Ep. 981 - Biden Administration Rants About 'Women's Rights' While Erasing Women
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It went largely unnoticed, but last week, the Biden administration officially proposed changes to Title IX that would legally erase women. And they did this even as they scream about alleged attacks on women s rights. We ll talk about that. Also, horror at the border as 50 people are left to die in the back of a truck after being smuggled across the border. And Kamala Harris launches into a transphobic rant in response to Roe. Plus, more celebrities threaten us with a good time by promising to leave the country because Roe is overturned. In our daily cancellation, we review the work of acclaimed poet laureate, Amanda Gorman.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, it went largely unnoticed, but last week the Biden administration
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officially proposed changes to Title IX that would legally erase women. And they did this
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even as they scream about alleged attacks on women's rights. We'll talk about that. Also,
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horror at the border as 50 people are left to die in the back of a truck after being smuggled
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across the border. This is what compassionate open borders policies gets you. And Kamala Harris
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launches into a transphobic rant in response to Roe. You have to hear this to believe it. Awful
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stuff. Plus, more celebrities threaten us with a good time by promising to leave the country
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because Roe is overturned. In our daily cancellation, we review the work of acclaimed
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bestselling poet laureate, Amanda Gorman. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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in the fact that the recent sanity and restraint of the Supreme Court will be counteracted by the
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recklessness, lunacy, and blatant criminality of the dementia administration. In fact, Biden's HHS
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secretary, Xavier Becerra, announced yesterday that the White House will likely start providing
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tax-funded transportation to people seeking out-of-state abortions. Now, is that actually
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legal? Is it legal for the federal government to use tax money to pay to ship people across state
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lines to get abortions because it's illegal in their state? Well, the legality of it is a small
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detail, of course, but here was Becerra's answer. Listen to this.
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What are you doing concretely in response to the court's decision to try to help women?
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Well, we're working with centers like Planned Parenthood, so we are restoring funding for
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Title X family planning services. We are working with supporters on the ground to make sure that
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we are providing services to women where we can. We are looking into everything, including
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assisting in transportation, something that HHS doesn't typically do. Can you do that legally?
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Talk to me later. I mean, that's a big question, right? I always tell my team at HHS, if you've done
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your homework, then we have no right to do mild, and so we're going to be aggressive and go all the
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way, and I would tell you if you're recording, so I won't tell you. This is all on the record,
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Mr. Secretary. We are looking at every option, and among those is transportation. Say that again?
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We are looking at every option, and among those is transportation.
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Hilarious. Let's all have a nice laugh at the government official openly declaring his intention
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to break the law. Now, it's guaranteed that everyone in the audience, plus the two people on stage,
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have frequently claimed that Trump, Donald Trump, was undermining and destroying our democracy through
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illegal activity that nobody could ever exactly specify or prove.
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But the Biden administration can make a joke out of their criminality, and the same people simply
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laugh. This is what happens when party loyalty eats your brain. Now, speaking of breaking the law,
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amid all of the celebration last week, the Biden administration did something else. Rather,
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amid the conservative celebrating, the rightful conservative celebrating, there's something the
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Biden administration did amid all of that that should attract much more notice than it has so far.
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The day before the Roe decision was announced, only 24 hours before the left dissolved into apoplectic
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rage, screaming that women were being murdered and so on, the Biden administration proposed illegal
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changes to the law with the intention of officially erasing women. They erased women, and then a day later
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were accusing the other side of erasing women by overturning Roe v. Wade. Now, the law is Title IX.
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And before we can talk about what Biden is doing to Title IX and with it today, we need to backtrack
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a bit, I think, and lay some groundwork. So, Title IX has been really, in many ways, destructive and
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intentionally confusing since its inception. As it originally appears in the Higher Education
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Amendments of 1972, Title IX simply states that, quote,
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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in,
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be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or
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activity receiving federal financial assistance. Now, that sounds clear enough, right? And it's hard
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to argue with the underlying principle. A public, federally funded institution should be open to
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everybody, and nobody should be excluded based simply on their sex. Sounds simple. But then again,
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a statement like, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed also
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sounds pretty clear and straightforward and simple, and yet politicians and bureaucrats have found ways
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of obscuring that point. And the same happened with Title IX, and it happened almost immediately.
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The first consequence, intended or unintended, was that under the guise of Title IX, men's athletic
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programs across the country were shut down, hundreds of them at a time. It was decided that the
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prohibition on excluding people on the basis of sex meant somehow that every university must have an
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equal number of men's and women's sports teams and an equal number of male and female athletes.
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And this absurd quota system was codified into law, well, codified bureaucratically anyway,
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as presidential administrations just began adding to Title IX legislation, even though adding to or
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amending legislation is supposed to be a power reserved for the legislative branch. And by the time of the
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Clinton administration, the assault on men's sports, we got to women's sports, the assault on women's
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sports later, but originally it was an assault on men's sports. And by the time we got to Clinton
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administration in the 90s, this assault was well underway. Universities that could not conjure up
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enough female athletes to match the number of male athletes had to start shutting down male sports
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teams for the sake of compliance. Of course, what these quota systems never took into account is that men
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tend to be more interested in sports than women and people in general, right, tend to be more interested
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in watching men's sports than in watching women's sports. And all of this adds up to a perfectly
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rational, non-discriminatory, non-sexist reason for colleges to have more male athletes and to spend more
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money on male sports. But too bad, said the bean counters, make it equal, make it 50-50, no matter what
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it takes. At the same time, the issue of a sexual harassment got tangled up in the Title IX
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enforcement web. Now, once again, in principle, everyone agrees that sexual harassment is bad and
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should be punished. Seems pretty simple. But Title IX says nothing at all about sexual harassment or
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sexual assault. The law simply doesn't, you know, it's not meant to deal with that problem because
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not every law can deal with every problem simultaneously. You need separate laws to
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handle separate issues. But not so, said the bureaucrats. If a school is not doing enough,
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according to the bureaucrats, to root out and punish sexual harassers, then they're discriminating based
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on sex and they're out of compliance with Title IX. It was decided. But what is sexual harassment
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exactly? How do you define it? And how should schools be punishing it? If we're talking about criminal
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harassment, shouldn't this be left to law enforcement and the criminal courts to adjudicate?
