Ep. 975 -Ā Is Sanity Making A Comebackļ¼
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, conservatives celebrate as the Women's Swimming Federation officially disqualifies men like Leah Thomas from competition in the future. Does this mark a return to sanity in our culture? Actually, no, it doesn't, and I'll explain why. Also, the new Woke Toy Story film bombs at the box office, and the media is just perplexed by this. The Governor of New York not so subtly encourages more violence against pro-lifers in the lead-up to Roe v. Wade. A court declares that elephants are not people, and a CNN comedian records a Father s Day PSA pushing abortion. What does that have to do with Father's Day? We'll find out about that and much more on today's show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, conservatives celebrate as the Women's Swimming Federation
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officially disqualifies men like Leah Thomas from competition in the future. Does this mark
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a return to sanity in our culture? Actually, no, it doesn't, and I'll explain why. Also,
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the new woke Toy Story film bombs at the box office, and the media is just perplexed by this.
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The governor of New York not-so-subtly encourages more violence against pro-lifers in the lead-up
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to the Roe decision. A court declares that elephants are not people. Why was that necessary
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to establish? And a CNN comedian records a Father's Day PSA pushing abortion. What does
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that have to do with Father's Day? We'll find out about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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conservatives across social media that reason and sanity had prevailed in women's sports. FINA,
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which is the International Swimming Federation, has, according to the headlines anyway, banned
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biological males from competing against women in elite aquatics competitions. The new rules passed
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down on Sunday mean that Leah Thomas' swimming career is effectively over, tragically. He could,
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of course, go back to competing against the men, but chances are that he'll now be even less
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competitive against his male counterparts than he was two years ago before he began his quote-unquote
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transition. FINA's new guidelines do provide for an open category where, I guess, trans athletes who
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don't meet the eligibility requirements to swim against women can compete, you know, in the open
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category. So Thomas can perhaps go there and race against himself where he's sure to once again
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dominate. But something tells me that he's not going to see that as a sufficient compromise.
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As noted, most conservatives have been celebrating the news, seeing it as a harbinger of things to
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come, the beginning of a movement towards sanity. The New York Post headline declares as much, saying,
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sanity returns to transgender madness after Leah Thomas' ban by FINA. Other headlines and outlets like
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The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Outkick echo this same theme. Sanity is making a comeback,
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we're told. The tide is turning. One battle has now been won. Now we march onward. That's the general
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feeling, I guess. Which is why it must fall to me, as always, to be the storm cloud raining on
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everybody's parade. I hate doing it. Actually, I kind of enjoy doing it, but not in this case. I wish I
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didn't have to. I do, though. The devil, as they say, is in the details. And sometimes that is quite
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literally the case. And when dealing with the left, you always have to keep this in mind. You always have
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to dig below the surface to understand what's really going on. These people did not achieve
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total cultural dominance by being stupid. So what's happening here? Well, if you go to the
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organization's website and you read the new rules for yourself, you'll notice a few things. First,
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under the Competitive Opportunities Within and Outside of Men's and Women's Categories,
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header, we're told, quote, male to female transgender athletes, transgender women,
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and athletes who have a 46XY DSD and a female legal gender and or gender identity are eligible
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to compete in the women's category in FINA competitions and to set FINA world records in
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the women's category at FINA competitions and other events recognized by FINA if they meet
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applicable eligibility conditions. So we see right off the bat, they're not simply banning men from
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women swimming. There's more to it than that. A lot more to it, it turns out. In fact, the new
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guidelines are nearly 8,000 words long. If it was as simple as establishing or rather re-establishing
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that only females compete against females and males against males, the policy could be described
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in like one sentence. But they take considerably more than one sentence because only certain males,
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it turns out, are banned from competing against females. So what does that mean? Well, the policy
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explains, quote, male to female transgender athletes, transgender women, and athletes with 46XY DSD
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whose legal gender and or gender identity is female are eligible to compete in the women's category in
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FINA competitions and to set FINA world records in the women's category in FINA competitions and in
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other events recognized by FINA if they can establish to FINA's comfortable satisfaction that they have
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not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later.
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Specifically, the athlete must produce evidence establishing that they have complete androgen
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insensitivity and therefore could not experience male puberty, or they are androgen sensitive but had
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male puberty suppressed beginning at Tanner stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later, and they have
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sensed continuously maintained their testosterone levels in serum or plasma below 2.5 NML OLL.
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Okay, so the problem, says FINA, is not maleness per se, but male puberty. If a male wants to compete
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against females, he must transition before puberty so to block some of the advantages that maleness would
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otherwise afford him. Now, this rule does indeed mean that Leah Thomas is out on his act.
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Probably means that elite women's swimming will be male-free for the foreseeable future. In fact,
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it's hard to imagine anyone who transitions before the age of 12 ever becoming an elite athlete in any
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sport given the disastrous effects the drugs have on the developing human body. The integrity of women's
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swimming has thus been, at least for now, effectively restored. So, why isn't it a big win, like everyone
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thinks it is? Because the International Swimming Federation is not at all affirming the binary reality of
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human sex. They are not declaring that there's any inherent problem with categorizing a male as a female.
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No, they said that they would do that. They're happy to do that. They've declared puberty and
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testosterone the enemy. According to them, some women happen to have experienced male puberty and
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those women have an unfair advantage. And so, we make a separate category for them. The solution,
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they say, is to block male puberty from ever taking hold in the first place. It shouldn't be difficult to
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see where this leads. You don't need a crystal ball to see 30 minutes into the future when this
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will be used as further justification for transitioning children earlier. The International
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Swimming Federation has said, if you want to participate fully as a woman, you need to become
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one much earlier. To the trans activists, that simply means that boys who are supposedly questioning
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their gender have to be put on the medical path even sooner than they already are.
