The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 961 - Groomers Kick It Up A Notch With Public School Drag Shows

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wells Show, the latest groomer innovation is sexually suggestive

00:00:03.740 drag shows at high schools. There is more than one example of this kind of thing from just this

00:00:08.600 month. We'll talk about it today. Also, more questions about the law enforcement response

00:00:12.060 to the shooting in Texas. Police officials have made some very damning statements in an effort

00:00:16.200 to vindicate themselves. We'll go through those also today. And the Secretary of Education endorses

00:00:20.780 gender-transitioning children in school without parental consent, endorses it in a roundabout way,

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00:01:41.300 text Walsh to 989898 right now. Well, it happened again this week, a drag show at a high school hosted

00:01:49.040 by that school's so-called Gay-Straight Alliance. This time, it was Ankenny High School in Iowa.

00:01:55.340 Cross-dressing males were brought up on stage in the school's auditorium to gyrate around on stage

00:02:01.500 in their woman-face makeup and absurd outfits. According to the Daily Wire report, one of the

00:02:06.540 performers also delivered a speech about his gender transition. He told the kids in attendance,

00:02:10.800 quote,

00:02:10.940 Now, it doesn't mean anything, of course, but it's not supposed to mean anything. There is a message

00:02:32.560 here, but it's not one that is communicated through intelligible, coherent sentences most of the time.

00:02:37.240 Libs of TikTok, which first published the videos of this event, says that students,

00:02:42.880 the minors at the school, were also brought up on stage to dance. So for the school's part,

00:02:48.220 they say that this was not an official school event and that it was not conducted in accordance

00:02:52.960 with their policies. It is under investigation, they say. They want to make sure that the drag show

00:02:57.820 was in accordance with their policies. It looks like it might not have been. But it's, of course,

00:03:03.080 impossible to believe that the auditorium was used for a drag show and the administrators didn't know

00:03:08.500 about it or that they did know about it, but they didn't know what a drag show entails.

00:03:13.760 That seems to be kind of what they're claiming, that they saw the videos and they're like,

00:03:18.160 oh, that's a drag show? Well, that's clearly, we don't want that.

00:03:22.060 But they're feigning ignorance, of course, which is the same thing that happened a week or two earlier

00:03:27.300 when a different high school, this one in Pennsylvania, notice the states involved here,

00:03:32.060 Iowa, Pennsylvania, okay, not Washington, Vermont, California, although these things are certainly

00:03:38.320 happening in those states as well. But they held their own GSA-sponsored drag show,

00:03:43.200 Grown Men in Makeup, wigs, thongs, performed a burlesque routine for children at Hempfield High School.

00:03:49.560 This is certainly not something that any mentally stable person wants to see, particularly right

00:03:55.820 around lunchtime. But I'm going to play some of the footage for you anyway, because you need to

00:04:00.080 understand just how over-the-top, creepily sexual this was. Here it is.

00:04:19.560 Okay, surprising enough of that. So you get the gist. Nothing to see there, just a grown man in a

00:04:35.240 thong on all fours, shaking his ass for a group of schoolchildren. The administrators in this case say

00:04:40.820 that they were appalled by what took place, but coincidentally, they were only appalled when

00:04:46.260 parents found out about it and complained. A teacher named Kelly Tyson, who's an advisor for

00:04:51.440 the GSA Club, expressed her delight and joy in watching this pedophilic display. But she also

00:04:58.060 confessed to something else inadvertently, which is quite damning for the school administration.

00:05:01.760 She wrote in a social media post, quote,

00:05:03.040 Year three, she says.

00:05:27.480 So they've been doing this for three years, and the administration just noticed how appalling it

00:05:32.480 is. That's what we're supposed to believe. And it's obviously total nonsense. So what is actually

00:05:37.880 going on here? And what's with the leftist obsession with drag in particular? They've got

00:05:44.580 Drag Queen Story Hour, drag shows at high schools, drag shows at all their gay pride events, drag shows

00:05:49.020 on TV, drag reality shows. Why? Along with all the other problems with this stuff, I mean, the many,

00:05:55.740 many problems, especially when kids are involved. It's not even like these dudes are talented dancers

00:06:01.660 or performers. They're just weird looking guys in ugly outfits dancing badly on stage. What's the

00:06:06.560 point? I mean, even if it was only adults in the audience, why would anyone want to see that?

00:06:13.420 Why has drag in particular become such a central component of the left's culture war strategy? I think

00:06:19.500 there are a few reasons for that. It's worth thinking about. One, drag contributes to the sort of

00:06:25.660 costumification, if I can coin my own word, of womanhood. The drag performer makes womanhood

00:06:32.380 into this cartoonish, gaudy, ridiculous thing. He turns it into a stage performance, a costume.

00:06:38.980 It's no surprise that the drag queen at the one school event gave a speech about gender identity

00:06:44.040 and talked about how drag helped him get in touch with his inner female identity, because this is how

00:06:48.800 the left sees womanhood. They see it as a cheap, degraded, hyper-sexualized thing, which is

00:06:53.800 interchangeable and superficial and can be taken off just as easily as it's put on. That's one reason

00:06:59.620 why they love drag, because of what it does to womanhood, how it portrays womanhood, how it

00:07:05.240 cheapens it. That's what they like about it. Also, drag is an assault not only on femininity, but also on

00:07:12.160 beauty. And anything that assaults femininity also assaults beauty. It is a protest against traditional

00:07:18.200 notions of beauty, womanhood, and so on. Everything the left does is targeted to tear down whatever

00:07:23.260 they think is traditional, as traditional to them is synonymous with archaic or oppressive.

00:07:30.960 And when these drag performances are staged for children, it's also meant to tear down and sever

00:07:36.720 the parent-child relationship. The author Carl Truman, who appears, by the way, in my film,

00:07:41.180 What is a Woman?, premiering June 1st, which is next Wednesday. Make sure you're there. Get your

00:07:45.460 membership. He made this point in an interview with the Daily Wire published today, which is very

00:07:49.520 interesting and worth going to read the whole thing. But he says, quoting from him, he says,

00:07:53.780 children are the perfect targets for groups whose purpose is the subversion of the parent-child bond

00:07:59.880 and the consequent strengthening of the power of a progressive establishment. Destroy the bond

00:08:04.840 between parents and children, and you have destroyed the most powerful and influential pre-political

00:08:08.860 bond of influence and loyalty that stands in the way of various lobby groups trying to drive the

00:08:13.860 direction of our culture. Couldn't have said it better myself. But there's one other factor to

00:08:19.640 consider here, and that is cowardice. There's a whole lot of cowardice that leads to things like

00:08:28.120 this happening in our schools. The administrators are, of course, lying when they claim ignorance.

