The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 990 - Democrats Vote To Redefine Marriage, Republicans Obediently Agree

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, top HHS official Rachel Levine appears on TV yet again this week

00:00:05.380 to push castration and sterilization on kids. But instead of being a high-ranking federal official,

00:00:10.680 Levine should be in prison. We'll talk about why. Also, 47 Republicans get on board with the federal

00:00:16.140 government redefining marriage. Many people on the right have changed their minds on the marriage

00:00:20.680 issue in recent years, but why? What compelling argument convinced them? We'll try to figure that

00:00:25.520 out. And the heroic squad led by AOC are arrested and frog-marched in front of cameras with invisible

00:00:30.980 handcuffs, a harrowing scene indeed. Plus, CNN discovers something known as summer and blames

00:00:36.740 it on climate change. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:59.320 The Biden regime is not competent in very many areas, except one. It is very good at embarrassing

00:02:06.520 itself, and by extension, the rest of the country. This is its core competency, I would say. The Dementia

00:02:11.860 administration constantly finds new and creative avenues of mortification. It is, historians agree,

00:02:18.900 I think, the first White House in American history with an actual sexual fetish for humiliation. 0.97

00:02:24.860 Actually, this White House has many fetishes, even more than it did when Clinton was in charge, 0.96

00:02:29.880 and that was on full display and rather grotesque display, I would say, over the weekend when

00:02:33.920 administration officials attended a party at the home of a French diplomat.

00:02:37.760 Two of the most prominent and publicized officials of the Biden administration were there,

00:02:44.080 and they took a photograph together, and that image has circulated rapidly online. In it, as you

00:02:49.960 can see, Assistant Health Secretary, quote-unquote, Rachel Levine, and Department of Energy official

00:02:55.700 Sam Britton, both males, both in women's clothes, are there together, smiling for the camera. Britton,

00:03:02.080 who I've introduced you to in the past, is an LGBT activist who identifies as gender fluid,

00:03:06.720 and also sometimes as trans, I guess, I think. He's also a drag queen who goes by the stage name

00:03:13.100 Sister Radioactive and belongs to a drag group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 0.95

00:03:19.320 where all of the drag queens dress like demonic, sexualized nuns. And Britton has been very public

00:03:26.720 about his sexuality, of course, which is how he got the job in the Biden administration in the first

00:03:31.340 place. And because of his thirst for public notice, we know, though we don't want to know,

00:03:37.720 that along with being a gender fluid drag queen demon nun, he's also a dog fetishist who enjoys 0.99

00:03:43.520 having sex with men dressed in leather dog outfits. He calls himself a pup handler and teaches classes 0.99

00:03:49.660 on kink at universities. That is the career path that led directly to a position in a presidential

00:03:58.800 administration. At one time, it would have led directly to an insane asylum. Today, it takes

00:04:05.040 you straight to the White House, though the distinction between the White House and the

00:04:07.640 insane asylum is, granted, increasingly hard to discern. But Sam Britton is merely a pervert 0.95

00:04:14.680 and a weirdo. Levine is something even worse. At least Britton cannot use his position as deputy 1.00

00:04:21.780 assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for

00:04:26.760 the Department of Energy. That's his whole title to advocate for and push dog fetishism. I mean,

00:04:33.120 he may yet make me eat my words on that. I'm sure he's looking for a way. Perhaps he'll find it. I'm not

00:04:38.860 sure what the intersection is between spent nuclear waste disposal and being a dog fetishist, but I'm

00:04:45.520 sure there's something there and he'll find it. Levine, on the other hand, as one of the highest ranking

00:04:50.720 officials and certainly the most visible at the HHS, can actually, in a much more direct way,

00:04:57.560 use his position to impose his lifestyle on the public and especially on children.

00:05:02.920 That indeed is what he's trying to do. Like so many of his ilk, his primary goal in life is to justify

00:05:09.640 himself and rationalize his life choices by recruiting others to behave as he does.

00:05:14.880 So he made headlines again this week while appearing on MSNBC with a message of empowerment,

00:05:21.420 quote unquote, for children. Listen. I want to ask you also about transgender Americans because

00:05:28.600 you're the first openly transgender official confirmed by the United States Senate. In a recent

00:05:33.060 op-ed, you urge people to base medical decisions and public statements on real data and compassion

00:05:38.500 rather than slander. And you spoke to trans youth in Florida recently. Tell us what you told them.

00:05:44.160 Well, you know, trans youth are vulnerable and they suffer significant harassment and bullying

00:05:51.300 sometimes in schools or in their community. They have more mental health issues, but there's nothing

00:05:56.700 inherent with being transgender or gender diverse, which would predispose youth to depression or

00:06:03.320 anxiety. It is that harassment and bullying. Now they're suffering politically motivated attacks

00:06:09.020 through state actions against these vulnerable transgender youth. This is not based upon data.

00:06:15.280 These actions are politically motivated. And so we really want to base our treatment and to affirm and

00:06:25.060 to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even

00:06:31.920 limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state.

00:06:35.940 Now, it really sounded like he said, we really want to debase our treatment, which is a Freudian slip,

00:06:44.880 if I've ever heard one. And probably the first true thing he said in decades, if accidentally,

00:06:49.140 of course. His claim that the suicide rate among, quote, gender diverse youth is, and he says that it's,

00:06:57.340 you know, it's entirely due to bullying. There's nothing inherent in these identities that would cause

00:07:02.400 suicidal thoughts. That claim is totally baseless, of course, and contradicts the data at every turn.

00:07:07.360 The so-called gender diverse have sky high rates of suicidality, no matter how affirmed they are by 1.00

00:07:13.440 society. That's what the data actually says and has said in study after study after study. But Levine

00:07:20.960 simply lies with abandon, disseminating propaganda, making wild and dangerously false claims constantly,

00:07:27.340 and doing so behind the magical force field of his transgender identity. It is a force field that 1.00

00:07:34.480 served him well. After all, even his critics rarely mention that Levine earned his promotion into the

00:07:42.580 federal government after a disastrous tenure as health secretary of Pennsylvania. Like so many other

00:07:49.160 health officials in blue states, he responded to COVID by making the crisis significantly worse

00:07:54.720 every chance that he could. Instituting the same policy in Pennsylvania that Cuomo put in place in New York,

00:08:01.680 Levine sent COVID-infected people into nursing homes, which led directly to many deaths, countless deaths.

00:08:09.840 We'll never know how many, because during his federal confirmation hearing, it was revealed that much of the

00:08:14.540 information and data related to his nursing home policy had gone missing. Oops, it's all gone. Can't find it.

00:08:21.840 In fact, at the time of the confirmation hearing, the death and case numbers for over 100 of Pennsylvania's

00:08:27.600 nursing homes were missing from the record completely. But we do know at least one resident in an elder care

00:08:34.360 facility in Pennsylvania who did not fall victim to Levine's murderous policy, and that would be his mother,

00:08:39.640 because Levine moved his mother out of the system right as he was moving COVID patients into it.