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The rules encourage and validate childhood transitions. Many conservatives, you know, are
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celebrating this, not thinking about what they're doing. And they're even saying, I've heard from a lot
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of people, they're hopeful that FINA's policy will become a blueprint for other organizations to
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follow. Well, I certainly hope that isn't the case because that will be just more fuel for the
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childhood transition fire. It'll be more fodder for the trans activists. You see, they'll declare,
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but we can't afford to wait. If your son likes the color pink and plays with dolls, get him
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transitioned right away. Otherwise, he'll never be fully accepted as the woman he truly is inside.
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This is not pure speculation on my part. As you heard on the show just last week, the World
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Professional Association for Transgender Health lowered their age range guideline, age range guideline,
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to now recommend drugs and surgery for even younger kids. They now advise surgical sex changes for
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15-year-old kids. And that age has been dropping precipitously for years. It's only going to continue
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to drop, helped along by institutions who declare early transition as a prerequisite for full recognition
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of a person's chosen gender identity. So this is not a win of any kind. Certainly not a win for sanity.
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A win for sanity would be a rule which simply and clearly declares that only women compete against
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women and only men against men. Period. End of discussion. No further explanation needed.
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Anything beyond that, any additional considerations, any complications added to the mix, any nuances,
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any caveats, only affirm and reinforce that this is somehow a complicated question. But it isn't.
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And this is exactly why I've always been uncomfortable with the way that conservatives
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often argue for fairness in women's sports. Many of them argue for it as though their primary concern
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is simply fairness in women's sports. You know, they argue over women's sports as if what they really
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care about is just women's sports for its own sake. Like they really care deeply about competitive
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women's swimming itself. And their greatest mission in life is to ensure that competitive women's swimming
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remains fair and equitable. But that's not why I argue for fairness in women's sports.
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I argue for it because women's sports is but one battleground in the overall war for truth and reason.
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And if you win a battle but you weaken your position in the larger war in the process,
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you didn't really win anything. And here we won something that looks like fairness in women's
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swimming but at the expense of validating and encouraging the further abuse and exploitation of
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children. Meanwhile, the underlying premise of gender ideology remains fully intact. In fact,
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these rules and by extension those celebrating them have reinforced the underlying premise by agreeing
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that maleness and male puberty are two entirely separate things which can and often should be
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divorced from one another. This is exactly what happens when you try to cut down a tree by just
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like cutting away at a few of the branches. You're not really doing any damage to the tree.
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And in fact, you may be helping it as pruning a tree encourages growth, plant health, flower production
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in the long run. That's what that's what the right is is unwittingly doing now with gender
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ideology. They're just sort of pruning away at it. They're getting it into a better shape.
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Making it more palatable for people. You know, as long as we have this gender ideology madness in
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our culture, as long as it exists, as long as children are being indoctrinated into it,
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then it's probably for the best that we have the absurd spectacle of men, you know, dominating women's
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sports. That forces people to confront it and to see it for the absurdity that it is.
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It's actually the best thing for the trans activists, whether they'll say this out loud or not,
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the best thing for them is that those more public displays of the absurdity of their position go
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away. But the thing itself remains. So if they can more quietly sort of be transitioning quote unquote
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children, indoctrinating kids into this, but we don't have any more Leah Thomases, that's the best
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for them. That's good for them. Now, I say as long as this exists and we're imposing it on children,
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then there ought to be Leah Thomases. In fact, it doesn't even make any sense. If we're going to,
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as a society, abandon the difference between men and women, it doesn't make any sense to have the
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integrity of women's sports preserved. We don't have a right to women's sports in a society where
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we pretend that men and women are the same or interchangeable or fluid or whatever.
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No, what we should be doing is drawing a clear line and saying to society, we have to choose.
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Okay. Either men and women are the same and all these things are fluid or not. It's one or the
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other. You can't have it both ways. If you want to kill the tree, you have to attack it at its roots.
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And if you really want to restore sanity in this country, that's the only way to do it.
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important things happening in the country, but I just thought that this was, here's some actual
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good news, something, a little something that we can celebrate. And this is Deadline. This is how,
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this is obviously a left-wing rag, and this is how they report on this. They say, blame the fact that
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it doesn't appeal to girls. Blame Disney Plus for stealing family moviegoers. Blame the lack of an
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ensemble Toy Story cast. Heck, blame everything, as Disney Pixar's Lightyear didn't do its magic by
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internal studio or industry standards this weekend, with $51 million, close to a third below its $70
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million pre-release projection. It says, this is an opening more in the vicinity of Pixar's original
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fare, so it could still leg out to $200 million. However, given how this IP was built on the back of
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the Toy Story brand, it's clear many were expecting significantly more. Lightyear overall was down
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in its global start, $85.6 million versus the top end, $135 million estimate we reported. So, and it was
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beat by Jurassic World at the box office, and the long and short of it is that this new Toy Story movie,
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this offshoot, Lightyear, which again is, this was a film about the backstory of the toy Buzz Lightyear
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in the world, in the Toy Story world. And it's doing incredibly poorly at the box office,
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way below projections. It's basically a box office dud. Now, you know, for a lot of other movies,
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$51 million would not be anything close to a dud, but given that this is Toy Story, it's part of the
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franchise, it's Disney, all of the marketing and media and press that went into this, $51 million
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is pathetic. And if you look at some of the headlines in entertainment media today, a lot of the
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headlines like this in Deadline, they're all trying to figure out what the heck went wrong? How could
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this have happened? This is a Toy Story brand movie. They're supposed to do $100 million. What's going
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on? It's a mystery. Who could possibly explain this? Well, it's actually not a mystery at all.