00:08:34.380 They know that this sort of thing is going on. Every time a teacher is exposed for grooming,

00:08:40.660 indoctrinating children. The administrators know about it. They knew about it before that. It's

00:08:44.980 never subtle. I mean, you see all these TikTok videos that they're posting. I mean, first of all,

00:08:48.740 they're posting TikTok videos. They're not hiding it. And then you see they've got, they always have

00:08:53.800 rainbow flags draped all over their classrooms, you know, and they've got the purple hair and rainbow

00:08:59.460 earrings. And it's like they've got a walking advertisement saying, this is the only thing I care

00:09:04.740 about. This is all I talk to my kids about. Not hiding their intentions. So do the people in charge

00:09:11.220 go along with this? Because they are themselves LGBT radicals intent on grooming children? In some

00:09:18.340 cases, yes, certainly. But especially if we're talking about a situation in California or Vermont or

00:09:24.560 Washington State or something like that, then it's very likely that everybody involved,

00:09:30.220 if we're talking about a school, is an LGBT radical. But at a school in Iowa,

00:09:36.200 are the administrators a bunch of LGBT extremists? Maybe, but probably not.

00:09:43.660 They simply lack the courage to tell the LGBT extremists to cool it, knock it off,

00:09:48.700 keep the crap out of the classroom. They know better, some of them. They don't have the backbone

00:09:54.740 to stand up to the LGBT bullies, so they let them do whatever they want. And I do mean whatever

00:10:00.820 they want until the backlash from outside forces their hand. So this is the formula.

00:10:11.060 LGBT extremism and the cowardice that enables it. Add that together and you get cross-dressing adult men

00:10:19.580 twerking on stage for children. And you get a whole lot more beside that. And none of it,

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00:11:48.740 Texas where more details are emerging about the circumstances around the shooting at Robb Elementary

00:11:54.600 School. And I say details are emerging, but this is, that makes it sound almost like a passive natural

00:12:00.680 process of things sort of bubbling to the surface. Oh, look, there's another detail. That's not what's

00:12:05.280 happening here. It's becoming more and more apparent that what we were told in the first 24 hours

00:12:09.000 was wrong and not mistakenly wrong, but a lie, lies, many lies. We were told, we were lied to.

00:12:17.640 I mean, remember we were told early on, not just like rumors on social media, but we were told from

00:12:22.680 press conferences, from politicians and officials that, you know, the shooter was engaged as soon as

00:12:31.100 he arrived at the school, people, police were on hand right away, engaging the shooter, you know,

00:12:36.620 saving lives. That's what Governor Abbott said, that it's like they were, they were there, they saved

00:12:41.740 lives. This is what we were told, right? Doesn't appear to be the case. And even now they're being

00:12:50.820 very selective in what they tell us, but what they have admitted so far, or really just yesterday,

00:12:57.960 is damning for the police. Now, you start with all of the qualifiers and disclaimers that we still,

00:13:05.600 there's still a lot we don't know. But the reason we don't know a lot of these things is because we're

00:13:10.080 not being told them, right? And there are, there are details that they're being at least vague about

00:13:18.600 that, many of which, like, they must know. I know there are certain things that it takes time to figure

00:13:23.440 out. But then there are other details that, of course, you're going to know this. Wouldn't take

00:13:27.340 long to figure that out. But they're being vague about a lot of those things too. So that puts us

00:13:32.680 in the position of, there's still a lot we don't know. So you have those disclaimers. But even so,

00:13:40.920 based on what we've been told, video that has now come out, and everything added together,

00:13:47.780 it seems like it's a very damning situation for the police who responded. There was a press conference

00:13:53.600 with a Texas police official yesterday, which gave us the most complete picture so far. And so here's

00:13:59.260 what we learned. And this is what the police official told us. He told us that the shooter

00:14:04.360 crashed his car near the school, got out with his rifle in hand, and started firing at random people

00:14:14.040 and buildings. And he didn't hit anybody, but he was just, like, walking around firing his rifle.

00:14:20.160 He started walking towards the school, okay? 12 minutes later, after walking around casually

00:14:29.280 shooting, right, he goes into the school. 12 minutes later. So the clock's already ticking. We got 12

00:14:38.740 minutes. By the time he gets to the school. And then this, listen. He walked in unrestructed initially.

00:14:49.700 So from the grandmother's house, to the barbage, to the school, into the school, he was not confronted

00:14:57.080 by anybody. To clear the record on that, four minutes later, law enforcement are coming in to solve

00:15:05.880 this problem. He walks in, and it appears that the door is just unlocked. There's no, unobstructed.

00:15:16.940 Now, there were, we were told, again, early on, the claim was, or the version of events we were

00:15:24.560 getting in the first few hours was that there was a school resource officer there, and that he was

00:15:30.100 engaged somehow with the resource officer, and then got patented. It was always unclear. Like,

00:15:35.000 how did that happen? How did he get patented? But that's, that's not the case. He just walked right

00:15:38.080 into the school. And this is, even though there was an active shooter in the area, okay?

00:15:48.220 And four minutes later, the cops come in. That, by the way, is 14 minutes after the first 911 call

00:15:54.560 was made. Because the first 911 call was made two minutes after the guy got out of his car. He got out

00:16:00.180 his car, I believe, at 11.28 a.m., 11.30 a.m., somebody makes a 911 call and says there's a guy

00:16:07.120 walking around with a rifle shooting. So the school should have been on lockdown. There's an active

00:16:12.180 shooter nearby, lock all the doors, lockdown situation. But it seems like that they didn't

00:16:19.620 even lock the front door of the school, or whatever door this guy walked into.

00:16:23.760 So it's actually 14 minutes after the first 911 call that the cops finally show up.

00:16:32.340 But the shooter is not killed for another hour. He was in that classroom executing little kids for

00:16:40.020 an hour while the cops were outside. An hour. They said that he was barricaded in the classroom. We were

00:16:48.640 told by this police official, he was barricaded in the classroom. They said that they, you know,

00:16:52.820 they went in four minutes later, and then they received fire, and they retreated. And he didn't

00:16:59.920 use the word retreat, but that's what they did. They didn't go in the room because they were getting

00:17:05.040 shot at. And he was barricaded in the classroom. Now, why didn't the cops go in? Now, I think we all

00:17:13.780 kind of know. It's because they were afraid. But what's their version of events here? Why didn't

00:17:19.860 they go in? Why didn't they breach the door? The official in the press conference was asked

00:17:24.620 this question. Here's his answer, or rather his non-answer. Listen.

00:17:28.740 You guys have said that he was barricaded. Can you explain to us how he was barricaded

00:17:33.260 and why you guys cannot breach that door?

00:17:35.840 So, I have taken all your questions into consideration. We will be doing updates.

00:17:39.960 We will be doing updates to answer those questions.

00:17:42.300 You should be able to answer that question now, sir.

00:17:44.140 What is your name?

00:17:45.040 Shimon Prokopets from CNN.

00:17:47.080 I hear you.

00:17:47.720 Because we've been given a lot of bad information. So, why don't you clear all of this up now

00:17:51.940 and explain to us how it is that your officers who were in there for an hour, yes, rescuing

00:17:57.520 people, but yet no one was able to get inside that room.