00:08:46.360 Par for the course in Pennsylvania, though. After all, the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolfe,

00:08:51.840 shut down most businesses in the state in 2020 while allowing his own business that has his name on

00:08:56.820 it, a cabinet supply company called Wolfe Home Product, to stay open. It was granted the status of a

00:09:03.060 life-sustaining essential business, because, you know, everyone knows that our lives depend

00:09:08.300 on high-quality cabinetry. Now, both Wolfe and Levine should be in prison on charges of corruption.

00:09:16.360 As well as for the mass murder of their state's elderly population.

00:09:21.440 Instead, Wolfe is still governor, and Levine is being rapidly promoted up the federal ranks.

00:09:27.940 They both possess, obviously, the Democrat get-out-of-jail-free card. They have the letter

00:09:32.840 D next to their names, which goes a long way. That's enough to shield Wolfe from any accountability

00:09:37.360 for his policies. But Levine can add the ultimate resume enhancer. I mean, 10 years ago,

00:09:43.360 he was a 54-year-old white dude named Richard. No victim points, no social credit, languishing all

00:09:52.480 the way at the bottom of the victim hierarchy. But then he grew out his hair and took the name Rachel

00:09:57.440 and everything changed. Four years later, he got his first job in government. Now he's in Washington,

00:10:02.380 D.C., fighting to drug and castrate children. It's not exactly what we would call a classic

00:10:09.320 success story, but it is a very modern one. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:15.200 You know, as a parent, I know that one of the most important and sacred responsibilities that I have

00:10:28.580 is to instill values, the right values, in my children. And we certainly, as we talk about all

00:10:35.680 the time on this show, you know, you can't rely on anyone else to do. You certainly can't rely on the

00:10:38.700 state. But what if I or my wife were not around to raise my kids and instill those values? Well,

00:10:44.860 I don't want the state deciding who that responsibility goes to. That's why having a will is so important.

00:10:50.360 A will, it's not about you. It's about your loved ones. It's about the really hard decisions that need

00:10:54.440 to be made if something were to happen to you. You need to lay out all the answers to questions like

00:10:59.040 life support or pull the plug, buried or cremated. Do your parents get the kids, your in-laws, or maybe

00:11:04.760 neither if they're all crazy. But here's the deal, that the judge doesn't, who's deciding these cases,

00:11:10.180 he's not going to know who your best friend is or who you trust to raise your kids.

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00:11:29.180 And if you don't have a will, you're gift wrapping money to the state by letting the state use its will

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00:11:43.880 today. All right. A few more days out here in our undisclosed log cabin in the woods. It's been

00:11:53.160 good. It's been refreshing. It's been educational, you know, for everyone here, especially for my

00:11:59.840 producer, Sean, who's sitting five feet away from me and can do nothing as I throw him under the bus

00:12:05.940 here. You know, he's more of a, more of a city slicker type. So not as accustomed to the rustic 0.98

00:12:10.420 life. So yesterday we had all the kids together and we were, you know, just hanging out and Sean

00:12:16.840 tried to roast a marshmallow over a citronella candle. And of course we learned him, we warned

00:12:24.840 him it would infuse citronella flavors into the marshmallow and it did, you know, so that's fine.

00:12:31.160 It's a learning curve. Okay. We all have learning curves in life and there could be worse ones out

00:12:35.920 here in the woods. I think we can, we can say. All right. We're all learning. We're all learning

00:12:42.480 some, some difficult things, some difficult things about the Republican party. If you didn't already

00:12:46.360 know this, the Daily Wire has the report, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass a

00:12:51.380 bill that would codify same-sex marriage. Lawmakers passed the Respect for Marriage Act. That's the,

00:12:59.760 that's what they're calling it. We're going to respect marriage by destroying it. 0.99

00:13:04.840 And it was passed 267 to 157 with 47 Republicans joining Democrats, including GOP leader, Congresswoman

00:13:12.600 Elise Stefanik and National Republican Congressional Committee chair, Tom Emmer. They were on board.

00:13:19.480 CNN reports House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, quote, it is critical to ensure that federal law

00:13:25.420 protects those whose constitutional rights might be threatened by Republican controlled state

00:13:30.060 legislatures. LGBTQ Americans and those in interracial marriages deserve to have certainty

00:13:35.220 that they will continue to have their right to equal marriage recognized no matter where they live.

00:13:40.340 The bill now moves to the Senate where at least 10 Republicans would need to join Democrats before

00:13:44.220 reaching President Joe Biden's desk. And I see no reason why they couldn't get 10 Republicans or more.

00:13:49.980 It would also legalize interracial marriage, even though the Supreme Court protected interracial

00:13:56.880 marriage in a ruling back in the 1960s. So legalize something that's already completely legal and 0.81

00:14:02.540 which no one in the country is trying to make illegal. So that's very important as well.

00:14:08.280 C-SPAN Capitol Hill producer Craig Kaplan reports the Biden administration's support for the bill.

00:14:13.860 White House officials said no person should face discrimination because of who they are or whom

00:14:17.540 they love. And every married couple in the U.S. deserves the security of knowing their marriage

00:14:22.100 will be defended and respected. Now, on this interracial marriage bit, because, well,

00:14:28.240 what does that have to do with so-called gay marriage? This is something that's a connection

00:14:34.920 the Democrats have been trying hard to make. Representative Jerry Nadler did this when he

00:14:40.720 was speaking on the floor of the House and he brought up interracial marriage as well. Let's listen to

00:14:45.400 what he had to say. The substantive due process logic by which the court overthrew Roe v. Wade applies

00:14:53.840 equally to Obergefell, to Loving, to Lawrence, in other words, to the right to contraception,

00:15:01.380 to the right to gay marriage, to the right to interracial marriage for that matter. And Justice

00:15:06.820 Thomas mentioned all that specifically. Yes, he said this case doesn't involve that. We're not deciding

00:15:13.520 that yet, which is what the portion of his concurrence that Mr. Johnson read, but read the rest of his

00:15:21.380 concurrence, where he said specifically that we should overrule or reconsider Obergefell and

00:15:30.220 Lawrence, which is consensual, which is gay marriage, which is consensual sodomy. He didn't mention 0.99

00:15:38.420 loving, though for some reason, which is interracial marriage, maybe the fact that he's intermarried and

00:15:43.000 so Senator McConnell, maybe that had something to do with it, but the same logic applies there.

00:15:48.740 Okay, so Nadler even says that Clarence Thomas, his statements are being used as the basis for

00:16:03.820 this law that they're trying to pass, but he even says that Clarence Thomas never mentioned anything

00:16:08.540 about interracial marriage. Of course he didn't. So no one is talking about interracial marriage.

00:16:13.320 Interracial marriage has nothing to do with it because interracial marriage, and this is why there 1.00

00:16:17.320 is, again, nobody in the country advocating for making interracial marriage illegal. And the reason 1.00

00:16:25.400 is that interracial marriage does not create any problems for or pose any challenge to the definition

00:16:33.740 of marriage. There's no definitional problem when it comes to interracial marriage, which is why

00:16:39.060 nobody's talking about it. No one's making an issue out of it, except for the Democrats.