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I think there are a couple of potential explanations here. Not potential, but, you know, absolute.
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One of them is, before we get to the political part of it, one of them is actually that I think
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there reaches a point where even the standard moviegoer with his famously low standards
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is just kind of sick and tired of the same old thing. Just the same thing over and over and over
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again. You're just trying to shovel the same garbage into his mouth over and over and over again.
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Making a franchise out of everything. Like the first Toy Story movie was just, it was a cute little
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movie about toys that come to life. And that was what, 20 years ago? And 20 years later, they're
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still making these same things over and over again. So I think there's some exhaustion there
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on the part of the movie going public, as well there should be. But even more than that
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is the fact that this is the woke Toy Story. And that's how it was advertised. And that's what
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the press was saying. That's the media attention it was getting. And people don't want that.
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Now, I haven't watched the movie. I'm not going to watch it. As far as I know, the only woke part
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of the film is that they put this lesbian kiss scene in there between two characters. I don't
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know if they're toys or not. Well, no, these are real people in the Toy Story universe. So these
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are like real people, but cartoons. Okay. So they're not toys, but there's a lesbian kiss scene.
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And the media has made much ado about that. In a positive way. They're celebrating it.
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And we know that Disney, they put that lesbian kiss scene in because, or they put it back and
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originally they had it in the story. They took it out because they figured it didn't really help
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the story move along. They needed to cut it for time. They put it back in after the anti-grooming
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laws in Florida as a political statement. And the movie going public wants nothing to do with that.
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You know, lots of parents, they don't want to bring their kids to a cartoon movie where there's a
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lesbian kiss scene. And they also don't want entertainment that has a political or ideological
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message. They're just sick and tired of it. Now, on Hollywood's part, they can complain about that
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and say that, oh, we should have an unending, insatiable appetite for this kind of thing.
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We should want this content in all of our movies. If we were truly virtuous people, that's, well,
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I disagree with that. But even if it was true, it's too bad. People don't want it.
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They especially don't want it from their kids' entertainment.
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Okay. There's not a lot of parents out there who want to take their kids to a movie and then
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leave the movie. And that movie is now an opportunity to have a discussion about LGBT issues.
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There aren't very many parents who are looking for that from their entertainment.
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Which is why I would say to Hollywood, continue doing this all you want, because it's just total
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self-destruction. You're making yourself more and more irrelevant. As I've said before, I think that
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you can find kind of a parallel. This is sort of the bizarro world version of what Christian
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entertainment has done for so long. Okay. The difference is that with, you know,
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so-called Christian movies, the Christian branded entertainment, they put just like
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woke Hollywood does now, they put the message before anything. The message is the most important
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thing. The difference is that with Christian entertainment, the message is actually good.
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So that's the good part. But story comes second, plot, writing, acting, all these things are just
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afterthoughts. The actual entertainment quality of the thing itself is an afterthought. And the
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idea among the Christian people in the Christian entertainment industry is that as long as the
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message is there, then sort of we've done our job. But you haven't really. Because what you should
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be trying to do is create great entertainment that also has the positive message. Which maybe
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means the message can be a little bit more subtle. Woke Hollywood's doing the same thing.
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Taking the message. Only this time it's a bad message. And, but the mistake they're making
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strategically is they make the message front and center. They especially did this with that,
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with this Lightyear movie. That's all of the discussion about the Lightyear movie.
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It was all about the lesbian kissing. Nothing to do with the story.
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And they're paying the price for it. Meanwhile, and of course, they're not learning their lesson.
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So Star Wars, we know that the Star Wars franchise in general has gone woke, has arguably been woke
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from the beginning, you might even say. But their Twitter account in particular is very woke. So
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they were responding over the weekend to some random Twitter user who said to them,
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don't make Star Wars political. And then the Star Wars account responded and said,
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number one, queer characters existing isn't political. Number two, Star Wars is literally
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in our name. Not exactly sure what they're going for with point two. But number one,
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they say queer characters existing isn't political. Well, it is though. And you've decided that.
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So you use the quote unquote queer characters to make political points. That's exactly what Disney
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did with the Lightyear film. So no, that's exactly the case. You use these characters to make
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political statements. That was your decision, not ours. People have noticed and they just want no
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interest. They have no interest in it. They want no part of it. All right. Let's go to this from
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the Daily Wire. It says, following a slew of violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers,
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is inexplicably amping up the rhetoric against pro-lifers,
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calling them Neanderthals. Hochul on Monday signed legislation to boost abortion, quote,
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rights and empower abortion providers in the Empire State. She said, this is the United States of
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America where freedom and liberty are supposed to mean something. It's the rock upon which we were
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founded. It is supposed to mean something, except in the eyes of some Neanderthals who say women are not
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entitled to those rights. Now, in the article in Daily Wire, it says it's inexplicable why she's
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doing this, but I don't think it's actually inexplicable at all. This is, we have these
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terrorist attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers, and she is coming in behind that and saying,
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oh, these are a bunch of Neanderthals. Obviously, the idea is to encourage more of those attacks
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by primarily by dehumanizing the, in a very literal sense. I think the word Neanderthals here
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was chosen very carefully, in a very literal sense to dehumanize pro-lifers.