00:18:01.200 Shimon, we will circle back with you. We want to answer all your questions. We want to give

00:18:05.400 you the why. That's our job. So, give us time. I'm taking all your questions. I'm taking

00:18:10.140 them back to talk to the team.

00:18:11.720 Can you tell us how the door was barricaded?

00:18:13.440 Look, thank you for being here. We'll talk soon.

00:18:18.200 So, he's not going to answer that question of why they didn't breach the door. I mean,

00:18:21.680 how could this guy have barricaded the door in a way where they couldn't have easily gotten

00:18:27.020 in? So, it's just, I don't buy any excuse that they couldn't get in the door.

00:18:36.120 Okay, did he, I mean, did the shooter, did he walk in? Did he have like planks of wood

00:18:39.680 and a hammer and nails and he nailed it? No. He might have locked the door if the door

00:18:43.640 even had a lock on it. That's about it. Pretty sure cops know how to get in and get through

00:18:47.660 locked doors. Wouldn't be able to do their job if they didn't. Okay, if this was a drug

00:18:52.980 bust and they thought there was $50,000 in drug money in that room, they'd find a way to

00:18:58.380 get in, wouldn't they? So, why didn't they get in?

00:19:05.400 He's in there with young children shooting. Now, we're also told, I watched the entire

00:19:14.520 press conference and he says that they retreated again. He doesn't use the word retreat, whatever

00:19:24.960 word he uses, but that's what they did. They retreated and then they start calling backup,

00:19:29.120 he says. They're trying to get backup in there. And they also are getting negotiators

00:19:33.360 to talk to the guy. But then he also says that as far as he knows, they never actually

00:19:40.640 made contact. Because this was not a hostage situation. He was killing the kids.

00:19:45.800 And it's also not true. And this is one excuse I've seen on social media, quite a horrific,

00:19:54.740 morbid excuse. But well, most of the shooting happened in the first four minutes by the time

00:20:00.140 they got there, right? This is the excuse that I've heard from some people. By the time the cops

00:20:04.080 got there, the kids, he'd already killed everybody in the room. But first of all, there's no way the

00:20:10.640 cops would know that. All they would know by the time they get there is that he's in that room and

00:20:15.860 he's been shooting people. And that's all they should need to know. You go in. I don't care if

00:20:21.340 it's just you alone, you go in. But also, there were survivors from that room. There were also

00:20:31.660 children who were taken out of the room alive and then died in the hospital. What if they had been

00:20:39.820 rescued an hour earlier? May they have survived?

00:20:45.040 Well, we'll never know, will we? Because those cops stood around for an hour while that man was

00:20:50.840 executing children. Now, a different Texas police official appeared on CNN last night and gave

00:20:57.840 something of an answer as to why they didn't go in. The clip is, I think this clip's two minutes long,

00:21:03.300 but it's, it's, I think you need to hear the whole thing. So let's play it.

00:21:06.360 So what we do know, Wolf, is that there was multiple officers that arrived on scene. There

00:21:11.540 was three officers that arrived that made entry at one of the entrances where the gunman actually

00:21:16.660 made entrance to. We had other, another four officers that made entry at the other entrance

00:21:21.940 of the school. So there was officers inside that school. As they were taking gunfire,

00:21:25.960 they were also calling in for reinforcement, backup tactical teams, snipers, any additional

00:21:32.960 personnel that could arrive to assist to not only with to with the situation, but also to assist

00:21:37.520 in evacuating students and teachers. At that time, that's when a U.S. Border Patrol tactical officer

00:21:44.540 arrived. Also with a Zavala County Sheriff's deputy, as well as two additional Uvalde Police Department

00:21:51.020 officers were able to go into that classroom with a ballistic shield as covered. And of

00:21:57.040 course, we know that one of those officers, an agent actually was, was shot, was grazed

00:22:01.900 on the top of the head, but they were able to shoot and kill the suspect and preserve any

00:22:07.060 other life. We know that there was other injured children inside that classroom that they were

00:22:11.020 able to save as well and get them to, and get them to cover. And at that point, it became

00:22:14.780 a recovery process, a rescue operation, trying to rescue the injured and also any other potential

00:22:20.240 children or teachers that were inside those classrooms. But don't current, the best practices,

00:22:25.940 Lieutenant, call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many

00:22:31.780 officers are actually on site? Correct. The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing,

00:22:39.600 you want to preserve life. But also, one thing that, of course, the American people need to

00:22:45.040 understand is that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman

00:22:50.580 is. They are hearing gunshots. They are receiving gunshots. At that point, if they proceeded any

00:22:57.500 further, not knowing where this suspect was at, they could have been shot. They could have been

00:23:01.440 killed. And at that point, that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside

00:23:05.420 that school. Oh, well, there it is. They're at the end, right? Well, if they had gone in,

00:23:11.440 then they could have been shot and killed. Right? Yeah, they could have been. But that's your job.

00:23:18.780 You're a police officer. And those are little children inside that building.

00:23:23.320 So your job is actually to put yourself in between that bad guy and the child.

00:23:27.580 Even if it means you get shot and killed in the process. That's your job. Don't want to do that

00:23:35.420 job. Get a different job. Go work at Walmart. I hear they're hiring. If that's not a job you're

00:23:45.000 prepared to do. I mean, they're waiting around. That's why I wanted to hear the whole clip because

00:23:47.980 he says they're waiting for the ballistic shield so they can go in. You're waiting for a ballistic

00:23:52.940 shield while kids are being executed. Where is your honor as a man? How can you even live with

00:24:03.000 yourself? That's why I say, like, no one can know how they would react in a situation like this until

00:24:07.800 you're in the situation. But I just, how would you not just have this compulsion? I mean, every fiber

00:24:21.260 of your being, I would think, would be driving you into that room because I, you, how could you live

00:24:28.080 with yourself afterwards? Yeah, if you don't go in, like, if you go in, you might be shot and killed.

00:24:34.660 But if you don't go in and you sit outside while kids are dying, you're going to wish that you had

00:24:40.340 been killed. I would rather be dead than live with that for the rest of my life. I couldn't live with it.

00:24:46.480 So it's honor and courage, which brings you in the door, but also in a, in a, in a sort of strange

00:24:54.140 way, it's all, it is also its own form of kind of self-preservation as well on top of everything else

00:25:00.060 because who wants to live a life like that for the rest of the, knowing that you could have done

00:25:06.900 something while these kids are being slaughtered, but you were standing outside waiting for a shield so

00:25:10.240 you could go in. Oh, but, but they weren't doing nothing. Uh, they were, uh, as video has, has come

00:25:17.580 out and shown, they were handcuffing parents and reportedly tasing at least one of them to stop the

00:25:23.400 parents from going in to rescue their children. There's video, very heart-wrenching video of the,

00:25:29.540 of parent groups of parents outside screaming at the cops, go in and save my children. And they

00:25:35.460 weren't doing it. The parents tried to go in themselves and they would stop the parents.