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Lots of ambiguity was created and totalitarian bureaucrats, as we know, love nothing more
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than ambiguity. Soon, sexual harassment had become a category encompassing a wide range of speech
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and the alleged sexual harassers were being tried and convicted in these Title IX kangaroo courts and
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these extrajudicial tribunals without any opportunity to defend themselves or face their accusers.
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There was no evidentiary burden put on the accusers. Someone is just accused that the kangaroo court
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says you're guilty and then their life is ruined. That was until the Trump administration. As an
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article in the Wall Street Journal notes, quote, the high court has been clear that most speech does not
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rise to the level of unlawful sexual harassment. Unfortunately, before 2020, many universities routinely
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use Title IX as a club against protected speech, with Northwestern University famously initiating a
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Title IX investigation against a professor merely for publishing an article that offended some
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students. In 2020, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tried to right the ship by issuing a regulation that
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reiterated the legal boundary between protected speech and sexual harassment, as determined by the
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Supreme Court in Davis First Monroe County Board of Education. In that 1999 decision, the court held that
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a Title IX violation occurs only when the behavior is, quote, so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive
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as to deny the victim access to education on the basis of sex. The DeVos regulation sought to enforce
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that legal principle. But now, the Biden administration has leaped into action. Sensing another area of
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existence where they could wreak havoc and another avenue through which to inject more misery and
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confusion into American life, Joe Biden has, as of last week, officially proposed changes to Title IX.
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Again, changes that he by no means has any legal power to actually enact, but what does that matter?
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Here's the Wall Street Journal on Biden's proposed Title IX adjustments. And this was the official
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proposal that was issued just last week. It says, the Biden administration's promise to repeal the
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2020 rule and broaden the definition of harassment would effectively overturn a Supreme Court ruling
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by administrative fiat, ushering in the return of unconstitutional speech codes designed to silence
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dissent. The Biden rules are also likely to roll back due process protections for students accused of
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sexual misconduct. In the American legal system, accused persons have a right to receive timely
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notice of the accusations against them, view evidence, and present their side of the story to
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an impartial arbiter. But in the years before the DeVos regulation, many students had their lives
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ruined by campus kangaroo courts in which the mere accusation of misconduct was sufficient for
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punishment. Nearly 200 of these students sued their universities for violating their rights and
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received favorable court rulings. The DeVos regulation required schools to comply with these legal
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rulings. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is set to give a federal seal of approval back
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to these college star chambers. But that's not all. Not even close. The proposed change delivered by
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the Department of Education on the 50th anniversary of Title IX would also finally and officially erase the
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whole entire original point of Title IX by legally erasing women from existence, essentially. The new rule
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would also, quote, this is reading from the rule now. It would protect LGBTQI plus students from
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discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics. So yes, gender
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identity would be a protected category under Title IX. So this piece of legislation that was written to
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protect people against discrimination based on sex will be changed
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by the executive branch just by declaring it to add gender identity into it. Now, needless to say,
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the original wording of Title IX makes no mention of gender identity. And that's probably because at the
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time of the higher education amendments of 1972, the concept of gender identity had only just been
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invented by the pedophile John Money a few years before. None of the people involved with creating Title IX
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had heard of gender identity. Hardly anyone in the world had heard of it. John Money had only recently
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plucked this concept out of his fevered, degenerate imagination and was still at the time in the
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process of attempting to verify it through a years-long sexually abusive experiment on two young boys
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who were both driven to suicide. Now, 50 years later, this incoherent, nonsensical concept invented by
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the sexologist equivalent of Joseph Mengele is or will be soon a matter of federal law.
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And the effect is that now the very accommodations and facilities for women, which Title IX was meant
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to establish and protect, will be taken away. Because now, according to Biden, a man's gender identity
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as a woman, that is, his perception of himself as a woman, is as valid, as legally legitimate,
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as legally protected as a woman's actual physical identity as a woman.
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Now, the Department of Education explained in a statement, quote,
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the proposed regulations will advance Title IX's goal of ensuring that no person experiences sex
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discrimination, sex-based harassment, or sexual violence in education. As the Supreme Court wrote
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in Bostock v. Clayton County, it is impossible to discriminate against a person on the basis of
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sexual orientation or gender identity without discriminating against the individual based on
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sex. The regulations will require that all students receive appropriate support in accessing all
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aspects of education. Now, that doesn't make any sense, even on the left's own terms. Of course,
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they can't really explain what gender identity is exactly because the idea itself makes no sense.
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They also can't explain what sex is or what a woman is or what anything is anymore. But
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to the extent that they can say anything semi-intelligible about gender identity,
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they are the ones who always insisted that gender identity is not the same as sex.
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These are two different things, they claimed. Yet now we're told that it's impossible to
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discriminate on the basis of gender identity without discriminating on the basis of sex.
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How so if the two things are totally different and separate? Well, the answer is that they're not
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separate things, not anymore. They were for years when it was useful for them to be.
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They were back when this whole thing was invented by John Money.
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But now the cause of LGBT rights demands that gender identity and sex be put on the exact same
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footing. A man who says he's a woman must be seen as a woman in every sense, including in the
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biological sense. It would hurt his feelings if any difference at all was acknowledged.
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This was a move made by activists a while ago. They have long since collapsed the very sex versus
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gender distinction that they engineered. But now through this Title IX change, it'll become a matter
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of law. Women will be officially, completely, finally erased as a distinct legal category.
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And so will men. I mean, neither group exists anymore. We're all squished together in this hazy,
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indistinguishable muddle. All of this for the sake of the LGBT lobby.
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They've been given everything they want for years. And now they want to erase women officially,
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legally, just the entire category out the window. And if Biden has anything to say about it,
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they'll be given that too. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right, we begin with something completely horrifying. Unfortunately, this is the latest from
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CNN. It says, 50 migrants are believed to have died after they and others were found in sweltering
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conditions in a semi-truck in San Antonio. A federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday
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in a scene that the mayor called a horrific human tragedy. The death toll, which the city's fire chief
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gave Monday is 46, includes migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, according to officials.