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And we know if you dehumanize people, then you make it easier for the militants and radicals
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and terrorists in your ranks to justify violent attacks against them.
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And I don't want to, people have been predicting this for weeks and have turned out to be wrong,
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but my prediction is probably this week we're going to finally get the Roe v. Wade decision.
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And we know that pro-abortion terrorists have openly been threatening that once this decision
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comes down, they're going to go all out in their attacks on pro-lifers. They already have been over
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the last month or two. And it doesn't matter how bad it gets. There is just no universe where people
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like Kathy Hokule and other pro-abortion people are going to come out and condemn the attacks and
00:25:11.880
tell their own side to calm down and let's be peaceful. It's not going to happen. There is no
00:25:18.720
amount of violence that would propel them to do that. And we saw this, of course, with the BLM riots in
00:25:23.240
2020. All right, we'll move to this from the Daily Mail. It says, President Joe Biden hopped out of
00:25:27.620
church Saturday evening to prove he wasn't injured after falling over on his bike during a ride near
00:25:32.380
his Rehoboth Beach home earlier in the morning. He's in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with Jill to mark
00:25:38.040
their 45th wedding anniversary and also to mark Juneteenth weekend. So he's putting all that together.
00:25:45.500
So he's got his wedding anniversary, Father's Day, Juneteenth, and he decided to celebrate all those
00:25:52.040
things by going for a nice bike ride. I'm sure you've seen this footage a million times already,
00:25:55.920
but let's watch it together, you and I. Anyway, let's see Joe Biden on his bike.
00:26:10.840
And then he takes a tumble there. So it looks like he got his foot caught on the pedal, I guess.
00:26:17.120
But he was sitting still on the bike and he fell over. And I've seen people on social media trying
00:26:26.720
to justify this and say, hey, people fall over on their bikes all the time. Do they really? I mean,
00:26:31.560
I haven't fallen over on a bike since I was like seven. Now, granted, I haven't really been on a bike
00:26:36.660
since I was seven, but still. And do they, do they typically fall over? So he's got one. Okay.
00:26:43.200
You look at the footage there. He's got one foot on the ground and he's, and he's standing still
00:26:48.380
and he just falls over. That doesn't happen very often. Even my kids, you don't see that.
00:26:56.780
And you know how, you know how frustrating this has to be for Biden's handlers because they had
00:27:00.320
this whole thing planned. The only reason he went for a bike ride was for the purposes of the camera
00:27:06.980
to prove that he's still spry and young and healthy and everything else. It was just last week that
00:27:13.660
that the new White House press secretary, Gene Pair, was on CNN and was actually being asked
00:27:20.040
skeptical questions on CNN about Biden's health and his fitness for office.
00:27:24.320
And they saw how this is now making its way into the left wing media. And they said, well,
00:27:30.180
we got to do something to prove that this guy, okay, he's, he's got, he's got another term in him.
00:27:36.820
That's how healthy he is and energetic. So they thought, well, well, what can, what could,
00:27:41.160
what can Biden actually do? What can the president do to prove that he's still physically fit?
00:27:48.980
We know he can't walk up steps. We know, in fact, just walking in general
00:27:53.000
is a little bit complicated for him. So they said, look, we'll put him on a bicycle.
00:27:58.120
That's a good idea. And they had this whole, they, the media, everybody was there,
00:28:02.340
all kinds of cameras all around. They had it all planned out. Everything is going great.
00:28:08.160
All of handler, all of Biden's handlers are thinking, well, this is, this is a great plan.
00:28:11.960
This is working out great. We're gonna get a lot of good press off of this.
00:28:15.360
We're gonna have all this footage of Biden on a bicycle. We can use it during the campaign.
00:28:19.520
This will be, this will be a, an ad during the, during the campaign for his reelection.
00:28:23.000
We could just show Biden on a bicycle and say, look, he can still ride a bike.
00:28:28.020
Vote for him again. And everything's going great. And then he, and then he stops and just
00:28:32.240
falls over and it ruins the entire, the entire publicity campaign.
00:28:40.360
Um, because why does that happen? Well, because he's, uh, he's 79 years old,
00:28:44.920
losing his mind, not even able to walk. And you have him on a bicycle.
00:28:53.960
Maybe next time try a stationary bike, have him go to planet fitness or something and bring all the
00:28:58.740
media along and just have him on a stationary bicycle in the gym for like five minutes and get
00:29:05.420
the footage that way. Well, even that wouldn't work because that bike was stationary and he still
00:29:09.500
fell off of it. And I have to say again, you know, there are people laughing about this and then other
00:29:16.040
people saying, well, we shouldn't laugh about an old guy falling off a bicycle. Um, I disagree. I'm
00:29:20.520
firmly in the let's laugh about it camp because number one, it's funny. Okay. This is just a fact
00:29:25.680
of life. Watching somebody fall off a bicycle will never not be funny. It is always funny. I'm sorry.
00:29:31.280
But number two, I must remind you that Joe Biden did this to himself. Okay. Under normal circumstances,
00:29:40.740
I would say that laughing at an elderly person as they lose their, their mental and physical
00:29:46.880
faculties is a cruel thing to do. And I would never, ever do that. Okay. I'm not going to go to a
00:29:53.160
nursing home or retirement home and just start pointing and laughing at people. Okay. But he put
00:29:59.800
himself in this position intentionally because of his lust for power. So it was his own lust for
00:30:09.080
power, his own narcissism, his own greed, which drove him to run for office at the age of 78.