00:16:44.240 Now they want to lump these things together because they are the ones who want to draw a correlation

00:16:50.480 between interracial marriage and same-sex unions. They're the ones doing that. Nobody on the right is 1.00

00:16:56.920 doing it. Of course, many people on the right, as we just discussed, have just thrown their hands up

00:17:02.780 on the marriage thing altogether. That's why 47 Republicans are now on board. And what they're

00:17:06.540 on board with, okay, let's be clear about what they're on board with here. They're not on board

00:17:10.960 with giving the issue back to the states, quote unquote. That's not what we're talking about here.

00:17:16.620 Or, you know, the common libertarian refrain of get the government out of marriage. That's not what

00:17:22.020 they're doing. They want the federal governments to redefine marriage from Washington, D.C. and impose

00:17:32.240 that definition on all of the states and all of the people against their will. That's what Republicans

00:17:37.340 are now getting behind. This is a position that would have been too radically far left for Barack Obama

00:17:45.100 when he ran for office the first time in 2008. And this now is what Republicans are saying.

00:17:53.980 One of those Republicans is Representative Nancy Mace. She says, this is what passes for

00:17:59.140 conservatism in 2022, okay? This was her tweet. If gay couples want to be as happily or miserably 1.00

00:18:05.040 married as straight couples, more power to them. Trust me, I've tried it more than once. 0.71

00:18:09.780 So I'm making a joke about her multiple divorces and then say, yeah, yeah.

00:18:12.800 But let's get on board with this radical far left legislation that affects, you know, one

00:18:21.600 of the fundamental building blocks of human civilization. By the way, Nancy Mace, I mean, it's

00:18:28.280 kind of here, neither here nor there, but she's the politician who claimed a couple of years 1.00

00:18:36.760 ago that she had been, her house had been targeted by Antifa and Antifa, there'd been all this graffiti

00:18:46.280 and stuff at her house. And it was always kind of strange because you think like, why would Antifa

00:18:49.940 worry about Nancy Mace? She's the most, if you're on the left, she's the most non-threatening, she's 1.00

00:18:54.320 on your side. So why would you care about her? And it was just, it was strange. It seemed like a

00:18:58.780 little bit of a potential Jussie Smollett thing that Republicans don't do very often. That's what it

00:19:02.800 seemed like. And then she said that the police were looking into it and we never heard anything

00:19:06.560 about it again. You know, these Antifa that showed up and they only vandalized her house,

00:19:10.480 nobody else. Interesting. And now she's coming out in support of the federal government

00:19:15.640 redefining marriage. Look, here's the problem with all this quote unquote marriage equality stuff.

00:19:23.380 And this is, again, all something that conservatives understood, actually everyone understood,

00:19:27.680 everyone in the world understood until Barack Obama and a bunch of other people suddenly

00:19:33.220 discovered otherwise right around 2012 or so. And they never explained why. And all of these people

00:19:39.380 on the right and left who have changed their mind about something as fundamental and basic as marriage

00:19:44.700 never really explained why. What is it that convinced you otherwise? You thought that marriage was our

00:19:50.140 particular thing, right? And then you decided that it's not. And so why? What changed your mind?

00:19:56.760 What changed your mind? Just like all the people that decided that, oh, you know what? I think

00:20:01.700 actually men can have babies. Why did you decide that? What happened that made you decide? What did 0.84

00:20:06.220 you discover? What can you tell me about? I'm very interested when it comes to men having babies and

00:20:11.880 marriage being redefined. I'm very interested in hearing about your road to Damascus moment when you

00:20:18.700 saw the light. Can you tell me about it? No one ever does. Can Nancy Mays tell me about it? She can.

00:20:25.480 Here's the problem, as I see. And this is how I've always seen it. And I haven't changed my mind

00:20:32.000 because no one's convinced me to change my mind. I haven't heard any argument that I would find at

00:20:36.860 all compelling. I've been shouted at a lot. I've been labeled names. I've been called a homophobe.

00:20:42.860 Those aren't arguments, though. See, I don't find that persuasive. For a lot of people on the right,

00:20:47.040 they do find that persuasive. All you have to do is shout at them, especially call them a homophobe. 0.92

00:20:50.740 You know, there might be some labels that conservatives are comfortable ignoring,

00:20:56.860 but many of them are not. You can get them with homophobe. You call them a homophobe,

00:21:01.020 they go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not that. I don't find that convincing. See,

00:21:05.640 I don't care if you call me that or any other label. It doesn't matter to me.

00:21:09.320 So, as it seems to me, if two things are equal, they are the same. We heard about the, you know,

00:21:20.260 we just heard that marriage is equal, that marriage equality. Are same-sex unions the same as,

00:21:29.520 equal to heterosexual unions? Is so-called gay marriage equal to what is now deemed traditional

00:21:43.080 marriage or biblical marriage, which I just call marriage? But are these two, whatever labels you

00:21:48.640 put on them, are these two categories the same? Clearly not. Why aren't they the same? Well,

00:21:53.560 because the union of a man and a woman has, in principle, the potential to create of itself a

00:22:00.400 whole new life. The union of two people of the same gender does not have that potential, period. 0.99

00:22:08.220 Okay? So these are two, not just different things, radically, drastically, fundamentally,

00:22:15.940 definitionally different things. The potential of the heterosexual union to create 0.54

00:22:23.280 people is largely why marriage exists. It's why society has cherished and protected this institution 1.00

00:22:31.020 because it has been understood that a union which might create a person has to be protected by

00:22:38.100 society. It needs to be stable. It needs to be permanent. It needs to be protected. It needs to

00:22:42.460 be a faithful relationship. It needs to be monogamous because marriage exists as the foundation of the 0.96

00:22:49.860 family unit. And the family unit exists as the foundation of human society. And so that's why

00:22:54.840 you take it, you give it a different name, and you give it a status that no other kind of coupling

00:23:00.860 possesses because none of them have that inherent power. If marriages are strong, families are strong.

00:23:09.780 And if families are strong, society is strong. You know, we know that from history. We know that from

00:23:14.920 our own experience in this society, one of the most crucial functions of marriage is to create the

00:23:21.220 basis upon which and the context within which children are created and born and raised. This is

00:23:28.860 why society has a, or had a vested interest in marriage and why the state has a vested interest in

00:23:35.260 it. Because bad marriages or non-married procreative unions hurt everyone. They create poverty,

00:23:41.020 they feed the prison system, they create drug abuse and crime and suicide and everything else.

00:23:48.540 The union between two men cannot of itself create anything. Therefore, the state has no real interest

00:23:58.120 in it. Society has no real interest in it. And you'll notice that the people who tore down

00:24:08.560 so-called traditional marriage, they never did offer a new definition of marriage. And they never

00:24:17.120 explained what marriage's new purpose is. Like, we had the definition before, you might not have agreed

00:24:24.920 with it. Right? You might not have agreed with what the definition of marriage was up until 15 seconds

00:24:35.040 ago. But it had a definition. And we could speak coherently about the fundamental purpose of

00:24:41.840 marriage. I just did. It's easy to understand what I'm saying. Again, even if you don't agree

00:24:48.460 with it, you can still understand what I'm trying to say, because it's very clear. Union between a man

00:24:55.300 and woman has, in principle, the potential to create human life. Serves as the foundation of the nuclear 1.00

00:25:01.920 family. Therefore, serves as the foundation of society. Okay? That's it. And then the other

00:25:08.720 side comes along, as they always do, and they say, well, no, no, no. Marriage isn't that. That's not

00:25:11.720 what it is. It's something else. And then we say, well, okay, well, what is it then? What's the new

00:25:19.300 thing that it is? Uh, you know, it's just, it's whatever. They never had a new definition. And as I

00:25:27.060 said, not, they never had a new purpose either. I can tell you what the purpose of marriage was

00:25:31.300 before. Foundation of the family, foundation of human society, pretty big purpose, pretty

00:25:36.020 important purpose. What is it now? So the most we could ever, most we've ever been told is that,

00:25:42.860 well, um, uh, you know, it's when two people love each other. What does that mean? And why do you need

00:25:48.900 to be married to love each other? And if love is the one prerequisite here, then on what basis do

00:25:54.460 you limit this union to two people or, uh, or to adults or whatever? You know, what basis do you do?