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Their discovery Monday comes as U.S. federal authorities have launched an unprecedented
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operation to disrupt human smuggling networks amid an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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So these were, and there's still a lot that isn't known about this, including, at least according
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to the latest report I read, how exactly these people died. It would seem apparent that they were just
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left locked in this, the back of this truck and just kind of left and abandoned there.
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To die, I mean, an unthinkable death. And there are many children who are also a part of the death
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toll here. Now, why did this happen? Like, who's responsible for it? Well, the first person
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responsible for it is whoever did it, like the human smugglers who brought these people across
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and then just left them to cook to death in the back of a truck. They're, that individual or those
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people are responsible for their own actions, obviously. But can you point the finger anywhere
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else? Well, yes, you obviously can. You could point it at the Biden administration. You could point
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it at the left. You can point it at the Democrat party for their open borders policies that empower
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and enable human smugglers and encourage, like enticing human smugglers to do exactly this.
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This is what your compassionate, your so-called compassionate open borders policies, this is
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what it gets you. This is what it leads to. Certainly these 46 or 50 people are not the first,
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far from the first. I mean, hundreds, thousands of people have died
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due to these kinds of policies. When we're talking about illegal immigrants who have died in the
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process of being smuggled across, we're talking about American citizens who have died at the hands
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of some of the people who have been able to come across. So here's what it comes down to,
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I think. If you want to avoid these kinds of unimaginable human tragedies, here's what it
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comes down to. You have two options, okay, when it comes to immigration. One is to completely open
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the borders, have actual open borders, like officially, and just announce, we don't have borders
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anymore. They don't exist, and so anyone can come, and there's, you don't have to even worry about being
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a citizen. None of that exists anymore. Maybe stop issuing birth certificates, and birth certificates
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are transphobic anyway most of the time, because they say male or female. Stop issuing birth certificates,
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stop issuing social security cards, stop issuing anything like that. Nobody has official identification,
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and the country just like, we all just exist on this plot of land, and there is no actual country
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anymore. So that's one thing you could do. And if you do that, now I said that these are options that
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would avoid and mitigate these human tragedies. There'd be a lot of terrible tragedies that would
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happen as a result of that, but you wouldn't have human smugglers, because there'd be no reason to
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smuggle people across, because there is no border to smuggle them across. So that's one option.
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The only other option to avoid this particular problem of human smugglers murdering people
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is to strictly enforce the borders. So either you just have none at all, or you strictly enforce them.
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Anything in between those two options, you're going to have this. So then which one should we have?
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Because if you're going to have borders, then you have to enforce them. And if you're not going to
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enforce them, the worst possible, like the worst of all worlds is to have the border and not, but not
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enforce it. So which one should you go with? Well, seems pretty obvious to me, and not just to me,
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but to pretty much everyone who's ever existed and every country that's ever existed, that the latter
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option is the one you go with. You have borders and you enforce them. There's never been a country
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in history that has just had no borders at all, and not worried about having any kind of national
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identity or national sovereignty at all. There's never been a country that's just given up on that,
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because there can't be. Because the moment you give up on that, then you cease to exist as a country.
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You're not even a country anymore. And if you're not a country anymore, then there's no reason for
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anyone to come. You can't offer refuge to anyone, even if you wanted to. So having complete open
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borders and essentially no country at all just doesn't make any sense. That's the end of the
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country. That doesn't make any sense. And if you're worried about helping immigrants, you're certainly
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not going to do that if you simply give up on the country, on having a country, which leaves us with
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the option of you have borders and you enforce them strictly. Okay, you enforce them with men with
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guns. That's what almost every other country in the world does. They have borders and they have men
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with guns enforcing those borders, patrolling those borders. And that's what we should have.
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And you do that and you're not going to have 50 immigrants who are left to cook to death in the
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truck. Like you send the message out to the human smugglers, don't even try it. Okay, you try it and
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we're going to catch you. We're going to make your life a nightmare. I mean, if you're really serious
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about it, you know what you would do? One thing you would do is you would have a mandatory sentence,
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capital punishment, execution for human smugglers. You really want to get serious about it. That's
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what you would do. You try to smuggle people across the border. Given that human smugglers are some of
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the worst human beings on earth and obviously a clear and present danger to innocent people,
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women and children, then you send the message. We catch you smuggling people across. We're going to
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convict you of the crime and then we're going to execute you in short order.
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That would actually be the compassionate thing. You really care about people. That's the compassionate
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policy. All right, let's move to this. The left right now is having a hard time deciding where to
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direct their rage and hysteria. As we talked about yesterday, the Supreme Court issued another wildly
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correct and necessary ruling on Monday, reaffirming the existence of the First Amendment, which is good.
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And the First Amendment gives, as we found out in this case, it gives a football coach the right to
00:24:42.440
pray on the field with whichever players volunteer to participate. That's the actual exercise and
00:24:50.420
expression of religion. And you have that right in the First Amendment. And as we established yesterday,
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when a coach kneels on a football field and prays, he is not a member of Congress enacting
00:25:03.140
legislation to establish a state religion. Just because a coach is praying on the field,
00:25:08.560
that doesn't mean that's the state religion and everyone has to do it. So he has the right to do
00:25:13.200
that. And that came, of course, on the heels of the Dobbs decision, which came directly on the heels of
00:25:18.160
the decision affirming our Second Amendment rights. So there's a lot of outrage to go around for the
00:25:22.320
left. And they're taking sort of a machine gun approach and spraying these talking points all over
00:25:26.700
the place just to see if it hits any target. One talking point they've settled on for the religious
00:25:31.100
liberty case is this. And we have a few examples of it. So here just from Twitter, pulled a few
00:25:38.160
examples. And this talking point is all over the place. Nancy Armour says, this is, and reacting to
00:25:43.580
the Supreme Court decision about the coach praying on the field, this is, to put up politely, BS. If he was a
00:25:50.300
Muslim or Jewish coach, you can be sure the ruling would have been different. And then what else do we have?