00:30:17.220
And now he's reaping the consequences of that. Okay. Reap what you sow. That's what's happening here.
00:30:23.720
This is, this is all on him and he has it all coming as far as I'm concerned. All right,
00:30:29.280
let's see what else here. This is from the post-millennial. Over the weekend, it was revealed
00:30:34.880
that Uvalde police officers didn't attempt to open the door to the classroom, to the two classrooms
00:30:40.360
where children were trapped during a May 24th shooting that left 19 children and two teachers
00:30:45.040
dead. Okay. Did not attempt to open the door. Didn't even try to open it. A law enforcement
00:30:50.660
source close to the investigation told the San Antonio Express News that due to a possible
00:30:54.660
malfunction with door locks inside the building, the doors to the classrooms where shooters Salvador
00:31:00.720
Ramos killed nearly two dozen people may have been unlocked the entire time officers were inside
00:31:06.300
the building and that officers didn't try to open the door earlier in the standoff. Surveillance
00:31:11.360
footage from inside the building revealed that officers did not attempt to make an entrance into
00:31:16.120
the door. And Ramos proceeded to classrooms one 11 and one 12, which are connected with a door in
00:31:24.680
between. Investigators believe the shooter didn't lock the doors to these classrooms from the inside
00:31:30.040
and that they were likely unlocked the whole time due to a malfunction. There was also, I'm trying to
00:31:38.100
scan for it here. There was also a revelation about apparently an officer had a chance to shoot Ramos
00:31:46.160
as he was going into the school or into the classroom, but didn't, didn't take the shot because he was
00:31:52.220
afraid that he would miss and, uh, and shoot somebody else. And then Ramos goes into the classroom
00:31:58.320
and is in there slowly executing children for an hour. And they didn't even attempt to open the door.
00:32:05.880
Now you remember one of the excuses we heard for these officers early on is that they weren't able
00:32:15.400
to get into the classroom. They just weren't able to get in. And that always seems strange to me
00:32:20.780
because as I said, when this first happened, you know, usually a simple locked door is not enough
00:32:28.940
to keep police officers out. Okay. If they think that there's a drug money in there, they're going to,
00:32:35.360
bring out the battering ram and just knock the door down. Use a crowbar. I mean, there are ways
00:32:39.720
of getting inside a door. Usually you can't just lock a door and the police officers will say, well,
00:32:44.300
nevermind, we can't get in. The door's locked. So you would think, okay, unless they're in,
00:32:49.980
unless this is Fort Knox or something, or he's trapped inside a bank vault, you would think that
00:32:54.220
they would have a way of easily getting in the door. But it turns out it's even worse than we thought.
00:33:00.160
I mean, I figured the door was at least locked and they didn't make any great attempt to get in.
00:33:11.200
And every, every few days we get another revelation about this. More information comes out. It gets more
00:33:17.660
and more damning for the police officers. And I suspect that's just going to continue because we
00:33:22.800
still don't know. Even now you can, you can, you can start to kind of piece the puzzle together.
00:33:27.000
There's still a lot we don't know. And I think we could probably assume that this trajectory is,
00:33:32.600
is going to continue. Where it just gets more and more damning for the police officers as we go along.
00:33:40.560
But in some ways, it's a pretty simple story. They were afraid for their lives. And so they didn't go
00:33:46.220
in. And the officer had a chance to take them out and, you know, was, was afraid you miss,
00:33:51.740
then you're going to be held responsible for that. So just a lot of fear and cowardice.
00:33:55.260
A very simple story in some ways, but also a, uh, an enormous, unbelievable scandal also.
00:34:05.340
All right. I wanted to, this is from, from last week. And, uh, I wanted to get a chance to
00:34:09.640
talk about this a little bit. This is from DNYUZ. It says an Asian elephant named Happy
00:34:14.940
that has been at the Bronx zoo for more than 40 years will remain there after New York's highest
00:34:20.360
court ruled on Tuesday that she is not a person in a legal sense and therefore not entitled to a
00:34:25.980
fundamental human right. By a vote of five to two, the court of appeals rejected an animal advocacy
00:34:31.120
organization's argument that Happy was being illegally detained at the zoo and should be
00:34:36.300
transferred to a more natural environment. The dispute hinged on whether the cornerstone legal
00:34:41.140
principle of habeas corpus, which people assert to protect their bodily liberty, liberty,
00:34:46.360
to contest illegal confinement should be extended to autonomous, cognitively complex animals like
00:34:52.160
elephants. But the court said, no, chief judge wrote, uh, quote, while no one disputes the
00:34:58.000
impressive capabilities of elephants, we reject petitioners arguments that it is entitled to seek
00:35:02.500
the remedy of habeas corpus on Happy's behalf. Habeas corpus is a procedural vehicle intended to
00:35:08.280
secure the liberty rights of human beings who are unlawfully restrained, not non-human animals.
00:35:12.620
So this is where we are in America. We actually needed a court to declare that Happy the elephant
00:35:18.200
is an elephant and not a person. And this is actually a complicated, to you and I, it seems
00:35:24.780
pretty simple. We don't, we don't need to take this to court. Uh, you don't need to read the entire,
00:35:29.740
uh, opinion written by this court. I haven't read the entire opinion. Then you probably think you don't
00:35:37.520
need to because it's, well, it's okay. Is the elephant a person? Well, no. How do you know that?
00:35:42.220
Well, cause you just said it's an elephant and elephants and people are two different things.