00:26:02.600 Now you're, now you're drawing a bunch of other arbitrary lines. Whereas before you didn't need any

00:26:06.340 arbitrary lines. Anyway, there were lines, but they weren't arbitrary.

00:26:11.100 There was a sensible boundary before. Now there's none.

00:26:13.620 What are the new boundaries and why are they there and not somewhere else?

00:26:20.880 Marriage went from a coherent thing with a certain purpose and function in society

00:26:25.060 to this vague and ambiguous thing defined only by love, which also they cannot define,

00:26:32.020 nor can they explain why love should necessitate marriage in the first place.

00:26:35.680 And in spite of all of these problems, so many people on the right, we're still convinced

00:26:45.340 they came along and said, we've got a, we don't want the old definition of marriage anymore.

00:26:50.400 We don't know what the new definition is. And many people on the right said, Oh, okay.

00:26:53.480 It sounds good to me. I'm convinced by no argument.

00:26:58.620 It's pathetic. All right. This is something let's move from, from that pathetic display to 0.98

00:27:09.200 something more inspiring. This is the, I think the most inspiring story of the week. Pro-abortion

00:27:13.120 protesters in DC out on the streets again. They promised a summer of rage, but that kind of

00:27:18.860 fizzled out. Instead, they have settled on more of a, a summer of mildly annoying people. And so that's

00:27:25.560 what they've been doing. And they were doing that in DC. They were out blocking traffic

00:27:28.760 and sit in the street blocking traffic. And, and, um, the protesters were given multiple warnings

00:27:33.840 by police say, you got to get out of the street or we're gonna have to arrest you. And they,

00:27:37.080 they stayed there because they wanted to get arrested because it's all publicity stunt.

00:27:40.780 And, um, and so the police ended up arresting a bunch of people, including 17 house Democrats who

00:27:46.980 were there for the pageant, um, and we're taking part in it. None of them were put in jail or anything

00:27:52.120 like that. Uh, none of them were charged with anything serious or anything at all,

00:27:56.360 but they were arrested technically because that's what they wanted. That's why they were there.

00:28:00.960 Um, that's why they came out to participate in the stunt. And that's why video went viral of

00:28:06.620 representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she of big booty fame being marched away in handcuffs. 0.64

00:28:15.120 Let's watch this. If you haven't seen this footage yet, you have to see it. Um, so let's play it now.

00:28:22.120 Okay. So you see her being marched away there by the cops and she's in, she's in handcuffs, 0.96

00:28:30.380 but actually the handcuffs are invisible because, okay. And then she raises her fist there. 0.99

00:28:34.460 So she forgot, she forgot that she was pretending to be in handcuffs and she raised her fist and said,

00:28:39.420 oops, sorry. Um, but you know, they, so they're invisible handcuffs and they also allow for full

00:28:45.820 range of motion. That's possible. Now, some are looking at this footage and they're saying the

00:28:51.620 empress has no handcuffs, but I look and say, wow, what an inspiration because listen, even if she

00:28:59.080 isn't technically handcuffed and we don't know that because can you prove that she didn't have

00:29:05.240 invisible handcuffs? Can you prove it? Do you have evidence that, that they have not invented

00:29:10.580 invisible handcuffs and put up, you don't have that evidence, but even if she wasn't, okay.

00:29:15.320 Even if she was, even if it is as it seems that she was pretending to be handcuffed,

00:29:21.140 she is still handcuffed by the invisible restraints of systemic racism and the patriarchy and toxic

00:29:28.760 masculinity. Okay. I think that's the message here. This was a, this was a symbolic gesture

00:29:36.420 meant to communicate all of the many ways that she is oppressed by our society. 0.68

00:29:43.920 And then you can, you can also see it. There's a different video with, uh, Ilhan Omar, where you see

00:29:47.840 her getting carted away as well. Uh, so you see, you see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then you see

00:29:55.740 Ilhan Omar also with hands behind the back. Yep. There she is. She has not only invisible handcuffs,

00:30:04.500 but an invisible cop also that's an escort. An invisible cop is escorting her away in invisible 0.65

00:30:10.300 hand restraints. These people will stop at nothing to keep the squad down. They're pulling

00:30:15.300 out all the tricks, invisibility cloaks and everything. Now the jokes on you, if you, if you

00:30:20.520 do think this was, this is, this was all a stunt. Okay. If you're more of the cynical, pessimistic

00:30:24.580 type and you think this is all a stunt, um, if you think that this was, that it didn't work,

00:30:29.140 well, that's where the joke's on you because, um, they did this to get headlines exactly like

00:30:35.780 this from ABC says, Justin representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and other house Democrats

00:30:42.540 arrested in abortion rights protest at the Supreme court. And then we see the photo of them from the

00:30:48.040 front hands behind the back. No mention that they're choosing to stand like that, that they're

00:30:52.240 faking the handcuffs, uh, that no mention of that. So they got the photo op they wanted and that's all

00:30:58.300 that matters. Most people will, will never read far enough into it to find out that she faked it.

00:31:04.140 Most people aren't on Twitter. So they're not going to see that Twitter was making fun of it

00:31:07.500 for a day and having fun with it. Um, so most people are going to see that. This is what most

00:31:11.040 people will see. They'll see just that image representative Ocasio-Cortez arrested at abortion

00:31:15.600 and they see her just standing there with hands behind them behind the back. She got what she wanted 0.99

00:31:19.520 out of it. Just as most people probably still don't know, uh, that she was crying over an empty

00:31:25.820 parking lot down at the border at the very beginning of her public career.

00:31:31.440 It makes it easier to pull stunts like this when you have, you know, the media as your

00:31:37.320 propaganda arm. All right. This is from New York times. It says with few able and fewer willing

00:31:43.460 U S military can't find recruits. It says these are tough times for military recruiting almost across

00:31:49.080 the board. The armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistment this year, a deficit of

00:31:54.420 thousands of entry-level troops that is on pace to be worse than any since just after the Vietnam

00:31:58.780 war. It threatens to throw a wrench in the military's machinery, leaving critical jobs

00:32:02.700 unfulfilled in some platoons with too few, too few people to function. COVID-19 is part of the

00:32:07.800 problem. Lockdowns during the pandemic have limited recruiters ability to forge bonds face to face with

00:32:12.220 prospects and the military's vaccine mandate has kept some would be troops away. The current white hot

00:32:17.560 labor market with many more jobs available than people to fill them is also a factor, but longer term

00:32:22.520 demographic trends are also taking a toll. Less than one quarter of young American adults are physically

00:32:27.900 fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in

00:32:33.020 recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about one in 10 young

00:32:38.760 people say they would even consider it. Now, this article starts with a very real problem, which is that

00:32:45.820 we can't find people to join the military. You can't recruit for your military, which is a problem

00:32:50.880 to say the least. Doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, though, of the root causes of the problem.