00:25:55.580
There's a bunch of them. Michelle Fate says, in case you were not convinced already that we're
00:26:00.200
living in a theocracy, you know, this would not have gone down this way if the coach was Muslim
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or Jewish or Catholic. Holy S Supreme Court sides with coach who sought to pray after the game. Okay.
00:26:10.800
So there's another one. It wouldn't have happened. This is an interesting, this is a political cartoon
00:26:15.620
in the Washington Post. And it says, if you're okay with this, and then you see a picture of a coach
00:26:19.980
praying on the field, then you should be okay with this. And then it's a picture of,
00:26:24.940
this is a Satanist coach who's not praying, but he set up satanic iconography and candles and stuff
00:26:33.440
on the field. So if you're okay with having the coach pray, then you should also be okay with like
00:26:38.920
a satanic ritual in the middle of the football field. So that's a similar talking point. Jameel Hill
00:26:44.880
always has a great insight to offer. Says, the issue wasn't about him praying, but that he was pressuring
00:26:53.040
other students to join him. Please let a Muslim coach try this and see what happens.
00:26:58.680
Okay. So you get the idea. Now, Ben Wexler, who I think is a comedian, allegedly says,
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I bet this ruling wouldn't have gone this way had it been Muslims or Jews. Okay. So we get the idea.
00:27:08.700
If this was Muslims, if, if the, if, if this coach was Jewish, totally different thing. Supreme Court
00:27:14.440
would have ruled against him. Conservatives would be rooting against him. Now this line is monumentally
00:27:20.720
stupid for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that in the decision on Monday, in the
00:27:27.020
actual decision itself, if you read the decision, they actually specifically mentioned the religious
00:27:32.080
rights of Muslims. They mentioned and affirm the religious rights of Muslims in the language of the
00:27:37.980
decision. Um, also the court has in the last few years, in a, in an opinion, I believe that was
00:27:43.900
written by Scalia, an eight to one decision just a few years ago, defended the religious rights of
00:27:50.920
Muslims saying in that case that a Muslim woman was discriminated against because she wasn't allowed to
00:27:56.300
wear her hijab at, at work. And she was working at Abercrombie and Fitch because Abercrombie and Fitch
00:28:01.920
apparently still exists. So we know that that's false because we have a recent example of the Supreme
00:28:09.560
Court ruling in a case that had to do with the religious rights of Muslims. And in that case,
00:28:14.520
rather than a six to three decision, it was an eight to one decision in favor of her.
00:28:19.660
So actually the, the truth is the other way around. Um, because it was a Christian, this was a six to
00:28:27.400
three decision. If it was a Muslim, recent history shows us it would be a unanimous or at a minimum
00:28:34.380
an eight to one decision. So that's one reason why this talking point is really stupid. Uh, the other
00:28:43.120
reason is that once again, the left shows that they simply do not understand their opposition.
00:28:50.280
And as we've talked about recently, they don't understand us. Uh, they, they assume that we're
00:28:57.480
like them in that we see everything through a racial and ethnic lens. We judge everything through,
00:29:03.600
we, you know, we also have this intersectional identity politics thing of our own and that's
00:29:08.720
how we judge everything. And before we decide whether someone is right or wrong in behaving a
00:29:16.320
certain way, we need to know their skin color, uh, their specific religion, their ethnic background,
00:29:23.020
their sexual orientation, all that kind of stuff. But that, no, that's not how we operate.
00:29:28.700
It's just not, that's not how we see the world. In fact, the reason we have these stark divisions,
00:29:36.600
one of the main reasons in this country is that we don't see the world that way.
00:29:40.540
So you've got two sides who it's not just that they disagree on the issues. They see the world,
00:29:45.600
they view the world through dramatically different lenses. Um, so in fact, they may shock the left
00:29:54.300
to discover this, but we actually care about religious liberty. Like we actually just believe
00:30:02.900
in it. That's all. We believe that if you are a member of a religion, that you have the right to
00:30:10.280
practice that religion. And yes, you can do it on a football field because why couldn't you?
00:30:16.300
Would I be okay with a Muslim praying on a football field? Yes. Why wouldn't I be okay with that?
00:30:23.140
I assume that this has already happened. I assume that there are plenty of Muslim
00:30:27.340
athletes out there at every level of sports and in every sport. And I assume that they probably pray
00:30:33.400
on the field or on the court. Great. Why would I care about that? Uh, that's it. We believe that
00:30:44.720
people have the right to express their religions. I think the other thing is that on the left,
00:30:50.600
you know, they, uh, there, there are so many euphemisms and whatever they're saying on any
00:31:01.320
given issue, it's like, they don't, they don't actually believe what, what they're saying is that
00:31:06.300
they decide what they believe based on the circumstances. And this, this is a consequence
00:31:11.920
of being a relativist, that there is no real objective truth or anything like that. Um, there's
00:31:16.740
certainly no objective morality, uh, or anything approaching that. And so what is true, uh, and
00:31:24.000
what, what is factually true and what is morally correct changes depending on the circumstance.
00:31:29.620
And so that's another reason why they look at us talking about religious liberty and they simply
00:31:35.440
cannot believe that we actually just believe in religious liberty, no matter who is the one
00:31:42.680
enjoying that right. But we do, we actually do. All right. Kamala Harris gave her first interview
00:31:50.780
after the Roe decision and she was as eloquent as you might expect. Let's listen to that.
00:31:55.100
I couldn't believe it. Um, cause they actually did it. And, and here's what they did. They,
00:32:02.620
the court actually took a constitutional right that has been recognized for half a century
00:32:10.360
and took it from the women of America. That's shocking. When you think about it,
00:32:19.380
in terms of what that means, in terms of democratic principles, in terms of the ideals upon which we
00:32:25.760
were founded about liberty, about freedom. Um, you know, I thought about it as, you know,
00:32:31.580
a parent. We have two children who are in their twenties, a son and a daughter. I thought about it as a
00:32:38.220
godparent of teenagers. I thought of it as an aunt of, of, of preschool children and a woman
00:32:45.860
yourself. And a woman myself and the daughter of a woman and a granddaughter of a woman.