00:35:46.620
So to you and I, it seems simple. But then again, to you and I, the question of what does a woman
00:35:50.620
seem simple? Turns out that's not so simple to a lot of people in a lot of people's minds.
00:35:55.360
And this especially is not simple on the left. And that's why when this decision came down,
00:36:00.100
lots of people on the left were upset about it and angry about it because they think that,
00:36:04.540
yeah, the elephant should have personhood rights.
00:36:06.340
An elephant should have personhood rights. Um, a child in the womb should not.
00:36:14.260
How do you make sense of that? Well, because on the left, the word person, the label person
00:36:20.940
has nothing to do with being a human. Just as we have this artificial kind of separation,
00:36:28.500
this bifurcation of sex and gender, well, they've done the exact same thing with human being and person.
00:36:33.680
And it's the same answer. Sex and gender, oh, those are two different things. Well, no,
00:36:39.760
they're not. They're actually the same. They're synonyms. Human being and person are not two
00:36:45.120
separate things. They are, they are the same. They're just synonyms. They're two words for the
00:36:48.180
same thing. But that's what the left has done. And they've, they've, this is necessary in order to
00:36:54.460
support their position on abortion. Now, a person is not necessarily a human being, they say. And a
00:37:03.680
person, well, then you have the, the question, what is a person? They can't define it.
00:37:11.040
You know, maybe that should be the follow-up to what is a woman. We have a, we have a film,
00:37:14.200
what is a person? And that to the left is going to seem even more complicated.
00:37:19.780
I mean, just the, a, a woman, a, a person who is a woman, that sentence alone, that's a very
00:37:27.440
complicated sentence. Every word in that little short sentence is very complicated and impossible
00:37:32.280
to define. But if they were to try to break it down, they would say that being a person has
00:37:36.600
something to do with cognitive ability, something to do with self-awareness, something to do with your,
00:37:41.900
you know, your, your faculties, your, you know, your intelligence IQ, you know, they would wrap
00:37:50.160
all that up in the personhood title. And then that raises all kinds of questions. And if that's the
00:37:55.160
case, then, then, okay, then you've just made an elephant a person, but obviously unborn children
00:38:00.240
are not. That's what you intended. What about newborn babies? What about elderly people with
00:38:05.560
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00:38:09.240
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00:38:15.600
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00:38:24.400
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Lego David says, you know, we hear so much these days about women's rights, gay rights,
00:39:58.880
trans rights, et cetera, but we barely hear anything about children's rights. Children have
00:40:02.480
some fundamental rights that need to be protected. And most people on the left could, couldn't care
00:40:06.440
any less about them except for the part where they indoctrinate them. Uh, Matt Walsh is a true
00:40:11.560
hero. One of the very few defenders of children's rights. I don't know about the hero bit, but the
00:40:15.440
rest of it, you're exactly right. Uh, you know, we, we take this idea of rights and then we assign it to
00:40:20.960
different groups of people. So we have different labels, different types of rights. As you say,
00:40:25.660
trans rights, women's rights, all these different rights. Um, when really there's only supposed to
00:40:30.280
be, if the word rights has any meaning at all, it's just supposed to be human rights. And anyone
00:40:34.620
who's a human being has those rights. Um, but when the left talks about rights, they don't really mean
00:40:39.840
rights anymore. They mean privileges. Okay. They mean a special accommodations, what they really mean.
00:40:47.180
But if we're going to play this game and break people down into categories and then say, well,
00:40:51.860
here's your, here are the rights you have. If you're in this category, here are the rights you have
00:40:55.200
in this category. Yeah. You would think that we would do that with children. We would be talking
00:41:00.240
about, well, here's a, maybe we should have a children's bill of rights. I wouldn't necessarily
00:41:06.220
support that. I don't think we should need that because again, the, the bill of rights that applies
00:41:10.300
to children should just be the bill of rights. They shouldn't, we shouldn't need to have a separate
00:41:14.360
one, but, um, they don't do that with children. And why is that? Because, well, because as we've seen,
00:41:20.760
they, they hate children. I think it's as simple as that. Virginia house says, okay, I do consider
00:41:25.720
myself a firm mom. That being said, everything you said about kids is so true and much, much more.
00:41:30.780
I have three children had three children. The relationship and bond of parent and child is
00:41:34.780
so indescribable. The love and pride of someone that you either brought into this world or even
00:41:39.980
adopted is amazing. And at times overwhelming, this is just the beginning of parental feelings. As much as
00:41:44.780
I love my animals, there's no comparison to how I feel about my children. Uh, I have lost pets and
00:41:50.120
it's heartbreaking. It hurts very badly, but there's no hurt in this world that compares to losing a
00:41:53.840
child. No pain, no depth of grief comes close. Uh, yeah, well, I, I very much disapprove of anybody
00:42:02.000
using the fur mom or fur dad or fur parent label, as I explained on the show, uh, because you're not
00:42:09.020
actually the parent of your pet, but if you're going to do it, then at least you should be able to
00:42:15.340
demonstrate that you understand the hierarchy of these things and that you don't actually
00:42:20.080
class your fur child in the same category as your actual children. So I'm glad that you don't at
00:42:25.380
least, but the way that many pet owners talk about their pets and treat their pets, it really does
00:42:31.480
seem as though they, they would put their like dog on the same footing as their actual child.
00:42:38.220
Uh, Mark says, I like the idea of comparing drag to black face. Can we start calling it drag face?
