario where comedians

00:38:20.860 on stage now have to worry, especially if you're in California, you know, you have to worry about

00:38:26.400 what you're saying. Because if you say anything, if you tell a joke, somebody doesn't like, they

00:38:29.400 could just rush the stage and assault you. Because now we have two high profile examples of that

00:38:35.860 happening of a comedian in the span of just a few weeks, a comedian being assaulted, physically

00:38:41.500 assaulted on stage. And in one case, there were no criminal charges. The other case may be a

00:38:46.100 misdemeanor, although they haven't even confirmed that there will be a misdemeanor charge. There might

00:38:49.140 be no charge at all. So again, you don't, you don't do that unless you actually want more of that

00:38:55.160 kind of behavior, which is what you're going to get. Telling people words are violence, jokes are,

00:39:01.260 are, are harmful. And then also letting them know, you know, with a, a, a wink and a nudge that,

00:39:08.460 hey, if you assault a comedian on stage, maybe you'll get a fine at most.

00:39:16.360 All right. One of the quick thing, this is a headline from Forbes. I'm just going to read the

00:39:20.020 headline says Trump wanted to secretly launch missiles into Mexico to blow up drug labs. According

00:39:25.080 to ex-defense secretary who reportedly made this claim. And this is something people were upset

00:39:30.440 about. It's supposed to show that, that Trump is a, is a crazy person. I guess they wanted to launch 1.00

00:39:34.180 the missiles and blow up a cartel labs in Mexico. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea. Although

00:39:40.320 Trump should, should know that we don't launch missiles and blow up drug cartels. We don't do

00:39:46.160 that in America. We would never, I mean, launching, this is some of the people that were outraged

00:39:50.300 online yesterday. We're saying, oh, Trump wanted to launch a missile into a sovereign nation.

00:39:55.160 What kind of president would do that? Oh, I don't know. Every president we've had for the last

00:39:59.360 several decades has been launching missiles and talk into sovereign nations. Obama was, loved that

00:40:06.440 drone strikes, missile strikes. He couldn't get enough of it. But what, what Trump should know is

00:40:12.980 that, no, we don't blow up. And this is a lesson we learned from Biden and from other past presidents.

00:40:17.600 We don't blow up drug cartels. Instead, we launch missiles into Middle Eastern countries and we blow 1.00

00:40:22.280 up innocent families, which is exactly what Biden did. And of course, no one held accountable for

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00:41:50.200 Who's bringing shopping carts back to their rightful place? We're becoming saints here in the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:42:02.340 Caleb says, in reference to the opening topic yesterday, to be fair, young children are asexual,

00:42:10.300 but that changes around puberty, which brings us back to the first question. Why would you discuss

00:42:15.280 this with kids? Yeah, a few people in the comments made this point. Somebody asked, you know, why would

00:42:19.240 I have a problem with kids identifying as asexual as at least one of the kids in that groomer art 1.00

00:42:24.340 teacher's class did because he made an asexual pride flag to represent himself. And I, you know,

00:42:28.740 I made a, I pointed that out yesterday on the show and said that that's another disturbing element

00:42:33.360 of this, that there's a kid, you know, kids identifying as non-binary and then kids identifying

00:42:38.040 as asexual. What's the problem with that? Because as you point out, well, especially young kid before

00:42:43.080 puberty, that's essentially, yeah, it's true that kids should be in effect, at least through the early

00:42:48.800 stage of their life, asexual. That is like not thinking much about sex. But here's the point.

00:42:54.440 That's not an actual identity. Okay. It's not a label that you want them to take on.

00:43:01.560 I don't want my kids to, my kids to go around actually saying I am asexual and they have an

00:43:05.540 asexual pride flag. That's extremely disturbing. That's not what you want kids. And you especially 1.00

00:43:10.960 don't want them to adopt asexual as an identity that belongs under the LGBT umbrella because putting 0.99

00:43:18.000 it there, and it doesn't make any sense anyway. What we've done is we have, we have sexualized

00:43:23.320 asexuality by including it on the, in the LGBT club. So the whole thing is absurd, but that's 0.94

00:43:29.980 not what we want for our kids. I don't want my kids to identify as asexual marching under 1.00

00:43:35.420 an asexual pride flag. This is my identity. I'm proud of it. No, no, no, no. I just want

00:43:42.040 them at this age to not think about that stuff at all. That's, I want them to, that to not

00:43:47.280 be a part of their lives right now. It need not be. And for generations and generations

00:43:55.740 of kids through the whole history of human civilization, it wasn't until now. Not because

00:44:02.280 you had like nine year olds back in the fifties who were all identifying as asexual, not at

00:44:06.660 all. You just didn't think about it was not part of their life. So I do not consider that