00:32:52.800
And, you know, my husband and I are actually talking about it. We have a, a 23 year old
00:32:57.480
and my mother-in-law is in her eighties. Our daughter will not know the rights for the court,
00:33:05.160
for the amount of time that my mother-in-law knew these rights, which is the right that,
00:33:11.920
that, that should be well settled, that a woman should have to make decisions about her own body.
00:33:20.180
And when we think about it, everyone has something at risk on this.
00:33:25.920
Hmm. I have never heard such a shocking and appalling, uh, transphobic rant from a mem,
00:33:38.260
from, from someone in the white house, from the vice president of the United States to sit there and
00:33:47.240
simply erase pregnant men. Uh, the most marginalized community in the world are pregnant men and she
00:34:00.620
erases them from existence. I'm, I'm, I'm appalled. And I really hope that members of the, uh, trans
00:34:10.940
community, members of the, the LGBT community, such as myself as an LGBT, uh, children's author, of course,
00:34:18.320
um, I hope that we can all remind Kamala Harris, the vice president, that, uh, all, everything she just
00:34:26.160
said, you can, that's gone now that is done. That's finished. All of that is done. So you,
00:34:32.020
you need to recalibrate here. I know this is the way that you're used to talking about this issue,
00:34:37.180
but that is done now on your side anyway. So you got to figure out a different way of approaching
00:34:42.760
this. I mean that she would have the gumption to sit there and say, I mean, not only is she saying
00:34:50.160
that this is an issue that only affects women because only women get pregnant, um, which is,
00:34:55.680
which is nothing but transphobic. That's a, it is a transphobic conspiracy theory that only women get
00:35:01.600
pregnant. Number one, but for her to even say so casually that she's a woman, well, as a woman myself,
00:35:11.840
how do you know you're a woman? How do you know that? I mean, the way these things are defined
00:35:20.400
these days, in fact, they're not defined at all. I find that to be quite, quite shocking. Uh, in fact,
00:35:27.760
lots of famous and semi-famous people have been chiming in about this. We have another one. Here's a,
00:35:32.040
if you're ready for some comedy, it's been a little heavy so far in the show. So let's, let's do some
00:35:35.560
comedy. I think a little bit of a comedic relief. Um, Wanda Sykes, who's a famous comedian,
00:35:41.080
she was on with Stephen Colbert, another famous comedian. They're doing, it's a late night show.
00:35:46.260
This is a time to just, you watch the late night shows, you kick back, you relax, you have a good
00:35:50.240
laugh is all. And so here is a little bit, some more great comedy from, uh, from Stephen Colbert
00:35:56.960
on the late show. Listen, how are you doing? How are you doing? I'm a black gay woman and I have a
00:36:19.700
It just sucks, man. It, it, it really does. I mean, you know, it's like the, the country,
00:36:24.600
it's no longer a democracy, right? I mean, we're, it's no longer majority rule.
00:36:29.780
No, certainly not in the Senate, certainly not in the representation of the Supreme Court.
00:36:33.460
It's not, it's not, it's no longer majority rule. And, and I mean, it's like the, these
00:36:37.840
judges, they just, they basically lied when they were, you know, being, during their confirmation
00:36:52.780
So how you, how can you be a Supreme Court justice and you just, and you just lying? You know
00:36:57.360
what, they had their fingers crossed or something or what? I mean.
00:36:59.780
I mean, it's, yeah, it's, it's just, it's just a bunch of horse s**t. It really is.
00:37:15.480
Well, to me, it's like, the problem is that middle stuff. It's, it's those states in the
00:37:22.880
Why do they get to tell us what to do when the majority of us live out, you know, New
00:37:29.200
York, California, and we're paying for all this crap, really? I mean, right?
00:37:35.640
Great comedy is always from the late show, Stephen Colbert. I mean, in a certain way,
00:37:39.560
it is great comedy. And also it gives us, it gives us some more insight into the mindset
00:37:44.580
of the elitist liberal, because everything you just heard there was, was confused, garbled.
00:37:52.400
Here is, well, we find this, this mix, this very potent mixture of rampant stupidity mixed
00:38:03.280
with this snobby dismissal, you know, this self-important dismissal of the majority of
00:38:09.840
the country. So on one hand, she's like, oh, the red stuff, the red, she's talking about
00:38:14.400
human beings, by the way. Those are human beings. If you're, if you're, if you disagree
00:38:18.980
with her, if you're a conservative, then you're just red stuff. Just get rid of it. Sweep
00:38:23.280
it away. Just whatever. Just maybe just send in, send in the, the, the troops, just, you
00:38:30.020
know, just get rid of them, ship them off somewhere. That's how she views most of the
00:38:37.880
country, red stuff. And while she's saying that she's also revealing that she, she does
00:38:45.880
not understand at all how our system of government actually works. She say it sounds, it's like,
00:38:52.680
what is it? What happened to majority rule? This is a Supreme court decision, Wanda. It's
00:38:59.500
majority rule on the court. Okay. But that's not how court, the Supreme court, they don't
00:39:06.060
take a poll of Americans and then decide based on that. That's just not how the Supreme court
00:39:14.420
works. And by the way, just so you know, if they, if things were decided that way, we would
00:39:22.600
not have what you want, which is abortion from, you know, legal abortion from a moment
00:39:30.000
of conception all the way till birth. Because it's only a very small sliver of the most deranged
00:39:36.620
and bloodthirsty and morally debased Americans like, like Wanda Sykes and others who favor
00:39:42.900
that. So you wouldn't actually want majority rule in the first place. But either way, that's
00:39:53.240
not how the Supreme court makes decisions. But as we know, when institutions, like we talked
00:40:01.660
about a couple of days ago, institutions are broken. They don't work anymore. They need to
00:40:07.980
be reformed or destroyed, incinerated and rebuilt when they stop doing what the left wants. The
00:40:17.000
moment they fall out of line, out of step with what the left demands, they're broken. That means
00:40:23.520
they're broken now and they have to be, we have to get rid of them, throw them in the wood chipper.