00:42:43.480
It really has a good ring to it. I think woman face works perfectly fine. I think that's what we
00:42:46.960
should call it actually. Cat is table says, um, I practically never comment on videos, but I had
00:42:54.620
to say in all honesty, the description of the experience of parenthood has me pumped to one
00:42:58.780
day be a father. Thank you. Well, it is, it's, it's a, you should be pumped about it. It's a,
00:43:04.560
it's an exciting thing to be a parent. Um, let's see. LK 23 says, Matt, why are you so uncomfortable
00:43:13.160
with birthdays? It's so weird. Who hurt you as a child? Uh, because I don't, there are some human
00:43:21.740
things that I can't understand and relate to. I'm like Spock, I guess. And birthdays is one of them.
00:43:26.460
I just don't understand why that should be celebrated. So I've existed for another year
00:43:34.220
on earth. Okay, great. Now, if, if you, if you did something during that year that is worthy of
00:43:42.100
celebration, if you achieve something, then let's celebrate that. I'm all about celebrating achievements
00:43:46.920
is my point. So celebrating an achievement is great, but simply existing for another year on
00:43:51.820
earth is not in and of itself an achievement. Now, if you, uh, survived some sort of life threatening
00:44:01.040
calamity in the meantime, if you went to war, if you, uh, got over a severe illness, if you
00:44:06.200
cancer went into remission or something like that, well, then surviving another year is an
00:44:10.240
achievement, but then we're just celebrating that we're celebrating the achievement. So I reject on
00:44:14.280
principle that we should all be celebrated simply for existing another year. That's my point about
00:44:20.200
birthdays. Uh, Augusto says two points. One, I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I agree with
00:44:26.120
Pelosi statement. Private beliefs are private beliefs, but they should not dictate policy.
00:44:31.040
That is not a contradictory position to hold. And two, Israel drafts women into the military,
00:44:36.580
albeit for two years instead of three and not into combat roles. A society can exist in a,
00:44:41.140
in a democratic sense and employ that policy. Um, well, to your second point, you know, I don't care
00:44:48.180
what policies other countries have. Some countries draft children into war. Okay. My point is that for us
00:44:57.500
submitting to the drafting of our daughters into battle would represent, I think just a sort of full
00:45:05.000
scale surrender as a society. To your first point, you say private beliefs shouldn't dictate policy.
00:45:12.660
Well, that very similar to the people who say you should never legislate morality, right? Very similar
00:45:18.680
idea. And just like that idea, what you're saying here makes no sense at all. Private beliefs don't
00:45:24.720
dictate policy. Okay. Well, let me ask you, what does dictate the policies that a politician supports?
00:45:32.560
If not their private beliefs are, do you want them to support policies they don't believe in?
00:45:39.780
Do you want them to support policies that they think other people believe in, but they don't?
00:45:43.080
But even then, then they would be supporting policies based on their belief that the beliefs of the
00:45:51.440
public matter. So no matter what they're doing, of course, they're going to be motivated by their
00:45:55.160
own private beliefs. Just like every law that is passed is a, is a law that legislates morality.
00:46:05.300
It may be legislating morality wrongly. Um, it may be legislating morality ineffectively.
00:46:12.720
It may be legislating the wrong morality entirely, but every single law that is passed, it is passed
00:46:21.160
because, um, the people passing it believe that it's, that it's right, that it's good, that this is
00:46:26.580
what we should be doing. You know, if, if we pass a law making something illegal, it's because we believe
00:46:32.760
that the thing we're making illegal is wrong. You shouldn't do it. It's harmful, whatever.
00:46:37.820
So it always comes down to morality, just like it always comes down to personal beliefs.
00:46:42.080
So your point makes no sense, but otherwise, thanks for listening and for leaving the comment.
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The comedian W. Kamau Bell is one of those interesting sorts of comedians who has made the bold choice
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to never be funny. Like so many other comedians today, Bell calls himself a comedian and yet has never
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made anyone laugh ever in his life. He's never been involved in a funny joke unless his career itself
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is the joke. In fact, Bell is so relentlessly unfunny and uninteresting that he received the most damning
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professional indictment imaginable, which is a show on CNN. He's the host of United Shades of America,
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where he preaches about race. I assume. I haven't seen it and neither has anybody else. So we can
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only speculate. Bell was also hired as a spokesman for something called the Abortion Access Fund,
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where he produced a Father's Day PSA, encouraging men to celebrate Father's Day by supporting women
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by becoming pro-abortion feminists, because that's how you support women, he says. Now we'll play the
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thing in a minute, and this is not my main objection that I would raise to this PSA. We'll get to those
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in a moment. But we should note how this is yet another Father's Day message that isn't really for or
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about fathers. For whatever reason, we're not allowed to simply just celebrate fathers in this country.
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All of the marketing and messaging around Mother's Day is about how wonderful mothers are. But for
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Father's Day, we talk about the things that fathers are doing wrong. Father's Day is mostly an
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afterthought, like a participation trophy we give to dads after all the over-the-top festivities for
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Mother's Day. And when it is acknowledged, it's usually to lecture men about their failures.
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So we give fathers the gift of nagging for Father's Day, as if they didn't already have an
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endless supply of that readily on hand. But that's neither here nor there, as the problem with this
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pro-abortion Father's Day message goes way beyond the issues I just raised. See you for yourself.
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Dad does so much for the family. This Father's Day, give him what he really needs. Not a homebrewing
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kid. Not socks. Give him safe and legal access to abortion.
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Hello. I'm noted male feminist W. Kamau Bell. Do you know how much I've spent on birth control in my
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life? $213. Mostly on condoms that expire to my wallet. Do you know how much my wife has spent?