00:25:38.320 Now, listen, if they were already in the process of being, if they were in a gunfight with this,

00:25:46.200 uh, with this guy and they were in the, and they were already there trying to rescue the kids,

00:25:51.320 then I understand keeping the parents out. Cause then you're just going to add to the body count.

00:25:55.640 You're not going to let parents go run into the middle of that. But if you're not doing anything

00:25:59.400 and you're, if you're just waiting for an hour for more people to show up,

00:26:03.660 then, uh, then yes, I think you'll let them, at least let them, if you're not willing to do it

00:26:11.740 and there are children who are being killed, then if someone else is willing to do it, you let them do

00:26:15.860 it. This is, uh, it's just totally uncomfortable. And going back to the disclaimer, there's still more

00:26:26.280 details we don't know, but I just don't know. Given what they're telling us now, I don't know

00:26:31.560 what additional detail could come out that would vindicate the officers on the scene in this case.

00:26:38.440 I just don't know what we could find out that would change. I just, I can't imagine what it

00:26:42.640 could possibly be. They're telling us themselves. They were there for an hour before they went in.

00:26:47.840 As far as I'm concerned, that's like all we need to know. There's no excuse for that.

00:26:52.320 The only excuse conceivable would be if they showed up there and he was locked in that room

00:26:59.820 with those kids and he hadn't killed any and he hadn't started shooting yet.

00:27:04.460 Now you're hesitant to charge in there because it is a hostage situation and you don't want to do

00:27:08.000 anything that provokes him to start killing hostages. So that I understand. Okay. In a situation

00:27:12.120 like that, yes, you, you stand and you wait for negotiators and all that. You come up with a

00:27:16.140 strategy, but, uh, he had already started shooting. He was shooting before he walked in the damn door.

00:27:22.320 Um, we got a real crisis of cowardice in this culture and all of our institutions are infested

00:27:30.380 with it. Um, all of them, especially government institutions. It doesn't mean everybody in

00:27:38.120 these institutions are cowards. That's certainly not the case. There are plenty of heroic police

00:27:45.260 officers, no doubt about it, but I can't tell you how depressing it is, of course, and devastating.

00:27:53.760 This isn't this happened at all, but especially, I mean, in, in, uh, in Texas of all places,

00:27:58.060 but you have cops in Texas. Like you would like to think that in Texas of all places, they would,

00:28:04.180 they would just be, they would rush in there,

00:28:06.440 but it's a real, it's the rot of cowardice across our institutions.

00:28:15.780 Think about the teachers at Co around COVID. And again, not every teacher,

00:28:19.700 but there were enough of them, too many of them. The teachers in, in, uh, during, during COVID

00:28:25.840 who'd rather shut the schools down for a year, kids be damned. Doesn't matter what it does to the

00:28:31.260 kids, shut the schools down. Cause I don't want to get sick. I don't want to risk myself

00:28:33.720 for the sake of these kids. No courage, no honor, but here's, here's the, the real point about all

00:28:43.840 this. Well, this is not, there are many real points, but here's another one that we have to

00:28:48.640 remember is that, um, there were multiple, very simple and direct things that could have been done

00:28:58.260 to, to, to stop this tragedy from happening or at a minimum to, uh, to, to mitigate the harm.

00:29:10.200 You know, there are multiple simple direct things that could have done to, to, that could have been

00:29:14.160 done to save lives, potentially all of the lives. Okay. Like here's one thing, starting, starting

00:29:22.360 point, lock the door to the school. The guy's got a rifle. It's not, that's not going to keep them

00:29:28.480 out forever. It's going to buy you some more time. Lock all the doors. They didn't even do that.

00:29:37.600 Actually have armed security on the premises and someone who is willing to engage and he was well

00:29:45.120 trained. Another thing that could have been done. Okay. Many, many things could have been done.

00:29:51.640 Police could have been, the police had 12 minutes to show up before the guy even got in the school.

00:29:59.520 I'm just wondering what were all the cops in the area doing that they, they couldn't get there

00:30:02.820 within 12 minutes. Like what's more important in that moment, in that small town than a maniac

00:30:09.620 walking around with a rifle shooting. So there are lots of things that could have been done. Um,

00:30:17.700 and we don't need to talk about gun control, gun regulations.

00:30:23.980 That's got nothing to do with this.

00:30:28.680 You know, early on, we were told by the left that, oh, this was a failure. See, uh, you said,

00:30:32.460 you said that all you need is security, but there was security and it didn't work. No,

00:30:36.040 there wasn't. Apparently there was no form of security in that school. So here's what every

00:30:40.060 school in America should have. Every single school in America should have multiple trained armed

00:30:45.520 security personnel on staff. And I, and I keep emphasizing trained like people that know what

00:30:51.740 they're doing and that are willing to do it. When the time comes that last part, well, you can't

00:30:56.840 really know for sure until the time comes, but if they're well-trained, you look at their backgrounds.

00:31:01.360 I think you want to look, especially into, into retired military, ex-military people have been in

00:31:06.180 situations like this. Who've been battle tested. Get as many of those kinds of guys as you possibly can,

00:31:13.280 um, have them there. Have one door in the school that, uh, is the entrance of the school and every

00:31:21.560 other door is locked. And if there's an active shooter situation, you go into your lockdown drill,

00:31:27.620 you actually do it. You lock all the doors. If all those things that happened, this tragedy would

00:31:37.860 have been avoided more, more than likely. Yeah, here we are talking about things Congress can do.

00:31:46.720 We need Congress to do. Lock the freaking door. Okay. We don't need Congress for that.

00:31:55.000 All right. Moving to this. More cowardice. This is a U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardano.

00:32:01.660 He was in a House Education and Labor Committee hearing yesterday, and he was, um, asked about

00:32:06.520 schools that assist in the gender transition of children without, uh, parental consent. How does he

00:32:14.960 feel about that as the Secretary of Education? And this is an official policy in lots of these schools

00:32:19.240 and in fact, an official policy of the administration, of the Biden administration itself. How does he

00:32:23.400 feel about that? What does he say about it? Let's listen. Do you believe that school districts

00:32:27.480 should keep a child's involvement in gender transition a secret from their parents?