00:40:28.540
That's, that's the attitude. Okay. I want to play one other thing for you. Actually, a couple of
00:40:31.480
things before we get to the comment section. So again, we've got, you know, women, especially,
00:40:36.180
especially famous women, in this case, a nominally famous women, woman telling their abortion stories
00:40:41.160
in response to Roe. So here's Ireland Baldwin, who's the daughter of famous gunman, Alec Baldwin,
00:40:46.840
telling her own story. And she starts for some reason talking about the time she was raped and
00:40:53.520
she, she, she did not conceive a child during the rape. So that the rape had nothing to do with
00:40:58.560
the abortion whatsoever, but she starts by talking about that. And then eventually she gets around to
00:41:03.240
talking about the time she actually conceived, um, through consensual sex and then decided to
00:41:08.240
abort. And I want you to listen to the reason that she gives. Listen. Flash forward to another point
00:41:13.580
in my life when I did have a boyfriend and I did become pregnant. At that point in time, I would say
00:41:20.280
we were very unhappy together. And he made it pretty clear that he never wanted kids or marriage.
00:41:26.940
Um, he barely wanted to be in a serious relationship. I chose to get an abortion because I know exactly
00:41:34.760
what it felt like to be born between two people who hated each other. Could I have had that baby and
00:41:41.500
put that baby up for adoption? Maybe, maybe not. But choosing to raise a baby without my own financial
00:41:49.200
security, uh, without a loving and supportive partner, uh, that wasn't going to work for me.
00:41:55.900
I chose me and I would choose me again. It's your life. It's your choice.
00:42:02.300
Now, this is great. I mean, the reasoning, everything you heard there is not great,
00:42:05.800
but the fact that she's saying this is great. And, um, I want more feminists and pro-abortion women
00:42:11.440
to be honest and, uh, and say this kind of stuff out loud because people need to hear it.
00:42:18.680
You know, the, the vast majority, vast, vast majority of abortion in this country,
00:42:22.100
they have nothing to do with rape, nothing to do with life of the mother or anything like that.
00:42:25.500
Uh, these, these very rare, uh, cases like that is nothing. It's just exactly what you heard there.
00:42:31.880
Um, it's someone who had consensual sex, got pregnant and, uh, you know, could I put it up for
00:42:37.580
adoption? Eh, maybe, maybe not. What do you mean? Maybe, maybe not. Of course you could have put the
00:42:42.320
child up for adoption. Yeah. I just didn't feel like it. I didn't feel like it. That's what she
00:42:46.700
said. I, I didn't feel like giving birth to the child and going through the process of putting them
00:42:52.780
up for adoption. And so, uh, just killed the child cause I chose me. And that is the pro-abortion
00:43:01.900
argument. Okay. You, you whittle everything else away, get rid of all the euphemisms, everything
00:43:07.800
else, all the talking points, all the propaganda, cut all of that BS away. And what you're left
00:43:13.000
with is exactly what you just heard there. I chose me. And there's quite a bit of incoherence
00:43:20.600
mixed in because she also says, well, I, I know what it's like to be born, uh, to parents who don't
00:43:26.260
want me. Okay. Well, that's, that's terrible that you were born in, that you were, that you lived in
00:43:32.260
that situation as a child. And it sounds like your parents are pretty awful. In fact, we know that
00:43:36.520
they're awful people, but yeah, but you're, you're happy that you're alive though. Right? So you were
00:43:42.960
born into a terrible situation. Um, but you're still living. I mean, you haven't, you haven't killed
00:43:50.360
yourself, thank God. And so clearly you're happy to be alive and not only you're happy to be alive,
00:43:55.040
but you, but your life is, as you attest, your life is extremely important. In fact, you believe
00:43:59.920
that your life is more important than anything else. Your life is so important that it comes above
00:44:03.340
the life of your own child. You could, you could kill your life, according to you, is so important
00:44:08.000
that you could kill your own child just to protect your own convenience and your own lifestyle.
00:44:16.180
And that is in spite of the fact that you were essentially, as you say, an unwanted child,
00:44:22.160
tragically. So what does that tell us? It tells us that even if a child is born into a situation like
00:44:30.940
this, um, they are still worth something. They have, they, they not worth something. They have
00:44:38.440
infinite value because it's a human life all the same. Can't expect her to connect those dots though.
00:44:45.140
All right. One other thing, Billy Joe Armstrong, who apparently still leads the band Green Day,
00:44:49.460
he's like 50 years old. I could see him right there. Oh, that's a sad sight. So he's this out of
00:44:55.280
shape, 50 year old dude, still wearing eye makeup and hair dye, still singing angsty breakup songs that
00:45:02.800
he wrote when he was, you know, 17. And anyway, he announced during a show, I think this is in the UK,
00:45:08.160
he announced that he's renouncing his citizenship because of the Roe decision and he's given up on
00:45:14.240
America. Let's listen to that. Now, you know, the great thing is that Armstrong lives in California,
00:45:35.980
which has no abortion restrictions at all. So, so now in protest, he's going to move to the UK,
00:45:42.580
I guess. So in, in protest, he's going to move from a place where there are zero abortion
00:45:48.320
restrictions to a place that has abortion restrictions. Makes a lot of sense, but never
00:45:53.960
mind that. Uh, I'm just devastated that he's leaving. Just like I was devastated yesterday by
00:45:58.860
the, you know, the Twitch streamer who I, who I forgot her name already, but, um, oh, Pokimane.
00:46:06.280
First Pokimane leaves, you know, you wake up one morning and Pokimane is nowhere to be found.
00:46:13.180
She has left all of us behind in the dark, in the cold, crying out.
00:46:20.660
And then the next day you find out that Billy Joe Armstrong is also leaving.
00:46:25.820
Think about, I want you to really think about this because you think you might think it's a joke,
00:46:29.320
but it's not. Think about all the great music that he's made in the last 25 years, let's say.