00:44:14.360 an improvement at all. Um, Gail Bishop says, I love it when you talked about someone having

00:44:19.740 a road to Damascus moment and seeing the light. However, it also made me sad to think given

00:44:23.600 the lack of religion and faith in today's world, how many people heard these comments

00:44:27.220 and then scratched their heads and said, huh, what did that mean? Well, it's also the consequence

00:44:31.780 of, uh, and I think about that every time I make a biblical analogy or reference, or, you

00:44:35.700 know, um, even if it's something as should be as well known and famous as a road to Damascus

00:44:40.620 moment, that's also a consequence of not teaching the Bible in schools, which obviously it should

00:44:46.920 be obvious. Anyway, the Bible should be taught in schools, including in public schools, not 0.64

00:44:51.040 just in private Christian schools. Um, it should be taught because it's the most influential

00:44:57.040 along with being, I would say as a Christian, Holy scripture along with that, it's also the

00:45:03.180 most influential piece of literature ever written, hands down, nothing even comes close.

00:45:07.300 And, uh, there's just so much in other kinds of literature that you can't understand in

00:45:12.440 other stories. There's, you know, in language, in metaphor, there's just so much you can't

00:45:16.920 understand until you have some familiarity with the Bible. Um, let's see. I have to disagree.

00:45:27.660 Virginia, uh, says I have to disagree with Matt on the idea that we don't need God or the Bible

00:45:32.620 to be pro-life. Human life at any stage is only valuable because God said so. If there's no God,

00:45:38.760 then we're all accidents and life is meaningless. If there is no God, then there's no afterlife.

00:45:42.760 So there's no pressure to do right because the time you have on earth is short and there'd be no

00:45:47.020 God to answer to. The pro-life argument has to be built on the foundation of God.

00:45:51.580 Any other is not sound enough. Yeah, it's true that when you go deeper into the pro-life argument,

00:46:00.000 um, you are eventually going to get, of course, to the reality of God. That's true in any

00:46:05.520 conversation. I mean, literally anything you talk about, if you go deeper into it and you dive all

00:46:12.240 the way down at the bottom of everything, you're going to find the reality of God. So that's, that's

00:46:16.820 true. Um, the question though, is whether if we're having this discussion, you know, on, um,

00:46:23.500 uh, with, with a sort of general audience, do you lead with that? Do you lead with abortion is wrong

00:46:33.820 because God says so? And, and I would say absolutely no, that is not what you lead with.

00:46:42.800 It's, you can, you get there, like first you have to get them on your side on abortion and that,

00:46:49.680 that life has inherent value, that it's wrong to kill people. Cause if you start with, well,

00:46:55.340 God says so, well then that brings you, if this is someone who doesn't believe in God, well, okay,

00:46:58.760 now we're taking a detour. And first we have to argue, cause that's not going to mean anything.

00:47:02.260 If they don't believe in God, that means nothing to them. Absolutely nothing. So if you're talking

00:47:06.820 to someone who doesn't believe in God or hasn't really thought about it, whatever, and you say

00:47:09.340 abortion is wrong because God says so, uh, okay, that now, now the conversation becomes,

00:47:14.480 is there a God? And so now you have to, now, now we've gotten away from abortion, which is a, which

00:47:18.800 is, which is a very winnable argument. And now we've gone over to God, which is also a winnable

00:47:23.320 argument, but it's, it's a, it's a much more complicated argument. And, um, now you have to

00:47:28.660 get them on your side with that. And then you can circle back to abortion. So you've just taken this

00:47:32.420 huge detour, uh, and basically I think let the pro aborts off the hook.

00:47:37.280 So that doesn't need to be your starting point. And if this is someone who believes, for example,

00:47:47.380 that it's wrong to murder innocent people, as almost every person in the world, at least in

00:47:53.780 theory, believes that, then that can be your starting point. And you build from there.

00:48:01.560 Well, great news to reiterate my LGBTQ plus masterpiece of a book. Johnny the Walrus was

00:48:07.160 the number one bestselling book in America last week. This means I am not just a very

00:48:10.640 important voice in the transgender conversation, but a very important voice in America. It's first 1.00

00:48:15.420 printing saw it sell out in less than 24 hours and seeing how obsessed the left has been with

00:48:18.920 its existence. I'm sure it will serve as an inspiration for the entire LGBTQ plus community

00:48:22.880 for centuries to come, especially as we get next month into LGBT, uh, pride month. That's going to 1.00

00:48:28.220 be a time, especially when I think it's going to be good to have this book in circulation. So if you

00:48:32.560 haven't gotten your copy yet, now's the time head to johnnythewalrus.com to buy your copy right now.