00:32:36.060 Sir, I, I would love to answer questions on the budget, which is why I'm here. And I think what,

00:32:41.280 what I'm gathering, these are policies that your administration stands on. You're asking me to

00:32:45.820 fund your budget. And these are policies that you stand for. It's completely relevant to why you're

00:32:52.080 here today. It's a simple question. Answer the question. Do you think the schools should keep it a

00:32:57.020 secret from their parents if their children are involved in gender transition? Parents, listen,

00:33:02.120 parents and schools must work together to support students. And I do strongly support. And if you

00:33:07.240 look through the work that we've, uh, supported and, and our policies and our practices, we want

00:33:12.220 parents. Should schools ever keep it a secret from parents? Excuse me? Should schools ever keep it a

00:33:18.240 secret from parents if their children are involved in gender transition? Schools should always be a secret

00:33:25.000 for parents. Schools should be partnering with parents in communication. And there are times

00:33:29.580 where schools, uh, are working and supporting students on issues that are very sensitive. Uh, but I

00:33:35.340 do believe that parents should be connected with schools. And in many cases, um, working together is

00:33:41.880 what's going to help the student. I have spoken to students who've shared, um, whatever situation is at

00:33:47.660 the home that they felt safe, uh, at the school. And we have to be careful not to, um, try to turn

00:33:54.460 this into something that it's not. Our schools are safe places for our students and our teachers are

00:33:58.700 often the front liners when it comes to supporting students, uh, when they have issues, uh, in their

00:34:03.500 lives. That's a very bizarre answer. Uh, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. So that's just a really

00:34:09.540 roundabout way, uh, with all of the, with all the bureaucrats speak, a really roundabout way of saying,

00:34:14.460 yeah, I think that, that, uh, we should keep this from parents. Yeah. He finally gets around to it,

00:34:19.640 but this is yet another example of institutional cowardice. Now, I don't know a lot about Miguel

00:34:24.560 Cardona. Uh, maybe he is himself an LGBT extremist. That wouldn't surprise me. The Biden administration

00:34:31.700 is hiring a lot of those types, but that's not, that's not my, that's not the impression you

00:34:38.340 immediately get when you listen. He comes off just like your standard bureaucrat who, uh, is not

00:34:43.720 he's just there because he's there and he's trying to justify his job and he likes the power and

00:34:48.700 influence that he has in his position. That's the main thing that he's worried about. That's how he

00:34:52.180 comes off anyway. Um, does he actually think, does that guy right there, that dude, does he,

00:35:01.420 does he really think that it's a good idea that we should be transitioning children? Is he,

00:35:05.360 is he really into that? Does he actually think that's good?

00:35:07.700 It's Joe Biden. I mean, to the, to the extent that Joe Biden thinks anything,

00:35:13.540 does he think that? No, probably not, but it's actually worse. It's worse than being an extremist.

00:35:22.060 If you're an extremist, you're a true believer. Um, then at least, uh, when it comes down to it,

00:35:28.380 you can claim at judgment day, you can claim that you were deluded and you had, you just didn't,

00:35:32.020 you didn't know you were mistaken. I don't think that excuse is going to cut it, but

00:35:34.840 you'll have that to go on. You could try that one out.

00:35:39.960 But so many of the people who, uh, have allowed and have facilitated these situations in our schools,

00:35:46.820 they really do know better. I think they're, they're not really true believers,

00:35:52.440 but they allow it to happen because they don't really care. They're actually kind of indifferent

00:35:58.560 to it. But who cares if kids are, yeah, this is crazy. It's crazy that we're doing this to kids

00:36:03.160 transitioning a child, trying to turn a boy into girls crazy, but I don't care. I don't care

00:36:08.440 about these kids. Like that's their mentality. It's indifference and also cowardice. They're not

00:36:13.200 going to stand up against it. And, uh, but the main thing they're worried about is their own

00:36:16.100 influence and power. That's all they care about. Nothing in it for them to take a stand against

00:36:21.600 this. So they don't, which I think is the, is the worst. Like that's, that puts you at the lowest

00:36:29.740 level. That makes you the greatest scumbag of all. Um, kind of related to this. So the backlash

00:36:37.980 against Ricky Gervais is continuing, uh, because of the, you know, the one joke, the routine he did

00:36:44.500 about, uh, about transgenderism in his Netflix special. The website, Mary Sue is a good

00:36:49.820 representative sample says last year, Netflix faced intense controversy over Dave Chappelle's comedy

00:36:54.380 special, The Closer, which included a number of transphobic jokes. There was backlash from audience

00:36:58.960 walkouts among staff, condemnation, even resignation. Now Netflix is proving that they

00:37:02.840 learned exactly nothing from that ordeal. And the platform has premiered another wildly

00:37:07.420 anti-trans comedy special. This one from Ricky Gervais, uh, Gervais' special dropped today

00:37:12.340 and immediately people were sharing just how horrible it is. But however awful you're expecting

00:37:15.460 it to be, I don't think anyone, anything can prepare you for the level of violent bigotry

00:37:20.000 Gervais put out. After just a few minutes, he starts on a tirade about trans women in rape.

00:37:24.820 There's a deep obsession with trans people's genitals and he deliberately misgenders

00:37:27.660 his hypothetical trans villain throughout. So it goes on and on about how it's violent

00:37:31.100 and extreme and all this kind of stuff. Now they're dubbing the whole thing an anti-trans

00:37:35.720 special, but as far as I know, I haven't watched the routine yet, but as far as I know, that's

00:37:42.260 the main, the main part there where he talks about it. That's not, it's not, that's not

00:37:45.160 the subject of the, uh, of the entire special. But this is of course what the left always

00:37:53.600 does is that, is that, uh, you know, if you mention this kind of thing at all, then you're

00:37:57.760 obsessed with it. Meanwhile, it's like the only thing they talk about. This is the LGBT,

00:38:02.600 trans, like the only thing they talk about. But if you talk about it at all to disagree

00:38:08.820 with them, then you're the one who's obsessed with it.

00:38:13.140 I thought, uh, Andrew Klavan made a brilliant point about this. Um, and something he tweeted,

00:38:18.200 he says, here's a question. How, how come I find Ricky Gervais's anti-God atheist jokes

00:38:22.800 hilarious, but transgender people find his anti-trans jokes offensive? My theory is that

00:38:27.640 it's because I actually believe in God. I think that's a, that's a, a very good point. I was

00:38:33.060 thinking about this too, because I was watching, there was another clip from, uh, Gervais's special

00:38:36.960 that was circulating. And this is one, I think it's one from a Netflix account. Like this is the

00:38:41.280 joke. These are the jokes that Netflix actually wants. These are the clips they want to have out

00:38:45.320 there where Gervais is doing his, uh, you know, his religion jokes because Gervais is a dyed in the

00:38:50.860 wool atheist. Um, and he's, uh, and so he's, and he's still an atheist that hasn't changed,

00:38:57.580 right? Because as it turns out, it's, you don't need, you don't need to be, you don't actually need

00:39:02.400 to be religious to believe that men are men and women are women. Um, and I, I think what,

00:39:09.980 what Klavan points out is a good, is a good point that there's this insecurity.