00:46:36.680
And now we're going to be deprived of that in this country. Think about all the great songs that
00:46:43.880
Green Day has made in the last 25 years. So many great songs. Like, um,
00:46:51.960
well, you know, there are a lot of them. I'll think more about that and we'll, we'll get to
00:46:59.060
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write Walsh in their how did you hear about us box so they know that I sent you. Uh, the free j says
00:48:16.780
that interpretive dancer they hired to play Matt is pretty impressive. A lot of comments like this. So
00:48:24.300
there is this, speaking of conspiracy theories, there's this conspiracy theory that has started in
00:48:31.360
the comment section, you know, on among the sweet baby gang who I thought were above this sort of thing.
00:48:36.480
But the conspiracy theory is that for the interpretive dance that I performed for you
00:48:41.580
yesterday in celebration of having a million subscribers on YouTube, that it wasn't actually
00:48:45.680
me. Um, so what do you, what do you think? You think we hired an interpretive dancer to hide behind
00:48:53.240
this screen right here and then I just walked out and he performed the dance while I hid behind the
00:48:57.220
screen? You think that would be such a weird, bizarre thing to do? And, uh, no, that's, that is a dance
00:49:04.700
that I'm not even going to say that I choreographed it because there was no choreograph. It was me
00:49:10.440
in, in a, in a pure ecstatic, spontaneous moment of joy, expressing myself through the power of dance.
00:49:22.700
And for you to disregard that and claim that it wasn't even me dancing is just,
00:49:26.900
is deeply offensive to me and hurtful. Um, Rob says, damn, Matt can dance like an angel,
00:49:33.120
absolutely majestic. And anyone who thinks this isn't him is a bigot. Thank you, Rob.
00:49:38.220
Uh, Eathman says, Matt's dance was so good. It caused him to lose his beard. Another part of the
00:49:44.220
conspiracy theory. So every time there's a conspiracy theory, right? You have people, they,
00:49:47.300
they're picking up little, uh, little, what they think are breadcrumbs here and there,
00:49:51.400
and they're kind of stitching it together, pattern, kind of doing this pattern matching thing.
00:49:55.520
And so part of the conspiracy theory is that while I was dancing, I didn't have a beard and then, but,
00:50:02.700
you know, but I do have a beard and I think I can't explain, you know, there are a lot of weird
00:50:08.280
optical illusions that happen. I can't explain it, but I, what I like to think is that my dance was so
00:50:15.780
beautiful that I was almost transformed in that moment to appear to be almost an entirely different
00:50:23.460
person. That's how I explain it. Uh, Bijan says, uh, I really like your views on some subjects,
00:50:32.100
but you have no right to determine what's right for a woman though. If you have a daughter and she
00:50:36.680
got raped, then pregnant, you think that's a gift from Sky Daddy. Okay. Uh, of course, as always,
00:50:45.020
the pro-abortion person going right to make it as personal as possible and, uh, going right to the
00:50:51.000
hardest possible cases. So the first thing I would say to you is why are you going right there?
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Like before we talk about the 1% of cases, can we talk about the 99%? What about the 99% of cases
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where there is a consensual activity that results in a child and then the child is killed as a form
00:51:10.040
of birth control? Why don't you want to talk about that? And as for the cases of rape, once again,
00:51:18.400
you know, um, do you believe that a person should be punished to the point of death
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for the manner in which they were conceived? So a child is conceived in rape and we're going to
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dole out punishments. Sounds great to me, punish the rapist. Um, but you want to punish the child
00:51:45.020
for the manner of, of that child's conception, which she had no choice in. That to me is what
00:51:55.660
doesn't make any sense. Um, Andrina says, Matt, you're such a role model for what I hope my sons
00:52:02.780
grow up to be like. So you want your sons to grow up to be professional interpretive dancers,
00:52:08.100
apparently, which is, I think is a great goal for any child. Um, the best backpacker says,
00:52:15.080
Matt is losing touch. There are several tremors sequels. Get with it, Matt. Yeah. I didn't say
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anything that would suggest otherwise. In fact, I, I actually think I was thinking about this the
00:52:23.980
other day. It just so happens. I was thinking about tremors and, um, there are very few movies
00:52:29.980
where the sequel is better than the original. And I actually think the set, the tremors two,
00:52:33.260
two, um, is, uh, is better than the original, but you're not going to, you're not going to outdo
00:52:38.700
me in a discussion about tremors. Okay. I've seen the whole series and we could talk about it. If you
00:52:42.140
really want to talk about it, we can. Uh, Victor says, how did Matt say Dick's head without skipping
00:52:47.840
a beat or cracking a smile? Pure professional. I'm a lesser man. I don't know what you're talking
00:52:51.780
about. There was no joke meant there at all. I was talking about the, uh, the Dick's head. It was
00:52:57.400
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Well, if you want to know the shape of a culture, all you need to do is look at its art.
00:54:54.680
And we know that by this metric, just as by literally any other metric, the shape of our
00:54:59.800
culture is less a shape and more an oozing, decaying lump of putrid sludge. You could come
00:55:05.920
to this determination, of course, by witnessing the art, quote unquote, produced by the music industry or
00:55:09.920
Hollywood. But perhaps that would be unfair because modern pop music is god-awful and stupid
00:55:15.060
and ugly and bad, the auditory equivalent of the stuff that leaks out of an overflowing septic
00:55:19.780
tank. But then again, it's not really trying to be anything more than that. Pop music barely
00:55:25.180
qualifies as music, just as Hollywood cinema barely qualifies as cinema. So maybe for a fairer and more
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accurate test, we should look at the sort of art that's actually applauded and hailed and promoted
00:55:35.760
as art. You know, what art do we celebrate and hold up as especially beautiful and meaningful?
00:55:42.640
Well, we already know that if we look at the sorts of modern art exhibits and paintings which attract
00:55:48.200
crowds to art museums and sell for millions of dollars to wealthy people who want to look
00:55:52.540
intelligent or simply launder money or both, the situation doesn't improve very much. Anybody could
00:55:57.820
vomit onto a canvas and call the piece vomit on a canvas and sell it for $86 million. That's the state
00:56:04.780
of modern art. So then perhaps maybe we leave that sort of art to the side and forget about pop music
00:56:09.940
or Hollywood and all that and look instead to poetry. You know, that's a very pure art form.