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Dads, if you've ever had sex and not had a kid, it's likely birth control or abortion played a role.
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Okay, we have to stop it already, because Bell has proven that he can't talk about issues related to
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the female body without descending into these amateurish misconceptions in about 40 seconds.
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The left, you know, because they have no other rebuttal, they like to accuse pro-life men of being
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sexless incels who don't know anything about women. I've always found this charge interesting,
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given that I have a wife and four children. But it turns out, not surprisingly, that pro-abortion men
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are the ones who understand very little about the female body. The ones who've actually enjoyed the
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company of a woman, because they managed to find one with low enough standards to accommodate them,
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seem to view birth control and abortion as magical elixirs that simply make babies and thus their
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responsibilities simply disappear. They imagine, apparently, that without birth control,
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a baby would materialize after every sexual encounter. That's why Bell says that if a man
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has ever had sex and not had a baby, it's because of birth control or abortion. What he doesn't seem
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to understand is that women are not fertile every day of the month. In fact, they aren't fertile most
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days of the month. A woman's body works in cycles, and she's only capable of conceiving
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a child for a certain short period during that cycle, usually about six days. Which means that
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most of the times you've had sex and not had a baby, it has nothing to do with birth control or
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abortion. In fact, there are couples, if you can believe it, who don't use birth control at all
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and have sex frequently and don't end up with 900 kids. That's not a miracle of science. It's just
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science. And you might want to learn a thing or two about it before recording another PSA on the
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subject. Let's continue. We're used to not having to worry about it, but nobody ever got
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pregnant from a vibrator. For that, you need... A spoon on an egg! A spoon on an egg! That's right.
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See, the majority of people seeking abortions are already parents. They know it's right for
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their families. They would know if having another kid would send them spiraling into poverty.
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It definitely would. Oh my God. Funny you should mention God, because there's literally no mention
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of the word abortion in here. Just like in here, there's no mention of how the state is going to
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help these families if they forced to bury these children. It's almost like this is just a way for
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a few fragile men to use religion to control our bodies. So remember the rule here. If somebody
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is bringing up religion in the context of the abortion debate, it's almost always going to be a
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leftist. In this case, Bell pulls out the Bible to make the case for abortion, and then in the next
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sentence, accuses pro-lifers of doing the same. He says that abortion is never mentioned in the Bible,
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except that it is plain as day, right in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill is the injunction,
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quite famously. Actually, correctly translated, the commandment is to, quote, do no murder. And this is
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how Jesus quotes the passage in Matthew 19, 18. Do no murder. Thou shalt not murder. There are,
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of course, many different forms of murder and many different ways that people are murdered. And the
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Bible doesn't bother itself with listing every single potential version of the crime because
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there's no need to. If you're killing an innocent and defenseless human being, you are committing
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murder and therefore running afoul of God's commandment. Abortion kills an innocent and
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defenseless human being, and so it is murder. Therefore, abortion is mentioned in the Bible. Now, this is not
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how I would choose to argue my case if I'm talking to a secular person. My first point would
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not be that the Bible forbids it, but since he brought it up, I feel the need to correct the
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record. Speaking of things that aren't mentioned in places, do you know what the Bill of Rights
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never mentions? Abortion. In fact, it never mentions abortion or anything related to abortion or anything
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that could be remotely interpreted as having something to do with abortion. The word abortion
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never appears anywhere in the Constitution. Abortion is not a constitutional right, but rather a right
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invented by nine people in robes in 1973. All of those people, by the way, were men.
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All right. Now, for some reason, we're going to continue watching this, so let's keep going.
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Ask any parent. Parenting is a job. A wonderful, very difficult job. And since when does America force
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anybody to do a job against their will without paying them by controlling their bodies? Oh, yeah,
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right. So as we celebrate Father's Day, let's also celebrate birth control, abortion, and bodily
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autonomy. Because, man, have we benefited from those. So enjoy your day, guys, and welcome to the fight.
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We've been waiting for you. Happy Father's Day!
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A parent is not merely a job, okay? Any more than being a son or a daughter is merely a job.
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Parent describes a natural biological relationship. This is my whole argument for why you shouldn't
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call yourself the parent of your dog. Slavery, on the other hand, describes an unnatural, oppressive,
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man-made construct. If you're a parent, it means that you have conceived a human being.
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And that alone makes you a parent by definition.
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The job part describes the legal and moral responsibilities that come with this relationship.
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Slaves have no natural responsibility to their owners, which is what makes slavery a horrible
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injustice. Parents do have natural responsibilities to their children, which is why nearly all societies
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in history, including our own, legally require parents to care for their children or else find
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somebody else who will. The only question is whether that responsibility should begin at the moment when
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the child comes into being at conception or at some arbitrary point thereafter. Pro-abortion people
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favor the arbitrary point. In favoring the arbitrary point, they reject the personhood of children before
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the point they've decided. And arbitrarily rejecting a human being's personhood so as to deprive that
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person of basic human rights and of their dignity is exactly what happened with slavery.
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So, Bell is right to make the slavery comparison. He just forgot that in this analogy, he's on the
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side of the slave owners. The video ends with men being encouraged to celebrate abortion, birth control,
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and bodily autonomy, lumping all these things together in one category. You may recall that the
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left used to passionately deny that abortion is used as birth control, and now they seem to have
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dropped the act entirely. And now he's putting them together. It's the same thing. The relative honesty
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is at least one positive thing in this video, we can say, but it's not enough to save it and W. Kamau Bell
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from being today canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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