00:32:58.600 Military recruitment is falling dramatically. Why? Well, yeah, the fact that people are fat and slow and diseased

00:33:04.680 in this culture is certainly one aspect of this issue. But there are other aspects also.

00:33:11.000 Like, for example, patriotism is not being instilled in the younger generations or in anybody else at this

00:33:21.420 point. In fact, it's quite the opposite. People are being taught to hate the country. Kids are being

00:33:27.860 raised to believe that America is systemically racist, that it's the worst country in the world,

00:33:33.160 that it's oppressive, and all these things. Well, the kids that are raised to believe that they're not

00:33:38.720 going to sign up to defend a country like this. There's no sense of honor or sacrifice or selflessness

00:33:47.760 being instilled in kids. These are not virtues that anyone cares about anymore.

00:33:55.180 Certainly, the institutions that have been put in charge of raising and forming and shaping the next

00:34:01.000 generation of Americans, they don't care about these things. Honor, sacrifice, selflessness.

00:34:06.820 When's the last time you've even heard anyone talk about those virtues? Honor and sacrifice. Honor

00:34:14.620 especially. And what this all means is that the actual pool of applicants is extremely small. But

00:34:25.160 then the problem is even worse than that. Because what about those candidates? Okay, what about the

00:34:30.440 physically fit, tough, patriotic men who are willing to sacrifice? What about virtuous, physically fit,

00:34:37.300 patriotic men? Those are the sorts of people you need in the military. Despite anything we're told and all the

00:34:41.680 girl power stuff, the people that you need in the military absolutely are physically fit, tough, patriotic men.

00:34:48.980 That's who you need in your military. If you don't have those, then you don't have a military and you don't have a

00:34:55.200 country pretty soon. But what about them? Well, those are exactly the sorts of people that are being

00:35:02.560 alienated. These men, many of them don't want to join the military and be subjected to anti-white

00:35:10.420 indoctrination and discrimination, equity and diversity training, and all the rest of it.

00:35:16.280 They don't want to go to some foreign hellhole and serve and die alongside 0.99

00:35:22.640 a platoon of non-binary trans gender queers. That's not what they're signing up for. 1.00

00:35:30.380 It's just a fact. These men who we need in the military, that's not how you recruit them. That's

00:35:37.440 not how you entice them to serve. We are alienating those men. And it's being done on purpose.

00:35:46.280 By the way. Okay. What else do we have? We have CNN with this headline. More than 100 million in

00:35:53.980 the U.S. face excessive warning or heat advisories as a dangerous heat wave continues. More than 100

00:36:02.120 million. It says heat alerts cover more than 20 states today and Wednesday as well across the

00:36:07.760 southern plains and parts of the northeast. And temperatures will soar above the century mark

00:36:12.360 for 60 million people over the next week. All while similar heat wave is bringing all-time

00:36:17.420 record temperatures to Western Europe. The Weather Prediction Center said dangerous heat will

00:36:22.140 continue to impact a large portion of the U.S. this week with now more than 100 million people under

00:36:26.880 excessive heat warnings or heat advisory. Excessive heat. Yeah. So CNN has discovered the sinister

00:36:33.140 phenomenon known as summer. So it's July. Excessive heat. I'm not even sure what that means. Excessive? I

00:36:41.380 mean, first of all, isn't that sort of in the eye of the beholder here? Isn't that a kind of a

00:36:47.240 subjective? For me, excessive heat is over like 70. I consider that excessive. But it's just,

00:36:53.800 it's a strange way of phrasing it when you're talking about weather. Excessive. Like walking out of

00:36:59.980 your house. This, this is a K, come on, come on, weather. This is excessive. Take it easy a little

00:37:05.100 bit. And the way that they're framing this, talking about the number of people who are experiencing,

00:37:14.800 quote, excessive heat, you know, that's, that's clever. I mean, it's, if, you know, it's, it's,

00:37:21.080 it's a clever trick that will fool you if you're very stupid. So I guess it's not a very clever trick, 0.99

00:37:24.060 but it is a trick because, uh, of course, the more people you have in the world, then the more

00:37:30.440 people who are going to experience hot temperature. So you could say certainly that, um, billions more

00:37:36.900 people this year will experience hot temperatures than experienced hot temperatures a hundred years

00:37:43.760 ago or a thousand years ago. That's obviously correct because there are a lot more people around

00:37:50.040 to experience temperatures in the first place, but heat in the summer, all the same, whether there are

00:37:58.900 7 billion people on earth or one person on earth, heat in the summer is not shocking. And, uh, in fact,

00:38:04.320 it'd be much more alarming if the summer came and went and no one ever broke a sweat on the same topic

00:38:11.260 here. Thomas Massey, um, had a wake up call yesterday for the climate alarmist. I thought he raised a good

00:38:18.060 point here. We were talking yesterday about the, um, the give and take here is it's, it's the,

00:38:24.440 the climate alarmist, the environmentalists are always proposing this supposed green technology,

00:38:29.800 so-called green technologies. And then, and then they propose them as if they're utopian and there's

00:38:33.860 no downside, and this is going to save the planet and, um, and you know, all upside, no downside kind

00:38:41.360 of thing. But there are always, there's always a give and take. There's always a downside.

00:38:45.520 There are always side effects. And Thomas Massey talks about some of those. Let's listen to this.

00:38:51.580 The average household uses 17% of their electricity for air conditioning. And, um, that would mean the

00:39:00.200 average household uses 1,870 kilowatt hours per year for air conditioning. If that average household

00:39:09.720 plugged in electric cars, do you know how much more electricity they would use in comparison

00:39:16.420 to the air conditioning that air conditions their whole house? No, but again, I would emphasize it

00:39:21.600 will. Let me help you. Let me help you with that first before we go on, because the numbers are

00:39:25.320 important. It would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household's

00:39:30.860 cars as the average household uses on air conditioning. Do you think that could be? So if we reach the goal

00:39:37.680 by 2030 that Biden has of a 50% adoption instead of a hundred percent adoption, that means the average

00:39:44.460 household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for

00:39:51.140 all of the air conditioning that they use for the entire year. Yeah. That's a pretty good point.