00:39:15.320 Um, among the gender ideologues in general. And this is why they, this is why there's this

00:39:23.420 obsession with affirmation. They constantly need to be affirmed. And they have this, uh, they have

00:39:29.040 all, you know, these, these words, they have words that they need you to say to them. Even if they know

00:39:36.300 you probably don't even believe it, they just need to hear it out of your mouth. They deconstructed this

00:39:42.200 web for themselves and they need everyone around them to constantly affirm them because of their

00:39:46.920 deep insecurity. And at some level, just like I talked about the bureaucrats who go along with

00:39:55.860 this, but don't really believe it. There's really a question as to what extent anyone really believes

00:40:02.260 this? I mean, that's, I guess we can't really know for sure. Cause I can't see inside anybody's

00:40:08.020 mind. Does anyone really believe that somebody, you know, a, a person with a vagina who's carrying a,

00:40:17.700 a, a child in her womb, it could be a man. Does anyone actually believe that?

00:40:22.840 Um, I think very few people do, but there's this insecurity and that's why it cannot, it just,

00:40:30.500 it cannot withstand any scrutiny. And it certainly cannot be that you can't tell jokes about it.

00:40:40.000 Um, now I will say that I often don't find the God jokes funny that atheists tell, because I think

00:40:45.400 often the jokes aren't really trying to be funny. They're just kind of bitter and angry and not very

00:40:50.420 clever, more of a, more of a speech than a joke. That's, and that's most of the anti-God atheist

00:40:56.640 jokes that I've heard from standup comedians. And you listen to it's like, they're not even trying

00:40:59.960 to tell a joke here. They're just mad. And this is a, this is their own little anti-God homily.

00:41:05.400 So I'm not laughing at it cause I'm not even supposed to. It's not even, it's not even,

00:41:08.320 there's no attempt here at wit or anything like that. Um, but I can laugh at, I can laugh at any joke

00:41:13.700 if it's a good joke. Not so with the gender ideologues though. Yeah. Before we get to the

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00:42:59.640 Uh, Logan says, hilarious to hear Matt talking like he's some kind of badass. Would you just go

00:43:07.480 charging into gunfire in that situation? Easy to Monday morning quarterback, the police from where

00:43:12.520 you're sitting. Yeah. I already, I think I covered this yesterday. It is, it's easy for me to say

00:43:18.220 that's true. Um, that's, there's a lot of things that are easy for me to say. It doesn't mean it's

00:43:22.980 wrong. You know, uh, like it's, it's, if somebody commits a medical malpractice while performing brain

00:43:33.380 surgery, because they're being negligent, it's, it's easy for me. Cause I'm not, it's like brain surgery

00:43:40.000 is difficult and I've, I don't know how to do it. So it's easy for me to sit here and say, that's bad.

00:43:45.060 You should not have done that. You were supposed to fix this person's brain. Instead, you caused

00:43:48.560 even worse brain damage. That's a, that's a bad thing. You're being irresponsible. It is very easy

00:43:54.240 for me to say that it's also true. And the other thing is that I have not signed up to be a brain

00:44:01.000 surgeon. And so the fact that I can't perform brain surgery and that I'd be very bad at performing

00:44:06.260 brain surgery, that's not a failure on my part. I never, I never agreed to do it. I never said to

00:44:11.380 society, Hey, you should come to me for this. I'm the guy, I'm your guy. So not an issue. Okay. And

00:44:20.780 it's the same thing if you're a police officer. I mean, if you, if you're signing up to be in these

00:44:25.600 kinds of situations, then that's the job you sign up for. If you don't want to do it, then go get

00:44:31.400 another job. I think that's very reasonable. Isn't it? Is that an unreasonable point of view?

00:44:37.560 If there's a certain job that you don't want to do, don't sign up for the job.

00:44:44.160 What exactly is your, is your issue with that? I'm not, I'm not sure I understand.

00:44:50.940 And I also understand that, uh, that police officers want to go home to their families

00:44:54.540 and want to preserve their own lives, but preserving your own life as a police officer,

00:45:00.300 that can't be your number one priority all the time.

00:45:06.400 Given the job you signed up for, if you're never willing to put someone else's life ahead of your

00:45:12.820 own, even the life of a, of a young child, then you're in the wrong line of work.

00:45:18.320 Um, so that's just lazy. I mean, as much as you say it's, it's easy and lazy for me, I think this,

00:45:26.580 this criticism from you is a lazy one. Oh, Monday, Monday morning quarterback. I'm not Monday. This

00:45:30.580 isn't a football game. You idiot. It's not Monday morning quarterbacking. They were standing outside

00:45:36.380 where kids were getting slaughtered. That's a bad thing. Um, all right. But thanks for listening.

00:45:46.420 Um, his dudeness says not to be a conspiracy guy in the room, but how does a kid that lives with his

00:45:51.680 grandmother on his 18th birthday have enough money to buy two brand new Daniel defense ARs worth almost

00:45:57.540 $5,000 ammo plus optics and body armor and a $70,000, uh, pickup and an unlocked back door. I really

00:46:05.400 think those are legit questions. Are they all are all completely legitimate questions. You say this is

00:46:10.340 because there's nothing conspiratorial about these questions. These are all good questions. And I have the

00:46:14.180 same ones. Um, I don't, I don't, I'm not sure what conspiracy they would even point to. So I'm not

00:46:21.120 sure exactly what you have in mind, but I have the same questions and nothing wrong with asking it.

00:46:25.680 And, and here's the thing, the, the more that they are vague about this and they're not upfront,

00:46:32.020 the more you're going to get actual conspiracy theories. Okay. And you're already starting to see

00:46:37.640 that. I mean, I, I, I'm sure if I looked, you know, on the internet and I, when I went searching

00:46:43.360 for it, you could find that there are already people who are, you know, doing the Sandy Hook

00:46:48.440 thing with this, like they claim with Sandy Hook, that it was all big hoax. And these were crisis

00:46:51.440 actors, um, which of course was completely absurd. And I don't know if that conspiracy has started with

00:46:56.680 this one, but you're going to start getting stuff like that, more of it, the more vague you are.

00:47:01.560 Because when you don't give people information, they start filling in the blanks themselves.

00:47:08.220 Yet another reason to be upfront. Uh, RKU says there are deadbeat dads for sure,

00:47:14.380 but we as a society needs to discuss how many fathers are kicked out of the home by the mother

00:47:18.060 because it's extremely common and we pay zero attention to it. Totally agree. That's why I said

00:47:22.300 yesterday, the problem of fatherless homes and, you know, uh, single mothers and everything,

00:47:26.280 you know, being a single mother is not the ideal and we should be able to say that.