00:48:36.480 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:42.240 For our daily cancellation today, we turned to the Huffington Post, which for one thing,

00:48:46.460 still exists. That's the first bit of news. And the second is an editorial on the site,

00:48:50.600 which has been making the rounds online over the past week or so. It's written by somebody

00:48:53.940 named Kelsey Smoot, who's a man, I believe, bit of a shot in the dark. I'm not sure, but

00:48:58.000 he provides us with this bio. Kelsey, they, them, theirs is a PhD candidate in American studies.

00:49:04.900 Their work and writings explore the process of identity formation at the nexus of race,

00:49:08.900 gender, and sexuality. They are a cultural and gender theorist, a writer, an advocate,

00:49:13.040 and a poet. Having grown up bi-coastal and spending the majority of their adult life in a state of

00:49:17.240 transience, they drew from their eclectic life experiences, both deep fear and great optimism

00:49:21.880 regarding what people are capable of. Now it should give you a pretty good idea about where this is

00:49:26.920 headed. Though I must acknowledge some gratitude to Kelsey for exploring the nexus of race, gender,

00:49:31.460 and sexuality, very few people have the vision and courage to really dive in and study

00:49:35.080 the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality. When I say very few people, I mean, you know,

00:49:39.040 it's only him and every other college student in the Western world. I mean, students in China are all 1.00

00:49:44.300 becoming math geniuses and rocket scientists. Our students are all getting their PhDs in queer

00:49:48.980 theory. All that to say, we certainly needed one more person to think and talk about race,

00:49:53.820 gender, and sexuality. So I'm grateful he was up to the task. And he clearly applied all of this

00:49:57.800 expertise while writing the HuffPo article in question titled, If You Think My Pronouns Are

00:50:02.820 Optional, We Can't Keep Being Friends. Now I'm tempted here to simply say, okay, great, bye.

00:50:10.980 But that would make this segment a little bit too short, so we'll trudge on. He wrote,

00:50:14.420 quote, lately I've been embroiled in what feels like constant conversations about pronouns,

00:50:19.720 the wrong ones, the right ones, the preferred ones. Hint, that third category is defunct.

00:50:24.440 Yes, please update your rule book. The term preferred pronouns, which has been shoved down

00:50:29.060 your throat relentlessly, is now defunct. Not only defunct, but offensive. The very people who

00:50:33.560 invented the term and demanded that you use it are now demanding that you not use it because it's

00:50:37.680 offensive. They've suddenly decided. Why is preferred pronoun offensive? Well, presumably because

00:50:42.300 the qualifier preferred doesn't carry the weight that they want it to. It makes the pronoun sound

00:50:47.140 optional. But as the title of the piece declares, pronouns are not optional. They are utterly

00:50:51.460 necessary. If you don't use somebody's pronouns, you'll kill them. They will die right there on 0.98

00:50:56.640 the spot. They'll shrivel up and melt away like the wicked witch. Pronouns are no mere preference. 1.00

00:51:01.580 They are necessities like food, water, oxygen. Pronouns are the very air they breathe. This is the claim

00:51:07.940 anyway, and it puts into context the rest of what we're going to read here. Continuing, as a non-binary

00:51:13.360 trans person who uses they, them, theirs pronouns as my terms of address, I suppose I should be

00:51:19.060 celebrating this influx of discourse on the proper usage of pronouns. Truthfully, I'm exhausted.

00:51:25.680 Okay, we're going to leave aside the fact that non-binary trans makes no sense. I mean, 0.99

00:51:29.200 these labels individually don't really make sense, but combined, they somehow make even less than zero

00:51:33.000 sense. Also note how Kelsey declares himself to be exhausted. Common theme on the LGBT left. You 1.00

00:51:39.180 remember that college student last week who said he was exhausted because I was giving a speech on campus?

00:51:43.600 People who've never exerted themselves, who have lived coddled lives of unending comfort,

00:51:48.940 who've never even attempted to achieve anything of significance, are somehow exhausted.

00:51:53.660 Not that I doubt their exhaustion by any means. I fully believe that it's exhausting to go through

00:51:58.100 life so utterly self-absorbed, to think that everything revolves around you, to constantly be

00:52:03.280 on the lookout for slights and offenses, to be offended all the time by everything and everyone

00:52:07.520 everywhere. This is extremely exhausting. Of that, I have no doubt. Indeed, this is one of the reasons

00:52:13.640 I could never be a raging narcissist. I just don't have the energy for it. Continuing, in the six years

00:52:19.960 since I have come out, I've witnessed the concept of pronoun inclusivity shift from fundamentally

00:52:24.280 Martian to hotly contested. On the macro level, pronouns have become a cultural battlefield, an email

00:52:29.660 garnish, a token signifier of righteousness for organizations who want to rebrand themselves as