00:39:58.520 Actually. Yeah. You switch over to electric cars. And this, by the way, was in a conversation

00:40:03.460 with Pete Buttigieg, who has said many times, and he said during this hearing as well, that the high

00:40:10.240 gas price and everything is actually, it's great because it's an opportunity for everyone to switch

00:40:14.820 over to electric cars, because that's something that's within the realm of possibility for average

00:40:19.480 Americans, apparently. You know, the average working class American can just, because they're, they can't 1.00

00:40:24.780 pay for gas. And so a reasonable solution for them is to go out and buy very expensive, to go out and buy

00:40:32.240 a Tesla. That's, that's Pete Buttigieg to, you know, working class family, three kids making $55,000 a year

00:40:40.180 can't afford $5 a gallon for gasoline. Well, you know what you can do? Just go buy a Tesla. Yeah,

00:40:45.520 no problem. See, that's what I did. Why can't you do that? But even if that were feasible,

00:40:51.660 okay, even if it were possible, now you have the, a whole bunch of households, millions of households

00:41:02.540 using a lot more electricity than they were in the past, four times as much.

00:41:08.340 And where does the electricity come from? Electricity is not magical. It comes, most of it,

00:41:15.640 over 60% of the electricity in this country is generated by the dreaded fossil fuels, coal,

00:41:21.380 natural gas, petroleum, and so on. So by switching over, everyone over to electric,

00:41:29.180 to electric cars, you are still depending on fossil fuels. And if everyone is using electric

00:41:37.180 guitars, you need much more electricity, then your generating capacity for electricity needs to go up

00:41:42.800 also by like 400%, which means you need a lot more of the fossil fuels.

00:41:46.960 Or if you're going to increase your electricity needs by 400% or more and not increase your

00:41:57.840 generating capacity, that means that what do you have then? You have rationing. Then you say to each

00:42:02.940 household, this is how much electricity you get to use up. And once you're done for the month,

00:42:07.900 you're done. Now you have the basically rolling blackouts nationwide in perpetuity forever.

00:42:18.960 And of course, the Democrats, they would hear this, and although they're not going to say it out

00:42:23.960 loud, what they would say among themselves is, yeah, exactly. That's exactly what we're going for.

00:42:28.780 Energy rationing is the ultimate goal for them. You want to talk about being able to control and

00:42:37.680 manipulate people. I mean, you control their energy consumption, then you control them.

00:42:45.500 Because life, modern society is powered by energy. Control that, you control everything. That's the

00:42:52.180 ultimate goal. All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:43:09.720 First comment says, Matt, if you had a time machine, would you rather go back in time to

00:43:13.080 see how it used to be or forward to see how it will be? Love your work. You know, honestly,

00:43:17.760 if I had a time machine, I would go, I would just use it to drive to the supermarket. You know,

00:43:23.460 if it was like that kind of, if it was a back to the future type vehicle, I would just use, I would,

00:43:27.620 I would stay right here in, in modern times. I wouldn't go anywhere with it. And not because

00:43:34.580 everything is perfect in modern times. Not at all. We have a lot of problems, which I spend every

00:43:38.900 single show talking about. But I still don't have any great desire to live a hundred years ago.

00:43:47.760 Nor do I have any great desire to just like leapfrog all the way in to the abyss of our

00:43:54.680 dystopian future and live there. So I think I just, I'm just going to stay here and kind of

00:43:58.540 ride it out and go where it takes me, I think. CoolpapaJmagic says, I admit, I get pretty annoyed

00:44:04.220 when people say things like, man, look at how crazy everybody is on both sides. No, there's no

00:44:09.320 comparison between far left and far right. I'm so tired of this rational centrist act. This is not a

00:44:13.560 game of stay in the middle. This is a battle of good and evil. Be on the side of good,

00:44:17.120 because compromise with evil is evil in itself. Couldn't have said it better myself.

00:44:22.740 The problem on the right is not that people are too radical or too far right, you know,

00:44:28.700 have taken their, but have taken the conservative principles too far. Is that the issue that we have

00:44:35.460 on the right? No. I mean, what do we just, what do we just talk about a few minutes ago? 47 Republicans

00:44:41.360 getting on board with the federal government, wanting to give it the power, not just to the

00:44:47.460 federal government in general, which is bad enough. They want to give the power to Joe Biden

00:44:53.020 to come up with a definition of marriage and impose it on, they want to give the power to the federal

00:44:59.100 government, right? Run by Joe Biden to impose a definition, a redefinition of marriage on the entire

00:45:04.860 country. So that's what's happening on the right. That's what's happening among conservatives.

00:45:08.000 So I would certainly agree with you. The problem is not radicalism on the right, far from it.

00:45:16.420 The fish says, S is for shut the hell up, you damned crybabies. We need that in the merch shop 1.00

00:45:22.040 for sure. I can see that. We workshop that a little bit. You know, yeah. Can we take S is for shut the

00:45:28.540 hell up, you damned crybabies. If you could do it in like the Sesame Street style, I don't know if that 1.00

00:45:32.520 might be a copyright issue. We could talk about that. I always appreciate suggestions for

00:45:37.980 the merch store. And, uh, many times it's, this is like really a, this is an effort. This is kind

00:45:42.500 of a crowdsource effort with the merch store. Um, lying cat says, Oh, and does the definition for

00:45:50.080 male have the same nonsense definition as female now? Wouldn't that end up in a circular definition?

00:45:57.320 Yeah, it does. So we talked about yesterday, trans activist succeeded finally in pushing for a

00:46:02.980 redefinition of female in the dictionary. And so now it says the gender identity opposite of male.

00:46:09.000 What's the definition of male? Well, yeah, the definition of male now is the gender identity,

00:46:12.980 identity opposite of female. Now, the interesting thing is that actually opposite of male is an essential

00:46:22.500 part of the definition of female. It's, it's good to include that. If you want to have a more 0.67

00:46:29.540 complete definition of female, that should be in there because it denotes that there are only two 1.00

00:46:36.080 options, which is important. And, um, it also shows that in some ways each sex is defined by the fact

00:46:43.080 that it is not the other sex. So it shows kind of the complimentary nature of the sexes. And it also

00:46:48.960 shows that the sexes are in fact binary. So that's an important part of the definition. It can't be the

00:46:54.320 only part of the definition though. Obviously it can't be the only thing that defines it because

00:46:58.960 if it does, then we have no idea what this thing even is. And to see how that's the case, I mean,

00:47:07.480 just imagine if I said, um, if I, you know, was using the word, uh, hug a balloon and you said,

00:47:12.800 what's a hug a balloon? And I said, well, it's the opposite of a bug a balloon. And you said,

00:47:16.500 well, what's a bug a balloon? That's the opposite of a hug a balloon. I have no idea what these words

00:47:19.900 mean. It's just nonsense now, which is what they've done with male and female. Um, and Jordan 0.98

00:47:25.200 says, does art even exist on the right? Don't the constricting principles of conservatism preclude

00:47:30.640 any real artistic expression? Who are the biggest right-wing artists, physical, musical, theatrical,

00:47:35.500 et cetera, of the last decade or the last century? Well, your point is partially valid. Um, you know,

00:47:42.260 it's, it's hard to go back a century for this question as the delineation between right and left,

00:47:46.180 according to modern standards anyway, gets more complicated when you're applying, you know,

00:47:49.640 our modern ideas of right versus left, uh, a century ago becomes more difficult, but certainly

00:47:54.540 in current times, there's no doubt that all of the arts are dominated by the left and, and the artistic

00:48:03.280 output in our country has generally gotten weaker over time, partly for the reason I described yesterday.