00:47:33.240 But I did say, you know, just because a single mother doesn't mean it's not necessarily your

00:47:38.220 fault, but it could be. I mean, there are plenty of single mothers out there who it's,

00:47:43.200 it's their fault that they're saying it's basically what they chose because they kicked their husband

00:47:46.440 out for no good reason. And that, that happens. So I think, I think both, no matter who's at fault

00:47:55.140 for it. And very often both parties are somewhat at fault. The fact is that fatherless homes is a

00:48:01.080 problem. So, um, Joseph says, I'm actually highly curious about statistics regarding children from

00:48:08.260 motherless homes. That would be interesting, but it's a very small sample size. The fact is it's

00:48:12.420 just very, very rare. It's not, it's not unheard of, but it's very rare. It's probably why there

00:48:16.140 aren't very many statistics for it. Um, Gary says there's a fair bit of smugness about Matt's,

00:48:22.900 uh, evocation of his family life, perfect wife, kids, and home life. And the implication that

00:48:28.320 much of it is because of his wisdom and good life choices. I like him a lot, but you can be

00:48:32.740 as good a husband and father as you want. Doesn't mean your kids are going to listen to you or not

00:48:36.640 go off the rails or, uh, your, what seemed perfect wife won't fall out of love with you and want you

00:48:42.600 gone. I'm not sure when I ever said any of that. Uh, I have a perfect family. It's because of what,

00:48:48.180 have I, have I ever said that, but I have a perfect family because of my great wisdom and my great life

00:48:52.740 choices. Most of the family stories that I tell, like oftentimes it involves me. You know, I'm the

00:48:59.800 punchline in a lot of those stories. So I'm not exactly sure where you're getting that. And, but

00:49:03.760 I don't disagree with you that you could do everything right as a parent and your child still

00:49:09.320 goes off the rails. As you say, that's one of the existential fears that you have as a parent.

00:49:15.860 It's like the dread that kind of undergirds everything all the time. One of them, you know,

00:49:20.360 there's a lot of dread and fear and anxiety that comes up being a parent. It's part of the territory.

00:49:24.160 Um, and one of it is just this like sort of increasing realization, especially as kids get

00:49:28.460 older, that they are their own person. They have their own mind and, um, you can influence them,

00:49:33.800 but you can't actually directly control them. That's why people say they see kids that are freaking

00:49:38.700 out or whatever. And they say, Oh, that kid's out of control. You need to control your kid. Well,

00:49:41.800 uh, what you really mean is that that kid is not being, you need to have more influence over that

00:49:46.560 kid because you really can't, the kid's not a puppet. It's not a robot you can program. You

00:49:51.660 can't directly. Now the only, when a kid's young, the way that you can physically control them is you

00:49:55.560 can pick them up and take them out of a situation, which you should do. And oftentimes parents are

00:50:00.000 reluctant even to do that. So there's that kind of control. But outside of that, um, no, what you

00:50:06.100 really have is influence. You're trying to influence your child. And, but as that, as they grow older,

00:50:12.360 that only goes so far. All that being said, um, you know, there's kids going off the rails. That's

00:50:21.020 true. But then there's your kid becoming a mass shooter. And, um, I think certainly if you're doing,

00:50:29.540 if you being a loving and attentive parent and trying to do your best, cause no one's gonna be

00:50:34.400 perfect, but you're trying to do your best and you're there for your kid, it is just very, very,

00:50:38.940 very astronomically unlikely that they quote, go off the rails to that extent.

00:50:47.520 Which is why we can assume when you see, uh, people that are behaving in that way, that, uh,

00:50:52.800 you can just assume ahead of time and you'll almost always be right that they had a horrible home life

00:50:56.840 and really bad parents. May not be right up a hundred percent of the time, but most of the time you will be.

00:51:00.300 Um, Jay Stoss says, Matt was spot on when he said that people turn to the internet for companionship

00:51:06.680 because they've given up on life, having relationships with other people, et cetera.

00:51:09.960 It's basically why I do it. But the thing is, if I hadn't turned to the internet, I would have never

00:51:13.620 known about Matt Walsh and the Sweet Baby Gang. There's a silver lining in everything, I guess.

00:51:17.520 Well, I'm glad you found some, um, sense of belonging in the show and the Sweet Baby Gang. And I appreciate

00:51:21.900 that. But also don't give up on life and human relationships, man. Don't do that. I mean,

00:51:25.540 there's a whole world out there. There's an entire life to be lived. I don't know how old you are,

00:51:31.160 but, uh, I know that you've only encountered a small sliver of the world and of the people in it

00:51:36.480 to this point in your life, no matter how old you are. It's like the tiniest little portion you've

00:51:40.780 experienced. So you can't give up on something when you've seen and experienced so little of it

00:51:44.980 is my point. You got to get out there. I mean, still watch this show, but like get out there

00:51:49.760 and experience life. Okay. There's, there's a lot about life that's, that's dismal, but

00:51:54.220 also quite a lot of beauty and joy and adventure and so on. Uh, that was my inspirational message

00:51:59.600 of the year, probably. And I'll get back to being a cynical bastard. You know, films these days are

00:52:04.700 mostly garbage. The only exception I can think of right now is the documentary, What is a Woman?

00:52:08.740 Which, uh, if I'm not mistaken, premieres June 1st, I think. Yes, that's what we're talking about.

00:52:13.840 Whatiswoman.com. Go there, become a member so you can watch on June 1st. Aside from that,

00:52:17.380 pretty slim pickings. What happened? You know, that's easy. Hollywood gave up on itself,

00:52:21.060 morally bankrupt and ideologically shackled. Its most high profile production these days

00:52:25.080 consists of canceling actors and comedians for even the faintest whisper of counter-leftist

00:52:29.620 sentiment. Gina Carano, for example, an actress on Disney's The Mandalorian. She got expelled from

00:52:34.360 the Magic Kingdom for tweeting unthinkable ideas like neighbors should be nice to each other and

00:52:38.380 elections should be fair. Who would have thought? And Disney didn't like it, but we loved it. That's why

00:52:43.520 we're making good in our promise to uncancel Gina by starring her in our summer

00:52:47.240 blockbuster movie, Terror on the Prairie, which premieres exclusively on the Daily Wire on June

00:52:51.160 14th. Set on the plains of Montana, this gritty thriller follows a family of pioneers as they

00:52:56.440 defend themselves from a vicious gang of outlaws hell-bent on revenge. We're giving you a sneak

00:53:00.720 peek next week when the trailer drops on June 1st. And to top it all off, the official Terror on the

00:53:05.400 Prairie movie poster is in our shop right now. You can buy it at dailywire.com slash shop. From

00:53:10.500 special guests on our podcast to unflinching films and documentaries that aren't afraid to

00:53:13.880 confront the truth, everything we do at the Daily Wire is fearless. And this is our invitation for

00:53:17.400 you to come and be fearless with us. Become a member at dailywire.com slash Gina today. Now let's

00:53:23.100 get to our daily cancellation. Now at first blush, this may seem to be another example of stupid PC

00:53:32.080 word policing, but as you'll see, that's not exactly correct. It is actually an example of extremely

00:53:36.420 maniacally stupid PC word policing. Stupid on multiple levels and from every conceivable angle.