00:56:17.240
And maybe this will be our bright spot. Or maybe not. Because unfortunately, with all due respect to
00:56:23.000
my guys, Tekashi69 and Poo Shiesty, our most famous living poet in America is a woman by the name of
00:56:29.700
Amanda Gorman. Now, in 2017, Gorman was named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the
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United States. A couple of years later, she was invited to deliver a poem at Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:56:40.500
Then she became the first poet to ever perform during the Super Bowl. And shortly after that,
00:56:44.660
she released a book of poetry called The Hill We Climb, which I think is also the name of a Miley Cyrus
00:56:50.180
song, as it just so happens. Or I could be wrong about that. But anyway, then she became the first poet
00:56:55.460
ever in history to debut as a number one bestseller, at least on USA Today, but I think across the board.
00:57:01.700
Now, this is all in spite of the fact that she is really, really, really bad at poetry. Her award-winning,
00:57:10.640
best-selling, nationally applauded and recognized poetry sounds like something that a bored and angsty
00:57:15.920
seventh grade girl might scribble on the dividers in her three-ring binder during algebra class or
00:57:21.180
something. If kids still use three-ring binders anyway, I don't know. Gorman writes,
00:57:25.460
a bit like Dr. Seuss, if Dr. Seuss was a female and a feminist and had a fraction of his charm,
00:57:32.120
intelligence, and creativity. So maybe she doesn't write like Dr. Seuss at all on second thought.
00:57:36.900
The better analogy might be a woke, self-important fortune cookie. And her Twitter page with 1.6
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million followers is just pockmarked with cringy, half-rhymed cliches. For example, on June 24th,
00:57:51.340
the Poet Laureate tweeted, quote, it's more important than ever that we come together.
00:57:59.700
Wow, amazing. You know, some aspiring poets might be influenced by Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe or
00:58:07.000
John Milton, but Amanda Gorman seems to primarily be drawing her inspiration from the inspirational
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slogans on gift shop keychains. And back on June 1st, she had some more stunning insight when she
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tweeted, quote, this may be how things have been, but not how they have to be. The only question
00:58:28.400
that one raises is whether Amanda Gorman is influencing Kamala Harris or is it the other way
00:58:32.680
around? Yet none of these gems come close to the great heights that Gorman reaches when composing
00:58:38.480
poetic odes to infanticide. Gorman, in keeping with her poetry style, seems to choose the ugliest and
00:58:44.680
dumbest side of every issue, which of course means that she's rabidly pro-abortion. And in the lead
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up to Roe being overturned, Gorman went viral with a pro-abortion rant that I can only speculate is
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supposed to sound a little bit like poetry. Let's listen to a bit of that.
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Eight reasons to stand up today against abortion bans in the United States. One, let's get this
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straight. When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion after the rape, you know,
00:59:12.980
this isn't about caring for women and girls. It's about controlling them. Two, through forcing them
00:59:18.720
into motherhood before they're ready, these bans steadily sustain the patriarchy, but also chain
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families in poverty and maintain economic inequality. Three, pregnancy is a private and personal decision
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and should not require the permission of any politician. Four, for all time, regardless of whether
00:59:38.860
it's a crime, women have and will always seek their own reproductive destinies.
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Now, it may sound like she's simply plagiarizing from the pro-abortion talking point she found in
00:59:51.160
the comment section of a feminist blog, but it counts as poetry because she moves her hands around a lot
00:59:58.360
when she says it. So I could, actually every monologue on this show could be, I could be my,
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I could be poet laureate delivering poetry every day just by moving my hands a lot as I'm delivering
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the monologue. Now, as for the substance of her, of her claims, to the extent that we can use the
01:00:17.460
word substance to describe anything that she says or does, it should simply go without saying that
01:00:22.660
she's, she's making things up. It's not true that the penalty for abortion is worse than the penalty
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for rape. At the time she said that there was no penalty for abortion because Roe had not yet been
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overturned. Now that it has been, there still will be no penalty in many states. And in the states
01:00:37.960
where abortion will be banned, I'm not aware of a single one that plans to instate harsher penalties
01:00:42.280
on women who get abortions than they do on rapists. And if this fictional scenario were to ever come to
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fruition, the way to correct it would be to make the punishments for convicted rapists more severe.
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Personally, you couldn't make them too severe for my taste. Either way, the crucial point here is that
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there should be no penalty for being conceived by a rapist. Least of all, should it carry the penalty
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of death? Punish the rapist, don't punish the baby. But that's not all that Gorman had to say about this
01:01:11.580
topic. On the day Roe was overturned, she published this masterpiece, which has been clearly, you know,
01:01:17.680
something she's been working on for many months, honing and crafting, though she still forgot to run it
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through spellcheck before posting it. But here's the poem. We will not be delayed. We will not masquerade
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to the tale of a handmaid. We will not let Roe v. Wade slowly fade. Because when we show up today,
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we're already standing up with the tomorrow we made. I made it a little better with the hand
01:01:52.200
movements. She spells handmade the way that you spell it if you were referring to a sweater that
01:01:57.360
your grandmother knitted for you. Now, it's possible that she meant it that way. Like maybe she's talking
01:02:02.640
about this has something to do with Etsy, like things, I don't know. But I think we can assume
01:02:07.880
that she was trying to refer to the handmaid's tale. And that's obviously the most trite, cliched,
01:02:13.280
overplayed, and boring thing to do when discussing abortion. So we can be sure that Gorman intended to
01:02:17.980
do just that. Of course, the line, we will not be masquerade to the tale of a handmaid, no matter
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how you spell handmaid, makes no sense at all. I'm not sure that Gorman understands what the word
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masquerade even means. Never mind also that Roe v. Wade didn't slowly fade, but in fact was dispatched
01:02:34.260
all at once through one glorious Supreme Court decision. I understand that she chose all these
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words because they rhyme, not because they're true or make sense. But as unintelligible as her
01:02:46.580
word salad is, it could never be less coherent or explicable than her status as an acclaimed poet in
01:02:53.440
the first place. A status which is now, I must say, summarily stripped from her because she is
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canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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