00:48:11.400 Um, for whatever reason, great art often seems to be born partly from pain and frustration. People,

00:48:18.720 you know, figuring out how to work both within boundaries and then, and break them. But our

00:48:24.140 artists today are all fat and comfortable. They've achieved total cultural victory. They're now living

00:48:29.800 life as the victor and it doesn't make for interesting art, but your statement that, that, that being on the

00:48:35.600 right precludes artistic expression is obviously not true. Okay. Um, I mean, just think about the great,

00:48:43.200 how many examples from history do you really need? I mean, think about the great Renaissance artists,

00:48:48.620 right? Um, would, would they count by, by our definition today, would they be considered left-wing

00:48:56.140 liberals? You know, if you go back in time and talk to Michelangelo, would you think he'd qualify

00:49:02.100 as a leftist by our standards today? Now there may not be much artistic expression on the right today.

00:49:11.380 We're trying to change some of that here at Daily Wire, making films and so on, but there isn't much

00:49:16.580 of it. Like that's a problem that we've identified, which is why we're doing what we're doing, but it

00:49:20.680 doesn't necessarily have to be this way because what's really needed to create great art is beauty

00:49:26.600 and truth. Art is a reflection of an expression of, of beauty and truth, which isn't to say that

00:49:33.460 all art has to be happy. Uh, it doesn't mean that art can't be sad and difficult and painful and all

00:49:37.800 that, but, um, it, it must be beautiful to really count as art to be art. That's what art is.

00:49:45.480 And in fact, this makes conservatives the most naturally equipped to create great art.

00:49:51.540 Even if in this culture, they don't, the left is hamstrung by what we discussed by their, how fat

00:49:58.800 and comfortable they are, but also even more fundamentally by the fact that, that on the

00:50:04.560 left, they reject beauty. They hate it. They worship ugliness. And because of that, they can't create

00:50:11.980 great art. So the left can't create great art. The right right now is for the most part, not even

00:50:17.800 trying. And so what do you end up with? You just end up with no real art at all. You end up with

00:50:22.320 Marvel movies and, uh, ugly, you know, architecture and, and, um, people vomiting onto a canvas and

00:50:30.460 calling it a, you know, a painting like that. That's what you end up with. Well, a couple of

00:50:35.540 notes I want to, I need to tell you about, uh, one is that over at the daily wire, uh, the dailywire.com

00:50:41.680 you can go to the, to the store section, go to shop, or you can just go to dailywire.com slash shop,

00:50:46.280 go to the Matt Walsh store. I'm always telling you what's going on at the store because we always

00:50:49.800 have new things we add to it and, uh, many exciting new, new additions. So here's the

00:50:55.640 latest. Um, we have our, finally our definition of a woman shirt, which is adult, human, female,

00:51:01.260 and especially with, you know, we can't rely on Merriam-Webster anymore. We can't rely on the

00:51:05.580 dictionary anymore to define these words. And so that's why you have to put it, just emblazon it

00:51:10.620 on a shirt and wear it around and preach this, the gospel of, um, of the fact that words have

00:51:18.460 meanings everywhere you go. So go to dailywire.com, uh, slash shop, go to the Matt Walsh store and get

00:51:24.140 your definition of a woman shirt today. And I also have to note, because if I don't, um, uh, I'll hear

00:51:31.420 about it, that this, this idea for the shirt came from my wife. My wife was the one who came up with

00:51:35.960 this and said, we need to have this in the store. So this is, this is her, all the proceeds go to

00:51:40.240 her. Actually, they don't, they go to the daily wire, but still she gets the credit. Also, if you,

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00:53:13.360 versions of our dystopian future, for a while it seemed like it wasn't really going to catch on in

00:53:18.760 the real world. Sort of like how all the sci-fi writers in the mid-20th century universally agreed

00:53:23.740 that we'd have flying cars by the early 21st century. And yet here we are in the actual 21st century,

00:53:29.220 and the technology exists technically. And there are companies that are actually trying to build

00:53:34.220 these contraptions, flying cars. But most of us have come to realize that having everybody fly

00:53:39.620 around in their own personal aircraft would be a disaster. I mean, most drivers can barely manage

00:53:44.840 to pilot their vehicles on the ground. It's horrifying to think about what would happen if these drivers

00:53:49.800 had access to the sky. I guess those who made these predictions about the future also assumed

00:53:54.920 that the average driver would have mastered the fundamentals of using a steering wheel by now,

00:53:59.880 but that has not been the case. And so flying cars have not taken off figuratively or literally,

00:54:04.940 and probably never will. And if they do take off, most of them will certainly crash and burn about 45

00:54:09.700 seconds later. I had always hoped that virtual reality would suffer the same failure to launch.

00:54:16.880 And I felt heartened in recent months as Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his metaverse,

00:54:22.120 which is his virtual reality vision. And I was encouraged to see how boring and dull it is.

00:54:27.900 As we talked about on the show, Zuckerberg's great vision is to create an immersive internet experience

00:54:33.200 where people can enter inside it, like the Matrix, crossing through a portal into a limitless

00:54:39.160 3D virtual reality world where they can have meetings and conference calls.

00:54:45.080 Zuckerberg's cyber universe is considerably more boring than the regular universe. And this is

00:54:50.780 what happens when you put like Spock in charge of designing our VR utopia. But I've probably taken

00:54:57.860 too much solace in this. The fact is that there are other VR platforms aside from the hellish corporate

00:55:04.240 seminar universe that Zuckerberg is creating. And VR is, like it or not, catching on. There are currently

00:55:10.540 about 50 million VR users in America today. The whole industry is worth about $8 billion, projected

00:55:15.700 to be, to grow to nearly 30 billion in the next five years or so. More importantly, the most powerful

00:55:22.920 corporations in the world, companies that have literally made a science out of understanding and

00:55:28.460 predicting and manipulating our behavior, they are investing more and more into VR technologies.

00:55:34.960 We already know about what Zuckerberg and Facebook are up to. Apple has its own design. So does

00:55:39.240 Microsoft and Google. These companies want a future where we are all wearing their devices

00:55:45.360 on our heads, blocking out the entire physical world from our view, and living our lives entirely

00:55:51.100 within the alternate reality that they create for us. It's not hard to see why they find that so

00:55:56.520 appealing. The entertainment industry is buying in now too. HBO Max will soon release what is being

00:56:01.980 called a groundbreaking documentary. And it's groundbreaking because it is the first film

00:56:07.680 made entirely in virtual reality. The website VR Scout has more. It says,

00:56:13.100 shot during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we met in virtual reality as an upcoming documentary

00:56:17.440 from the director Hunting that follows the lives of five specific individuals using VR chat and modern

00:56:24.400 VR technology to connect with others in a variety of unique ways. The 90-minute film was shot entirely in

00:56:29.780 VR. At no point do we learn the real world identities of its subjects, says the director.

00:56:34.780 The film presents an immersive journey through the world and different VR chat communities. Each

00:56:39.260 individual that you meet shares really unique experiences on VR and each engages with their

00:56:43.460 community in different ways for them. VR means very different things. Through their eyes, the film

00:56:47.180 presents a very broad portrait on how social VR can affect our emotional and social relationships with

00:56:51.980 each other, but also within ourselves. The trailer was released a few days ago. Here's a peek at that.