00:53:41.920 The San Francisco Chronicle reports, the word chief will no longer be used in reference to job

00:53:46.780 titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said,

00:53:50.120 to avoid the word's connotation with Native Americans. In a statement to the newspaper,

00:53:55.640 a spokeswoman for the district further explained, quote, while there are many opinions on the matter,

00:54:00.040 our leadership team agreed that given that Native American members of our community have expressed

00:54:03.760 concern over the use of the title, we are no longer going to use it. They still haven't come up with

00:54:08.760 a replacement term yet, which is why if you go to the district's website, you will still find this

00:54:13.240 hideous slur being used. In fact, there's a whole section listing the division chiefs. And there are

00:54:19.180 currently 13 chiefs leading 13 tribes, such as chief technology officer, Melissa Dodd, chief general

00:54:26.000 counsel, Danielle Hauk, and chief of staff, Jill Hoogendick. What will we call these women now? If

00:54:33.680 she's not chief Jill Hoogendick, what is she? I mean, what word is safe? Leader, head, captain, master,

00:54:39.240 commander, overlord? These words are all problematic too. They're either too militant, too patriarchal,

00:54:44.060 or they recall the troubling legacy of slavery. Maybe there should be no titles at all. Maybe Jill

00:54:49.820 Hoogendick is just Jill Hoogendick. But then you've effectively demoted all of these women.

00:54:55.760 And they are almost all women, by the way. 12 of the 13 people leading the district are women.

00:55:00.180 And what's the point of virtue signaling with a leadership team comprised of women

00:55:03.760 if you can't give them titles that denote their leadership? This would also probably be a good time

00:55:10.100 to mention the minor detail that chief is not a Native American word. Chief is an English word,

00:55:15.700 which comes from French, which comes from Latin. The French word is chef, meaning head or ruler or

00:55:22.260 somebody in authority. I'm not sure how we got from there to chef as in the guy with a funny hat in the

00:55:27.060 kitchen. My etymological knowledge in this area has already been exhausted. But what I can say for

00:55:31.620 absolute certain is that chief has been in usage since the 1300s and wasn't applied to Native Americans

00:55:36.300 until sometime in the 1700s. English settlers had good reason to use English words to describe Native

00:55:42.920 Americans. Namely, the reason is that they spoke English and people generally use words in the

00:55:48.500 language they speak as opposed to languages they don't speak. So the premise here is false. And

00:55:54.240 that's enough to explain why this whole thing is very stupid. But as I said, this is not just stupid.

00:55:57.720 It's extremely maniacally stupid. And understand why. Consider that. Consider what they're actually

00:56:02.340 trying to do. If chief was a Native American word, which it isn't, but if it was, then they would be

00:56:08.560 erasing Native American influence on the English language. They aren't doing that in this case

00:56:14.360 because the premise is false, but they're trying to. Ostensibly for the sake of Native Americans and

00:56:19.380 supposedly at the behest of Native Americans, they are, they think, erasing Native American

00:56:23.860 representation in the English language. They believe this is an example of Native American language

00:56:29.340 being adopted by English speaking people and their goal is to undo that influence. See, the left always

00:56:36.180 complains about minorities being allegedly erased and marginalized. And yet that's exactly what they're

00:56:40.680 trying to do here again. When it comes to Native Americans specifically, the left has adopted sort

00:56:47.060 of this addition by subtraction strategy. While claiming that they want Native Americans to be

00:56:52.660 represented, all they have ever done for years is just erase every mention or depiction or reference

00:56:58.760 or supposed reference to Native Americans that they can find. All of the Indian mascots and team names

00:57:03.860 are being changed. Every nod to Indian culture is being rooted out and canceled. Most recently,

00:57:08.360 a school in Indiana came under intense scrutiny for a halftime ceremony involving students dressed

00:57:12.780 in traditional Indian attire. The school had been doing that for many years. It was supposed to be

00:57:16.940 an homage to Indian culture and history, but it was deemed racist somehow for reasons that are never made

00:57:23.660 clear. All of these sorts of things have been, as the left says, problematized. They've even

00:57:30.080 snuffed out Native American depictions that were made by Native Americans. The Lando Lakes Butter

00:57:34.720 Girl, famously canceled a couple of years ago, was partially the work of a Native American artist.

00:57:40.660 And they got rid of that too. Indeed, in a culture obsessed with representation,

00:57:45.720 there's no question that Native Americans are represented far less than they used to be.

00:57:51.500 I mean, you used to find references to them everywhere in many areas of life, even in children's games back in

00:57:55.600 the dark ages of the 90s. As recently as then, kids would play, you know, cowboys and Indians. They

00:58:00.740 were part of your games. They were just part of the culture. They were part of the language. It was

00:58:03.620 just like there was a certain presence there. And all of that is gone now. The representation

00:58:10.160 bean counters have seen to it that Indian culture and people are represented far less than they used

00:58:16.660 to be. And the thing is, to me, this is quite sad because I actually find Native American history to be

00:58:22.760 remarkable and important. One of my favorite books of all time is Empire of the Summer Moon about the

00:58:27.460 Comanches. Whenever I'm traveling with my family, if there's a Native American museum nearby, we always

00:58:31.700 visit it. We go to Native American festivals and art exhibits. My kids currently have a teepee set up

00:58:36.080 in my garage. My son likes to run around the yard with a spear that he made out of a stick and a sharp

00:58:41.120 rock. Now, this all would be considered cultural appropriation these days, I suppose. You can call it

00:58:45.320 that if you want to. I don't really care. But the history is fascinating. And it's even more

00:58:50.800 fascinating that I, as I'm told, a racist, right-wing, white supremacist, ethnocentric bigot,

00:58:56.160 have more interest in and respect for that history than the culturally sensitive leftists do.

00:59:02.880 But it's actually not that surprising when you think about it. Of course they want to erase

00:59:06.580 Native American history. They want to erase all history. There's a reason they haven't replaced

00:59:11.060 most of the monuments and statues they have torn down. And when they do replace them, they're likely

00:59:15.080 to put in its place a monument to some unremarkable person who died a few years ago like George

00:59:20.540 Floyd. They are not principally interested in rewriting history or giving their own version of

00:59:26.360 it. They do have their own version. That's the 1619 Project. But really, history itself

00:59:32.760 is an inconvenient reality to a leftist. They would rather erase the whole thing.

00:59:39.820 There's too much in history, especially Native American history, but really all history,

00:59:43.760 the whole history of the human race, that's troublesome to the left and incongruent with

00:59:48.180 their claims and their narratives. So they just don't want to talk about it at all.

00:59:53.280 Their priority is to sever all people from their history, from history itself, and have us all live

00:59:59.620 as though the world itself came into being at the turn of this current millennium. They don't want

01:00:04.540 any of us to be rooted too deeply or too connected with our ancestors or too in touch with our past.

01:00:10.180 Because what they want are blank slates, nondescript automatons that they can mold and shape as they

01:00:19.420 see fit. That's what this is all about. And it's why, bringing us back to the beginning,

01:00:25.660 the San Francisco Unified School District is canceled. And we'll leave it there for today

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