00:52:34.640 politically savvy and inclusive. He's right about that part. Personally, within the several of my

00:52:40.000 closest relationships, the fact that I require ungendered pronouns when referring to me in the

00:52:44.260 third person has become the source of deep strain and disappointment. I feel duped by some of the

00:52:48.300 positive reactions from my friends and loved ones when I initially came out as trans mask slash 1.00

00:52:53.220 non-binary. In retrospect, that was the easy part. I was the only one changing. In the years since, 0.58

00:52:59.500 I've come to find that I'm in constant competition with my past. For a while, I flinched when I was

00:53:04.980 misgendered but said nothing. Then I began giving gentle reminders followed by long-winded overtures 0.95

00:53:10.100 of understanding. I felt guilty and embarrassed and made sure to emphasize that effort was all

00:53:15.720 that mattered to me. Recently, though, I've begun pushing back. You'll have to do better is my new

00:53:22.020 refrain. Now, of course, the proper response to somebody who says you'll have to do better regarding

00:53:27.280 their pronouns would be words to the effect of, oh, yeah, well, you'll have to kiss my ass, 1.00

00:53:32.100 you smug little cretin. But unfortunately, Kelsey has not been given the gift of that sort of honesty. 1.00

00:53:37.220 Instead, those closest to him have apparently tried to accommodate his demands and even apologize

00:53:41.300 profusely for the times they slip up and accidentally use proper grammar. That's not good

00:53:46.200 enough, Kelsey says. He demands absolute perfect compliance from everyone 100% of the time or else

00:53:53.660 he'll stop associating with them. Which, of course, sounds more like a promise than a threat to me.

00:53:58.420 But reading a bit more here, he says,

00:54:00.120 As I think more critically about these conversations, I feel regret about the moments wherein I have

00:54:05.600 avoided asking the hard questions that cut clear through the facade of language.

00:54:10.720 The resulting friction from these interactions has had negative consequences in my relationships.

00:54:15.980 I feel myself withdrawing from people I love, avoiding interactions that might lead to

00:54:19.540 misgendering and shrinking in conversations that once felt safe and enjoyable. Inversely,

00:54:24.500 I've been told that spending time with me feels more cumbersome now. Shocking. In addition to

00:54:30.560 longstanding relationships, new connections are often marked with a similar tension regarding my

00:54:35.080 pronouns. The idea of having to lose some of the people closest to me, the folks who have helped

00:54:39.600 to shape me into the person I am, is devastating. However, I consider having access to me,

00:54:44.320 my time, and my company to be a gift, not a given, for anyone in my sphere. I'm clear on my inherent

00:54:51.320 worth as a person, despite all the ways in which society at large devalues me. To be frank, this

00:54:56.220 process of change requires concerted effort. To be franker, I think that trans and non-binary people

00:55:02.260 are worth the effort. Well, if I could be frank myself, Kelsey, allow me to say this.

00:55:09.700 Um, no, you are not worth the effort. At all. I mean, your unbridled, untamed, unwielding

00:55:18.460 narcissism, unyielding and unwieldy narcissism, has turned you into a burden, a strain on everyone

00:55:24.380 you know. You're not nearly smart or interesting enough to make dealing with you and your nonsense 1.00

00:55:29.460 worth that kind of effort. You're an irritating, tedious bore who compounds the problem by also 1.00

00:55:35.480 being psychotically self-centered. But I'm grateful, at least, that you have so convincingly 0.83

00:55:41.920 illustrated and proven a point that I've made many times in the past, which is that this whole

00:55:45.740 preferred pronoun thing is nothing more than passive-aggressive manipulation, a power play 0.77

00:55:50.980 by attention-starved egomaniacs like yourself. You want to be affirmed, all right, but you want to be

00:55:57.280 affirmed as the center of the universe, the main character in this production called life.

00:56:02.620 You demand to be affirmed as the central figure in everybody else's lives. You can't simply be

00:56:09.200 around somebody, talk to them, spend time with them. You need to be constantly reminded, and you

00:56:13.660 need them to constantly remind themselves that you are better, and superior, and more important,

00:56:18.480 and more interesting. That's what the pronoun game is all about. And that's why I hope to God one day 1.00

00:56:24.680 we cross paths so that I can perhaps be the first person you've ever met to look you in the eye and tell

00:56:29.220 you, I don't give a damn about your pronouns. I will use whatever words I want to use. I will refer

00:56:36.080 to you however I want to, if you can believe it. I will call you anything I want to, and there's not

00:56:45.220 a single thing you could do about it, because you have no power over me anyway. Also, of course,

00:56:54.100 you're canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

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Ep. 946 - The Left Temporarily Rediscovers Biology

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