00:56:56.780 Making friends here is sometimes what saves people's lives or what gets them up out of bed in the morning.

00:57:10.400 I am a teacher for Helping Hands, a sign language community here in VR chat. Hand rested under

00:57:17.180 our elbow and we're going to go like this. Christmas. Slow, quick, quick, slow. If I had confidence

00:57:23.980 that I could teach dance as a living in VR, I totally would do exactly that. With a long distance

00:57:29.720 relationship, having VR is a game changer. We are 5,000 miles apart, but we're going to try our best to

00:57:37.720 make it work. This year has been really hard. The thing that has kept me sane has been VR and the VR

00:57:46.160 community. I would not have weathered this without you guys. 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!

00:57:57.900 You can be who you've always wanted to be, and you can, in a way, start over. We can come together

00:58:04.840 and support each other. This community means a lot to me, and I really want them to know that they're loved.

00:58:10.120 It's true. It's been a year since I've seen Kevin's IRL body.

00:58:18.180 Sounds funny.

00:58:18.980 Or his IRL avatar.

00:58:20.580 Well, isn't that beautiful? People connecting, forming communities, falling in love.

00:58:25.280 You can start over, says one of the VR fans. You can be reborn. You can be whoever you want to be,

00:58:32.440 provided that you want to be a weird, creepy anime avatar. Like, if you want to be that, you can be that.

00:58:37.340 This all sounds like a utopia with no downside at all, right? So what's the problem?

00:58:42.780 Well, there are many problems, it turns out. We've talked about some of them before, but let's

00:58:46.160 review. First of all, the documentary is filmed in the platform, on the platform, VRChat. But based

00:58:52.320 on the trailer, it seems to give a rather glossy and carefully curated view of this VRChat platform.

00:59:00.520 An article on the site Engadget gives the other side of the VRChat story. Headline is,

00:59:05.700 investigation of VRChat finds rampant child grooming and other safety issues. They report,

00:59:12.140 one of the more popular VR apps you can download through Steam and Meta's Oculus Quest store has a

00:59:17.140 child safety problem. VRChat styles as the future of social virtual reality. Our vision for VRChat is

00:59:23.960 to enable everybody to create and share their own social virtual worlds, the game's developer says

00:59:28.060 on its Steam store page. With some understanding of Unity, players can create their own social spaces

00:59:32.920 and avatars. That means you can see a lot of creativity on display in VRChat, but there's

00:59:36.140 also a dark side to it, as the BBC found out. Posing as a 13-year-old girl, BBC researcher Jess

00:59:41.940 Sherwood said she entered a virtual strip club where she saw adult men chase a child while telling

00:59:47.480 them to remove their clothes. In many of the rooms Sherwood visited, she frequently saw condoms and sex

00:59:53.100 toys on display, and on one occasion even saw a group of adult men and minors simulating group sex.

00:59:58.160 She also saw instances of grooming. Well, it turns out that virtual reality is, even in its fetal stages,

01:00:05.760 infested by perverts and pedophiles, of course. No surprise. Just look at what happened in our real 0.98

01:00:11.920 life cities when we told everyone to wear a mask. Anonymity removes accountability and removes shame,

01:00:18.600 which invites chaos. Now, put people in virtual world with full anonymity, an entirely new and fake

01:00:25.900 identity, and also empower them with the false notion that nothing is real in cyberspace,

01:00:31.580 as if the human beings they're interacting with don't even count as human beings.

01:00:37.160 Tell them that the normal rules of morality and decency no longer apply, and suddenly it becomes like

01:00:42.480 the purge every day, all day, except more sexual and with a lot more child molesters.

01:00:48.220 This is just one of the problems with virtual reality. The fact that the internet is a hellish place

01:00:53.140 where people act monstrous towards each other because they feel empowered to do so.

01:00:58.020 But that's not the full indictment. I mean, in theory, putting all the sex predators aside for

01:01:02.840 a moment, which is very hard to do when you're talking about anything related to the internet,

01:01:07.700 but putting that aside, there's nothing wrong with VR in small doses as a fun, gimmicky little

01:01:13.700 diversion. But we know that people in our culture don't engage in escapism entertainment in small

01:01:21.260 doses. They turn it into a lifestyle. That's why even in the trailer for the documentary, we begin

01:01:26.540 with some users discussing practical applications for the technology, teaching sign language, for

01:01:31.840 instance. Seems like a, okay, yeah, that's one area where it seems like that would make sense.

01:01:37.320 But very quickly, we start hearing how VR is really an opportunity to form loving bonds and find

01:01:42.700 community and reinvent yourself and restart your life and find meaning and everything else.

01:01:47.760 So the pipeline from escapism entertainment to lifestyle choice is short, and the transition

01:01:55.120 from one to the other happens at near lightning speed. We are a culture obsessed with escaping.

01:02:00.700 VR offers the most complete form of escape, short of suicide. The user can block the entire physical

01:02:08.020 world from view, enter into the internet, recreate themselves according to their own vision, or rather

01:02:13.020 according to the vision of Apple or Microsoft or Facebook, which they will be tricked into thinking

01:02:17.600 is their own vision. This grants almost unlimited power to these tech giants, allowing them to control,

01:02:23.500 manipulate, track, and monetize your every movement, literally. I mean, think about for a second what they do

01:02:29.440 on the social media platforms, the way they're able to predict your behavior, just based on what you

01:02:36.240 search for and, you know, the kinds of posts you click on and everything. That's why people often

01:02:40.700 think when they see ads pop up and they think, oh, the phone's listening to me. No, it's not listening

01:02:46.280 to you. It's even worse than that. They've built technology that can just predict what you are going

01:02:51.820 to want. They can predict the kind of ad, like you were just talking about something you want to buy,

01:02:56.540 you've never searched for it before, and then the ad pops up. No, the phone didn't hear you say that.

01:03:01.440 It just predicted based on your behavior that you would want a product like that, and then you did,

01:03:06.000 which is a lot scarier. Now, give them that kind of predictive capability when they can also track

01:03:14.320 your movements, everything. What happens then? But worse, it further severs you from your physical

01:03:21.120 existence and your actual true physical self. Now, it sounds like new, like sort of new age claptrap to

01:03:26.780 say that people need to be reconnected with themselves, you know, find themselves, and it is

01:03:31.740 new age claptrap. But in this case, the new age claptrap is inadvertently true. As human beings in

01:03:36.700 modern culture, you know, we find various and ever more elaborate ways of hiding from ourselves,

01:03:42.260 shrinking away from our actual lives and bodies. And as that happens, the job of rescuing society from

01:03:48.240 collapse and despair revolves more and more around encouraging people to live authentically. Be

01:03:52.620 yourself. Not in the bumper sticker slogan kind of way, but in a deeper, more urgent sense.

01:03:57.640 Inhabit your own life. Be yourself. Your self. Live in and interact with and see the world,

01:04:03.180 the physical world. Accept it and understand it and appreciate it for what it is.

01:04:08.700 These days, we're always out looking for any kind of reality, but our actual reality.

01:04:13.620 And that's why our actual reality never improves.

01:04:18.900 And that's why virtual reality is, once again today, canceled. And we'll leave it there for

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